Communications
July IO, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 277 of the first Continental Congress, during the following September. The previous June, a convention of representatives of the various counties in Maryland had...
...Saint Placid . . . was sent to Messlna...
...Each writer of eminence, and each prel- ate of distinguished sanctity, the religious of every convent and the clergy of every cathedral, were all Benedictine monks...
...He indicates some of the more significant problems, such as the possibility of obtaining harmonious con- sents, and how the lack of information is to be overcome--though from page 202 onward, he merely narrates what has been found possible and what obstacles constantly recur in all conferences...
...If Mr...
...Patience, my dear sir...
...Chamberlain is curious to find M. Hazard's estimate of the works of Stendhal, he might open the monumental history of French literature that M. Hazard did in collaboration with M. Joseph B6dier of the French Academy, his colleague at the Coll~ge de France...
...July IO, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 277 of the first Continental Congress, during the following September...
...Rigdon, Edward Ward, Abm...
...Martin describes political institutions and attempts to appraise these in the light of their past and their existing con- tributions to the peace of the world...
...While Mr...
...Two of the authors, Dr...
...I suppose he does not...
...The previous June, a convention of representatives of the various counties in Maryland had voted that the acts of Parliament were "cruel and oppressive invasions of the people's rights," that all the colonies should espouse the cause of Boston as their own and should stop importing from or exporting to Great Britain so long as the acts were in force...
...Has Mr...
...Harford County had been formed only the year before, set off from Baltimore County because of dissatisfaction over the removal ef the county seat from Joppa to what is now Balti-more city...
...JEROME BLAKE MONTE CASSINO Brooklyn, N. Y. T o the Edttor:--Count Giordani in The Commonweal for June I2, I929, in a contribution entitled Monte Cassino, tells us : "Saint Maur...
...BOOKS What Shall We Do with Peace...
...Hence the name given the new county...
...HAZARD ON STENDHAL Toronto, Canada...
...Dr...
...Holland, Saml...
...the Scottish missionaries were, or immed'ately became, Benedictine monks...
...Hill and Dr...
...Does he know that M. Hazard, occupying the chair of Comparative Romance Literature in the Coll~ge de France, is one of the two leaders of the Paris school of studies in comparative literature...
...Frederick Moore has been a special correspondent of leading American and European papers, and official American Counse!or to the Japanese Office of Foreign Affairs at Tokio...
...By will of Frederick, the sixth Lord Baltimore, a relative, Henry Harford, had been made proprietary of the province...
...Martin, are university professors...
...Let us be resigned when they refer to us as Dessication Dervishes of the Unholy Alliance (Evan- gelical rite...
...and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved...
...Then in March the next spring--two days after Patrick Henry's "liberty or death" speech--Harford County men, meeting at Bush, distinguished themselves and their county and their descendants for all time by adopting this resolution: "We, the Committee of Harford County, having most seriously and maturely considered the resolves and association of the Continental Congress and the resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we esteem ourselves in a more particular manner intrusted by our constituents to see them carried into execution, we do most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our country, and engage ourselves by every tie held sacred among mankind, to perform the same at the risque of our lives and fortunes...
...Lemmon, Thos...
...The signers of this declaration were no common men...
...D. BrDE GRAY, Obl., O.S.B...
...More than one may be required...
...It is curious that he has no suggestions to offer on the question of governments paying men to study certain problems steadily, instead of depending on the so-called expert, too often only an expert when an emergency arises...
...They were : "Aquila Hall, Jos...
...Its members signed an agreement, termed "The Association," against importing or consuming British goods or exporting goods to Great Britain...
...Smithson, John Donohuy, John Patrick, Daniel Scott, Benj...
...The Pohtics o[ Peace, by Charles E. Martin...
...Bradford Norris, James Harris, Edward Prall, Greenberry Dorsey, John Archer, W. Smithe, W. Webb, John Taylor...
...Then, too, they may not see eye to eye with us in our whole-hearted acceptance of super-government by the Anti-saloon League, the Methodist Board of Temperance and Pub- lic Morals, and like hierarchies...
...that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown...
...Morgan, Frans...
...Whitaker, Charles Anderson, William Fisher, Jr., Rich& Dallam, John Durham, James McComas, William Bradford, Sen., Win...
...Stan[ord University Press...
...However, we can afford to be tolerant----of their stupidity only, of course--for, granted that our well-oiled enforcement machinery continues to work with its present efficiency, it is a question of a short time only until all these obstinates will be killed off...
...Denis A.O McCarthy, in a letter in your issue of May 29, voices an ennui engendered by the recalcitrant citizenry who stub- bornly refuse to take seriously the Eighteenth Amendment...
...M. Hazard made up a book for a biograph- ical series, and with his known suppleness of mind he reduced the critical parts to the minimum and dealt with the works in function of the life...
...The Italian missionaries were Benedictine monks...
...Certainly it is annoying, to those of us who have acquired the modern pragmatic-materialist view-point, to observe the antics of these die-hards...
...The Commonweal requests its subscribers to communicate any chan#es of address two weeks in advance, to ensure the recetpt of all issues...
...the Gallic missionaries were Benedictine monks...
...COMMUNICATIONS T "EMBOTTLED INTELLECTUALS" Wilson, Pa...
...3.00...
...From his monas- tery on the Caelian he [Saint Gregory] sent Augustine who, with forty companions, set foot on English soll in 596, 'and from this time Saint Benedict seems to have taken possession of England as his own.' " 278 THE COMMONWEAL July xo, 1929 That Saint Maur founded Benedictinism in France, that Saint Placid carried the Benedictine rule to Sicily, or that Saint Augustine of Canterbury had lived according to the Benedictine rule in his monastery of Saint Andrew on the Caelian Hill in Rome before being sent to England are noth-ing more than traditions...
...Through-out, the volume shows a wide grasp of modern history and present-day politics which makes it interesting even if there are obvious points on which agreement might be difficult...
...I object also to the assumption that M. Hazard has failed by attending to the man and not to his work...
...T HREE of these volumes are published as part of the series known as the Stanford Books on World Politics, of which apparently seven have already been issued...
...It may even be that some of them still cling to the antiquated notion that mankind has some inalienable natural rights in spite of the notion's intrinsic absurdity having been shown by Senator Wesley L. Jones, the Honorable William G. McAdoo, Mabel Willebrandt, Bishop Cannon, and other eager souls of the New Enlightenment...
...The merit of patient reading and extensive erudition Reyner might justly claim...
...Judge Ralston is a lawyer, who had the distinction of being associated with the presentation of the first dispute which was submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitrators at The Hague under the terms of the Hague Peace Convention...
...All four books can be summarized in the short sentence that their proposition is peace, with the extension of this idea con- tained in the phrase of Burke, "not peace through the medium of war...
...Caldwell, Aquila Paca, James Lytle, Aquila Hall, Jr., Robt...
...Or are we...
...Then we of the New Dawn shall be free to run our course to its logical end...
...with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other"----or in any other way, they render tribute, however unknowingly, to the initiative and daring of a handful of doughty Marylanders...
...We can always call them "embottled intellec- tuals," and thumb our noses at them, too, for aren't we secure in the saddle...
...The Public International Con[erence, by Norman L. Hill...
...The Congress, approving the stand of Massachusetts against the Intolerable Acts, resolved that "all America ought to support the inhabitants of Massachusetts in their opposition...
...Moore brings a wealth of sifted information to- gether in a pleasingly compact form, he does not hesitate to lay his finger on areas of danger, as for instance page 3: "The first and perhaps the strangest . . is that President Wilson supported the navy in the greatest program in all history...
...Chamberlain his reaction to the biography of Stendhal which M. Hazard brought out in French in 1927, and which appears to have got into English...
...The Continental Congress adjourned in October, after having adopted a declaration of colonial rights in which were reasserted the "common rights of Englishmen," and having demanded repeal of thirteen obnoxious acts of Parliament...
...the Editor :--Your correspondent, Mr...
...Whenever Americans celebrate Independence Day whether in John Adams's phrasing--"by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty...
...It seems they hold the fancy that we ought to have a government of the people, for the people and by the people...
...5.00...
...Hill sets out to describe the International Conference, and then to analyze his description of it in relation to history and international law...
...but a natural partiality urged him to display the ancient honors of his order, and his judgment was the slave of his partiality...
...4.00...
...In so far as this may be taken as descriptive of their general aims, it marks an immense advance in scholastic and legal thought, for which the world may be grateful...
...He is oppressed with the idea that the people of each nation study the larger political and international issues with less care today than perhaps at any time...
...But of course that poor formula was discarded lon~ ago...
...Again, large numbers of them appear to be rank sentimental- ists who still shudder in maudlin horror at recurring accounts of debauchery and murder of their fellows in the name of law enforcement...
...It is quaint that we still number among our citizens in the Era of Business First throwbacks who maunder about prin-ciples and ideals, and foolishly compare their futile resistance to us with that of the patriots who fought to throw off another kind of intolerable yoke...
...But let us be charitable...
...There does not exist one shred of documentary or archaeological proof confirming them as authentic history...
...It was thus that from Maryland, the first country to grant religious liberty to all Christian sects, the first formal declara- tion of independence went forth, forerunner of that mightier pronouncement--"that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states...
...I have not seen the English translation of the book, but in the original--and it would not perhaps be too fatiguing for a reviewer to look into the original--one finds on the front and sides, Vie des Hommes Illustres...
...Brice, Thos...
...But I do object, and violently, to the implications of the caption, Revamping Stendhal, and of the phrase "the easy, the deft and flippant modern biography about Stendhal...
...In the Saxon Church he can discover nothing but Benedictine monks...
...This is probably accurate, but the fault of bad education in any subject does not lie wholly in the char- acter or behavior of the student...
...Perhaps the intransigent ones, too, are bored to suffocation with our little sophistries and pretenses about "the demon Rum," "the evil of liquor," "the fairness of the manner in which the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted" and the slogan: "Pro- hibition means Prosperity...
...Indeed he states on page xv that only one in I,ooo Americans gives any serious attention and sustained thought to world politics...
...Chamberlain read M. Hazard's La R6volution Fran~aise et Lettres Italiennes, which remains after twenty years the standard study of the intellectual relations of France and Italy in the Stendhal period...
...Patterson, Win...
...The Politics of Peace, and The Public International Con- ference are, in a wide sense, supplementary to each other...
...Johnson, Alex...
...Here we allow three guesses as to what that end will be...
...Carvel Hall, Geo...
...t.5o...
...Saint Wilfrid (Eddius, chapter 45) asserts: "Nonne ego curavi, quomodo vitam monachorum secundum regulam S. Benedicti patris, quam nullus ibi prior invexit constituerem ?" Indeed, Lingard (Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, page 73) says: "Reyner, in his Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, is, like other genealogists, often fanciful and sometimes extrava- gant...
...It was frightfully inefficient...
...America's Naval Challenge, by Frederick Moore...
...Dur-ing the administration of that ardent advocate of disarmament, and under his guidance, the rivalry with Great Britain had its beginning...
...International zlrbitration front Athens to Locarno, by Jackson H. Ralston...
...And also, on page I6o, on the question that the United States does not need an imperialistic policy...
...introduced monasticism into France...
...Morgan, Robt...
...TO the Editor :--It would of course be unfair to hold against Mr...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...It is due to the fact that in newspapers and in colleges the tendency is to employ youth or youthful minds on affairs and subjects which require experi...
...E. K. BRowN...
Vol. 10 • July 1929 • No. 10
