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we sat through m~nutes o~[ toffure~vla]Ie a ~'xIcKmg xua~-m,,. ~projected jumpy and flickering images on the screen concerning the most infantile pranks and slapstick comedy. If, instead of thinking...
...I am quite aware that certain processes of sound recording are vastly ahead of others in assuring a correct mechanical timing, hut the fact remains that a number of films are being put on the market with such imperfect timing that the effort to follow with both eye and ear is nothing short of a serious mental strain, sufh lent to destroy all illusion and all sense of enter- tainment...
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...Faith ceases first of all to be the inner urge and tends to become an intellectual assent to propositions, thus reimposlng on the spiritual life a theological orthodoxy from which it had been one chief business of Jesus and Paul to free it...
...casuistry helps solve a case of con-science that the individual may proceed on the way of perfec- tion which leads to God...
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...Furthermore, the following statements are incorrect and unreliable...
...Thereafter arose the triumphant capitalistic busi- ness enterprises of the renaissance, the Reformation in religion, and the confident exactness of Newtonian physics in the science of the enlightenment to sweep the older world view into discard...
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...With the r61e he assigns to the Catholic Church as the real enemy of science, pursuing a vigorous counter-offensive through emotional inertia, indiscriminatingly opposing the new in modern life and gathering about her all the effective forces of reaction, we cannot of course agree...
...J. R. Clemens takes us there, in a brief but informative article on a MEDIAEVAL MONASTERY...
...A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE COMMONWEAL THERE IS THE HAPPY PRESENT ! For each week's issue will be an individual gift in itself...
...The break with the old agricultural past, the rise of vast, dependent city populations huddled around the machine, the complete dominance of society by the industrial magnate making political direction largely ineffective save as a business aid, show what the machine has done to us economically...
...It is none of these things because the story-teller keeps it always at arm's length...
...Fyodor, a Prince, or somebody, from the steppes of Russia, or Soho...
...This is a memorable summary of what can be said for the customs collectors, but it is not propaganda...
...MR...
...Eulenberg's references to religion, whether Catholic, Lutheran or Reformed, are usually flippant, derisive or ill-informed...
...The laboratory has destroyed authority...
...The task Father Folghera attempted was extremely difficult but he accomplished it with admirable and unfailing skill...
...Not the America of any group or of any party, of any political phil- osophy or special interest...
...The author claims that meanwhile the course of history might have been changed had Frederick William IV permitted himself to rise to imperial power on the wave of the democratic movement of '48...
...Authority is not the most pervasive new element in the content of "ecclesiastical" (sic) ethics...
...If morality is to have any binding power, if there is any reason for a sense of duty, there must be in morality some objective element which intelligence and reason can discover...
...The man formed to characteristics once essentially American is today a "lonely American...
...From the present to the mediaeval past is, as everybody knows, a long way...
...is editor of the Placldlan and aSso- ciate editor of Monographs of Psychology and Psychiatry...
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...How and when did we come to be a community in which the individual is a "lone wolf," since from our earlier days it was individuality that counted, not only for success but for survival in our titanic struggle with a new world...
...ERNEST HARTSOCK, editor of Bozart, is the author of Narcissus and Iscariot...
...Davey Wellcome's peer is not likely to be drawn for a long time...
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...In the present volume he devotes his introduc- tory chapter to tracing Newman's religious evolution, and in thirty pages he presents the high lights which Newman re-vealed in the Apologia...
...New York: The Gentury Gompany...
...The author finds it necessary, in the face of a very observable reaction against the "society criterion," to restate social welfare to be clearly understood as "the welfare of a great number and variety of men who have numerous interests in common, but ~NWEAL May 29, I929 principles of morality, but it is good that there are such, in spite of the author's implications...
...Playwrights who have had little success in writing scenarios for silent pictures can probably bring some distinction to dialogue pictures, and actors can learn, given enough time, to allow for the vagaries of the recording microphones, and to use more pantomime than necessary on the spoken stage...
...The idea of oppor- tunism seems to obsess the author in his estimate of the Church's moral teachings...
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...HENRY MORTON ROBINSON...
...2.50 D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 35 West 32rid Street, New York II0 THE COMMONWEAL May 29, 1929 EXT EEK One of the achievements resulting from the movement inaugurated by The Commonweal is the Calvert Series, edited by Hihire Belloc and published by the Macmillan Company...
...Golding, you can never doubt, remains undisturbed...
...Paul live and breathe with us as we read...
...a writer who can compress into a twenty-page short story more life, death and symphonic gran- deur than has hitherto been compressed into many a novel...
...Overemphasis on the rational in morals has brought about the absence "of any whole-hearted admission of the need for experimental initiative in conduct...
...But there is nothing impover- ished about Mr...
...CHARLES A. HART...
...Lawrence and Saguenay, Bermuda, Porto-Rico, Havana and West Indies...
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...During the more than five hundred years which the family spent in extending its sway from the bleak Mark of Brandenburg to the far-flung German empire, the cardinal May 29 , 1929 THE COMMONWEAL lO 9 sin of the dynasty was its indifference to the welfare of the German people...
...Aquinas's treatment shows a mixture of moral purpose and practical realism which on the whole is excellent of its sort, and which is calculated to raise the general level of morality without making demands that are too exacting to have some chance of exerting an effective influence...
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...It seems that we at least are the first generation to realize just how deeply the two great forces of change in the last century, science and its product, the machine, are altering every phase of life, making as they do so many things and ways once thought indispensable now quite irrelevant, and installing new forces in every sphere with a casualness and yet a sureness that is bound to bewilder even the most alert of mind...
...Morals and Mistakes Morals in Review, by ,4...
...3.50 HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY 383 Madison Avenue, New York "The Best Novel of 1928" Just Selected as Prize Winner By the Literary Awards Foundation of the Catholic Press Association...
...The resistance through the Romantic movement of the eighteenth century to the rigidity of this first thorough- going scientific attitude toward all spheres of life had the salutary effect of compelling science to review many of its dogmatic findings and thus prepared the way for the truly stupendous advance of the science of today, with its far more revolutionary consequences...
...It is as loud when he is far off in the depths of a room as when he is in the foreground...
...If you deny that the basic principles of morality are intellectually justifiable then why be moral when social welfare is not evidently concerned ? And even there, why regard social welfare...
...And the mulatto who was allowed the privilege of "dying white" is a tragic and intensely dramatic human being...
...That is the point to remember...
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...But "conscious argument and exhorta-tion to prop up waning loyalties is singularly lacking in the impressiveness that supports a confident and unreasoning faith...
...In an interesting paper, Mr...
...From that point of view it is almost accidental that he has chosen Whistler, Pumpelly, Eliot, Lincoln or any of the others as the subjects of his essays...
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...The treatise, Faith and the Act of Faith, by Bainvel, will instruct the author...
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...Poverty had formerly made abstinence, resignation and self -~ discipline virtues of necessity...
...Prosperity, which Mr...
...VINCKN't ENGELS is a member of The Commonweal staff...
...It is a story, that is, in which sympathy is not offered, nor asked...
...Ethics is regarded by the Church's philosophers as a philosophi- cal science, excluding revelation and authority...
...Bloody Ground, subtitled A Cycle of the Southern Hills, is indeed a gory terrain of feuds and firearms...
...Fred Jacobs, whose death last year was a distinct blow to those writers to our North who are united by a nationalistic consciousness, writes of Toronto much as an Englishman would write oi London...
...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS, formerly in the American diplomatic service, is an authority on international affairs...
...Between the covers of The Commonweal the recipients will find that contact with literature and the arts which has been theirs during years of study...
...Herr Eulenberg's portrait of William II is an excoriation...
...it was individuals who pushed up the river valleys to the mountain ridges and down into the empire beyond, across the Mississippi to the Pacific...
...It was perhaps this sdfishness and essential lack of patriotism which brought about its downfall...
...All criticism based on the idea that talkies are a development from the older, silent form gives a false perspec- tive...
...Street...
...Even the little children shoot at each other with broomsticks, sniping the sheriff, the prohibition agents, or their hereditary enemies in imaginary ambushes...
...ABBt PIERRE'S PEOPLE By JAY WILLIAM HUDSON "I_~ERE is a book alive, entirely human...
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...Both mean gifts and gifts mean problems...
...In ugly words, it is intellectual and moral cowardice that drives them thither...
...But for the Catholic boy and girl the problem is simplified since for them the happiest choice is one which will preserve old associations...
...the Beatitudes apply in every walk of Christian living...
...He deals with primitive colors, the white of foaming, fear-spurred horses, the black of gunpowder, and the red of his Bloody Ground...
...Merryl, a woman whose questing is inevitable as that of the Norse rover who anciently prepared for her...
...He is not a genteel litterateur, writing attentuated local-color sketches...
...For Professor Randall the question of today is whether the Christian tradition can again display its old vitality under this latest effort at reconstruction in which the new must be absorbed and fused with the old...
...Queen Louise, the popularly idolized consort of Frederick William III, loses some of the glamour which has surrounded her, though she still remains an appealing human figure, if no longer Prussia's patron saint...
...Read the book a.m for pleasure, read it for its psychological worth, read it for its historical background you will find it well worth reading...
...D R. EULENBERG has told an impartial and stirring story of the triumphs and vicissitudes of a once famous family now fallen from power...
...JAMES J...
...HUDSON is not a Catholic, but he has pene~"-'- trated to the heart of these Catholic peasants and he has written of their faith and their devotions with rare sympathy and understanding...
...T HE materials of this novel are such as might have made for a psychological nerve-racker, a sentimental tragedy, or yet a saga of horror...
...The situations may invite hilarity or pathos...
...Such a book, though intended primarily to stimulate French readers to a wider and more intimate acquaintance with Newman, is certain to perform the same function for those who speak the master's language...
...The old Heraclitean postuIate here , receives at the hands of Professor Randall its newest ;ion and with something of that same unsatisfactory elusive- which is bound to accompany any philosophy of becoming .....ontrast with one of being...
...for the road to unity could only be found, said the militarists and 'Realpolitiker,' the 'practical politicians,' by blood and iron...
...HOEVER Fiswoode Tarleton's masters may have been W (and there will be much invoking of great names--Crane, Bierce, Conrad et al., when the reviews begin to ap- pear) they may now take a long farewell of their pupil...
...The Kaiser's Family The Hohenzollerns, by Herbert Eulenberg...
...It is in truth a bloody business, being the chronicler of these highland primitives...
...Until this day in which the individual stands out (or perishes in loneliness) and it is possible to write of "lonely Americans," our whole America has been built up by individuals...
...The safety, the culture and the prosperity of the nation were ever made subservient to the personal glory and the political aggrandizement of the ruling house...
...We are happy to say that Dr...
...Speaking of Saint Thomas's contribution, he agrees that, granting the need "for tempering ideals in the interest of a common-sense opportunism...
...Golding, and gets it...
...DOROTHY BENNETT is a contemporary American poet...
...There is one spot to which almost all will hasten...
...GEORGIANA PUTNAM MCENTEE...
...It is a stark, impoverished country, where railroads, telegraphs and even roads have not yet penetrated...
...Tarleton's journeyman travels and travails are about over...
...The author notes in modern times a very self-conscious and explicit habit of moral independence...
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...But "the dream of a German folk-empire, the enthusiastic dream of such men as Uhland and Arndt, and even Humboldt, faded into nothingness...
...There is no conflict between sane casuistry and the ideals of Christian perfection...
...I'HE Canadian scene iurnishes the background of this book...
...Whatever the outcome, not a few have already replaced religion with an elaborate cult of nationalism...
...if Saint Thomas did anything for philosophy, he clearly defined the boundary between faith and reason, authority and evidence...
...The Hohen-zollerns who led up to him and those who followed were, in spite of the frequent possession of more attractive personal traits, quite deficient in his transcendant gifts of statesman- ship...
...ItENRY MORTON ROBINSON, former editor of Contemporary Verse, is the author of Buck Fever...
...Ran- dall catches not a few interesting overtones that are too often hard to hear against the enormous din which is modern life...
...not of America old, or America SAINT PAUL by Emile Baumann "Beautifully written, the mighty apostle is made to live and move before us...
...The dreamed-of empire was to come--in Frederick William's sense--as the creation not of the people but of the princes, in the year I87I...
...It was individuals, not masses, who took foothold on the Atlantic coast...
...Professor Rogers includes under the ethics of the Church, a little moral, ascetical and mystical theology...
...Witness Greek temples as houses for banking firms, and the arty town hall of CokeIo6 THE COMb town...
...and in elder America individuals were not "lone wolves...
...The book, of course, is a very readable volume of character sketches...
...K. Rogers...
...ITS g eat interest and fimshed artistry, with the umque .t charm of setting and characters, gave the book an appeal for cultured readers while the gentle Abbg him- self immediately won the hearts of thousands...
...The author presents the history of this achieving but unhappy prince in a series of thirty dramatic episodes...
...For this there is less excuse, in this age of mechanical perfec- tion, than for the imperfect focusing of sound...
...The natural llfe which most men have to lead is not almost wholly negative...
...The narrowness of vision and the laxity of morals which all too frequently accompany the religious zeal of princes may extenuate, though not excuse, an attitude which is a jarring note in a story of epic proportions, heroically told...
...The feuds pro- ceed, even when the feudists are too poverty-stricken to buy the firearms...
...Sheriff Jett is the bravest man who ever existed outside of a cinema, and what is more, he possesses a three-dimensional reality that no movie sheriff ever approached...
...Goldlng as its reporter must indicate something of the embroidery of costume, archi- tecture, mountains and flowered meadows amid which the characters play of[ against one another...
...What we need is a flexible moral faith...
...Randall writes in a compelling manner with his eye upon the whole human scene, relating the lesser changes to the great conflict of forces which we call our civilization...
...How faith and art intertwine is dis- cussed with Mr...
...his theme lies in the sentence under the title of his book: "It isolates one anywhere to think beyond a certain point...
...CHARLES A. I~ART is professor of philosophy in the Catholic University of America...
...There is no effort to make either heroes or villains of all the Hohenzollerns...
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...Or they stand up in quarries and pelt each other with rocks until one of the combatants is killed...
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...It diverts us, it amuses, and that is its sufficient apology...
...English version by Philip Hereford...
...FRANCIS AUGUSTINE WALSH, O.S.B., instructor in philosophy at the Catholic University of America...
...That model of soldierly zeal, Frederick William I, who so brutally forced his son into the ways of war and whose only extravagance was his tall soldiers, actually pursued a policy of peace...
...of the lean women who live on the barren slopes of Pork Ridge, Leeston and Meddlesome...
...Unobtrusive himself, he has seemed not so much to present a highly important side of Newman's genius as to permit him to present it himself, with much of its brilliance and all of its tactical skill unimpaired...
...More people than ever are traveling to Ireland this year, because of the Emancipation observance...
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...It seems needless to emphasize its merits in that order...
...Jacobs's characters move naturally, i~ sketchily, around the central figure, but had he limited their number and given a more concrete attention to their inter-relationship, the book would have gained much in compactness and integrity...
...We are privi- leged to publish advance chapters from three volumes in the Series...
...Unless, and until, the talkies develop an instrument for focusing the source of sound waves behind the head of the actor speaking, or an instrument that will so modulate and relate the various voices that we get the equivalent illu- sion, this matter of voice confusion will be a permanent bar to real enjoyment...
...Tarleton has made it all this--and something immeasurably more...
...Only one ruler rose above the dynastic plane of mediocrity--Frederick II, rightly called the Great...
...Possibly general principles governing the good in life can be formulated, but the theorist forgets individual differences and lays down a general rule for all...
...FELTS $7 to $20 MEN'S HATS--FIRST FLOOR lO8 THE COMMONWEAL May 29 , 1929 The Graduate Steps Out June is the month of commencements as well as the month of weddings...
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...He knows, with a deep and sympathetic knowledge, the curious minds and hearts of the gambling shufflers who fight their way back to jails because they have posted their word with the jailer...
...Whenever pettiness, brutality, licentiousness or cowardice appear in the race, they are as faithfully recorded as are the patience in suffering, the self-restraint and the nobility which were also shown at times by the scions of this house...
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...A third torture may soon be eliminated--and that is the combined result of mediocre dialogue and actors who are still floundering around in trying to adapt to the new medium...
...Such deftness as early reveals the foulness at the bottom of the idyl, such courage as is required to describe the separate scenes of the climax after the result has been made known, does not belong to many men writing in this language...
...Yet that defeated and discarded concept taken from us has blossomed to success and power in the British empire...
...Hill-Country Color Bloody Ground, by Fiswoode Tarleton...
...Forty Minutes from New York...
...Cram's usual fervor and in- formation, . . . The tariff: is again a subject for debate...
...Today there is something suspect about that individual sovereignty...
...with murderous, unerring aim...
...Art has become divorced from life as a vital and compelling expression of it...
...In moral customs the revolutioi is greatest and the necessary transition most difficult to make...
...But it is upon the mind of modern man that science and the machine have wrought their most far-reaching effect...
...We are just a bit weary of this old, stereotyped charge...
...JOHN S. MIDDLETON...
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...He will throw acid in a man's eyes, and chant a ballad to celebrate the lynching of the acld-thrower, all in a page...
...The Prince may be in the agony of an insane fit, but our reaction is genuinely the one pretended by his wife: "Isn't it too Dostoievsky...
...The exaltation of virginity does not mean the implicit condemnation of mar-riage and does not magnify the negation of natural impulses...
...Enclosed find remittance...
...WELSH, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Thirteenth, the Greatest of Centuries...
...To get to the bottom of the present flux we must go back to the close of the thirteenth century which witnessed the break-up of the most perfect equilibrium which human society has ever achieved, a harmony which is no doubt the cause of our frequent wistful but really useless backward glances at this period...
...Is it more important to dwell on the insistent vision evoked in the reviewer of our America as a whole...
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...They mow each other down with reaping hooks over such trifling matters as the ownership of a ragged coat...
...They sharpen long knives which they throw BB ALTMAN & CO...
...The new psychology has radically changed our views of sex and marriage, of submission and acquiescence...
...ROBERT SPARKS WALKER, formerly editor of the Southern Fruit Grower, is a journalist and lecturer, and the author of Anchor Poems...
...The chapter on The Ethics of the Church is interesting...
...In Bloody Ground he quite definitely arrives as a new and powerful writer whose stylistic originality is as pronounced as his choice of material...
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...I IS correctly observed by Professor Rogers that man,T who has to live as well as think, is interested in ethics because he is concerned with his own destiny and welfare...
...Not masses, nor parties, nor platforms have made America but individuals...
...CONTRIBUTORS WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JR., iS Chief of Senate Staff of the United States Daily, Washington, D. C. E. L. CmCANOT, a resident of western Canada, is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
...With many of his observations we can agree...
...Sus-pense is one of his best holds, and he can end a story on a note of sheer brutal loveliness...
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...He is a masculine, deep-probing recorder of a violent race...
...The author has given us a most winsome word picture of one of the greatest minds of aH time...
...With this advance of science has come its product, the machine, the most important event of modern times...
...The machine has further crowded out even interest in the ways of religion and replaced it with a naturalistic faith in science...
...A gullible and curious public that accepts such products has only itself to blame...
...The first will be RE- FLECTIONS ON ART, by Ralph Adams Cram...
...new, but of this new thing in an ancient world, still in its fluid and formative state...
...JOHN S. MIVVLgTON is chaplain of the Newman School, Lake- wood, New Jersey...
...City...
...Written by men qualified to discuss a given topic, these little books form a valuable addi- tion to apologetic literature...
...who developed our form of government, over the heads of the greater number...
...He is conscious of the dangers that confront him and he warns the reader to remember that Newman wrote not as a trained theologian but as "an advocate of the Catholic cause against its critics," that he had his own personal opinions "broader than those of certain other Catholic writers," and that the context is necessary to a proper understanding of the text...
...New South Wing has just been completed with accomodations for twenty additional resi,!__ent students...
...by Louis Golding...
...At present a man's voice is as loud when his back is turned as when he is facing us...
...The talkies are new, distinct, and, unfortunately for the moment, painfully primitive...
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...Paul comes from the pages of this book a great and noble figure...
...He might have chosen Charle- magne, Bismarck, Hildebrand or Lobengula, unless he had a particular motive in choosing Americans of such varied activities but similar types and used them to point a moral...
...It is not always a question of what is opportune, of what the Church needs in a particular situa- tion, but what is God's will, what is God's plan, which when intellectually grasped is what Saint Thomas means by the natural law...
...A sabre-rattling autocrat, in reality timid of soul, the last of the kaisers had no real faith in his people or in peace...
...LL things flow...
...though in what sibyllic writing this piece of wisdom was inscribed none of them could say...
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...It was an individual, the same "Lincoln the radical" of whom our author writes, who forced one of two equally respectable poli- tical philosophies to such conclusive victory that ever since it has been "disloyal" to think in terms of the defeated concept...
...Nor does the author deign to offer evidence for his position...
...VINCENT ENGELS...
...cadilly Piper in pearl grey or nutria has just the correct touch of jauntiness...
...Again, the acceptance of mysteries in authorized proposi-tions prior to individual insight does not cheapen them, if it is possible for some individual insight to accept the authority as reasonable...
...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...A secondary torture springs from imperfect synchronization...
...Strikes in various parts of the South have attracted a good deal of attention and comment...
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...GEORGIANA PUTNAM MCENTmS is an ir~structor in history in Hunter College, New York City, and the author of The Social Catholic Movement in Great Britain...
...It is incorrectly stated that all in some general sense agree that "social welfare" is the standard of morality...
...His attitude is that of the very sophisticated collector of human curios to whom the most elemental conflicts appear simply as means with which to regale an otherwise tedious hour...
...NWEAL io 5 BOOKS Inventory 'ur Changing Civilization, by John Herman Randall, jr...
...Read Harvest and Blood to prove that this reviewer has been dealing in understatement ever since he started to speak of Bloody Ground...
...He then takes up in turn the essays on Miracles, the lectures on The Difficulties of Anglicans, The Present Position of Catholics in England, the Letter to Pusey on the Blessed Virgin, and finally, the reply to Glad-stone on Infallibility...
...He ascribes the present forging ahead of Catholicism to the fear or reluctance which many feel when it comes to a question of what must be a radical break with the past, and their recognition at the same time that Catholicism is the only real haven in a vast unknown and unfriendly universe...
...JOSEPH J. REILLY...
...Bad synchroni- zation is merely bad mechanics, whereas the correct focusing of sound demands the invention of some entirely new device...
...Just now the change is unusually radical even though we make the proper allowance for the distorted perspective which the present naturally places before our minds...
...America...
...The author here sketches eight American "apostles," each with his special devotion, each one flowing out also far beyond his special orbit into a whole universe of interests...
...It was individuals who re-claimed our prairies to agriculture...
...Edmund Chaffee, The Out- look...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...The Pic...
...The virtue of faith] rests primarily on the notion of a fence or bar within the total field of truth which the human mind finds itself unable to pass, and whose recognition is due less to any spiritual insight than to the need for rationalizing a logically difficult situation, brought about by religious for- mulas handed down from a less sophisticated age, and now so thoroughly bound up with the principle of authority as to be incapable of modification...
...As long as individuals are even secretly impressed by the authority of codes, all goes well...
...Fiswoode Tarleton "bears on hard...
...Ave Maria...
...Prophets Detached Lonely Americans, by Rollo Walter Brown...
...Actual genius was strangely lacking...
...They should stimulate fervor and thereby dispose the agent to be more moral...
...This book contains some variations of the usual text-book accounts of the history of Germany...
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...He omits the Grammar of Assent and the Essay on Development because he feels that they are suffi- ciently well known and because they constitute Newman's general apologetic while he is concerned in the present volume only with Newman's special apologetic...
...John Carter states THE CASE FOR PROTEC- TION...
...It is only in the close-ups that any illusion is possible...
...Tarleton selects honor, love, courage, cowardice and the other great human emotions, wraps them in the dialect and circumstantial clothing of his region, and thrusts a dozen unforgettable stories into our litera- ture...
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...JOSEPH J. REILLY, a member of the English Department of Hunter College, New York City, is the author of Newman as a Man of Letters...
...PeeVee is a dabbler in verse and in prose who is complacent enough to embark on a career which his over-enthusiastic circle is certain will be triumphant, but who is at the same time suffi- ciently clear-sighted to realize his own inadequacy and the humor of his friends' inflation of his none-too-unusual talents...
...Perhaps, however, we ought to practise despised patience in recalling, sub specie aeternltatis, that the Church has heard the charge monot-onously recurring in every age...
...But that the complete talkie of today is torture, I think no sensitive person would deny--and for several good reasons which are easily demonstrated...
...they may give room for indigna- tion: Mr...
...Through The Commonweal they will be kept in touch with the best Catholic thought and action, with the true essence of Catholic culture and with the interpretation of current events from the standpoint of Catholic philosophy...
...of sheriffs who walk unhesitantly into a knot of killers...
...Broadus Mitchell, of Johns Hopkins University, has written an illuminating sur-vey of the situation, entitled TAKING A STAND IN DIXIE...
...Dr...
...Individuality was an American characteristic...
...Masters he needs no longer, either in the art of selecting material, or of weaving that material into a short story...
...The American thought of himself as truly a sovereign...
...If, instead of thinking of the talkies as an improvement on the older movies, we admit candidly that they are an entirely new form, and only to be compared to the movies of twenty years ago, we shall be in a much better frame of mind to estimate the future and to be charitable about the present...
...If two men happen to have slightly similar voices, and the screen shows us a distant shot so that we cannot watch the lips, we have to guess from the nature of the words who is speaking them...
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...And how, finally, do the offices of religion render morality tasteless in comparison with them...
...Randall ventures occasionally to suggest that the prophets of the doom of Chris- tianity may be premature, to which we may say amen...
...F ~ATHER FOLGHERA is one of that numerous and bril- liant group of French priests whose admiration for the genius of the great English Oratorian has found expression in many studies marked by insight, scholarship, and affectionate appreciation...
...In the field of art the machine has destroyed the imagination of the crafts- man with the craft...
...But all these tortures, whether they can be eliminated easily or not, represent the early stages of a new form...
...9 . . Baumann has made a distinct and lasting contribution to the writings on the life of St...
...His novel, which is less concerned with plot than with a light, satiric treatment of a large group of characters, dwells primarily on a renaissance in letters which is taken extremely seriously by certain Canadians...
...Ben Wain and the Black Knight The Prince or Somebody...
...A writer who has made a rich contribution to American litera- ture, and given his readers a thrilling time in doing it...
...They are brought together from the extremes of the spirit: Ben Wain, an upper middle-class Englishman with what that connotes of stoutness and of courtesy...
...Hoover predicts will soon be for all, has rendered them obsolete though we still have uneasy feelings about them and offer lip-service to them...
...naumann, in some strange and subtle manner, makes St...
...The final word in morals is not "keeping within such bounds as all decorous persons can approve...
...The Tyrol as a setting and Mr...
...Out of this hill country, notorious for its hog-rifle murders, its cretinism and family feuds, Mr...
...He wants ideals, not scientific explanations...
...Tarleton's characters...
...Of the five works which he surveys Father Folghera pre- sents "a swift analysis, a cinematograph view, with its pro- cession of profound and original ideas," and he compresses the contents of a thousand pages into one-fifth of that space...
...He chooses two educators, two painters, a musician, an engineer, a publi- cist, a President...
...The history of ethics shows a conflict between authority and freedom...
...I IS always a question to me whether a book should be T reviewed purely and only on its merits as an article of .merchandising or good literature, or whether the review should reflect thoughts, questions and conclusions aroused in the re-viewer which may not be at all in the mind of the author...
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...The most obvious torture (aside from the mechanical sound of the reproducer) comes from the lack of any means of focusing the voice so that it appears to come from the actor's lips...
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...The sciences of anthropology, biology with its theory oi evolution, psychology and comparative religion have taken the real mean- ing out of Christianity for multitudes of people...
...Even the spirit of such attacks presupposes the impossibility of any such thing as final religious truth...
...In telling the story which he previously narrated at greater length in his Making of the Modern Mind, Dr...
...May 29 , 1929 THE COMMONWEAL lO7 Cor ad Cor Loquitur Newman's Apologetic, by J. D. Folghera, O.P...
...Only when art forms really catch the spirit of tb machine, as they are dimly beginning to do, wilt art be restore to its proper place in life...
Vol. 10 • May 1929 • No. 4
