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338 THE COMMONWEAL July 31, 1929 Detroit, Mich. O the Editor :--In your number of June I2, there is a letter from Los Angeles, signed by W. A. Bixel, and it seems to me that the gentleman...
...It shall be a true campaign...
...The tone of these supplementary comments is so unaffected and practical that adults as well as children might read them with benefit...
...This does not mean, explains Mr...
...their aim is not to count heads--including blockheads--but to express the constructive and productive forces of the country...
...Until the completion of the Panama Canal the United States was theoretically obliged to maintain two separate and independent navies, adequate in defensive strength against any which could be brought to bear by an invading enemy...
...MARIE LESLIE SEYMOUR...
...WISDOM FOR EDUCATORS New York, N. Y. the Editor :--In an editorial appearing in The Com-O monweal of July I% you remark that Dean Fitzpatrick mentioned among the problems of the schools that should find a speedy solution, " 'the formulation of a Catholic educational and social literature permeated with the Cathohc viewpoint.' " Permit me to add that the Dean does not merely talk, but is at present actively engaged in formulating that kind of literature...
...Of course they would be dug up piecemeal from their sources, anyway...
...The private collections in this country have, as a matter of fact, absorbed some of the very finest pictures in the world...
...There are seven speeches, all that were delivered from June to November by the presidential candidate...
...It was financially catastrophic to Nicaragua that plans for building the canal, on which her whole future prosperity had been based, should be held in abeyance...
...The remaining third, the burgesses or deputies from the towns, represented commerce and manufactures...
...I read the speeches at the time and again as they appear in bulk in the book...
...When asked his advice Child would reply: "As ambassador I can't say what I think you Fascisti should do, but if you ask me what in similar circumstances Roosevelt would have done I can answer that...
...Finally he notes that in the two important cases of Italy and Spain the dictators are working to build up new types of legislative or consultative assemblies...
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...More advanced scholars will find the work a brief but extremely convenient synthesis of modern historical scholarship...
...They will be examined with curiosity by students of politics a few years hence, and the wonderment will grow that a campaign could be won by seven speeches of that character...
...Those parts that can be understood were certainly not issues, as for example the "American home...
...His occasional licenses---enumerated and accounted for in the preface---can be pardoned readily...
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...SERIES of classics, modern and otherwise, now tempt almost everyone who buys books at all...
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...Or, for the matter of that, than the Irish...
...Viewed as a whole, however, this history is an eminently satisfactory performance, lucidly written, fulsome and agreeable in tenor...
...These speeches did their work in the campaign, but they do not read well in a book by the President of the United States...
...Edsel Ford has bought lovely Fra Angelicos and that the Honorable Andrew Mellon is the proud possessor of a Hans Metaling...
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...And if present conditions, which promise the best for Nicaragua, are lasting, Washington will at last have triumphed...
...Colorful, full-prose pictures, of distinctly unusual merit, have been lavishly interspersed with the text...
...Bixel dislikes the Mexicans, from a superficial acquaintance with the driftwood which has gone to Los Angeles...
...Rather, should he compliment them on their remarkable restraint toward the contemptible attitude of our government toward the Mexican situation...
...He might have done well to remind us that much of the democratic theory is akin to Christian morals and therefore congruous to the minds of men of European stock...
...CONTRIBUTORS ELMER ~URPHY 1S one of the editors of the Nation's Business PADRAIC COLUM, an Irish poet and the author of many books, has recently pubhshed Balloon, a comedy POWER DALTON, a poet, ,s the author of Star Pollen, and Turmng Earth, GEORGE FORT MILTOr...
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...Nevertheless the book is a fine one because it states with great vigor and flawless lucidity a whole bundle of important and sometimes neglected truths...
...History of the Passion, by J. E. Belser...
...translated by F. .4 Marks...
...In Nicaragua Dollars for Bullets, by Harold Norman Denny...
...Lawrence and Saguena~,, Bermuda, Porto-Rico, Havana and West Inches...
...As a result the public knows that Mr...
...A multl-party system has far worse vices, for as parties multiply confusion appears, no stable majority can be formed and nothing can be done except by uneasy coalitions wide open to intrigue and political blackmail...
...obscurity as soon as a great issue was approached, and misstatement of fact are found throughout...
...AMPAIGN speeches are usually consigned to a waiting grave...
...Bixel's last query about the intellectuality of the American priest: what could be more absurd...
...As for Mr...
...Texts from the New Testament outlining Our Lord's hfe supply the main substance and framework, and to each paragraph so chosen the author has appended appropriate considerations and counsel...
...Tinkering with the old machinery has accomplished little...
...The ~ssues as most of us conceived them were not discussed...
...They should have been left out...
...Valuable and interesting notes accompany the text, and the historical summaries are really excellent...
...Nollekens and His Times, by John Thomas Smith...
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...I am a Republican, and voted for Hoover, but I don't think Mr...
...English Comedy, by Ashley H. Thorndike...
...Belser's opinion that Christ's public life lasted only one year...
...OUR LADY ACADEMY Manteno, I11...
...BOOKS Parliaments and Fascism The Writing on the Hall, by Richard Washburn Child...
...post-war strains have cracked the false front of fine phrases and revealed the flimsy structure underneath...
...JOHN A. LAPP...
...Scene after scene, poignantly dramatic and genuinely poetic, reveal a personality which the world loves more as the centuries pass...
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...THE patience of those teachers and general readers who have long been awaiting the publication of a fitting companion volume to Hayes and Moon's Modern History has now been rewarded...
...In Nicaragua the San Juan River and the Great Lake of Nicaragua are natural links in a Caribbean-Pacific waterway which would considerably shorten the distance between the two coasts of the United States...
...HOFFMAN NICKERSON...
...Its argument may be summarized thus: the chief faults of parliamentary government are: first, too much legislation, second, too much fool legislation, and third, too much interference July3i, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 339 with administration...
...because of it she has been desired by many nations...
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...Art in Custody Old World Masters in New World Collections, by Esther Singleton...
...America has held to her course because she has not dared do anything else...
...LOGICALLY does Harold Norman Denny trace theO history of Nicaragua and her relationship with America through the stages of diplomacy which ran from the idea that the United States was manifestly destined to combine North and South America into a hemispheric republic to the present "mutual good-will" program, that there is little reason to doubt his authority...
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...The title given above belongs to a comparatively out-of-the-way treasure, and is indicative of what can be found in the World Classics, product of a renowned academic press...
...This is the historic background which Mr...
...Accordingly twothirds of a mediaeval parliament was composed of nobles and clergy who were jointly the chief landholders...
...They were worth cheering...
...It can also share, in a measure, the enjoyment which such spectacles of beauty induce, even though the reproductions (in black and white) are not all one could desire...
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...After it was over, too, a calm reading of the speeches would scarcely disclose, even to an extremely exuberant friend that "the speeches of Mr...
...Based to some extent upon Story's Roba di Roma, it conserves the pleasant literary flavor of that beloved old work and adds not a little additional information...
...The latter are wonderful Catholics, as long as they remain among the humbler classes, but all over this country, we can find people from good Irish homes, bearing Irish names who, having become wealthy and been imbued with social ambitions, are completely carried away with the things of this world...
...EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY AUSTIN, TEXAS Ranked as a Senior College of the First Class by the Catholic Educatmnal Assocmtion and the Association of Texas Colleges...
...The book is confessedly a scholarly synthesis rather than the result of original research...
...We have a large population of Mexicans, who are as good Catholics as the average, and are certainly not among our criminal class...
...The treatment is not unlformly admirable...
...Hoover were measured statements of a new liberalism facing new conditions with courage and with confidence in the individual human being to act wisely for himself and for his neighbors...
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...but beginning his letter, as he does, with a translation of his school-boy French, shows that he at least lacks one of the requisites of greatness, which is a sense of humor...
...the referendum and the direct primary have merely replaced the old admitted and therefore responsible political boss with irresponsible and often anonymous masters of millions...
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...You may say that plays are never very interesting as readlng-matter...
...But the very fact that the authors have made modern history their specialty has given them the happy faculty of incorporating in their new text-book "precisely those factors in the distant past which have been most operative in the recent past and are most significant at the present time...
...They thrill me as I read them now in the book...
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...Yet it must still continue to hold the tail...
...on it he lays the entire motive for American intervention in Nicaragua--the theme of his absorbing and observant Dollars for Bullets...
...There is no dearth of scholarly comment, but the picture remains somewhat vague and unappealing...
...Belser says: "It is not worth while to pay any attenticn to the claims made for the winding-sheet of Turin...
...It was polltically obvious that the United States should finally acquire all rights to a possible canal and should build her entire CentralAmerican diplomacy around the necessity of protecting those rights...
...You may aver that poetic drama is out of place in the modern theatre, even when that is the affair of amateur theatrical groups...
...The opening of the canal, according to Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of War, made it "of vital importance to this country not only that the canal shall be open to our fleet in case of war, but that it shall be closed to the fleet of our enemy...
...Miss Singleton has selected I IO of these paintings and secured permission to reproduce them...
...New York: J. H. 8ears and Company, Incorporated...
...O the Editor :--In your number of June I2, there is a letter from Los Angeles, signed by W. A. Bixel, and it seems to me that the gentleman thinks everyone in the American Catholic Church is a fool, except himself...
...The present book offers a cycle which deals with the life of the saint from youth to death...
...WrRe the Regmtrar for a catalog...
...But this book deserves a trial from both points of view and will, we believe, prove eminently satisfactory...
...The picture of T. R.'s ghost led out against the Italian subversives as the dead Cid was led out against the Saracens must have made the old Rough Rider grin from his grave...
...They are introduced by President Ray Lyman Wilbur as follows: "The presidential campaign of 1928 was as significant as that of 186o...
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...Bixel should refer to a body of men hke the Knights of Columbus, as insane...
...Fairly brief, they fill but 215 pages of large print and heavily leaded type...
...Well I am fairly conversant with political literature and had at the opening of the campaign no animosity toward the candidate...
...THE present guide-book to historical and actual Rome seems to us just the right thing for people who wish to know the why and wherefore of all they see...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...The general reader will find in the book nothing but what an intelligent American citizen should know of world history from the earliest times to the French Revolution...
...Dt~et:eu, BETHANY HOUSE, Maryimoll, N. Y. OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY Syosset, (Long Island) New York A Residential and Day School for Girh...
...edited by .4rthur Preuss...
...New York: Oxford University Press...
...Students of diplomacy have long admired the finesse of Vergennes as French ambassador to Sweden during the revolution of 1772 which transferred power in that country from a corrupt Parliament to the king, and thereby strengthened Sweden--France's ally...
...Secondary school teachers will find the new book to be about the ablest and most up-to-date text on the fields covered...
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...It was a fearless summary of the problems of the day by one who knew them and was unafraid to speak...
...They are not sovereign assemblies but consultative bodies existing to advise the executive...
...Accred,ted by the Assocmtmn of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland...
...For instance, if he follows Belser, he will not make the Crucifixion take place at noon, but at nine o'clock in the morning...
...It follows that only the wealthy can employ experts and buy masters...
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...Furthermore the new European parliaments resembled their mediaeval prototypes not only in composition but also in function...
...The speeches of Mr...
...From epigrams that sting and crackle with truth the reader is now and then let down by an ill-punctuated or ill-formed sentence...
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...Our author has no illusions about dictators and sings no hymns in their praise...
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...Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom was one brilliant exception...
...He is editing The Marquette Monographs on Education, three of which have already appeared, and several others are either in the press or m preparation (Mdwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company...
...It would be hard to imagine a position more delicate or more difficult than that of an ambassador in time of revolution...
...who send their children to fashionable Protestant schools, marry Protestants for social reasons and are soon among the also-rans, as far as their religion is concerned...
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...Careful avoidance of concrete proposals...
...Alma Roma, by Albert G. Mackmnon...
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...That book will be read again with interest when we emerge from the deeps of reaction...
...and supervised as they have been by first-rate judges and dealers, the "fakes" that have been palmed off are not many...
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...Furthermore, Americans are at least occasionally fabulously rich, wherefore Americans are in the market for Titians...
...As ambassador to Italy he had the unique experience of the Fascist march on Rome...
...They are sometimes preserved in book form to satisfy partizanshlp but not to add to the general stock of knowledge...
...With an effective simile he describes America as a man who has grabbed a bear by the tail...
...Come and See/, by Imogen Ryan...
...BOOKS AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING In the openmg pages Mr...
...It seems to me that the life of the average American parish priest is an attempt to combine the mysticism of Saint Thomas, the financial genius of Pierpont Morgan, and the all-embracing work of a clergyman...
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...July 31, 1929 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 34I Briefer Mention Ancient and Mediaeval History, by Carlton J. H. Hayes and Parker Thomas Moon...
...However, the Holy Week preacher who wishes to be exactly accurate will find the information here...
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...Hoover set the goal of the campaign...
...Thus he was the friend of Roosevelt with whom he bull-moosed in 1912, but he has now progressed beyond that ill-advised and ill-fated Progressive movement: on pages 145 to 147 the reader will find Rooseveh's 1912 platform recanted to the full satisfaction of the reviewer...
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...With the common denominator of Nicaragua as a most vital point in American defensive strategy, "what is going on in Nicaragua" proceeds not from a series of isolated experiments in statecraft, but from a very definite policy, adopted through choice or expediency by every Washington administration since Roosevelt...
...Instead of wondering why such words as democracy are in themselves attractive he might have quoted from Louis XIV's memoirs: "Man being naturally ambitious and proud finds within himself no reason why another should command him until his own need shows him the necessity...
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...Evidently, Mr...
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...Not since the Lincoln-Douglas debates has the country followed the issues of a campaign with more intensity...
...Thus they somewhat resemble the government of a modern corporation and still more the orlgmal mediaeval idea of a parliament...
...I am sure that those who are interested in Catholic educational and social hterature will not be disappointed if they undertake the perusal of any of the volumes of this series...
...Now come the speeches of Herbert Hoover from the press of a great university under the stirring title The New Day...
...New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith...
...Measured Statements The New Day...
...Nor does the author always seem clear as to the meaning of the term "democracy...
...THIS simply written, beautifully illustrated series of devotional talks by a Religious of the Sacred Heart constitutes one of the best books to have appeared in recent years...
...MR HOUSMAN'S little plays about the Poverello have now been tested by so many audiences that their value as modern art theatre is beyond question...
...glittering alliterations without sense...
...He must help to shape the course of his home government and in so doing he cannot rid himself of his influence over the country to which he is sent...
...The author might have taken for his motto Pope's solid and finished couplet : "For forms of government let fools contest That which is best administered is best...
...come the book...
...platitudes which had no relationship to the campaign...
...the campaign speeches of President Hoover...
...Like a woman's beauty, Nicaragua's great natural blessing has not been unmixed with evil consequences...
...Some comment on the conflict between the Papacy and nationalist Italy might desirably have been omitted...
...Miss Singleton is sometimes the victim of namby-pamby phrasing, but remains on the whole readable enough...
...Approved by the UmveretW of the State of New York...
...lS the editor of the Chattanooga News, Chattanooga, Tennessee DOROTHY BELLE FLANAGAN was formerly associated with the Kansas Ctty Journal-Post BOYD-CARPENTER lS an authority on Orwntal pohtms and hterature M.~RYXN GAWALEWIEZ and PIorg ST^CHILWICZ are the authors of The Queen of Heaven whmh has been translated from the Pohsh and will be pubhshed shortly by the Dial Press FInaNCES M FROST, a Vermont poet, wall pubhsh her collected verses m the fall HOFPMAN NICKERSON lS the author of The Inquisition, and a contributor of pohtmal studms to the Amemcan and Enghsh press JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI IS a member of The Commonweal staff JOHN A LAPP ls the Dean of the School of Social Service of Marquette Umverslty, and the author of Our Amertca, The American Citizen, Economms, and Practmal Socml Science AMSROSE I'AaLEY lS a translator and teacher of class,caI poetry...
...OW that a jury has discovered its inability to say whether a painting is a genuine Leonardo or not, the public can calmly return to its old conviction that few illustrious canvases are gathering dust in garrets...
...By comparison the treatment of Restoration and early eighteenth-century comedy palls a little...
...CHARD WASHBURN CHILD early made his mark in American journalism and politics...
...To label it The New Day and call its contents "measured statements of a new liberalism," is quite too much for those who have a little interpretative power and a sense of humor...
...It and its many companion volumes are neatly bound in Oxford blue, will fit into the pocket without a bulge, and are excellently edited...
...It is a minute, detailed, sometimes diffuse and repetitious, exegetical commentary, and as such is of interest chiefly to special students of Scripture...
...From the strategic standpoint the whole purpose of a canal open to the American navy and closed to the enemy's vessels would be defeated if there was another parallel route...
...Hoover were measured statements of a new liberalism...
...However, are the Mexicans any more indifferent to their religion than, for instance, Italians and Spaniards, who come to this country, with their wonderful background of centuries in the very heart of Catholicity...
...Bixel condemns any one who thinks as a militarist, but does a pacifist think any more clearly...
...After it was over the Honorable Secretary of the Interior should have had a sense of humor...
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...But alas for my power of understanding[ Really I do not know what the issues were nor can I reconstruct them out of the printed pages...
...We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide it...
...New South Wing has just been completed with accommodations for twenty addmonal resident students...
...but why make it easy to deride our politics by assembling the whole between two covers...
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...Your eye can run up and down the list without meeting a single item that seems uninteresting...
...Whether that executive be a dictator as in Poland, a hereditary monarch as in Spain, or a president so powerful that he is almost a temporary king, as with us since Jackson's time, the principle is the same...
...Together they constituted a sort of committee of the agricultural interest...
...In Europe the result of weakness and irresponsibility has been dictatorship...
...Also two years of Pre-Law and Pre-Medicine...
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...Imagine comparing the campaign of 1928 with 186o...
...And scattered through the book are items of much wider appeal, as Dr...
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...I heard over the radio what followed in the seven speeches...
...The American ambassador became the friend of Mussolini, and even in some sort the latter's adviser...
...The theme of the book is the decay of parliamentary government in Europe, the appearance in America of symptoms llke those which preceded that decay, and the new European machinery of government designed to fill the gap...
...The future foreign minister of Louis XVI and second father of American independence would have understood Child's difficulties and applauded his success...
...It has, repeatedly...
...Housman is, on the whole, scrupulously faithful to the spirit and letter of the Franciscan tradition...
...To pass over entirely the wonderful work they are doing in the teaching field, did Christ send His Apostles to write theses to the Greeks, or to preach His simple doctrine to the whole world...
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...FATHERBelser's History of the Passion is not a devotional book like Gallwey's Watches of the Passion, nor a narrative such as Fouard's chapters dealing with the Passion...
...The essence of these new assemblies is representation not according to territorial divisions but according to function...
...The best section is devoted to Elizabethan plays...
...I heard those words over the radio with rejoicing as did millions of Americans...
...All this mattered little in the fat pre-war days...
...NO GOOD survey of English comedy has been available, despite the fulsome studies which have been devoted to almost every aspect of it...
...Between them they are said to have devised a formula...
...Professor Thorndike's book begins with definitions of the dramatic forms involved, moves on to a discussion of the background, and then summarizes the history of stage fun in England...
...Here one finds abundant information, shrewd comment and accurate delineation...
...Whatever of famous art is now extant has been carefully catalogued and industriously bid up...
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...I live in a city, which makes Los Angeles look distinctly rural, when it comes to the matter of nationalities and the melting pot...
...N.ex t Week The Commonweal will publish A PILGRIMAGE TO PITTSBURGH By MICHAEL WILLIAMS This article, which is to be illustrated with several woodcuts, will describe the new Sacred Heart Church, monument to the enthusiasm of a pastor and his flock, and expression of genuinely modern and genuinely traditional aspiration...
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...A two-party system tends to produce two teams existing merely to train men for office and to contest elections against the other team, whether or not any first-rate political issue divides the two...
...As to the alleged Holy Shroud, Dr...
...Denny, that Washington has not blundered...
...his language might be taken to mean that any government enjoying the consent of the governed was therefore democratic...
...He does find most of them patriotic, conscientious, hard-working men, ruling with the enthusiastic consent of their communities...
...Why are we unable to do the kind of work which the Reichsdruckerei supplies at so low a cost to the German householder, or even that which distinguishes a French periodical like l'Illustration...
...The author finds parliamentary weakness and folly responsible for much of the Communist desire to pull down the social order...
...Moreover he has continued to grow...
...Courses lead to degress m. ARTS AND SCIENCES, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ENGINEERING, AND JOURNALISM...
...The chapters devoted to more modern themes seem better, though it is difficult to attribute much importance to a great deal of the material or to trust critical verdicts about it...
Vol. 10 • July 1929 • No. 13
