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Vol. 007 Issue 022 (April 4 1928)
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Pagans, Old and New
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IT IS not overstating the case to say that religion as a major topic is gaining in popularity. Rather less than two years ago, on the occasion of the canonization of the Jesuit martyrs. The...
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Week by Week
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'T^O HEIGHTS of fury undreamed of have the Tea••• pot tempests risen. Many a sage has long since remarked that the cargo of oil leases was surmounted with a compass pointing straight toward...
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The Last Chapter
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TN EVERY biography, even those slick and flippant •*• affairs so common today where history is made, so to speak, dance to the new syncopated measure, there is always one last chapter where an...
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Mr. Hollis and America
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npHERE are now so many extant treatises on the -•• "American idea" that one would hardly pause to consider still another, were it not for the highly volatile essence which Mr. Christopher HoUis...
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Europe Looks at America
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Minkus, Friedrich von
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PLEASE open your atlas at the map of Europe, dear American reader; take a good-sized ruler and draw two lines: one from Iceland to Crete, the other from Lisbon to Swjerinogolowskaja,...
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Facts in the Mexican Case
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Shuster, George N.
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AYEAR ago this time we said that the drift of events in Mexico was ominous. We asserted that a reign of anti-constitutionalism would end in chaos. Then we added that "perhaps the...
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The Fourteen Stations (verse)
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Reenan, William L.
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Roman and Jew to death sent Thee, (Spirit of Christ, give heart to me!) And on Thy shoulders laid the tree. (Burden of Christ, press down on me!) Too weak and worn, Thou fell, and she (Bruises...
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Christian Patriarchs in Islam
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Crabitès, Pierre
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THE speech from the throne made by King Fuad at the opening of the Egyptian parhament foreshadowed many vital changes in the "capitulations" under'which the government of the country beside the...
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Aquinas Returns
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Ryan, James H.
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STUDENTS of contemporary thought have often expressed surprise at what they call the tenaciousness of old ideas. Discarded in one guise, such ideas bob up to plague us in another. The periodic...
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Jane Austen-An Apologia
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James, Stanley B.
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THE little town of Alton lies some forty-six miles to the south of London on the Portsmouth road. The route is also used by travelers to Southampton and Bournemouth. An incessant stream of motors...
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"A Worm and No Man" (verse)
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O'Donnell, Charles L.
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Prophetic of all days, that line: I know Thee what Thou art— Blight of the world, O Divine Worm, eating my...
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Poems for Holy Week
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Walsh, Thomas; Porter, Kenneth W.; Parmenter, Catherine
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The Last Supper {Scene in the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, 1498.) Leonardo da Vinci speaks: Away with compliments, good lords and gentlefolk Of Milan, buzzing hives of...
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The Play
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Skinner, R. Dana
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Henry the Fifth T F T H E customary author's royalties were paid on every ••• Shakespeare production in New York this winter, and the resulting fund devoted to the Stratford Memorial, that...
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Communications
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CATHOLICS AND PROHIBITION Scottdale, Pa. TO the Editor:—^A light is not placed under a measure nor should a talent be hidden away in a napkin. The Commonweal is one of the best papers I take. It...
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Books
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Radziwill, Catherine; Zabel, Morton Dauwen; McHugh, Rose J.; Anderson, George E.; McGuire, Harry; Walsh, Thomas
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Russia's Eleventh Hour The Reign of Rasputin, by M. V. Rodzianko; translated by Catherine Zvegintzoff. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. $4.00. The Catastrophe: Kerensky's Own Story of the...
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The Quiet Corner
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/ counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.—C. LAMB. "Ah, Euphemia—back again?" queried Dr. Angelicus politely as he rose to greet an indignant figure on the library threshold. "Take off...
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Vol. 007 Issue 023 (April 11 1928)
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Vol. 007 Issue 024 (April 18 1928)
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