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Paid articleCarboys in Carloads
1AB0R DAY deliverances by three recognized au^ thorities from three widely separated platforms may appear at first reading to have no common message. However, a closer study of the appeal of...
Paid articleWeek by Week
THOUGH no American is likely to yearn for the introduction of Mussolini's methods into this country, it seems that all of us ought to concede frankly the value of at least some of those methods...
Paid articleThe Negro in the North
MIGRATION northward, from primitive agricultural conditions to complex industrial surroundings, has undoubtedly done something for the negro. It has made individual members of his race...
Paid articleLife through Literature
T7"IE"WED even from afar, what is termed the ' "Catholic renaissance in France" is an extraordinarily engrossing and virile literary movement. Taking its rise some years ago in a series of...
Paid articleLegislation and Liberty
Ryan, John A.
A LL laws are social, since they apply to society r \ or to a social group. Usage, however, restricts the term "social legislation" to ordinances for physical, mental or moral welfare,...
Paid articleSubstitutes for Thought
jr., William C. Murphy
MAN has always attempted to excuse the more nonsensical of his inventions by ascribing them to God. The system is not without merit; it is a sop to human reason and there is no record of a...
Paid articleThe Renaissance of Machlavelli
Wickham, Harvey
(This is the second of ttvo papers to appear in The Commonweal presenting a re-examination of the character and doctrines of Machiavelti.—The Editors.) IN A letter to Vettori, dated December 10,...
Paid articleDeath Comes to All (verse)
Mullins, Helene
Once Heraclitus lived in grief and pain, And in the darkness scribbled poetry; Catullus once loved Lesbia with disdain, And pleaded with the gods to set him free. But death soon granted each a...
Paid articleMysteries and Maurice Barrès
Brégy, Katherine
IT WAS rather long ago that Walter Bagehot observed: "A really great landscape needs sunlight and bears sunlight: but moonlight is an equalizer of beauties; it gives a romantic unreality to what...
Paid articleSound (verse)
Lee, Borghild
In city streets I have found Silence in sound; But where mountains touch the sky, Silence is a...
Paid articleMount Angel
Collins, Nelson
THE devastating fire of September, 1926, at Mount Angel, Oregon, was a grave loss to the Benedictine order of the Catholic Church, but my own thoughts and griefs about it have not...
Paid articleA Note on Beethoven
Walsh, Thomas
AMONG the interesting contents of The Musical Quarterly (G. Schirmer, Incorporated, New York) which give this publication the highest place among American periodicals devoted to music, there...
Paid articleProtest (verse)
Blake, Marie
Ladies called Helen should never grow old: That is a name for the launching of ships, Fragrant, imperial, gallant and gold— Ladies called Helen should never grow old. Beauty untarnished those...
Paid articleCommunications
CECIL VERSUS PAGE Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—Where does the conscience of a diplomat enter his work as a practical matter? Most guides to diplomacy quote (almost without exception wrongly)...
Paid articleSonnets
Odhner, Madefrey; Robinson, Henry Morton; Mercier, Roselle; Schwab, Antonia Y.; Reeves, W. P.; Upper, Joseph
Exile Where mountains have a shrunken skin that seams And cracks, and where plateaus are saffron jowls Covered with greying stubble, and where streams Are tears gone dry, where no coyote...
Paid articleThe Play
Skinner, R. Dana
Pickwick THOSE immortal adventurers of England, the Pickwickians, came, if not to life, at least into a loving visibility at the Empire Theatre last week in an elaborate and fond production by...
Paid articleBooks
Stuart, Henry Longan; LorinBinsse, Harry; Donlan, John J.; McEntee, Georgiana Putnam; Lewalys, Garret; Crowley, Paul; Sands, William Franklin
A Group of Western Scholars, by R. J. C. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. IN SPITE of their modest appearance and low price, the historical pamphlets issued from time to time by the...
Paid articleThe Quiet Corner
"I counsel thetj shut not they heart nor thy library."—C. LAMB. The return of Doctor Angelicus to the Corner was made the occasion for a real outburst of the feelings restrained during the...
IssueVol. 006 Issue 021 (September 28 1927)
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