The Commonweal week by week WISHING-WELL DIPLOMACY INTO the gloomy symphony of our current international problems came two disturbingly cheerful notes, both emitted, surprisingly enough, by...
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RURAL AMERICA Case for the Farmer "THE AMERICAN FARMER IS AT THE MERCY OF FORCES WHICH ARE BEYOND HIS CONTROL" JAMES HEARST THE farmers are complaining again. Mass meetings like those of the...
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RURAL AMERICA Poverty on the Land JOHN STANLEY A SHOWER of snow mutes the ragged outlines of a farm that embarrasses the hopeful, willing country in New York and Kentucky and Maine and the...
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ANGLIGAN CONVERSIONS Spiritual Pilgrimage DOUGLAS HYDE T HE British press recently reported that "the Rev. Hugh Ross WiUiamson, a priest of the Church of England, has been received into the...
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THE SCREEN ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS WITHOUT p ERHAPS the master showman, Samuel Goldwyn, announced "Guys and Dolls" with too much offsoreen fanfare. The stage show was excellent, with music and...
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THE STAGE THE BELLE OF ST. TRINIAN'S D O YOU not sometimes idly wonder, in the still of the night, whatever happens to girls who go to Cheltenham? Mr. Ronald Searle, of course, has already told...
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COMMUNICATIONS IMMIGRATION AND JAPAN Long Island City, N. Y. T O the Editors: While a subcommittee under Sen. Harley M. Kilgore is preparing to examine the immigration laws in Washington...
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BOOKS The Prize of the Goncourt Novels GERMINIE. By Edmond & Jules de Goncourt. Translated by Jonathan Griffith. Introduction by Martin Turnell. Grave. $3. By WILLIAM DUNLEA G ERMINIE...
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS Children and Science-Fiction CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP L ESS than ten years ago a new subject made its appearance in the Children's Book field-modern science-fiction. However,...
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A Selected List of Children's Books BY CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP POETRY Mouse Chorus. By Elizabeth Coatsworth. Ill. by G. Vaughan-Jackson. Pantheon. $2. Delightful, small, quick verse about mice...
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