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THE COMMONWEAL September I I, I929 ! BOOKS The Clever Hymenoptera Instinct and Intelliyence, by R. 1/[7. G. Hzngston. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. HIS book with the...
...Jespersen offers a brand new language of his own invention: Novial ("nov" meaning new and "ial" standing for "international auxiliary language...
...But right shoes are needed To keep you in step...
...Thus the book is valuable in many senses, and may be warmly recommended...
...On the other hand, a greater proportion of the immigrant farmers are owners of the land that they till than is the case with native-born farmers, the percentages being respectively 80.9 and 66.4...
...There are twenty-eight at the smallest fragment, forty-four at the intermediate one, and eightynine at the largest piece...
...Make something else of them if you can...
...New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated...
...New York: Dodd Mead and Company...
...it is the infallible fount of the truths of salvation...
...agnosticism, the love of the world, was not in them...
...Norton and Company...
...The Strangers at Our Gate Immigrant Farmers and their Children, by Edmund de 8. Brunner...
...Such is the Catholic understanding of the efficacy of the sacraments, and in the face of it how singularly inept must seem all the learned pretense of the science of comparative religion in its attempts to trace the origin of the sacraments to primitive magic rites...
...H. Davies...
...In the teaching of the Church it is Christ Who speaks...
...Moreover it did not place its pebbles haphazard...
...The Irish are about equal in numbers to each of the following nationalities: Italians, Poles, Dutch, Finns and Swiss...
...So writes Mr...
...The school attendance record of the native whites of foreign parentage is slightly above that of the children of native parents in the age group seven-thlrteen ; in the later age groups the record of the children of foreign parents is not as good...
...The document shows that they were men single-minded and untinged with doubt to an extraordinary degree...
...What would heaven be without God...
...it is the one and only appointed way to salvation and the sole ordained source of sanctification for men...
...The book begins interestingly, but conventionally enough, with instances of the perfection of instinct in normal circumstances-meaning by instinct any racial habit that is independent of individual experience...
...Their victory was, perhaps, a decisive event in the Irish revolution...
...And for this reason, Days of Fear has spiritual significance...
...road-making ants that build state highways, unembarrassed by political corruption...
...Coma ~ Homo Ecoacamigs mid Mmle...
...telh how to overcome foot ills in the maurd w~T...
...About the relation of experiences so unique and desperate, literary criticism has little to say...
...Yet how could the Church claim less and still believe in her solidarlty with Christ ? If Christ is the Way and the Truth and the Life, His Church can be no less...
...There was a pause . . . then words came again . . . 'They will never grant this...
...Resident Chaplain...
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...In opposition to Ido another Frenchman produced half a dozen "languages" in succession...
...But here is, in my opinion, one of the most fascinating records of a medical career ever written...
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...The Problem of Peace: Third Series of Lectures...
...Jespersen does not discuss the theorists--Descartes, Comenius, Leibnitz and the rest but gives his attention to the practical attempts made in the nineteenth century...
...Munthe, thank heaven, is a doctor...
...Opposition is not always predicated on misunderstanding...
...and if one is accustomed to the firm contour of a doctrinal faith, this, that and the other thing will seem slightly out of focus...
...those that, to escape from an island where they were marooned, made themselves into a hanging ladder from a projecting bough...
...Then came in 19o2 Idiom ,4 College Preparatory $r for G6qs Neutral, invention of Rosenberger of St...
...It is Christ that the Church is ever preaching...
...The non-Catholic may be disinclined to admit the intimate union of Christ and the Church, or, even admitting this, to grant that the Catholic Church has any exclusive right to assert this intimacy for herself...
...Differences of religion and of language are the principal sources of such prejudices...
...I confess to having taken little delight in his earlier books...
...Fear and Elation Days of Fear, by Frank Gallagher...
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...and it is Christ that she labors to form in her children...
...OHN F. McCo~.xtlCK, S.J., professor of philosophy at Marquette Univermty, is the president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association...
...For the souls of men are the weapons of God...
...CHARLES R. D. MILLER...
...for it was perhaps too much to expect that they would patronize the book lists of Catholic publishers...
...HIS study was made under the direction of the Institute of Social and Religious Research...
...It can be satisfyingly humorous...
...Athletic field...
...For Information Address W. GRIFFIN KELLEY, Headmaster The Catholic University School of Liturgical Music THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D. C. Date of Opening September 24 Courses Offered: Justine Ward Method of Teaching School Music, I, II, III, IV (Solfeggio) Gregorian Chant,-- Elementary and advanced Courses Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Polyphony Training and Conducting Boy's Choir Private and Ensemble Lessous,--Voca], Organ, Piano Gregorian Chant to be taught by Rev...
...The first two I shall give in Major Hingston's own words: "I cut a grasshopper into three bits...
...Gallagher can write: "I know some who will convince themselves from our worn bodies, by the wistfulness in our faces when we are dead, that no God exists...
...Mowatt in his interesting Life of Lord Pauncefote...
...Winter, and Spring Quartm~ $ewl f~ dammm~a~mt KEEP IN STEP Fall days are coming To fill you with pep...
...Catalog...
...Munthe Scores Tlle Story of San Michele, by Axel 2Viunthe...
...From the first paragraph of his address he apparently admits by implication that he has not visited the continent of which he speaks, and later he announces, "Moreover I am not an Asiatic...
...Another Secondary Language ~In International Language, by Otto Jespersen...
...Munthe is forever skipping off on some adventure which relates to sheer living...
...It is comparatively simple and logical and avoids a too great violation of the linguistic prejudices of those accustomed to the main European natural languages...
...For the intelligence of insects as a whole Major Hingston has no great respect...
...The governor of the prison, bringing them with great personal relief the news that the condition they had first made has been accepted by the authorities, and that they are to be treated as prisoners of war, is rebuffed by the spokesman for the prisoners...
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...In the impetus given to nationalism by the @ar, and the consequent cultivation of numerous little known languages, the author sees conditions growing No ALTMAN & CO...
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...This Swedish vagrant through southern Europe can give you excellent reminiscence about Pasteur, Charcot and other celebrities of his youth...
...Similar is the instance of the wasp which in building its wall carefully selects pebbles of the right size and shape, or which, if it brings back prey too large to go into its nest, measures the prey with its eye and then enlarges the opening to a suitable width...
...This comparison is not exact...
...Intended therefore for an audience of mixed religious belief, it is an apologetic of the Church without being at all controversial...
...Possibly...
...tests and has as much or as little value as any other generalization erected on this illusory basis...
...There is a picture of a Capri glrl in the Metropolitan which haunted me constantly as I read these pages in which the ancient charm of an isle now abandoned to tourists and questionable characters seems as evident as the perfume of blossoms in a spring garden...
...Address Sister Superior...
...In the preface we are reminded that the immense volume of literature on immigration has paid hardly any attention to the immigrants that live in rural America, who form about one-quarter of the total number of foreign-born...
...As regards intelligence, "the differences between children of native and foreign stock, while slightly in favor of the former, were so small as to be statistically insignificant...
...For narrative purposes-and there are some entrancing stories, though I am not absolutely sure all of them should be believed--it is admirable...
...But a great many persons think it quite worth while to try to make it possible for educated Americans, Frenchmen, Bulgarians and others to communicate freely when necessary...
...What would the earth be without this Church ?" JOHN F. McCoRMICK...
...There are the cattle-tending ants that herd their tiny beasts according to the best cowboy traditions...
...But I know no poet of today who can give us as he can a sense of a still but pulsing life...
...the third, with a colony of CzechoSlovaks and the fourth with a colony of Poles...
...It is no longer a debatable point that the world is tired of the twilight of fiction in international affairs...
...and Style and Form in American Prose...
...In the end the prisoners win...
...SELOVm P. DEL*NY, editor of the American Church Monthly, is the pastor of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York, N. Y. GORH^M MUNSOH is a lecturer on American literature and the author of Robert Frost...
...Intermarriage between immigrants and natives and between the native-born children of immigrants and other natives varies considerably in different states and among different nationalities...
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...In a few years he had hundreds of thousands of adherents, great congresses were held, and books and periodicals were published in the new language in various parts of the world...
...PAO~AIC Cm.UM has recently published Balloon, a comedyE0vo-C^RrS,';TEa is an authority on oriental politics and literature...
...ings and equipment...
...His latest book is Presidents I've Known and Two Near Presidents...
...A Source of Enlightenment The Spirit of Catholicism...
...Even with these renewed agonies before him, Frank Gallagher is able to make us feel sympathy with the governor in his defeat: " 'But...' said the governor again, vacantly...
...It is not a substitute for one's native tongue...
...II An Eastern School with We~ern ViEo~ 1| A Northern School with Southern Charm ]| Coileg~ Wom~ From Eighteer* State~ J| ~._r M__tau_t~,~_om Broadway 43 Minut...
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...The two most important generalizations that are pertinent to all four groups are the greater capacity of the foreigners for hard work than of the natives in the same localities, and the quite unjustified superiority felt by the latter over the former...
...O ONE who reads more current literature than is good for the digestlon--lives of great men based upon a hitherto unpublished laundry list, novels about tile glrl who couldn't be content with cotton stockings, one-volume lozenges of universal knowledge--the sudden dibcovery of the Story of San Michele comes much as would a midsummer bonus to a girl selllng candy for Mr...
...M~rmecocystus setipes . . . had made a nest on the side of a bank...
...Here the most important incident is the building of San Michele, a house on a site once occupied by the Emperor Tiberius on the island of Capri...
...Major Hingston gives many examples of the inflexibility and what he calls the folly instinct...
...The first important attempt to propagate a universal language came, however, in 188o when Schleyer brought out his Volapfik...
...Junior year may be spent at European branch, in French Switzerland...
...of beetles accustomed to dig only up and down escaping easily from a vertical glass tube, but when the same tube is placed horizontally, dying there rather than make a lateral experiment...
...THEODORE MAYNARD, associate professor of English at Georgetown University, is the author of Exile and the editor of the Book of Modern Catholic Qerse...
...Munthe has written a gospel of charity which cuts through current literary Real-Polltik as a holiday breaks into the monotony of workaday llfe...
...For while Davies writes of fields and sparrows with vivid attachment, this younger poet can make what he writes about something separate from himself...
...Space is lacking to do more than mention some of the most striking...
...That Frank Gallagher and his comrades were men of superlative courage and resolution goes without saying...
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...Phillip, weakened by the intensity with which he had spoken, swayed a little and clutched at the wall, breathing whistlingly through his nose, his lips tight-pressed, his eyes big and bright against the drawn skin...
...JESPERSEN,, the distinguished Danish philologist, calls his book 'a plea for an artificial international auxiliary language...
...And yet the literary critic must note that Frank Gallagher is a writer: only a real writer could be so selective and could have so well managed the drama of exaltation, agony and despair that fills these days of fear...
...Woolworth...
...For the Catholic reader there ought to be a special appeal in the final chapter which treats of Catholicism in Its Actuality...
...Arbitration's New Place The Life of Lord Pauncefote, by R. B. Mowatt...
...Try it, for instance, in chapter x. which relates the extraordinary fate of a Russian general who was buried in the wrong place...
...The book is incredibly good...
...The average size and the average value of farms operated by the foreign-born, whether as owners or as tenants, is considerably greater than in the case of the nativeborn...
...Ray...
...Viewed as a whole, however, Dr...
...He faced him . . . type of all revolution facing the weazened well-mannered governor, lately a police officer among some of the colored peoples whom Britain oppresses . . . this governor who regarded all outside his class 482 T H E C O M M O N W E A L September I I, I92c as 'natives'--type of all imperialism...
...Dora Maur Sablayrolles of the French Congregation of Benedictine...
...ERNEST SUTHERLAND BATES...
...It can hardly be denied that Novial, as here explained and as exemplified in the fifteen pages of specimens at the end of the volume, shows itself superior to its predecessors...
...There was one about cholera in Naples, there was another (very excited and prejudiced) about experience in the great war...
...But there are his facts...
...It gives the results of a seventeen years' study of insects carried on by Major Hingston in the oriental jungles, fortified by the findings of other recent scientists...
...Such, in rather rough outline, is the argument which the reader will find developed with much skill and clearness in The Spirit of Catholicism...
...There are poems about Ireland in the collection: they are Irish, but they are not Gaelic: they might have been written from some rectory with a family that did not keep aloof from the people...
...All three ants hasten to the nest...
...JOHN A. RYa:q is professor of moral theology and industrial ethics in the Catholic University of America, and director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference...
...Here is, let me add, Franciscan writing...
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...From her hands flow ever the ancient blessings...
...For Daws to Peck At, by Monk Gibbon...
...SAINT LIZA...
...I heartily and sincerely wish the book Godspeed...
...from Pimbeg~__J | ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME TYNGSBOROUGH . . . . . MASSACHUSETTS A Catholic Boarding School for Girls Conducted by the Si~tcrs o] Notre Dame o[ Namur Affiliated to the Catholic University, to Trinity College and to Emmanud College The Academy replaces the boarding department of the Academy of Notre Dame, Lowell...
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...With deft irony he comments upon the fashionable illness of September II, I9~ 9 THE COMMONWEAL 483 marquises, and with a sympathy incorporating the Scandinavian "kindness to all that lives" he tells how the poor suffer and give thanks for death...
...About one-fourth of the entire foreign-born population live on farms or in rural territory...
...For Daws to Peck At is a small book, but when we have read it we feel that it is a full book...
...None of these peoples constitutes much over 2o percent of the whole immigrant farm group...
...The ant never took the first pebble that offered...
...Finally in I922 Occidental (based on the Occidental languages, especially those of Latin origin) was brought forth by E. de Wahl...
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...New York: P. J. Kenedy and 8ons...
...HIS book with the serious title is as fascinating as any novel--full of thrilling incidents and laughter and alluring vistas of thought...
...Of course it is, to a considerable extent, non-mediclnal...
...But the foresight and knowledge, if they should be called such, are racial, not individual...
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...CONTRIBUTORS CHARLES WILLIS THOMrSON is a veteran political correspondent for New York journals...
...The Spirit of Catholicism grew out of a series of lectures September II, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 48I delivered in the summer term of I923 at the University of Tiibigen where the lecturer is professor of dogmatic theology in the Catholic faculty...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...o.f butterflies trying to scale the Himalayas...
...Manley O. Hudson is from several aspects pleasing...
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...The children of immigrants tend to distribute themselves more widely over the country than their parents, and a smaller proportion of them remain on the farms...
...and for those who fail to enjoy it I shall pray in sorrow...
...The open outlook that is in the prose record and the book of verse, the power of detachment, belong to young Irishmen of today...
...About one-fourth of the foreign-born farm operators are Germans, while the Scandinavians are almost as numerous...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
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...hence the authoritative tone of her teaching, which would be so unwarranted in a merely human teacher, and the reverent obedience of the faithful, which to outsiders so often seems a surrender of the rights of human reason...
...But when Latin ceased to be the property of everyone, and when a throng of new devotions had, in a measure, submerged the old central practices of piety, the Book of Hours became almost exclusively the property of religious communities...
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...Ossining 1452 OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY Syosset, (Long Island) New York A Residential and Day School foe Girb...
...Had the writer doubted for any long tlme--there are moments when he does doubt them --the possibility of justice in the world, or the sacredness of Irish nationality, he could never have begun to make this desperate protest...
...IIe is the author of A Living Wage...
...the solifugid meeting its first scorpion is as wary of the creature's sting as is any veteran of a hundred fights...
...of wasps that paralyze their prey so that their larvae may enjoy fresh meat (first reported by Fabre and since then frequently denied but now abundantly proved by Major Hingston's observations...
...So we learn of butterflies that lay their eggs only on special plants suitable for the food of their young...
...His natural urbanity of manner, his policy of hurrying slowly, his imperturbability under trying conditions, made for him many friends, and created within the minds of officials in London a sense of confidence which passing years served only to strengthen...
...163-acre campus...
...Concerning the immigrants generally, two important questions have not so far been satisfactorily answered: namely, "Do the immigrants become merged in the native population...
...Is he wrong in even this moderate but revolutionary claim...
...Though his mother be travelstained with long journeying, though her step be sometimes halting and weary, and though her countenance be furrowed with care and trouble--yet she is his mother...
...Yet if he follows the argument at all, he can hardly fail to think better of the Church...
...warrior ants that make treaties with hostile tribes and abide by them...
...Those who will read the Third Series of Lectures delivered on behalf of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, dealing with the various activities of the League of Nations and its suggested policies, will be enabled to make a comparative study of the change of mind and view-polnt of the public on peace and arbitration, which has taken place in these post-war days...
...The third bit is twice the bulk of the second...
...C~a/ow~ Addrm D~m, Box C. Coa~mt Su~, New Jm~y worse and the need for a common auxiliary language becoming ever still more imperative...
...He is a young poet who has not yet found himself, and in his present volume there is much that does not represent him at his really dis tinctlve achievement There are many pieces in his book that other poets could do better in than he does--verses with philosophical twists, verses with ironic intents...
...In a lucid and interesting manner he explains and justifies the grammar and vocabulary of Novial...
...But he and his comrades had a religious faith that was one with their national faith...
...E PINNED his faith to international arbitration and I] took peace to be the only object of his life...
...For them a better understanding of the real nature of the Church would almost surely lead to a new attitude toward Catholicism...
...Surely the day has come when the League of Nations, is particular, and the world in general, might be treated as regards public questions to speeches or addresses by persons who know their subject-matter by personal acquaintance...
...The two hundred and twenty acres tie among New England hills and woods, affording opportunities ior all oat-door sports, including boating and horse-hack riding...
...and of many other examples of apparent foresight...
...Address The Secretary 486 THE COMMONWEAL September II, 1929 M A LV E R Prep School R~smmqx and Day School...
...We hope that the present edition, by Father Callan and Father McHugh, will help to revive a beneficent habit...
...who have learned the views and feelings of Asiatics, not as tourists, but from extended periods of residence...
...While prejudice against the foreign-born is still frequently found, it is diminishing both intensively and extensively...
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...Once this idea of the solidarity of the Church with Christ is grasped, the claims of the Church, which otherwise must seem astounding, follow with overwhelming logic...
...They will not see that we are not the denial but the proof of God...
...But Dr...
...It shows us men unarmed and in the hands of their adversaries winning a great victory simply through faith in the justice of their cause...
...The ant, in fact, in Major Hingston's book, resumes his biblical position of importance...
...and "Is the general level of intelligence of the newer immigration so inferior as to constitute a danger to American culture...
...These questions the present study endeavors to answer for the foreign-born and their children who llve on farms...
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...To a quite different class belongs the Latino sine flexione started in 19o3 by the mathematician, Peano...
...It is always constructive, not eristic...
...Gymnasium...
...There are, too, the ants that have been known to bring sand and bits of wood to make a patch across fly-paper ; those that, in order to cross a dangerous tramway, after losing many lives, tunneled underneath...
...On Easter Monday of I92o, the Irish revolutionaries in prison decide to take no food until they are treated as prisoners of war by the authorities...
...He is the central hero of this story, followed, but only- at a distance, by the wasp and other members of the Hymenoptera...
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...No one in his sober senses would think it possible to make all nations forget their own languages and agree on one single substitute for all purposes...
...The Church as it is on earth, for all its inner fulness of divinity, still wears the outward seeming of human infirmity, just as Christ Himself did in His earthly life...
...by Karl Adam...
...I give the three bits to three separate ants at different places on the same tree...
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...It is shown toward the Protestants as well as toward the Catholics of that group, although in greater degree toward the latter...
...Directed by Catholic laymen...
...He cites literally hundreds of cases to prove his contention...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...and Social Reconstruction...
...It is the speech by Lord Ollvier on Asia and the League...
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...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Both sections of the work are extremely interesting and valuable, but it is impracticable to do more than to call attention to some of the more striking facts and conclusions...
...It should have been given a wide circulation in a cheaper pamphlet form, so that American readers might appreciate the attempt he makes to view American aims and policies from an international angle...
...Later on, when the authorities, cowed by their determination to die rather than recede from their demand, agree to give them the treatment of prisoners of war, the spokesman for the prisoners declares that the strike will go on until they are released unconditionally...
...But now that the Macmillan Company has added this work of Karl Adam to its growing list of Catholic books, we can begin to feel that for seekers after accurate information about the Catholic Church, what she is and what she teaches, the opportunity to be enlightened at least exists...
...HE "Little Office" was, during centuries, familiar to educated lay folk who wished to share the daily life of the Church...
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...Both Latin text and English version are given, there is a helpful introduction, and the Office of the Dead is appended...
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...The foreign-born and their children have shown a greater tendency toward urbanization than the people of native stock...
...CHARLES R. D. MILLER is an instructor in French at Harvard University and an authority on Provencal, Spanish and Italian hterature...
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...Of the remaining eleven addresses, while they are interesting, as regards subject and title, only one of them calls for particular comment...
...9 . . After some days of slipping and falling.., one particular ant . . . set about collecting pebbles which it found near the foot of the shoot...
...it carefully found a suitable spot for the fitting of each load...
...Luis Marina Matin) is the author of Sea Change...
...we get a feeling of fulness because this poet is able to write of things that content us--fields, trees, houses, simple people with simple tasks before or behind them...
...In I9o7 Ido was started by the French Esperantist, Louis de Beaufront, and developed by Couturat and others...
...So far as a close reading of the facts therein presented are concerned, this quotation may be taken as a singularly accurate description of the work of Lord Pauncefote as an official of the British Foreign Office in London--as also of his long tenure of the British embassy in Washington...
...But I'll tell them what you say...
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...Out of her eyes shines the ancient faith...
...of ants that build subterranean gardens where they raise mushrooms...
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...He is one of the Irish poets in whom the Anglo-Irish rather than the Gaelic strain is predominant--lndeed there is nothing with the Gaelic note or in the Gaelic mode in For Daws to Peck At...
...1.15 These are all from the regular Altman stocks--splendidly made of fine materials...
...ERNEST SUTHERLAND BAT.~S is the literary editor of The Dictionary of American Biography...
...And we read of Homeric conflicts between wasp and tarantula, solifugid and scorpion, wherein the victors seem to have unerring knowledge of the danger points--the tarantula's jaws, the scorpion's tail...
...Jespersen refers with admiration to Pirro, whose very little known book appeared in x868...
...Lake...
...It is, too, through this intimate union with Christ that the work of sanctification which the Church administers through the sacraments is no other than the operation of the redeeming power of Christ...
...The writer is telling us of experiences as terrible as imprisonment, hunger and the facing of death, and he is telling of them as one who has endured them he is telling us of them as he endured them from hour to hour and from day to day...
...The book is divided into two parts, the September II, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 415...
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...M^uv E. USCHOLD is an Illino!s poet...
...He pays as handsome a tribute to the French nursing sisters as those admirable women have ever received...
...In x887 the Polish oculist Zameni hof produced his Esperanto, an undoubted improvement on Volapiik but far from perfect...
...This young poet has a good many things that favor his achievement...
...it is through Him that she offers her prayers and worship to God...
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...Unfortunately the authors have too frequently been mere idle analysts of their sensations, hothouse plants with nothing in the world to do except drink in the weather and bloom...
...And these results are quite staggering in their numerous implications...
...To one outside, the Church's intolerance of error and division seems narrow, and her claim to be the one and only appointed way of salvation to men appears not a little arrogant...
...But it was his growing faith in arbitration which marked him out as a leader in thought in advance of his own age...
...It is, if I may be forgiven, cr~me de Munthe...
...The first bit is onefifth of an inch long...
...Destinations...
...Conducted by the Sisters of Mercy...
...To the exposition of this "first interlanguage ever framed by a professional philologist" the author devotes more than a hundred pages of his little book...
...The writing is quaintly imperfect...
...KENNETH SLAnE ALLING was formerly the editor of the Measure...
...JOHN A. RVAN...
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...of spiders that can be deceived into mistaking a tuning-fork for a buzzing fly...
...Fortunate enough to have objective interests--and this is rare in a poet nowadays--Monk Gibbon can treat his subjects in a steady, serious way that reminds one of the workmanship of a Dutch picture...
...Incidentally, he suggests, that at the Peace Conference Clemenceau "gained an undue ascendancy" because he was the only one of the leaders who had a complete command of both English and French...
...The rural Catholic Church is "in the main a strong institution," and generally more efficient and includes a greater proportion of its normal clientele than the Protestant churches...
...Jespersen looks forward hopefully to a day when the new interlanguage not only will make available to all a rich scientific and general literature, but will be taught everywhere as a secondary language...
...Thus far but no farther Major Hingston supports the customary view...
...To me this book is a treasure as much for its way of saying things as for what it says...
...The final result was a platform of pebbles on which the excavators walked easily, and no more of them fell down the slope...
...The Church is all this, because this is Christ, and, as the Body of Christ, the Church is one with Him...
...As might be expected, a greater percentage of the children of immigrants go outside of their own racial groups for partners than do the immigrants themselves...
...Petersburg and others, Resident and Day Pupih Clmr...
...But this is the Church which we love and honor as our mother...
...But it is matter of common knowledge that there are many people, otherwise fair-mlnded and free from preconceptions, who have been brought up to regard the Church as something to be suspected and even feared...
...In her heart burns the ancient love...
...And then again the doom of Capri--the swift fate attendant upon all things--makes you regret a tendency to wax as sentimental as everybody used to in the days before the "new magazines...
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...It is very awkward . . . I thought prisoner-of-war treatment was what you wanted.' " There can be no doubt that Monk Gibbon and Frank Gallagher are of the same nationality and belong to the same generation, albeit one served in the forces of the country that the other resisted to the very verge of death...
...Several were examined, picked up and tested, until one was met with that fitted the job...
...This assumption of superiority is especially striking and especially ridiculous on the part of the native stock in the neighborhood of Petersburg, Virginia, with regard to the Czecho-Slovaks...
...Possibly its outlook is too vague...
...25, 1929...
...The Church is one in body and spirit...
...and the Book of Modern Cathol c Prose...
...From this point on he develops the main thesis of his work, namely, that certain insects show not only instinct but intelligence, meaning by the latter the ability to learn from individual experience, the ability to adapt themselves to new circumstances...
...The exaltations, the doubts, the agonies and the despairs of this nine days' confrontation of death are transcribed in Days of Fear, and transcribed with an immediacy that puts the cell and the prison-yard around us...
...But you are likely to enjoy it most in those sections, alternately soft and pitiless, tender and sardonic, which deal with one man's love for Italy...
...The ejected earth ran down from it in a shoot, like a landslip on the face of a hill...
...These numbers are roughly double of one another, that is they stand in the same proportion as do the bulk of the bits...
...DR...
...AYS OF FEAR is one of those books about which literary criticism is rather pointless...
...CATALOGUES...
...One of the four special studies deals with a group of immigrants of more than one nationality...
...2.75...
...He tells of armies of emigrating locusts marching placidly into the Euphrates...
...This volume is one of the very best practical refutations of the assumptions and pretensions of the Ku Klux Klan and all other "Ioo percenters...
...The strength we have is from Him...
...These pebbles it carried up the shoot and spread them out in the form of a platform at the very top of the shoot, that is just outside the mouth of the nest...
...They need not distress you Rrl~dlets of the ~ve wl your toot troubles, "PZDIPerhaps raise a corn-- FORME" shoes will 64 You can have style and comfort our FREE Solt Book K god to regain normd...
...first containing the results of a general study and the second presenting the facts and conclusions of intensive studies of four distinct villages or settlements...
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...And if you are a creature without illusions or the poetry of sentiment, you will forgive this eminently Scandinavian gentleman his fondness for dreams and melancholy contemplation, because these are always expressed with a generous accent...
...He will see what at her own valuation the Catholic Church is, and he will have gained respect for the Church even though he does not see his way to giving her his allegiance...
...C,^RLES A. WAGNEe, author of Poems of the Soil and Sea, is engaged in journalism and theatricals in New York City...
...STANLEY J. KU~TITZ and JE^N BATCHELOR are New York poets...
...This statement is based upon the usual I.Q...
...DOUBT it would be an excess of optimism to expect O that, if the Catholic Church were known for what it really is, antagonism to it would straightway come to an end...
...The shoot was very steep and crumbling, and as each ant carried out its load, it dipped on the loose material and tumbled down to the bottom slope...
...translated by Dora Justin McCann, O. 8. B. New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Not so long ago the way to such a better understanding was not so easy for them to find...
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...The second bit is twice the bulk of the first...
...He has a world of his own...
...Rural America contains proportionately more naturalized citizens than urban America...
...Briefer Mention Our Lady's Office...
...Democracy everywhere demands that policy shall be founded on knowledge and facts collected on the spot with the assistance of the citizens of each area...
...The editors have furnished copious notes, the object of which is less to furnish information than to encourage reflection and mental prayer...
...The dominant idea of the book is the intimate union of the Church with Christ...
...Each sends a party to its own bit...
...of ants that building by chance on the side of a wall still carry the d~bris of their nests far away instead of simply letting it drop...
...ExnrL Ro~v H,~YDzzr a resident of Baltimore~ contributes to the contemporary press...
...Whether it is worthy to be adopted as the great international medium of communication is doubtful...
...Supervised sports...
...edited by Charles J. Callan and John 8. McHugh...
...Preparation for leading colleges and technical schools...
...it is not that Monk Gibbon is an abundant or an accomplished poet--he has really a narrow range, and his artistry often shows itself as uncertain...
...Among these addresses that of Dr...
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...the second study has to do with a colony of Danes...
...Its originator himself does not consider it to be perfect in its present state and expresses his readiness to accept suggestions...
...The Catholic does not desire some ideal Church, a Church of the philosopher or the poet...
...So far as one can see from For Daws to Peck At, it is not a wide world...
...Directress, BETHANY HOUSE, Ossining, Maryknoll, P.O., N. Y. Tel...
...And even in the best of them (such as the Hymenoptera) he sees intelligence not as the rule but as the exception...
...College students only enrolled...
...It has the curious redolence of a language never wholly learned and yet absolutely flexible...
...Augustinian Fathers...
...Literary criticism has always had a sneaking suspicion that most great writing is autobiographical--epistles of Horace, Dante, Amlel, Goethe, Hebbel and the rest...
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...About twenty pages are devoted to the history of the movement...
...THE COMMONWEAL September I I, I929 ! BOOKS The Clever Hymenoptera Instinct and Intelliyence, by R. 1/[7...
...BOYD-CARPENTER...
...If there were no Spirit of Justice, how could it seek out our souls in this darkness and fight with them the injustice of man...
...WZLLI^.~ A. MAcuraz is a commander in the chaplain corps of the United States navy...
...But to have a world at all is a poet's first and principal endowment...
...Though arbitration is now a subject of persistent discussion and continual newspaper comment, it was not so popula" thirty years ago and did not prove itself as a policy of dela~ and caution of much value prior to I914...
...Jespersen points out that, in addition to its use in traveling, an international language could well be employed in all official documents relating to more than one country, and would be of inestimable value in commercial correspondence and in all international political, commercial, scientific or social congresses...
...The world and the League of Nations require men of the type of the late Lord Pauncefote, to whom knowledge gained from personal contact was more valuable and reliable than the most glowing fantasies of theory...
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