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McEntee, Georgiana Putnam & Eleanore, Sister M. & Clark, Edwin & Reilly, Joseph J. & Lapp, John A. & Shuster, George N. & Repplier, Agnes & Nickerson, Hoffman & McCormick, John F. & Cunningham, Doris & Pineda, E. R.
BOOKS Count Positive America Set Free, by Count Hermann Keyserling. New York: Harper and Brothers. $5.00. TO MOST of us it would seem a strange experience to feel as cocksure of anything as Count...
...Clio, after all, was one of the Muses, and if historical writing cannot attract the general educated reader then it is not history at all, but only a hodgepodge of material from which history might some day be written...
...In the past, women faced almost insurmountable difficulties if they sought to leave the narrow circle within which social convention confined them...
...Here the author is to be found in accord with Dr...
...The Green Mountain Boy Ethan Allen, by John Pell...
...Approaches to Sociology An Introduction to Sociology, by Carl A. Dawson and Warner E. Gettys...
...But somehow, when we remember the dominance of the idea of the good in Plato, we find it hard to think that he would recognize his general point of view in a world where central dominance is only partial...
...Leisure and a Room A Room of One's Own, by Virginia TVoolf...
...Woolf reminds us, which, she insists, must be entirely removed...
...Woolf translates into £500 a year) and a "room of her own...
...Possibly it might be more sympathetic to Catholicism, though it is far from open hostility...
...The translations are accurate and literal even if inspiration is not evident in many of them...
...it makes no difference to me...
...Some approach through social problems, others through psychology, biology, history, anthropology or geography...
...He intends it to be a "more sustained effort of constructive thought," in contrast to mere historical and philosophical criticism...
...And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind, it cannot penetrate within...
...Accordingly, in Part I, he sets before us his speculative philosophy in a categoreal scheme which gives us, besides the four notions of actual entity, prehension, nexus and the ontological principle, the category of the ultimate, the eight categories of existence, the twenty-seven categories of explanation, and the nine categoreal obligations...
...Mrs...
...Of course others-natives, Gentiles, men not given to "dunking" their doughnuts-have helped build modern New York too...
...Naturally we turn with most interest to Part V, in which the final interpretation of God and the world is found...
...SISTER M. ELEANORE...
...2.50...
...Despite the rapid movement of the action and the almost crude realism of the style, the work contains a certain symbolic quality, subtler in some respects than in others...
...The passion of the human heart is to hold the human race in bondage...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Polish Folk-Lore The Queen of Heaven, by Maryan Gawalewicz...
...The world said, with a guffaw, 'Write...
...6.00...
...GEORGIANA PUTNAM MCENTEE...
...For, "the living body is a coordination of high-grade actual occasions...
...It is as true to say that the world is immanent in God, as that God is immanent in the world...
...She must have leisure (which Mrs...
...But so viewed it is not before creation...
...What's the good of your writing...
...New York: Thomas Y. Crowell...
...There is a confusion of the mythical Lilith and the Blessed Virgin, in that Adam is first given a wife fashioned of flowers, who cannot satisfy him and is therefore taken to heaven that she may again come on earth as the Mother of God's Son...
...Carrascal del Horcajo, the setting of the novel, recalls another Castilian town-Orbajosa-in Galdos's Dona Perfecta...
...After glancing at Greek and Roman furniture, the book begins its history properly with the Gothic...
...Why have they been confined to child-bearing and domestic tasks...
...INTO his latest work, Process and Reality, Professor White-head tells us he has "endeavored to compress the material derived from years of meditation...
...The subject-matter is so vast that authors and professors are necessarily eclectics...
...Austerity, as the keynote of religion, has no place in America Set Free...
...But this first part is, he tells us, unintelligible without reference to Part II, in which we have discussion and application of the categories and notions...
...To most of them logic is as meaningless as mythology...
...yet he expresses disgust at the kind of immorality practised by youth in the United States...
...and in Part V we have the final interpretation of God and the world in terms of his scheme of ideas...
...2.50...
...The clarity and preciseness of his remarks carry import for the connoisseur as well as the casual collector...
...But very largely it has been a Jewish business...
...and light is blended with shadow with a memorable, if classical, poetic feeling...
...After which are reported in order, the developments of the Italian and French renaissance, the Tudor and Elizabethan, the Queen Anne, the Louis, the Regency and the Georgian styles in furniture-making...
...Then follow chapters on Selective Distribution of People and Institutions, The Mechanism of Social Interaction, Social Interaction in Relation to Ecological and Cultural Forces, Conflict, Accommodation, Assimilation, and The Social Order...
...and other customers of these elegant refectories, hearing them talk in millions, would remark sarcastically, "Telephone numbers-they all get like that...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...Rejecting the error of the dull and foolish men who say history ought to be thought a "science," he well knows it to be a branch of the literary art...
...He quotes with relish the remark of an American judge that "what Keyserling wants is more and better adultery...
...The book-shops of any town in Gaul you care to mention will display, with a bow, reams of parchment upon which illustrious Gothic has been o traced anew...
...It is thoroughly Spanish, powerful and picturesque...
...But of course, Ethan didn't take even visions quite seriously...
...Arms's rendering of Saint Etienne, Bourges, is an interesting and fairly representative example of his work...
...Jewish peddlers, house-painters, plumbers and pants-makers, with sweated savings in the bank and a shrewd eye on the main chance, were the gods in the machine that spun this fabric...
...This he finds "witty and profound," and he is sure that "only an American could have said it," which is a mistake...
...2.50...
...But to me the best page in the book is the etching of Saint Julien, Le Mans, in which a somewhat drab subject grows into a composition having admirable mass and fluidity...
...translated by Alice Stone Blackwell...
...He has been at pains to outline the difficulties and snares of furniture fakers, and contributes an amusing list of the types of furniture dealers, both good and bad...
...All in all, however, a lover of the French scene might gratefully add every single illustration in this book to his collection...
...The Protestant Reformation was but "a rebirth of the original Nordic outlook...
...He includes them among the greatest cabinet-makers and most skilled art-craftsmen...
...Instinct guided them to just the right churches, decorously and with no drain of well-proportioned enthusiasm...
...She admits that much has been done: now a woman may go to college, possess property and vote...
...It does not lend itself readily to the general reader...
...Sociologists differ markedly in their approach to sociology...
...Now comes Mrs...
...After much study we recognize some features of our familiar world under the strange phraseology...
...It is therefore a genuine compliment to say that here old wine has been smuggled into a new bottle with a skill one applauds resoundingly...
...The estrangement of the Santoyo brothers grows gradually, progressively as their characters develop, each consistent with itself, following the bends of their original personalities...
...At the same time he is refreshingly clear as to the nature and method of historical writing...
...It is a beautiful book, in every sense...
...As is usual in such cases the prose versions are superior to those in metre...
...NOT like the walls of Troy, which rose to the persuasion of Apollo's lute, were the tremendous towers of New York erected, and its amazing miles of homes and factories built...
...Woolf's keen critical sense enlivens the book...
...Beginning with these divergent outlooks on life, the narrative moves majestically toward a tragic climax which early in the course of the story projects itself as something inevitable...
...What will happen then...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...Miss Blackwell has selected really representative authors and most interesting examples of their work...
...This warning is given to keep us from forgetting that the central dominance of a "form" is only partial...
...It is distinctly stated in the introduction of America Set Free that the book is not on America (by which the author means the United States) but for Americans...
...In the present instance they will find much that is true, but little with which they were not already familiar...
...The lack of culture, the badness of hotel food, the general belief that for some unfathomable reason it is more moral to drink ice water than wine, the crude simplicity of the social outlook, the undue power of wealth, above all, the unfortunate predominance of American women-these things have long been clear to our understanding...
...Grandfather's Chair Genuine Antique Furniture, by Arthur de Bles...
...Set free" has a winning and a mocking sound...
...If a woman is to become a creative writer, produce poetry, fiction, biography, history, etc., she cannot be the prey to poverty or constant interruption...
...Manicheism is manifested in the legend about Creation...
...Woolf makes no promises...
...His remarks on the distinguishing features of authentic antiques should be of great advantage to future purchasers...
...thus Mary is not a real child of Adam and hence the humanity taken from her by Christ is not the humanity which sinned and hence the Redemption was unavailing...
...Altogether the undertaking is an ambitious one, as we should be prepared to expect from a philosopher of Professor White-head's standing when he attempts to deal constructively with a subject so broad and so fundamental as cosmology...
...Plain Reasons for Being a Catholic, by Albert Powers, S. J. New York: Frederick Pustet Company, Incorporated...
...There is a happy lack of foot-notes with which the so-called scientific historians vex their readers...
...Viewed as primordial, the nature of God is "unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality...
...Arms surrounds her husband's pictures with a narrative which, it is sufficient to say, is a fitting accompaniment...
...A final material victory, not permeated by spirit, would mean death absolute...
...The book is provided with 200 illustrations, comprising drawings, and photographs of typical pieces...
...But the millions were dollars, and were real-these hard-headed immigrants and sons of immigrants made them come real...
...2.00...
...Arms, whose handicraft is sufficiently renowned...
...He is at home in Zion...
...As they are all quoted from Judge Lindsey, we may hope they are not true...
...While exception was taken to a couple of statements, the work was praised for its high factual value and its unusual objectivity...
...SOME impression of the scope and variety of this anthology may be conveyed by observing that poems from the works of eighty-nine authors have been chosen to represent nineteen Spanish-American countries...
...Certain phrases of his make one suspect that he does not sufficiently distinguish between the Calvinist nightmare and the kindlier and more majestic creed of historic Christendom...
...Part III deals with the theory of prehension...
...Of the many strands from which Ethan Allen's life was woven, not the least interesting to the readers of The Commonweal will be his interest in religion...
...He remarks that the English adaption was by no means so graceful...
...There are fifty-one reproductions of etchings and drawings by Mr...
...Woolf considered these matters in an hour lecture before a group of English women students and later she expanded it into a book where her treatment could be more leisurely...
...translated from the Polish by Lucia Borski Szczepanowicz and Kate B. Miller...
...Philip Snowden threw his much-discussed verbal bomb...
...Viewed as consequent, the nature of God is "determined, incomplete, consequent, 'everlasting,' fully actual, and conscious...
...The philosophy which this work unfolds is the philosophy of organism...
...the structural needs of a working creed, for example, and the avenues of approach...
...and the hero of this book is not so much any individual as the spirit of this people, in all its variety, with all its lovable qualities, its pettinesses, moral blind-spots and heroisms...
...In matters religious and spiritual, Count Keyserling writes with the authority of the infallible...
...for it embodies a number of heresies...
...New York: Ronald Press Company...
...The author and his collaborators do not philosophize over the Lateran treaties, but briefly explain their nature and the benefits expected to arise from them...
...But Professor Whitehead warns us that the state of things in this philosophy is far different from Saint Thomas's view of the mind as informing the body...
...What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art for men-and infer-entially for women ? What effect has poverty on works of art ? Originally Mrs...
...de Bles is both informative and entertaining, without stooping to a "popular" style...
...He has an analysis always ready...
...American readers, to whom the book is especially addressed, would do well to ponder the sections which bring out the League's achievements, limitations and potentialities...
...Such a picture must have touched this earthy man whose life was spent among those hills, riding and hunting, fighting and plotting for them and their peculiar people...
...Briefer Mention New York, by Nat J. Ferber...
...HOFFMAN NICKERSON...
...And as this is post-Einstein philosophy, the principle of relativity is found to have its application in the statement of such antitheses as the following: "It is as true that God is permanent and the world fluent, as that the world is permanent and God is fluent...
...New York: The Viking Press...
...The translator's versions enable even the reader not overly familiar with the Spanish language to discern a great many of the qualities of the original...
...Recurring unexpectedly in the imagination the image seemed prophetic, visionary...
...It is simple enough but it leaves out a good deal...
...JOHN F. MCCORMICK...
...Naturally one cannot expect to find the especial virtues of other schools, and I think that in one or two instances Mr...
...The reviewer cannot forbear quoting the last paragraph: "A story got about that Ethan believed in the transmigration of souls...
...The fine readable type is a happy example of good craftsmanship in book-making...
...She is not only leisurely but occasionally wise, sometimes witty and always skilful...
...We can all sympathize with the desire of the modern philosopher to find forms of expression that are free from the connotations of our familiar terms...
...The title, almost literally translated from the Spanish, is possibly meant to suggest, not only the different, varying roots of a family, but also the desire to live and the love of worldly possessions as the roots of conflict, of tragedy, of evil...
...In a style that is sometimes hurried, generally adequate, and in many passages of dialogue rich, racy and alive, Mr...
...The life force of the Catholic Church is "really due to the persistent vitality of antique pagan tradition...
...And even if one were to make the attempt, his confidence that he had grasped Professor Whitehead's meaning would be severely shaken by the extreme difficulty of following an unusual terminology through 500 pages of very abstruse discussion...
...In a living body of a high type there are grades of occasions so coordinated by their paths of inheritance through the body, that a peculiar richness of inheritance is enjoyed by various occasions in some parts of the body...
...He is sure of what God means...
...Even decency may be said to take a back seat...
...But these concessions merely point the way...
...His habit of quoting from his own work reveals his mental attitude...
...Perhaps subconsciously he remembered having seen, some October morning, a great white stallion standing on one of those high Vermont hills, with arched neck, mane and tail stirred by the awakening breeze, snorting a little and pawing the damp earth, while he surveyed the lake of white mist below him, the rows of blue hills, ranged, like the seats of some gigantic stadium, beneath a prismatic canopy...
...It is true that the Count has no prejudices against adultery...
...It is a distinction without a difference...
...Thus all their qualities seem to a woman hard and immature...
...3.00...
...All the formidable apparatus of scholarship is kept in the back of the book where it can easily be found...
...And finally we are told that "God and the world are the contrasted opposites in terms of which creativity achieves its supreme task of transforming disjoined multiplicity, with its diversities in opposition, into concrescent unity, with its diversities in contrast...
...He had told his friends that he expected to live again in the form of a large white horse...
...What is the truth about women's nature...
...Non-Catholics have not only been deprived of the Faith but also of the natural means of recovering it...
...On the one hand Ethan Allen was of that picturesque breed of lesser heroes whose genuine virtues are set off by just a touch of the rascal...
...DORIS CUNNINGHAM...
...The book freely uses selections from special reports and standard writers, and builds its conclusion from descriptions of actual social life...
...but in a living body of a low type the occasions are much nearer to a democracy...
...Pell has the further merit of a judicial temper...
...She kicks against the pricks, but she cannot escape...
...If indeed there is any trace of such confusion in his mind, the further maturity of so just and active an intellect will doubtless soon brush it aside...
...but somehow we cannot help wondering whether the result arrived at was worth the effort...
...He permits himself no debauch of imaginary conversations and reveries in the manner of Strachey...
...ALMOST a year ago, the present reviewer appraised the first edition of this book in The Commonweal...
...The approach is through the local community life of the individual...
...Part IV with the theory of extension...
...but much worse were the immaterial...
...He is sure of what Christ meant...
...This newest text is by Professors Dawson of McGill and Gettys of Texas University...
...The text is charmingly informal, never vapid and above all never given to display of learning or its lack...
...They met in one-arm cafeterias on Court Street, Brooklyn, and elsewhere...
...This method in the hands of a well-informed and skilful teacher is undoubtedly good...
...It is the old, but ever fresh story of Cain, the materialist, whose interest is to have, and Abel, the contemplative dreamer, whose ideal of life is to be...
...Every incident, trivial if detached from the story, assumes great significance in its cumulative effect, imparting to the whole plot logical necessity...
...THE publication of a new text-book in sociology is not now an event as it was twenty-five years ago...
...Walsh, citing The Thirteenth, the Greatest of Centuries, and recording "its imperishable glories...
...Evidently death seemed far away when he suggested the idea, half humorously, half wondering...
...For the colonial craftsmanship of John Goddard of Newport and William Savery of Philadelphia, Mr...
...JOHN A. LAPP...
...Naturally they suffer a little from curtailment, but in general they remain convincing and effective...
...EDWIN CLARK...
...and the immaturity which Count Keyserling criticizes so severely, "the general kindergarten atmosphere," the docility of the "mechanized man-ant," so dear to Henry Ford's heart, are the outcome of abnormal law-making which denies the education of self-restraint...
...If Count Keyserling be unduly authoritative, he is none the less good-tempered...
...It is very doubtful," we are told, "whether virginity will ever become again an actual, as opposed to an imaginary, ideal...
...20.00...
...One appreciates the reverence with which religious emotion-the thread out of which, after all, the great cathedrals were spun- is treated by those who, themselves, do not possess it...
...The book itself is more advanced than the word "introduction" would indicate, and probably should be preceded by a volume having a simpler approach to social problems...
...had been put to him, he would have answered promptly: "What I say...
...PELL'S learning is solid...
...JOSEPH J. REILLY...
...4.50...
...The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case not indifference but hostility...
...THE poor old world has problems aplenty in our day: the outlawry of war, adequate treatment of crime, the stabilizing of prosperity, temperance vs...
...Both are doubtless symbolical ruins of the glory that was Castile, but of the two, I prefer the former for its sympathy and depth...
...2.00...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...If Pilate's musing question, "What is truth...
...It would, therefore, be empty pretense to offer to evaluate the work in the few paragraphs that can be devoted to a review...
...It will give students a ready means of learning facts of contemporary importance without forcing them to wade first through many pages of special pleading...
...IT WILL be a surprise to many of the laity to know that the Catholic system is based on reason...
...They will welcome this admirable book as a confirmation of their faith...
...TO MOST of us it would seem a strange experience to feel as cocksure of anything as Count Keyserling feels of everything...
...4.50...
...but, true or false, they constitute a blemish on the pages of a book which, professing to be written on a high plane, has no business to go dipping in the gutters...
...Inquirers, however, may be repelled by its argumentative form which many of them will not have the mental training to follow...
...New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company...
...Her aim, however, is not perfection in the English versions but an endeavor to indicate the beauty of the poems in the original...
...is not "eminent reality," but is "deficiently actual...
...Ferber has written at once a spirited and deeply interesting novel, and a chronicle of New York in the last forty years that is of real historical value...
...No shadow of doubt crosses his mind...
...2.50...
...Hispanic Melody Some Spanish-American Poets...
...Nevertheless Professor Whitehead has no hesitation in saying that the combination of God as the Unmoved Mover and as "eminently real" is a fallacy, though it is not made clear why this is so...
...It is probable that no country is, or ever has been, free...
...Yet the book closes on a noble note, a note ill-sustained throughout its pages, but which rings clearly and menacingly in the last paragraph: "It depends on the spiritual depth he attains to whether man will ever possess the material world he has conquered externally, or be possessed by it, as is the case today...
...prohibition, proper values in education, and-most important because more abiding than all-women...
...Nobody reads books about this country except its citizens, and they seem never to tire of them...
...Arms was mistaken in trying to reach out for them...
...Seeing them all together is to go in imagination through dozens of the lovely old cities-Paris and Rouen, Coutances and Troyes, Poitiers and Vezelay, and ever so many others...
...In this connection he tells some tales of amazing nastiness...
...Despite its beauty as a whole and the fineness of its purpose, the book is a dangerous one for children or for poorly instructed Catholics...
...So in this record of the styles of furniture, there is supplied not only the authentic word, but the element of romance which is provided by the history of furniture...
...Few of our artists combine so uncompromising a knowledge of composition with so firm and accurate a line...
...A characteristic street provides foreground and frame for the towers and the marvelously intricate porch...
...She says finely of Coleridge that "when one takes a sentence of his into the mind, it explodes and gives birth to all kinds of other ideas...
...Of Galsworthy and Kipling, that their books are permeated with an emotion which is "incomprehensible to a woman...
...To Have or To Be Roots, by Eduardo Zamacois...
...New York: Harcourt Brace and Company...
...The customary blurs of impressionistic sketching and the excessive shadings of the virile school are alike missing...
...The world did not say to her as it said to them, write if you choose...
...This informing and inexpensive book should be in the libraries of all secondary schools and colleges...
...It is as true to say that God creates the world, as that the world creates God...
...In things religious the author's touch is perhaps not quite so sure as elsewhere...
...And when we learn (e.g., from Professor Eddington) that the methods of physical science lead "not to a concrete reality, but to a shadow world of symbols," we may even doubt whether our sense of humor will allow us to take a philosophical construction of the same universe too seriously...
...But one could read most of them with little idea that they were introductions to the same subject...
...To our disappointment we are told that here the system is inadequate, and that deductions in this sphere are no more than suggestions...
...The United States is laboring today under sterner inhibitions than at any other period of her history...
...She contents herself with the modest exhortation to her listeners that, if they do no more, at least they prepare the way for the women who may come later and some day achieve greatly...
...Old Castile again lives in Carrascal with its primitive mentality, its gnomic wisdom and strict code of honor, its rank individualism, its insensibility to pain and mysticism, qualities which, in the period of greatest development, found expression in her heroes and saints...
...The word evokes a thousand questions to which venturesome men have, occasionally, proposed an answer...
...Puritanism he finds "the caste-rule of a conquering race on foreign soil...
...de Bles all but proves-in so far as circumstance allow-that the Windsor chair was first the product of American design and craftsmanship...
...Other divisions of the book relate to Society and the Person, Social Change, and Sociological Method...
...Now we know that we have very imperfectly understood Professor Whitehead, and this is doubtless why we cannot see how it is that, if to creativity is to be assigned this "supreme task," creativity is not God...
...They lack suggestive power...
...DE BLES, an art expert, has lectured on furniture for the last ten years at the Metropolitan Museum in New York...
...New York: Covici-Friede...
...Part I concludes with a statement of some derivative notions concerning the primordial nature of God, the divine ordering, creativity, creatures, prehension, etc...
...With a self-restraint rare in print outside the Latin countries, our author permits the reader to draw his own conclusions upon so racy a character, allowing himself but a single phrase of direct moral criticism in a passage to be quoted in a moment...
...It is, to be sure, a quite feminine record, into which chance acquaintances and happy moments are woven with an appealing gratitude...
...And for the method of philosophical construction he proposes "to frame a scheme of ideas, the best that one can, and unflinchingly to explore the interpretation of experience in terms of that scheme...
...But even in so praiseworthy an attempt there must be some limit in the strain to be put on the reader's powers of understanding...
...This new edition contains important additions, chief among them an account of the accord between the Holy See and the Italian government, and last summer's conference at the Hague into which Mr...
...Their "material difficulties were formidable...
...A Modern Synthesis Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology, by Alfred North Whitehead...
...CONSIDERED only as a contribution to the literature of folk-lore and destined only for the use of those well grounded in all dogmas that pertain to Our Blessed Lady, this collection of legends that have been current for centuries among the Polish peasantry is thoroughly worthy of recommendation and praise...
...It is as true to say that God is one and the world many, as that the world is one and God many...
...To him God is "bipolar...
...AGNES REPPLIER...
...E. R. PINEDA...
...For ultimately, man is nothing but spirit...
...Almost every edifice has, of course, been sketched and etched before...
...Five chapters are devoted to American wood works...
...ROOTS is doubtless one of the best works of fiction that has come out of Spain since the war...
...Ten Years Europe: A History of Ten Years, by Raymond Leslie Buell...
...Of course women wrote now and then, Aphra Behn in the seventeenth century, Fanny Burney in the eighteenth and, following along after, Jane Austen, the Brontes and George Eliot, but they had many difficulties in a man-ruled world, Mrs...
...A praiseworthy desire to present all aspects of a controversial topic and to weigh elements of both strength and weakness is apparent in information which is added regarding both the machinery and the operation of the League of Nations...
...And, perhaps more rare, it can be thoroughly enjoyed...
...On the other hand the founder of Vermont shows us how constant is the recurrent American type of the get-rich-quick fellow, slick talker and great bluffer who is by no means all bluff...
...Count Keyserling puts the case with admirable conciseness when he says that "All American standards seem to have been set up by the responsible mother...
...There are many introductions to sociology and new ones come out with great frequency...
...Descriptive material about types of city environment-The Gold Coast, The Area of Furnished Rooms, The Slum, The Language Group Community and The Village Community-is outlined to give the student a concrete idea of his immediate surroundings...
...It is to be regretted that Miss Blackwell did not occasionally avail herself of some of the really excellent translations made by previous authors, such as, for instance, those included in the Hispanic Anthology of the late Thomas Walsh...
...If his circumstances were those of the eighteenth-century frontier, his spirit seems amazingly contemporary...
...In the intervals of farming, mining, speculating in land, resisting the authority first of the province then of the state of New York, fighting the British, suffering heroically in their prisons and then coquetting with their generals, he found time to aim some shrewd blows at traditional Calvinism...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...We are afraid that it does not answer the popular objections to the Bible...
...He writes with fluency, force and immense self-conviction...
...That type of wit derives distinctly from England...
...NOT frequently does the bored stay-at-home, teased by visions of gracious French towers and apses which he has no means of seeing in the stone, come upon so fine a substitute for travel as the Armses have provided...
...We must not call it fulness of feeling, nor consciousness...
...We all have a will to personal power," says Bernard Shaw, "which conflicts with the will to social freedom...
...de Bles has high praise...
...Will women then begin to do creative work, especially in literature and art...
...Woolf, the English novelist, and turns her hand- a very deft hand-to the problem, confining herself to a limited number of questions whose implications go far...
...but there is a somewhat exaggerated sympathy in his picture of the husband and father: "If the American man usually jests in his family, this means that he tries to laugh away the dimly felt sadness of his life...
...Amiens and Elsewhere Churches of France, by Dorothy Noyes Arms and John Taylor Arms...
...From this is derived the concept of Social Institutions...
...The introduction and notes by Isaac Goldberg add not a little to the value of the collection, giving us, as they do, interesting information about our Spanish-American neighbors-neighbors of whom most of us are so very shockingly ignorant...
...Yet Professor Whitehead claims to be within the Platonic tradition in the sense that "if we had to render Plato's general point of view with the least changes made necessary by the intervening 2,000 years of human experience in social organization, in aesthetic attainments, in science and in religion, we should have to set about the construction of a philosophy of organism...
...The discovery of a piece of impartial writing on this delicate subject is so rare as to be almost disconcerting...
...Perhaps too, it has still another significance: the roots of Spanish nationality- Castile-the land of castles built to withstand the Moorish invasion, "rugged but nurse of heroes,"" like Odysseus's Ithaca, parched and burning in summer, in winter covered with snow, bleak and frozen, melancholy at times with the howling of wolves...
...Besides his merits of method and of temper, our author is fortunate in his subject...
...We shall not sacrifice our right to approve or to disapprove of this agency for international action by acquiring a sufficient knowledge of its nature to give really satisfactory reason for the faith or unfaith that is in us...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...For instance, we become conscious of strength and color in the poems of Ruben Dario of Nicaragua, of mystical and spiritual qualities in the work of Amado Nervo of Mexico, and of rare fervor and singing qualities in the lyrics of Gabriela Mistral of Chile...
...Himself obviously a self-respecting man, he is free of the detestable itch for attacking tradition-for he knows the difference between analysis and a mere thumbing of the nose...
...A young man who can write like that, if he persevere, is sure of his place in American letters...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 12
