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 Vol. 030 Issue 024 (October 6 1939)
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Vol. 030 Issue 025 (October 13 1939)
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 THE WEEK
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The COMMONWEAL A Weekly Revie.,o of Literature the Arts and Public Affairs FOUNDED BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS Editors: PHII,IP BURNHAM EDWAP.D SKi~IN, JR, Hanr LomN BI•SSE, Managin 9 Editor MICHAEL...
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LESSON IN CRITICISM
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Adler, Mortimer J.
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Lesson in Criticism Four questions to ask yourself when you are making up your mind about a book.* By Mortimer J. Adler L ET US SUPPOSE that you are reading a good book, and hence a relatively...
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TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS
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Maritain, Jacques
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October I3, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 55I reading for knowledge, that book is best, obviously, which most adequately treats a given subject-matter. One author may lack information which another...
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CHARLES DUBOS
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Madeleva, Sister M.
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Charles DuBos France and the Church lose a sensitive critic and man of letters. By Sister Charles DuBos, gentle and accomplished man of letters, with his charming wife, Zezette, lived on...
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IN THE LIST (Verse)
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Sloyan, Gerard S.
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554 THE COMMONWEAL October 13, 1939 a whole are published in Paris (usually by R. A. Correa) under the general title "Approximations." There are seven volumes of these. They include studies of...
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MARGARET FULLER: AN APPRECIATION
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Hess, M. Whitcomb
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Margaret Fuller: An Appreciation A hundred years ago her "conversation classes" started in Boston; today women have rights undreamed of then. By M. Whitcomb Hess 6 6"~k TESTERNIGHT there came...
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ADVANCE IN ART BOOKS
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Mellquist, Jerome
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Advance in Art Books A critic looks at a score of books on the fine arts that have recently been published in America. By Jerome Mellquist T HE ART BOOKS of the last few seasons testify to a...
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VIEWS AND REVIEWS
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Williams, Michael
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October 13, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 559 2iews views BY ~/IICHAgL WILLIAMS o NE PHRASE of Winston Churchill's radio speech last Sunday vividly calls attention to a tremendous fact of the world...
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COMMUNICATIONS
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560 THE COMMONWEAL October I 3 , I939 quered Poland we know. Their extension elsewhere throughout the world is certain, and will be helped onward, war or no war, wherever social justice is...
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POINTS AND LINES
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October 13 , 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 56I I I iii Red, Altogether I iii A MONG non-fiction best-sellers "The Revolution of Nihilism," by Hermann Rauschning (Alliance Book Corporation. $3.oo)...
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THE STAGE
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Vernon, Grenville
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October I 3 , 1939 THE C O M M O N W E A L 563 how I cannot imagine thinking of "Ma" without at the same time thinking of the love "that passeth all understanding." The book is coarse in spots,...
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THE SCREEN
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Hartung, Philip T.
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564 THE COMMONWEAL October 13 , 1939 first act is the best thing of its kind I've seen in years. (.,It the Ambassador Theatre.) GRENVILLE VERNON. No Discharge in the War N OT TO BE CAUGHT...
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CRITICAL AND FAMILIAR
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Bregy, Katherine
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564 THE COMMONWEAL October 13 , 1939 first act is the best thing of its kind I've seen in years. (.,It the Ambassador Theatre.) GRENVILLE VERNON. No Discharge in the War N OT TO BE CAUGHT...
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MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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October I3, I939 THE COMMONWEAL /;65 olic readers at just about the time it was losing hold upon the emancipated grandchildren of the Puritans themselves. Or was it, perhaps, largely because some...
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THE INNER FORUM
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572 EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY--GIRLS' SCHOOLS SETON HILL COLLEGE THE COMMONWEAL October 13 , i Greensburg, Pennsylvania Degrees: B. A., B. Musics B. S. in Home Economics Pre-Medicine, Pre-Law,...
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Vol. 030 Issue 026 (October 20 1939)
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Vol. 031 Issue 001 (October 27 1939)
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