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IssueVol. 008 Issue 001 (May 9 1928)
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Paid articleSterling and Substantial
STERLING AND SUBSTANTIAL CLAMOR for quality has gone round the world. _ Deluges of satire have made a target of the lack of genuineness or virtue in the industrial output. It is true that the...
Paid articleWeek by Week
WEEK BY WEEK "ELECTIONS in France will have been decided by •*—' the time this issue of The Commonweal is ready for distribution. Meanwhile M. Jules-Bois's analysis of the situation sets several...
Paid articleUnderstanding the Church
Papini, the Gospels are still so novel for the majority of men that they have not yet even begun to be applied. "We who are Catholics must not build up a Church after our own measure, narrow and...
Paid articleSugar or Salt
SUGAR OR SALT HP HE matter carried on the inside pages of the ¦*¦ metropolitan press as each Monday comes round makes instructive, and sometimes edifying, reading. A thoroughly healthy and...
Paid articleAvella, Pennsylvania
Stuart, Henry Longan
THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 AVELLA, PENNSYLVANIA By HENRY LONGAN STUART THOSE who know the outward aspects of coalmining country only from experience in the northern counties of England or...
Paid articlePoincare and French Politics
Jules-Bois
POINCARE AND FRENCH POLITICS By JULES-BOIS THOSE who visited France a few years ago, and who see the same country today, are struck by the serenity which has succeeded to the fever of post-war...
Paid articleIn Memoriam: Ed Dooner
Morley, Christopher
May 9, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL IN MEMORIAM: ED DOONER A FOREWORD BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS YEARS ago—in 1922, to be exact—I wrote to Christopher Morley, when that Elizabethan spirit, who has been...
Paid articleWhat is Nature ?
Walker, Robert Sparks
WHAT IS NATURE? By ROBERT SPARKS WALKER JUST outside my bedroom window stands an old blackjack tree that rears boldly against the building. Its stiff leaves yield stubbornly to the strong...
Paid articleThe Silver Bible of Upsala
Gill, Roderick
THE SILVER BIBLE OF UPSALA By RODERICK GILL ' I AHE American Scandinavian Review has recently presented A a Swedish number of unusual interest. Among its features is an account of the Silver...
Paid articlePoems of Miguel Agustin Pro Juárez
May 9, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL POEMS OF MIGUEL AGUSTIN PRO JUAREZ Translated by Thomas Walsh J > (Father Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez, S.J., whose martyrdom last November in the cause of the...
Paid articleCommunications
18 THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 COMMUNICATIONS PARADOX AND PROPHECY Washington, D. C. TO the Editor:—The stimulating prophecies of Reverend C. C. Martindale in two February numbers of The...
Paid articleThe Play and the Screen
Skinner, R. Dana
2O THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 THE PLAY AND THE SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER Behold—the Speaking Movie! FOR many months we have seen and heard reproductions on the Vitaphone, the...
Paid articleTo Mary (verse)
Julie, Sister
To Mary Do you wear a robe of blue As many artists picture you, Or is it white, with broidered gold, Or warm wine-red? No one has told Your loveliness aright; there's none Can paint your...
Paid articleBooks
Healy, Patrick J.; Windle, Bertram C. A.; Brennecke, Ernest Jr.; Blunt, Hugh F.; Zabel, Morton Dauwen; Cooper, Frederick Taber; Ryan, Monica D.; Radziwill, Catherine
22 THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 BOOKS Pilgrim Warriors The Crusaders and Other Historical Essays, presented to Dana C. Munro by his former students; edited by Louis J. Paetow. New York: F....
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