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BOOKS Britain in Review The History o[ British Civilization, by Esme H"ingfield-8trat[ord. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Two volumes, $I2.oo. I N A prologue evidently intended...
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...Has that good custom, which could never corrupt the schoolroom world, gone the way of so many others...
...Where there are logical lacunae in the sequence of thought throughout the period, he makes no attempt to fill them in, neither does he strain to make the opinions of individual thinkers coherent where the obvious thing to do is to recognize their inconsistencies...
...Its hero might not be out of place in a novel of Dumas...
...But at a time when Sabatlni has long since run thin, when the silly introspections and pseudo- philosophizing of Trader Horn pass for adventure, and when detective stories afford the only antidote for those who long for objectivity after countless novels of vivisection, Mr...
...An Outline of Aesthetics, by Irwin Edman, Henry l/Fells, M. Cecil Allen, Henry Ladd and Thomas Munro...
...Margarete Kurlbaum-Siebert's work covers simply the time of Mary's official reign in Scotland, from I56I to 1568 ; but as a record of crowded, tempestuous living, shot through with loves and hates and plots and wars, verily " 'tis enough, 'twill serve...
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...Over and over again have I staked my all upon its validity...
...WILLIAM P. CRESSO~r...
...The material is arranged in lucid historical perspective, and the notes are almost always admirable...
...I say this in no spirit of ingratitude for the treatises and com- pilations with which they are already loaded, and in which the results of modern research are embodied...
...Thus, rather than change the custom of the land, it became the king's prerogative to find a summary remedy through the jurisdiction of the chancery courts...
...But hear his granddaughter's conclusion on this matter: "Looking back...
...Aldrich's resentment, no doubt aired before the war in the Times pages, is aroused by the miming of Schumann's Carnival, Beethoven's Seventh, Scheherazade and Debussy's Faun, by the then fashionable Russian dancers, Pavlowa, etc...
...A certain charm of style and the free use of familiar language removes much of the awe-inspiring character common to such works...
...ViNcx~r J. DzMPSZY Is an Ohlo writer...
...These dancers have more theories than any group of earnest poets or musicians at a Village caf~ theories as vapid as they are numberless, but put forth with all the boldness of the astrologers and other faddists...
...J.~NGLISH~ RENAISSANCE" is the title being applied more and more widely to Tudor-Stuart England...
...At least, we are rather glad this admirable work does not press on to the mystery of Mary's final years in England...
...For such titles as Program Music...
...FRANCIS T. S. POWELL...
...which has always brought to me a certain poise and peace," but also of incurable romantic zest for life, we are not told...
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...The Pytha-goreans may be considered exceptional in this regard but they formed a religious community rather than a philosophical sect...
...Yet the work of Professor Gilbert Murray on The Religions of Greece might be profitably used to throw some light upon the relations between the beliefs and the philosophy of the Greeks...
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...Most of these papers appeared during the author's long editorship of the music page of the New York Times, to which he still contributes an occasional Sunday sermon...
...Robin is as silent on this question as other historians of Greek thought...
...The Lingo [/Fhy Do You Talk Like That.~ Not to mention: Fg'hy Do :You [/grite That l/gay...
...Cruelty, malevolence, force, deceit, envy and avarice could and must be conquered...
...those who barely permitted their monarch to hear Mass in her own palace, perceived that she persecuted no man for his religion and surrounded herself with Protestant advisers...
...The revival of Roman law had "already captured France and was to make a conquest of Germany...
...Wingfield-Stratford attributes to Norman Catholicism the renewing of a certain spirit of solidarity with the continent, and the broadening of the contact of England with her Euro- pean neighbors...
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...It is cor-rect enough in its way, though one must bear in mind the fundamental difference between what Italy was doing in the fourteenth century and what the English attempted in the sixteenth...
...Then came talk of an annulment, which many of her lords ardentlv wished...
...Nor are we given any taste of the "comedy and romance" her Prelude promises, concerning the careers of certain pupils, who were "each significant of forces that have entered into and are transforming that America, a phase of which I, as a descendant of the first New England settlers, may fairly be supposed to represent in survival form...
...The book thus rouses expectations which will be satisfied only if it proves to be the opening volume of extended Memoirs, to which this picture of a girl's life fifty years ago on a New Hampshire farm will seem an essential introduction, showing how qualified she is to represent "the spirit of New England forbears" as it endeavors still to guide and guard the destiny of the inchoate people it started, buoyantly, to shape to transcendental ends...
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...But as the author points out in his notably interesting study, in spite of the fact that the common law was disorderly and illogical "it eschewed generalization . . . and started not from the abstract privi-lege of the sovereign, but from the concrete liberties of the individual...
...or of Darnley's execution, which they believed quite justified by his repeated treason--in the midst of which his lodging at Kirk o' Field was blown up by gunpowder...
...Her infatuation was quickly enough cured by his unfaith, but apparently it was not until the brutal murder of Rizzio and her husband's conspiracy just before the birth of their son that Mary was definitely disenchanted...
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...Upon tasting, the dish is pleasing and whets one's appetite for more, that is, if one is seriously interested in religion and its modern interpretation...
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...Elizabeth's Fair Enemy Mary, Queen of Scots, by Mar#arete Kurlbaum-Siebert...
...We like him because he is not subjective or self-conscious or confiding, because his characters, mostly extroverts, do what is at their hands to do without, llke the poor author in Lavengro, wondering whether or not they them- selves have made the decision...
...by Richard Burton...
...But these, however valuable in themselves, strike one rather as discon-nected, and proportionately meaningless fragments of a story that yet remains to be told, the story of British or of world civilization, the biography of mankind, presented in all its length and breadth and depth as a living unity...
...Aldrich's characteristically restrained arguments against the earlier dancers hold good today as never...
...In Thomas ~t Becket he finds a brave cham- pion against the fiat of King Henry, that "sons of villeins should not be ordained without the consent of the lord on whose land they are known to have been born...
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...Arrangements had been made for a debate between these two great authorities to take place some time this year, with Professor G. S. Brett, of the University of Toronto, as chairman and umpire...
...One wishes only that it might penetrate still further than the present volume, revivifying in her entirety that extraordinary woman who became a queen at the age of one week, an exile from her country when four years old, at fifteen the bride of Francis II of France, when scarcely nineteen a widowed monarch returning to rule for eight turbulent years over Scot- land, from which she fled into the long English imprisonment that was to be "commuted" only by her execution at the age of forty-five...
...During the first period, Mary's tact and patience, her good sense and good government---except in the alienation of the powerful Catholic clan of the Cordons-- achieved marvels in welding together the rival factions of the Scottish lords...
...This time she loved 6perdument...
...Buchan's special brand of foraying and of swashbuckling would have made him a lesser star in an overbright firmament...
...It is manifestly impossible within the compass of an ordinary re-view to pass any detailed judgment upon so ambitious an undertaking...
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...Objective Fiction Midwinter, by John Buchan...
...While the outstanding quality of the book is not its provocativeness, there is an occasional lance broken, on program music, the modernizing of Bach and the "usurpations" of the ballet...
...Forty Minutes from New York...
...Here is another Natural Law in the Spiritual World, and possibly more satisfying to a Catholic than Henry Drum- mond's epochal book of an earlier period...
...In his treatment of the Reformation, as in other controversial subjects, the author is eminently fair and objective...
...The rise of the Jesuits serves as background to the Church's efforts to stem the tide of religious revolution in England...
...Accredited by the Association of Collegee and ~.condary Schoe4s of the Middle States and Maryland...
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...The remote origins of Greek thought in the Homeric poems, in Hesiod, in the maxims of the Seven Sages and in the fables of the legendary Aesop are too frequently passed over without notice or comment...
...But it is in an essentially mystical rather than democratic character of the race that the author of The History of British Civiliza- tion finds cause for the earlier divergencies with Rome, and their passion for "self-government...
...The book is not a treatment of biology or of metaphysics or of theology, but a combining, sometimes almost fantastic, of all three...
...Perhaps the chief merit of this book is its unique approach to the unchanging truths of Christianity, and its demonstra- tion that the dogmas of the Church are not artificial fabrica- tions of visionary minds, but are actual laws of the spiritual life that work out pragmatically in experience...
...Poetry in particular retained in the neighborhood of Oxford and Cambridge a spontaneity which is lost under the reign of the Florentine humanists...
...One Macmillan Book a Week A KING OF SHADOWS By MARGARET YEO A swiftly-moving, colorful story of intrigue (largely ecclesiastical and political in character) during the period of the Italian Renaissance and the English Tudors...
...The figure of Ignatius Loyola is sketched in understand- ingly and appealingly...
...I refer to the isolation of Greek philosophy from the life of the people, and the smallness of its influence on the religious convictions, customs and practices of the Greeks as a whole and even of the philosophers themselves...
...The author is avowedly sympathetic toward the Platonic outlook and, no doubt, his treatment of Aristotle is colored by this attitude of mind...
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...The first and second of these issues are long talked out, affording only parlor interest for tea-time discussion...
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...PossibIy, where material is so controversial, we may wish our history and our romance somewhat more perfectly divided ---or else fused...
...rarities from contemporary manuscripts and anonymous books...
...There was a time when teachers used to read aloud half an hour a day...
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...It is a collection of six essays upon the profoundest of themes, and one feels sometimes that the author tries to cover too much ground in the space that he allots himself, that his transitions from biology to religion are abrupt, and that his handling of the subject is too cursive and frag-mentary...
...Nor will we find, he continues, any suggestion of lust in Debussy's great orchestral masterpiece, The Afternoon of a Faun...
...Such a system, of course, could only be made to work by means of remedies essentially English in their nature...
...Quite naturally he quotes from Bunyan, Fox's Book of Martyrs and the English Bible to make his point clear...
...Reddant and Non-Reddemt Studeuw Catalogues on application to the Secretary PIUS X SCHOOL OF LITURGICAL MUSIC COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART 133rd Street and Convent Avenue, New York Tlhix'tt~uth Summer Session June 25~August 3 COURSES OFFERED Gregorlan Chant .9 Liturgy Justine Ward Method of Teaching Music, Courses I, II, III Gregorian Accompaniment Advanced C'hiron omy Harmony---Counterpoint Musical ThaorymLessons in Voice Production, Organ, Violin, Piao Registrations, June 24th, earlier if desired Cathedral 1334 ST...
...Indeed, he writes so well that one becomes unconscious even of the mechanics of excellence, as is quite right in a good narrative...
...Professor Robin does them fair justice in his opening chapter...
...This "personality" presents her- self, in Prelude, as an observant teacher-housemother in a girls' seminary, purposing to "beguile your interest now in herself, and later in her tales of certain very young women who held the stage in . . . the declining years of the nine-teenth century and the . . . youth of the twentieth...
...WingfieldStratford, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, tells us something of the motives which induced him to undertake the nine years' labor of research which resulted in these two fine volumes : "My object was to write the sort of history that since my undergraduate days I have wanted to have on my own shelves...
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...These titles are as reminis- cent as a piece of lace from an old bureau drawer, aromatic with sentiment, and they exert a very definite if delicate charm on the reader...
...He maintains the rather unusual, but perfectly correct, thesis that Greek philosophical speculation began (as far as history can determine) with an attempt to ascertain the moral demands of common thought and not with the effort to systematize reflections on the nature of the physical universe...
...What has come about during post-war years, however, is a horde of dancing egos without even so much as a smatter- ing of technique who roam over the field of music with the vandalism of naivet& For some reason or other, they find a field-day in the new musical thought and are, by their obnox- ious Terpsichorean comments, a growing thorn in the side of this school...
...As a piece of devotional literature, and as an exposition of Catholic doctrine, the book is satisfying...
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...New York: F. 8. Crofts and Company...
...From being "the one sovereign in Europe to have taken the Pope seriously as the Father of Christendom," Henry VIII ceased to be "the Defender of the Faith" and turned his energies to being an English king...
...Some informative and entertaining musical Americana are contained in chapters on Adelina Patti in America, Franz Kneisel, Henry Edward Krehbiel, the late music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, whose voluminous comments carried on the musty aspect of academic musicology, and Theodore Thomas, whose iron will and equally iron consti- tution stood him in good stead in his pioneering activities in the cause of symphonic music in America...
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...We like him because he is not at every turn exacting for himself our tired pity and over-worked comprehension...
...Even this was an advantage over the crushing Roman legal system that obtained on the continent...
...But psychologically, the most interesting period of her life lay in that long confinement and eventual martyrdom which were to make of the wilful, exquisite woman one of the really heroic figures of history and legend...
...Augustinian Fathers...
...Made on lasts of good style FORME" :hoes roll did ~om to rrgmn normalcy...
...Very large audiences have occasionally greeted the appearance of many and various kinds of "outlines" such as philosophy or history and so ~orth...
...as an application of biology to theology it is a trifle strained...
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...To the logical Latin intelligence it was but a thing "fit for barbarians and madmen," and as Reginald Pole maintained, it was "without order or end...
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...Wingfield-Stratford might have been pardoned some abbreviations...
...Between the Sunday morning which--in the very teeth of John Knox's fulminations---brought back the girlish queen to her land of fog and feuds, and the fatal day when the distraught woman sailed away to seek refuge on English shores, lay four years of constructive work and four more of disintegration...
...To this same influence, notably the Cluniac as developed under the old monastic rule of Saint Benedict, he generously admits another somewhat unusual virtue: that of maintaining the spirit of democratic ideals in the face of royal absolutism...
...This fact is evident from the present comprehensive and very ably edited anthol- ogy...
...translated by M. R. Dobie...
...but rather by reason of this thorough knowledge of his subject to point out a new freedom from hidebound grammatical traditions (largely based upon incomplete knowl- edge or else prompted by a desire to dictate rather than record usage...
...He makes convincing his thesis that B. ALTMAN & CO...
...To be guilty of them was . . . to frustrate the intention of God Himself...
...Thus the monks of Saint Albans were solemnly forced to renounce their chartered monopolies at the same time that the Temple, the headquarters of the legal class, was raided and sacked by a tumultuous mob...
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...The translator has not succeeded in giving us anything better than a readable version of the original --but then, Professor Robin's fluid French is not easy to do into idiomatic English...
...and a really prodigal wealth of Stuart song...
...Burton has a great deal to say that is refreshing about the use of simple words of Anglo-Saxon origin and the avoid- ance of high-sounding words...
...Its jacket tells us that "it is the story of how---out of the varied, often incongruous materials fur-nished by ancestry and experience--a unified personality is developed, a soul is made...
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...JOaN MACDONAGH IS a Dublin producer WILLIA• P. CRESSON, formerly an American diplomat, is on the faculty of Tufts College and the author of Persia, The Holy Alhancc, and D1plo- maim Portraits...
...He is not the disputatious reactionary...
...I ANALYZING a predilection for the stories of Mr.N John Buchan, one is inclined to question whether the liking arises because of what they are or, perchance, because of what they are not...
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...KATHRYN WHITE RYAN, short-story writer and poet, is the author of Golden Pheasants...
...MARGARET ~ENDALL iS art American artist, and a member of the Soclcty of Mmlaturc Painters KATHEEZNE ER~GY IS a crxtic and poet, and the author of The Poet's Chantry...
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...He was, however, but following the tradition of isolation and separatism which Dr...
...His Midwinter is a new edition, republished after six years...
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...Here are to be found copious excerpts from Tottel's Songs and Sonnets...
...One counselor for every five campers...
...I N A prologue evidently intended to be read, Dr...
...Camille Saint-Satins, recall to mind waters of doctrine that have long since passed under the bridge and into the silent sea of a category defined once and for all and hence no longer stimulating to thought--although they remain fatally seductive for reflection...
...Departing from the usual Protestant thesis he maintains "that there is no need to look for any sensational scandals to account for Henry VIII's suppression of the great religious houses, other than such isolated cases as those noted by Erasmus and in the pages of Bishop Niche and Archbishop Morton's reports...
...Wagner and Brahms on Each Other...
...To look, therefore, with scorn upon another, to take advantage of his innocence and weakness to subserve your own ends . . . was to trample upon the spirit of the Most High...
...In his praise of the laws of England Sir John Fortescue upholds it as "the base of constitutional monarchy and free-dom," and ascribes to its virtues the curious advantage that the French were reduced to such a state of chicken-heartedness that "they have not even pluck to pursue the good old English calling of highway robbery...
...First, to anyone desiring to renew acquaintance with the best reading regarding English history...
...BOOKS AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING "life is not a push from below but a gift from above," and he outlines certain accepted laws of biology showing dearly how they apply to the spiritual life of man how they may be extended from the plant and the animal to humanity...
...Otherwise, I suppose, in this day of men up and doing, reshaping the world in their own image, this discourse of a music critic of a past day is of no importance: willynilly, wheat supplies nutrition to the body, otherwise it is of no importance...
...This in turn led to the "prerogative jurisdiction" which in later days made the procedure of the Star Chamber so hateful to Englishmen...
...he discusses rather than disputes, after the style of the best French tradi- tions, and the reader is the wiser as well as the happier for having read...
...WHAT the poet, painter, sculptor, the musician and the critic mean to the philosopher and what they can mean to the man in the street may be said to be the theme which unifies the five little books constituting this new outline...
...H ERE is a new and quite palatable dish for the epicure-- scrambled biology, metaphysics and theology...
...Memoirs of New Hampshire ~lemoirs of a Gothic American, by Anna Kavanagh-Priest...
...As early as the end of the fourteenth century the people rose against the priests, as against the lawyers, "not for any religious reason but because the great monasteries were the hardest landlords...
...But those Russians had at least a leg to stand on, in that they offered technical equipment in the service of Euterpe...
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...The struggle in England seems to have been political rather than religious...
...Its events center around Alastair Maclean, a follower of the young prince, but they include also none other than Mr...
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...One finishes the book convinced that science and Christian truth are not at war, that a theistic evolution is not incom-patible with faith, and that biology supplements and annotates religion...
...Then the smoldering question of the queen's marriage-- almost as momentous to England, France, Spain and the Pope as to her own subjects--proved a very conflagration when her choice fell upon that sophomoric young egoist, Lord Henry Darnley...
...And, like The Path of the King, it is a story supremely fitted for school reading, outside or in...
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...It has therefore withstood both the logical superiority of the Roman system and the danger of reform which arises from the new enlightenment with its notable "bias toward the classics...
...A large number of them has been neither so ~rofitable nor so pleasant to read as these...
...CONTRIBUTORS ELSIE W.EIL, formerly on the edttortal staff of Asia, contrtbutes to current journals and perlodmals R. ELLSWORTH LARSSON, a Wisconsin poet, will pubhsh hm poems in the fall under the title, 0 City, Citrus RT Rzv...
...Sheen applies the principle that "life continues just as long as a higher kingdom dominates a lower kingdom," and insists that man's spiritual nature must dominate his lower animal and brute nature, else he must pay the price of losing his soul eternally...
...There is one important phase of the whole problem of Greek thought which one seldom or never finds discussed in works of this kind...
...One can hardly say, however, that this latest book of Dr...
...Whether W. S. Gilbert was right or wrong about every baby born into this world alive being either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative, there seems to be no possible, probable shadow of doubt that, at least, every student of Greek phil- osophy is either an Aristotelean or a Platonist in mentality...
...and Poets and P11grxms...
...This quality of taste, by the way, is apparent throughout his book, a fact which, coupled with a liberal knowledge of the sources of language, makes him a capable judge of good usage in many disputed words and phrases sprinkled through the book...
...Those who resented a woman's rule dis- covered that she was as learned as she was lovely...
...These vices were the cardinal crimes: the prime sins against the Holy Ghost...
...To whom may it safely be recommended...
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...The present author shows with admirable fairness the impossibility of placing responsibility for a murder which practically the entire Scottish nobility desired, and which few would have been likely to censure had it not been for the unseemly haste of Mary's marriage to Bothwell...
...T HE quality and value of this book can best be indicated by quotations...
...GERALD B. PHELAN...
...Is not the disillusionment in which descendants of the trans- cendental thinkers see honor--as they visioned itwdeparting from the world it fails to save, due to the unsubstantialness of "Over-Soul" as nourishment for men "called to be saints...
...Still, The Life of All Living is stimulating, epigrammatic and in places elo- quent and vivid...
...With the instinct of the true historian, Robin does not en- deavor to fit the phases of Greek thought into a preconceived scheme of uniform development and progress...
...her subjugation to the masterful, unscrupulous earl was complete, and she reckoned with civil war as lightly as with the possibility of excommunication...
...The crisis of the Reformation was also a crisis in the history of the common law...
...We should be inclined to agree that if he is able to stimulate inquiry into these sources, even for reference, his book will not have been in vain...
...And last of all we like him because he knows what he means and we know what he means, because with him we are not perpetually in some slough of bewilder- ment and confusion over the jots and tittles of an individual's reaction to something or other...
...With such a program in hand, Dr...
...He makes the Christian religion both scientific and empirical...
...Mysticism and Science The Life of All Living, by Fulton J. 8been...
...At least he indicates suggestive lines of study...
...The schools of Hellas appear to have been the resorts of a few intellectuals who pursued learning in an esoteric fashion without feeling its influence to any great extent upon their lives as citizens and members of the body social, and still less endeavoring to influence the lives of their fellow-citizens by their speculations...
...fulsome selections from Daniel and the Fletchers...
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...The books are expertly written, which is to say that they are informative, enjoyable and brief...
...It was by faith, not money, that saints of old sustained the light whose fading radiance inspired her youth...
...In the vast objective detail of these 500 pages we find sometimes the brevity of official reports, sometimes imaginary conversations a little too colloquial to be quite convincing, presented with an impartiality which goes the final length of publishing the Casket Letters absolutely without comment...
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...Usurpations of the Ballet, another title, fairly yanks one back with a jolt to those arm- chair days when the urbanites of the late Brander Matthews hit our fathers clean between the eyes for another step for-ward as soon as they recovered...
...Very probably in the decade which produced The Master of Ballantrae, The White Company, and The Red Badge of Courage, Mr...
...Unless the driving power they reveal can be re-harnessed for the use of souls which, like the heroine's, are called by generous impulses to do the Spirit's bidding, unafraid, this chronicle of its frustrated impetus will but intensify the trouble in which such now find themselves...
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...The tale is full of atmosphere as such a tale must be, the atmosphere of great houses, of eighteenth-century inns, of outlawry, treachery, escape, pursuit, loyalty, and love, re-quited and denied...
...T o BROWSE through the table of contents of this col- lection of papers on music evokes that Bergsonian title of Marcel Proust's novel, Of the Remembrance of Things Past...
...For in every man lived a spirit, an image of God...
...but a somewhat different tale of later vintage hangs by the dancing usurpers...
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...It records the x745 uprising of the Scotch Highlanders under Prince Charlie to replace the banished House of Stuart, the march into England and the retreat...
...The coming of the Reformation and the dawn of Protestant civilization opened a new chapter in England's relations with modern Europe...
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...Does it, in truth, as this descendant testifies, require "money, your own or someone else's, to support that career...
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...The Attic Mind Greek Thought, by L~on Robin...
...His treatment of the Holy Eucharist is especially able, and his words throb with feeling and sincerity as he elucidates the doctrine of the Living Christ Who is the "Bread of Life...
...It is gratifying, therefore, to get this book in an English translation...
...Among the many grammatical idols shattered are the laws against a split infinitive and the ending of a sentence with a preposition...
...Sheen has accomplished his purpose...
...In the chapter paradoxically phrased The Death of Life, Dr...
...edited by J. HZilliam Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson...
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...You are conscious that the author is trying to do the thing, and that it is a formidable task...
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...Irwin Edman discusses the relationship between art and experience, and Thomas Munro suggests how a "compre- hensive program of research" might be followed in dealing with aesthetics...
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