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      |  The Crusade of Mercy | 
    
    
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      | THE COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Literature, The Arts and Public Affairs THE CRUSADE OF MERCY Volume XIV	New York, Wednesday, October 14, 1931	Number 24 EDITORIAL BOARD MICHAEL WILLIAMS,... | 
    
    
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      | 564	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 of collecting hurrahs, to b~ paid for at the statesman's leisure. But when the economic bottom fell out of Britain a month ago, Mr. MacDonald went out to gather... | 
    
    
      |  In the Doldrums | 
    
    
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      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	567 to the winner in a competition on illumination. It is hoped that this award will stimulate consideration of artificial lighting organic with the building, and... | 
    
    
      |  Understanding France | 
    
    
      | Hari, Louis P. | 
    
    
      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	569 UNDERSTANDING FRANCE By LOUIS P. HARL PARIS, fine listening-post, has caught only the echoes of the general distress of this unhappy summer. In a decade of... | 
    
    
      |  The Pension | 
    
    
      | Mullins, Helene | 
    
    
      | 572	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 THE PENSION By HELENE MULLINS WHEN the New York State government announced that it would grant a small pension to its destitute citizens over the age of... | 
    
    
      |  Afternoon Tea in a Bookshop (verse) | 
    
    
      | Roulet, Marie Antoinette de | 
    
    
      | 574	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 "But you poor old fool!" cried her friend. "Don't you suppose they'll investigate at the bank, and learn that you've just drawn out your $zoo in order to hide... | 
    
    
      |  Silesia Prays | 
    
    
      | Robinson, Henry Morton | 
    
    
      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	575 SILESIA PRAYS By HENRY MORTON ROBINSON FAITH—clear, deep and unquestioning—is not eminently a modern virtue. In that constant substitution of new cells for old... | 
    
    
      |  A Noble Roman | 
    
    
      | Paulding, Gouverneur | 
    
    
      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	577 A NOBLE ROMAN By GOUVERNEUR PAULDING O N SUNDAY, February 8, 1931, Pope Pius XI ordered a decree read which proclaimed that the life of a certain Contardo... | 
    
    
      |  Wild Horses of the Mojave (verse) | 
    
    
      | Arnold, Adelaide Wilson | 
    
    
      | 578	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 will never make him known to more than two dozen specialists. And he can write in a preface, "I have always sought what I thought was true and never what I knew... | 
    
    
      |  Many Rivers | 
    
    
      | Phillips, Charles | 
    
    
      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	579 MANY RIVERS By CHARLES PHILLIPS FOUR of us went for a walk one Saturday afternoon, over the fields toward the river, down the bluffs and along the bank until... | 
    
    
      |  The Abbé Lugan | 
    
    
      | Dimnet, Ernest | 
    
    
      | 580	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 And always, whenever I came to one of those far-off rivers, a curious feeling of the old geography book stirred in my memory. When Mark Twain sent Tom Sawyer and... | 
    
    
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      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	581 COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMICS AND AUTHORITY St. Joseph, Mo. T T O the Editor : The world depression, now become an American depression, is showing itself more and... | 
    
    
      |  The Play | 
    
    
      | Skinner, Richard Dana | 
    
    
      | October 14, 1931	THE COMMONWEAL	583 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The House of Connelly T HERE are three reasons why "The House of Connelly" marks an important moment in the current... | 
    
    
      |  Books | 
    
    
      | Sands, William Franklin; Anderson, Walter V.; Wright, Cuthbert; Strahan, Speer; Engels, Vincent; Frenay, Adolph Dominic | 
    
    
      | 584	THE COMMONWEAL	October 14, 1931 simple, although I do have a feeling that he exaggerates a trifle the weakness and despondency and the utter lack of self-reliance of the character. After all,... | 
    
    
      
      |  Vol. 014 Issue 025 (October 21 1931) | 
    
    
      
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