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...George E. Anderson was formerly in the American consular service in China, South America and the Netherlands...

...But here Mr...

...Georgiana Putnam McEntee...

...James J. Sweeney is a writer of art criticism for various journals...

...It is a simply written, straightforward outline of artistic activities for the inquisitive "lay reader...

...The artist brought up in that environment will show the influence in his work without having to try-in spite of himself, indeed-no matter how much he learns from foreign schools...

...There are only a few slips-like "Parliament" when obviously the parlement of Paris is meant-throughout the numerous pages...

...and Ballon...

...CONTRIBUTORS E. Allison Peers, English educator and general editor of the Manchester Spanish Series, is the author of The Poems of Manuel de Cabanyes...

...As Mr...

...Laurens distrusted everyone, because his long prison term had soured his disposition...

...O'Reiley traveled through Europe in a van full of books...

...Roosevelt's Anglo-American peace...

...To all who have had the honor and the privilege of seeing at close range the marvelous work of the sisters these two volumes of Great American Foundresses will be welcomed not only as a historical record but as a merited tribute to all those who "follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth...

...But they are never quite alive...

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...To be sure, in 1919 Lord Robert Cecil stated that if he were British minister of the navy and saw that British naval safety was being threatened, even by America, he should have to recommend to his fellow-countrymen to spend their last shilling for their safety...

...any American artist who developed himself and his art by the right study would produce American art quite naturally...

...Book of the Lover and the Beloved...

...PROFESSOR Fay has written a biography of Franklin which is far more interesting than many novels...

...The jacket announces that the author is preparing a second volume covering the biographies of sixteen additional American foundresses...

...Strictures of the sort have been especially audible since the recent exhibit of Painting by Nineteen Living Americans at the new Museum of Modern Art in New York...

...He gives over Caroline to George's oily brother...

...Boston: Little, Brown and Company...

...Such sympathy naturally involves a wish that he should have his heart's desire and, since Caroline Harridew quickly answers that description, one feels that the author after all the difficulties have been posed and resolved will write his final chapter around the Harridew-Childrey nuptials...

...Masefield, as in Odtaa, takes delight in cheating expectations...

...John Gilland Brunini...

...During the Civil War nothing but fear for the union prevented the United States from coming to blows with England because the latter insisted upon trading with the Confederate states...

...and yet Mr...

...neither unduly complicated by aesthetic theorizing, nor aggravatingly opinionated regarding values-the product of an intelligent assimilation of several more specialized works on the subject ripened by an intimate contact with the actual artistic output in question, and set forth as unpretentiously as possible...

...But his achievement remains...

...That is to architecture since the beginnings of Sullivan and Root...

...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...

...Beauty Out of Fog Tu Fu: The Autobiography of a Chinese Poet, by Florence Ayscough...

...Roosevelt will soon present us with another volume, broadening the proposed Anglo-American partnership into world cooperation and extending the pax Anglo-Americana to a pax humana...

...Even as Americans and Englishmen they must see the fly in the ointment of Mr...

...And if George Childrey does not marry Caroline, the sought-after and the beautiful, it is more logical, yes, more happy that he should marry her natural sister, Maid Margaret, the snubbed, the beautiful and the rooted to the soil-more happy because George represents rusticity against the urbanity of his brother, Nick, and he could not have been content with a wife whose eyes, resting on gardens and lawns, should see beyond them serried buildings and asphalt...

...Here, as throughout the book, there are bits of sly humor...

...Her method, difficult to describe, may be compared to Beraud's system of translating Homer, in so far as both endeavor to reproduce significance rather than verbal assertion...

...As of old it is once more admitted that nations are and should be guided in their commercial, political and military or naval enterprises by self-interest...

...Miss Ayscough has arranged her versions so that they constitute an autobiography of the poet, whose story is carried in this first volume to A.D...

...MEGROZ is a careful worker, whose Francis Thompson will doubtless be remembered by many...

...It implies the abandonment of British supremacy, naval and otherwise...

...Naturally, the collecting of historical material for biographical work is both serious and difficult...

...He concedes that the same has been true of the United States...

...This does not mean, however, that supremacy, commercial or naval, thus falls to the lot of America...

...For this reason, she proposes her book as a survey the object of which "has been to trace the development in America of the transplanted arts of Europe...

...The author shows quite convincingly how England, her skilful protestations of altruism and internationalism notwithstanding, has never been moved by anything else...

...New York: The Century Company...

...Ethel Turner, California poet, was formerly editor of the Wanderer...

...Stories of the Foundresses Great American Foundresses, by Joseph B. Code...

...The result was an unconscious illustration of the very consciously thought-out dogmas of Sullivan that were to provoke a revival of American art, a century and more later...

...Somewhat later in the narrative, M. Fay's account of the peace negotiations calls to mind what Charles Downer Hazen was able to do with the Congress of Vienna...

...Johannes Mat-tern is a member of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and author of several standard treatises on phases of political science...

...The prime concern of the artist, in her opinion, is with the fullest development of his own powers of expression...

...New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith...

...Relations between the United States and England were tense during the world war because England, as in 1812, interfered with American neutral trade...

...He was far from thoroughly healthy of body or of spirit...

...For both England and the United States lived mainly by commerce...

...Travel Talk, by Margaret A. O'Reiley...

...New York: The Mac-millan Company...

...Frank Lloyd Wright, easily the most dynamic contemporary in the Sullivan tradition, receives what might seem scant emphasis-perhaps due to his narrow American following...

...Merely Roman revival followed by Greek, Greek by Gothic, down to Hunt's "chateaux" and McKim, Meade and White's regenerated "colonial...

...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...

...In consequence Mr...

...For example, "Franklin had no faith in George III, Adams had none in Vergennes, who had offended him, and Jay distrusted all the French ministers on general principles, being of Huguenot origin...

...There are the petty jealousies and political tricks which disgraced the Philadelphia of the confederation and one catches glimpses of the brutality and licentiousness of eighteenth-century London...

...For George Childrey left an England still somnolently winking back toward the centuries, an England of the landowner who rejoices in his fertile acres and who feels responsibility toward his tenants, and he does not wish to find the changes which so many of his neighbors were confusing with progress...

...Professor Fay puts an emphasis not to be found in former biographers of Franklin on his early loyalty to the British government and his dreams of an Anglo-Saxon empire...

...They may well nourish and express the hope that Mr...

...For those who may have any doubt on that score there is enlightenment in store in Nicholas Roosevelt's recent book America and England ? which, with a frankness unusual for the post-war period, reveals the essential reasons for Anglo-American industrial and commercial cooperation rather than competition, and naval agreement instead of either American or English supremacy...

...Adams thought that Franklin was an atheist of no morality, and Franklin thought that Adams was a madman, who was all the more dangerous as he was honest...

...As a whole the volume is a really notable addition to our Rossetti bibliography...

...James J. Sweeney...

...The problem now," Mr...

...How large a share of the fascination of this book is due to the commentary which interleaves the stanzas of Tu Fu it would be hard to say...

...They are lyrical and yet bound up with the earth beneath the fog-which means that Tu Fu wrote about the actual life of his time, rich in domestic and street scenes but overwhelmed by a catastrophic war resembling more than a little the present troubles of the Chinese...

...No Tomorrow, we regret to say, is a disappointment...

...3.00...

...Perhaps someone discovered a hint of Cezanne in Max Weber's work, or of Matisse in Walt Kuhn's...

...In the full wisdom of such deeper knowledge Bernard Shaw told Mr...

...The Boston of Benjamin's boyhood is surveyed with a critical keenness suggestive of James Truslow Adams's Revolutionary New England...

...MORBID introspection and erotic interludes complicate the story of two love affairs between youthful litterateurs in the upper circles of English Bohemia...

...True to the tendency which James Harvey Robinson-with too much optimism in some cases-ascribes to modern historical writers, the author follows "the example of great story-tellers and dramatists . . . inclined neither to applaud nor blame but to describe and narrate...

...The book is, perhaps, a biography rather than a criticism, and its chief purpose may be described as an effort to set the mind and personality of an extraordinary creature in the proper perspective...

...Rossetti's background has seldom been described with so much discerning sympathy, and the relationship with Lizzie Siddal is traced deftly...

...There are few treatises, indeed, which serve better as introductions either to Chinese art or to Chinese historical life...

...For in this remarkable book the entire non-English-speaking world seems to figure, in so far as it serves as a source from which America and England may draw raw material and as a market for their goods, or as a potential challenger of Anglo-American peaceful world exploitation...

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...Thus in the middle-ages, when Europe felt the unifying influence of a universal church, there were German, English, French and Italian variants of one fundamental mode in art, the Gothic...

...However, it is regrettable that in a survey of this sort, the subject of which is the American development of transplanted European arts, more space could not be devoted to the one art in which America has in its turn become an influence-namely architecture...

...But even American and English critics may well wonder whether the author's scorn for idealists, pacifists and international propagandists extends to the League of Nations, the Kellogg pact, and other efforts of the sort...

...Clara D. Sheeran...

...Readers who enjoy reliving the pioneer days of this romantic country will discover in Great American Foundresses new vistas for the mind's eye...

...FREQUENTLY one hears complaints that American art is not sufficiently American, and that artists must divorce themselves from European influences if they desire to develop a national art...

...He concludes that "this is the only sound basis for an enduring pax Anglo-Americana...

...Paul Crowley is a critic for the literary reviews...

...However, it is interesting to know that the sisters are cooperating to the fullest extent in assisting Father Code in his brave attempt to give these foundresses the honor due their place in American life...

...Franklin's particular type of genius, practical and manifested chiefly in scientific and political spheres, was fostered by a century which might have stifled a Raphael or a Francis of Assisi...

...John Goland Bkukini is a member of The Commonweal staff...

...But since she has wrestled with obviously more intricate difficulties her reward is, in a sense, greater...

...The Road Sound Ireland...

...It is very evident that Miss La Follette realizes the importance of America's achievement in this field...

...Megroz's curious way of dealing with imagery, so that a good deal depends upon the recipient...

...From these dreams he was rudely awakened...

...But as George Malcom Stratton points out in his Social Psychology of International Conduct, such understanding must go deeper than that which the tiger has of the habits of his prey or the hunter of those of his game...

...But so much time is given to that dreary middle reach of emasculate pastiche from the opening of the nineteenth century to the 'eighties and 'nineties...

...And the oriental stoicism which everywhere comes to the surface is as clear and pleasant as the remembered talk of one's own grandfather...

...That concession implies the renunciation of an attitude for which Britain has five times gone to war against commercial and naval rivals...

...M. Fay gives an unforgettable picture of that period...

...And those who have gleaned some share in the mystic life in the hinterland of the soul, will be able to read between the lines a spirtual message...

...The decade since the war has demonstrated the other equally disconcerting fact that the German rival, cut off from many of his best markets and deprived of the ships in which to carry his goods, has found a successor in America with her unexpected industrial intensification and commercial expansion...

...and other books...

...Dwight Morrow and Senator Reed of the American delegation to the London Five-Power Naval Parley that the United States "should build the biggest navy of all and rule the world as . . . [England] did for the last 200 years," calmly stating: "It is your turn...

...Rural England unfolds as a panorama viewed while ascending a mountain...

...Georgiana Putnam McEntee is an instructor in history in Hunter College, New York City, and the author of The Social Catholic Movement in Great Britain...

...It is a weighty book, but, one discovers upon looking into it, not nearly so frightening as it looks...

...He was a poor scholar, who learned much and reared his family as best he could, but his favorite days were obviously those spent in the service of the emperor and so of the country...

...But the attitude is by no means new...

...One feels sure that few lives have been compounded of more vivid emotional contrasts than Dante Gabriel's...

...But the method is Mr...

...The result will delight the general reader and never offend the scholar...

...Briefer Mention Dante Gabriel Rossetti, by R. L. Megroz...

...Roosevelt's book as the product of remarkable experience and practical wisdom as far as Anglo-American relations are concerned...

...Always manifestly well informed, it is written with real affection and pleasure...

...So the question of continuous voyage and the freedom of the sea will have to be settled some day either by war or by agreement...

...But where Miss La Follette shows most effectively her realization of what is essential to the development of a characteristically national art is in her emphasis on the handicrafts and architecture of the early colonial period...

...Roosevelt writes, "is not one of leadership but of adjustments...

...Anglo-American Adjustment America and England?, by Nicholas Roosevelt...

...Paeraic Colum, an Irish poet, is the author of many books among which are Wild Earth...

...What art then existed was practically all utilitarian...

...William Franklin Sands, formerly in the American diplomatic service, is an authority on international affairs...

...The parity which Britain refused at the Geneva Conference in 1927, she has been ready to concede after President Coolidge's plain speaking on Armistice Day, 1928...

...WNE has not her word for it, but one is convinced that Mrs...

...Professor Fay is not so ingenuous in his appraisal of the political situation...

...And so much consideration is extended the fusty academic painting of the same epoch, that Mr...

...Boston: The Meador Publishing Company...

...He feels, however, that he is in a measure able to divine how Miss Ayscough's imagistic prose came out of an old picture language...

...In the past England has held to the doctrine of continuous voyage as profitable, and has denied the freedom of the sea as unprofitable, for a blockading power...

...And in the modern period, with its internationalism due to easy and rapid travel and a world-embracing interchange of goods and ideas, the art of the western peoples remains fundamentally one art, with variants based on racial and cultural differences...

...Clara D- Sheeran is a founder of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae...

...It was not possible," he said, "to create an American art from the outside in...

...If their knowledge and understanding extends beyond the lands where English is spoken, they must realize the apprehension prevalent in the non-English-speaking world of what it may or may not expect from the joining of English experience and American skill, English prestige and American power, English calculation and American wealth...

...Franklin appears against a clearly drawn eighteenth-century background, a very necessary setting for his versatile career...

...There is an interesting chapter on the Dan-tesque phase of Rossetti's experience, but the rest of the discussion is fairly tenuous and sometimes quite lecturish...

...One only wishes he had laid more stress on the complicated economic forces behind the conflict...

...Johannes Mattern Poor Richard and His Times Franklin, by Bernard Fay...

...The English version of this book has been admirably made...

...Though here the play was on a smaller stage and there was no Talleyrand in the cast, it provided this twentieth-century historian with material for jest...

...Paul Crowley...

...Incidentally, the author's account of political life in England at that time would give small comfort to two distinguished Americans who told their compatriots during the world war that the American Revolution was the creation of Britain's "German king...

...Even the houses "were built not in terms of dead formula, but in terms of the life that was to be lived in them...

...Masefield, in love with the old, the picturesque and the good, readily identifies himself with his character and immediately engages his reader's sympathy with the struggle going on to preserve all that George had held dear in his years of absence...

...It is hard to see how such poems as Traveling to the North can be kept out of future anthologies, so interesting and suggestive are they...

...In view of the temporary obloquy which seems to have settled upon the pre-Raphaelites, it was an excellent idea to single out the figure who most permanently represents them...

...OUT of the long past of China the poems of Tu Fu emerge as thrushes might from a dense fog...

...MANY a fine treatise has been written on the subject of better international understanding as the sine quo non of peace...

...And though Miss La Follette admits the field has so greatly widened during the last century that any detailed consideration of it in a single volume would rather take the form of a dictionary of biography, she does succeed in touching on all the high spots of tendency and achievement with a felicitous effectuality...

...The book moves with easy grace from scene to delightful scene...

...Miss La Follette too feels the question of a national art will take care of itself...

...Deist and Mason, Franklin accepted the fashionable religious and philosophic notions of his day...

...One is almost tempted to think that nothing would please the great world oracle and jokester more than to see the United States try to relieve England of the white man's burden of world rule, which patently has grown all too heavy for Britain and, as Shaw well knows, too heavy for any nation...

...New York: The Macmillan Company...

...Everyone is amusing and beautiful and egocentric, and of course artistic to a degree...

...The critical portions of the new biography seem less satisfactory...

...M. Fay has covered a vast amount of research and a careful synthesis, with that perfect art which is the concealment of science...

...Much of Tu Fu's verse has been available in translations accessible to those who know European tongues, but it is safe to say that Miss Ayscough's edition is at once the best rendering and the best ordering of these poems...

...And he is as happily home as his hero, George Childrey, who returns from roving America to take up in his ancestral dwelling the placid life of the squirearchy...

...Masefield Home Again The Hawbucks, by John Masefield...

...The book is interesting chiefly for its prewar atmosphere...

...4.50...

...Megroz has no difficulty in proving that he was not in the least responsible for the outbreak of decadence championed by Oscar Wilde...

...3.50...

...The present reviewer is quite unable to read even one Chinese character...

...How remarkably vivid and true this old record seems...

...Form followed function, giving it a wholesomeness, a curious vital charm...

...Walter Pach says in the preface, her work is not one of those "tediously 'inclusive' histories," nor again one vitiated by patrioteering-"a booming of the home product to please people who want more evidence for the America first philosophy...

...M. Fay makes clear that his ethical principles were ultilitarian and bound up with his social and business aspirations: "Sometimes he was to neglect a little the first, the sixth, the eighth, and some say even the tenth commandment, but . . . no one found anything to say to him on the subject of the seventh commandment...

...To have undertaken a task so exacting and to have translated a mass of historical data into charming stories is evidence of the supreme intent of the author to make these great and holy foundresses better known and better loved...

...Shrewd, clever, kindly, industrious and tenacious, with a pronounced flair for science and politics, in spite of enmity and opposition-though his friends were legion- he rose to a dominant position in international affairs...

...Too, in stating that Wright's work has had little influence on American architecture, Miss La Follette overlooks such pupils as his son Lloyd Wright, Chase McArthur, Barry Byrne, or R. J. Neutra who is at present working in Los Angeles...

...Douglas Powers is a critic and book reviewer of Tucson, Arizona...

...No Tomorrow, by Brigit Patmore...

...Today, confronted by the potential parity or superiority of the American navy, it is England which might well find it to her advantage to reject the one and acclaim the other...

...THE evident joy John Masefield takes in writing a novel marks the pages of The Hawbucks...

...So far as art is concerned, America is not a political unit but a geographical and spiritual environment...

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...In Travel Talk are unusually copious notes on the history and manners of the more popular cities, resorts and shrines of pilgrimage from Sicily to London, together with some account of the author's adventures...

...In it he is home to the English countryside from adventures, swashbuckling and marine...

...Perhaps it was for this reason that the eighteenth century and posterity have found him so bourgeois...

...American and English readers may properly hail Mr...

...They must see that the concepts of pan-Europe and pan-Asia are twins born of fear and the will of self-preservation...

...In 1812 the United States fought England for the freedom of the sea...

...This may, as Nicholas Roosevelt writes, still be "the attitude of nine out of ten Englishmen," but Viscount Cecil today and those responsible for English naval safety at the present time have quite apparently discovered that such safety can be assured more easily by limitation of the English naval program than by the attempt at outbuilding the United States...

...To have commerce they must secure access to raw material where it is to be had most cheaply, and to markets where they can sell their goods most advantageously...

...Plainly in doubt about the result and rejecting the idea of an alliance, he advocates "a form of partnership which would be based not upon rivalry but on the pursuit of common interests to mutual advantage...

...When the world war came to an end England realized that for the threat of the German fleet, then at the bottom of Scapa Flow, she had exchanged the infinitely greater danger of the navy of the American associate in the war, a danger all the more sinister because the United States refused to cease building new ships as requested...

...GREAT American Foundresses by Reverend Joseph B. Code is a volume of exceptional short stories covering the life interest of sixteen wonderful women who have contributed to the foundation and development of great centres of Catholic charity and learning in America...

...The author tells anew the ever-interesting story of Franklin's sojourn in France...

...Miss La Follette describes a response given by the late Robert Henri to a similar argument several years ago...

...One enjoys every page of it...

...M. Fay is historically-minded and detached...