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IssueVol. 003 Issue 009 (January 6 1926)
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Paid articleThe Vigor of the Mustard Seed
THE VIGOR OF THE MUSTARD SEED THERE have been anxious modern moments during which the best of men doubted the vitality of the Christian church. It seemed, indeed, that the world was too much...
Paid articleWeek by Week
WEEK BY WEEK T T IS impossible to conceive of a worthier or more •*¦ statesmanlike gesture than Governor Smith's proposal to establish better living conditions for his poorer fellow-citizens by...
Paid articleA Nation and Its Mines
BRAZILIAN LITERATURE A FEW years ago if you asked the average Amer¦**• ican what he knew about Brazil, he would sum up his knowledge in the words of Charlie's Aunt— that it was the land "where...
Paid articleA Trilogy of Truth
Pallen, Conde B.
316 THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1926 A TRILOGY OF TRUTH By CONDE B. PALLEN THE TWO most notable English books of the first quarter of the twentieth century have been written by the same man,...
Paid articleSongs Out of Slavery
Jacob, Cary F.
SONGS OUT OF SLAVERY By CARY F. JACOB THE Boek of American Negro Spirituals* has gone into a second printing; whereas Eight Negro Songs from Bedford County, Virginia** has attracted...
Paid articleThe Abbey Theatre Comes of Age Constantine
Curran, P.
THE ABBEY THEATRE COMES OF AGE By CONSTANTINE P. CURRAN ON DECEMBER 27, 1925, the Abbey theatre, Dublin, brought together a happy, reminiscent fellowship of its old collaborators and...
Paid articleAdequate (verse)
Storey, Violet Alleyn
cieties, he held to his vision of a similar theatre movement in Ireland and of his function in it. Accordingly, when the first act of Deirdre was printed, the two brothers called upon A. E. and...
Paid articlePoems of Brazil. Translated
Walsh, Thomas
January 27, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 323 POEMS OF BRAZIL Translated from the Portuguese by Thomas Walsh The Blue Fly Once in the springtime a bluebottle fly With wings all crimson gold was...
Paid articleThe Bull-Fight
Haight, Dorothy
324 THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1926 THE BULL-FIGHT By DOROTHY HAIGHT TN RESIDENTIAL San Sebastian there is very ¦*¦ little left of anything that's old—spacious avenues, clean and sunny...
Paid articleBlack Magic
Windle, Bertram C. A.
BLACK MAGIC By BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE THE second volume of the Cambridge Ancient History contains amidst a wealth of interesting matter, an allusion to early magic which brings to mind...
Paid articleCommunications
COMMUNICATIONS THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO Taooma, Wash. TO the Editor:—There is a subject which is of the greatest importance, I believe, and which I hope to see you take up in your paper—the...
Paid articleThe Play
S., H. L.
WEEK BY WEEK * I * HE growing need for a better understanding be¦*• tween American peoples is stressed by two among many recent incidents. Sir Robert Falconer's lectures on The United States...
Paid articleBooks
Stuart, Henry Longan; Liljencrants, Johan; Walsh, Thomas; Maynard, Theodore; Ryan, John A.; MSchwertner, Thomas; Bates, Ernest Sutherland
33O THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1926 BOOKS The Pleasure Haunts of London during Four Centuries, by E. Beresford Chancellor. Illustrated. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. ...
Paid articleThe Quiet Corner
THE QUIET CORNER / counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.—C. Lamb. Hereticus flung his brief-case wearily on the table, having emerged from the subway crumpled and a trifle faded. He...
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