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Siedenburg, Frederic & Daly, James J. & McEntee, Georgiana Putnam & Brégy, Katherine & McGuire, Harry & McCabe, George K. & Reilly, Joseph J. & Ross, J. Elliot
November 6, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL age in general rests in its admission of such a thing as ideals. One hesitates to use the more austere word "standards." Never- theless it is true that ideals...
...What light can do in an artist's hands forms the theme of the remainder of this paper, and is a distinct revelation to the layman...
...The use of contemporary photographs and the reproduction of relevant paintings adds vividness to the history...
...But his genius, as Mr...
...All prayer is good, but it is much to be desired that these folk should read Father Martindale's book and enter more thoroughly into the Missal...
...Resident Chaplain...
...Mg FIELD builds no bridge between Mrs...
...JOSEPH J. REILLY...
...Raised amid squalor and poverty---crude oneand two-room cabins bursting with children--gold and silver miners who never knew when they trudged off from their hovels and overworked wives whether or no1: their jobs still awaited them--queer types of prospectors unbalanced by the mad vain search for gold in this world of debris left in the wake of the big gold rushes Anne Ellis grew up, a sensitive glrl, different from those about her yet partaking of all their ideals, delusions, limitations, all the rough vigor and the occasional beauty of their way of life...
...WiU Hays's statement that "Things don't happen...
...T. Lawrason Riggs...
...Their feeling of deep antagonism cannot be accounted for solely by the fact that the daughter inherits her dead father's finergrained temperament...
...Unfortunately, his rebukes to extremists on both sides and his pleas for respect for the constitutional rights of the South fell on deaf ears...
...GEORGIANA PUTNAM MCENTEE...
...but the names and deeds that burn in the memory are the names and deeds of political and commercial crooks, of gangsters and gunmen and their legions of evil...
...Lewis...
...they are brought about," Michael Williams develops an accurate exposition, tided ASPECTS OF PUBLICITY, of those circumstances which brought about the recent demand for lobby investigation...
...George Shuster's BELOW THE BOOK discusses "the imme&acy with which social phenomena and literature interlock...
...The mellow tone of reminiscence pervades the book, and the style has a facility and grace which are poles apart from the insistent staccato of the hour...
...FPWmERIC SIEDEN~URG, S.J., is professor of sociology in Loyola University, Chicago, and the author of several books...
...Demosthenes addresses Cicero: "You made men say, 'How well he speaks.' I made them march against Philip...
...November 6, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL age in general rests in its admission of such a thing as ideals...
...Postpaid...
...Smith is managing editor of the Daily News, a paper that nearly always had a stake in Chicago political and economic issues...
...It was not that she did not work: she was always working, and her own proud and persistent ambition was "to be the Charlotte Cushman of the new generation" and at the same time "the beloved woman poet of the American people...
...A fair notion of the nature of M. Bordeaux's study may be got from the four headings under which he has grouped the chapters of his book: The Personality of Saint Francis, Saint Francis and Love in Marriage, Saint Francis and Women of the World, and Saint Francis and the Life of the Spirit...
...Civic Whoopee Chicago: The History o[ Its Reputation...
...Theophane Venard, who could be cheerful even when confined in a cage awaiting death...
...and even in the throes of her struggles she observes something of what life is like around the waters that hold her...
...An outstanding deficiency in the book is its scant treatment of the religious influence and leadership of Chicago...
...Once he reaches his high notes, the quality is pleasing...
...FRIEDRICH VON MINIBUS is an Austrian publicist and member of the staff of the Vienna Reichspost...
...Quoting Mr...
...Justine B. Ward...
...His eloquent prayer to the saint, closing the book, is a beautiful profession of faith...
...J UST the speed as the of railway their passenger companies trains, are beginning to regain to lost modernize freight traffic and achieve a place in the sun via the stock exchange, this exhaustive study of IOO years' rail experience should be quite timely...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...The object is rather to describe, with the help of anecdote and wellseasoned comment, places in which more notable authors lived...
...A directo r of mission-aid work says: "The biographies published by Maryknoll are ~_ Adventure Undiluted The World's Delight, by Fulton Oursler...
...If Mr...
...Future lectures on Rubrics, by Rev...
...The general reader may well wonder why twenty-three pages are given to a description of the first locomotive, unless the author felt that the interest of practical railroaders would center in the evolution of railway technique...
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...It is helpful in reassembling the crude and tawdry, withal dramatic scenes of the old days, which now only linger like ghosts around the remains of the mining towns that were then the glory of the West--Cripple Creek, Victor, Goldfield...
...Sacred Literature, by Rev...
...tells you how to overcome toot THE PEDIFORME SHOE COMPANY Brooklyn 36 W. 36 St...
...But the English reader is surprised (and the surprise itself is a criticism of modern literature) at the unabashed religious devotion of the author...
...Her education was only elementary...
...Just de Bretenieres, missioner and martyr in Korea...
...Others are reading prayers that have nothing to do with the Mass, and still others are saying their beads...
...Yet the volume has some sound values...
...WHliam Judge, S.J., in the exciting days of the gold rush in Alaska...
...COMMON SENSE CHARITY ABROAD by George E. Anderson, veteran political writer, treats of the much discussed action of the American Red Cross in altering its policy in respect to China famine relief . . . . Abbd Alphonse Lugan has sent us a fine critical portrait of EUGENIE DE GUERIN who has been called "a French Antigone uplifted and ennobled by the Christian f a i t h . " . . . From England L. A. G. Strong contributes OLD MICHAEL, a sketch of the English countryside . . . . We also take deep pleasure in announcing a poem, THE PAGANS, which Gilbert K. Chesterton has especially written for The Commonweal . . . . The book reviews are by" Agnes Repplier, William Lyon Phelps, Mary Ellen Chase, Paul Crowley, Mary Kolars, Vincent Engels and other wellknown critics...
...TWO VINCENTIAN MARTYRS . . . . . . . . 1.00 _~ BMIa Cel;te;enduB~o ~?;tbhOYor2,thfeOl~roW:rs of their Upward, Hol The Life of an Ordinary PFoman, by Anne Ellis...
...Sacred Painting, by Bancel La Farge...
...All three have had successors...
...November 6, I929 Circumstances took charge of her life before she was half formed...
...her lack of opportunity for thorough thinking has resulted in naivet~ instead of originality when she pauses an instant for philosophizing...
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...J. E~LIOr Ross is the Catholic member of the faculty of the School of Religion, Iowa University...
...But unfortunately the Mass does not seem to matter much to great numbers of Catholics...
...Those who are not mystery-story enthusiasts will be thoroughly entertained by the delightful prose of the ingenious and sometimes ingenuous Mr...
...New York: Lonymans, Green and Company...
...Illustrated...
...AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Rev...
...on Lackawanna Trail-PIUS X SCHOOL OF LITURGICAL MUSIC COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART 133rd Street and Convent Avenue, New York 9 qUTUMN AND WINTER SESSION Cathedral 1334 Justine Ward Method, Courses I, II, I I I Gregorian Chant Gregorian Accompaniment Choir Conducting and Liturgical Singing Theory, ear training, sight reading, melody writing Harmony, Musical Appreciation Counterpoint Polyphony Lessons in Vocal Production, Organ, Violin, Piano, privately or in class For further information, address the Secretary GOOD COUNSEL COLLEGE, White Plains, N. Y. . . . . . . . A CATHOLIC COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Registered by the Universit7 of the State of New York with power to confer degrees Resident end Non-Resident Students PEDAGOGICAL COURSE...
...All the phases of steam transportation are treated ; mechanical evolution, fare and rate schedules, financial difficulties and historical personalities...
...Directed by Catholic laymen...
...The treatment of the notorious race riots and the discussion of corruption in connection with politics since prohibition, seems objective and comprehensive, and yet one feels that the author has failed to get to bed-rock...
...IRISH HAMS and BACON Hungarian Salami German Frankfurters Westphalian Hams M. H. GREENEBAUM, I n c . ,NEW YORK 220 GREENWICH STREET ST...
...B~I~rAMIN MUSSER is a New York poet...
...For when Adah Isaacs Menken walked out of the house of her Hebrew husband, she passed into a career of unadulterated adventure...
...But I doubt if there will be many mothers or daughters who will see themselves, or even their near neighbors, in Mrs...
...Bragdon's own experience in devising the scenic productions of Cyrano, Hamlet and other plays for Walter Hampden leads him to discuss "the artist in the theatre...
...Benson feels that he can adequately explain Webster's life and work without taking devious journeys through the shadows and depths of his subconscious mind...
...ALTMAN The Crag-Like Patriot MEN'S CLOTHES Daniel Webster, by Allan L. Benson...
...There is little or no recognition o~ the ~act that Chicago has always been a leader in social welfare technique, that her parks and playgrounds are the model of the world, and that her Forest Preserves are an example of civic foresight which has been hereto.fore unknown...
...Winds on dale and hill...
...Saint Francis de Sales was practically a contemporary of Rabelais and Montaigne...
...U NREAL, is founded sensational upon the and actual improbable story of an as actual this book American is, it girl, the daughter of a shallow Creole mother and a pioneering, shortqived Irish father...
...FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Men ot: assured tQste-gent:lemen, it:you will-require t:hat:t:heir clo~:hing be: I) of excellen{: qualify: 2) ol: superior consh'uct:ion: 3) t:ree from t:oddist: ext:remes ~r ~r ~r ~r ~r All:man is catering to such discriminat:ing men in ever increasing numbers T H E C O M M O N W E A L 24 oM Catholic Book Club Selection A NEW BOOK By the Creator of "Father Brown" G. K. Chesterton THE POET AND THE LUNATICS The same pen that wrote the famous Father Brown stories here presents another volume of equally delightful mystery and murder stories with a central figure running through them all...
...The rest of the company, while not very stimulating, are quite acceptable...
...wrote The Show-Off or Craig's Wife or even Daisy Mayme The story begins with the shrinking of the glacial drift is a matter of some bewilderment...
...It was left for Father Martindale to combine a narrative of the historical origin and meaning of the various parts of the Mass with a running commentary on the thoughts and lessons contained in the variable portions of the Masses for Sunday, the principal feasts, votive occasions and the Common of Saints...
...A fellow-Savoyard, he knows every inch of the ground where, as he says, "memories of Saint Francis de Sales are so vivid and fresh that you almost expect to find the mark of his feet upon the grass...
...There are character sketches of early Chicagoans and eminent Americans, such as Cyrus H. McCormick, George M. Pullman, Carter H. Harrison, the first...
...Father Martindale puts a meaning into the Missal that most persons would never find without his help...
...The one and only purpose of this book," the author tells us, "is to help, God willing, a reader to 'offer Mass' more and more whole-heartedly, and not merely to be 'present at it.' " Father Martindale calls his book The Mind of the Missal...
...New York: G. P. Putnam's 8ons...
...Kelly meant the play to apply to all cases of m6salliance and to the inevitable conflict between two strata of culture which must ensue...
...and his school...
...He declares that he is not concerned with "theorizing" nor, much, with "philosophizing," but chiefly with giving an account of people known and things seen and experienced...
...Does our religion contain a like proportion of 11 WEST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK CITY Telephone Pennsylvania 8762 Write for folder these elements...
...But even at this time we can give hearty welcome to Mr...
...In the Show-off, everyone in the audience could detect himself and smile at the detection...
...CATALOGUES, PRINTING AND COMMERCIAL Harmonious Sanctity Saint Francis de Sales, Theoloyian o/ Love, by Henri Bordeaux...
...Mayo and her critics, as the jacket cover of this book claims for him, for he remains consistently on Mrs...
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...Webster was never provincial in his outlook: "In his view, it was as wrong for Massachusetts abolitionists to talk about breaking up the union as it was for groups in the South to declare the same intention...
...He makes no pretenses...
...JosEPH J. REILLY, a member of the English Department of Hunter College, New York City, is the author of Newman as a Man of Letters...
...Peter Chanel, S.M., a shepherd lad who became a shepherd of souls and laid down his life for them...
...As far as we know, the English Rochesters had no countervailing examples...
...THE COMMONWEAL 28 i FOR SALE, Mt...
...It is just unfortunate that at the last curtain, despite many moving scenes, you think, "Well --that's that, and what of it...
...JAMES 7 . DALY, S.J., is a poet and critic, at present on the faculty of St...
...But after all, who cares vastly about production details in the delight of hearing once more, and well sung, Neath the Southern Moon, Italian Street Song, The Dream Melody, and I'm Falling in Love ! (At Jolson's Theatre...
...Our modern English literature started under bitter sectarian auspices...
...Address Dean, Box C. i CHURCH VESTMENTS, ALTAR LINEN Ecclesiastical Embroidery Conferences with reference to the adornment of churches Old Embroidery Transferred NEW YORK l ~ l EAST 47tk STREET VanderMlt 8761 n l November 6, r929 Briefer Mention "Dobe Walls, by Stanley Festal...
...The third of these headings introduces us to a class of women always conspicuous in French literature and hardly known in our own...
...Part II begins with a really masterly description of the World's Fair, followed by an almost equally impressive recital of the economic depression that ensued...
...Courses in Home Economics and Music...
...The discussion of recent and contemporary events is not, perhaps, as impartial as it seems, for Mr...
...Readers addicted to crime thrilhrs will be sure to enjoy this book, although it is not at all typical of that form of literature...
...Shake off summer laziness Step out with a will...
...The artist's progenitor was the Master of the Revels in the Elizabethan playhouse whose "chief busynes" rested "speciallye in makinge of garmentes, in makinge of hedpeces, and in paynting," and who in addition to some knowledge of "perspective and architecture" had to have "some smacke of geometrye and other thynges...
...John Adcock...
...W. Russell) that unique Irishman, poet, painter and agriculturalist, of whom he gives us a glimpse as mystic and quotes as declaring that "the Gaelic renaissance was the outgrowth of the theosophical movement in Ireland...
...27 THE COMMONWEAL November 6, 1929 i SARA ANSLEY O'ROURKE associated with EDITH L. SMITH Specialist in Westchester and Fairfield Country Homes ROOM 2580, SALMON TOWER And I wonder if the mind of the Missal is not one phase of the mind of the Church...
...To repeat, Chicago is not a history, but a fascinating biography of the youngest great city of the world, and told in the best modern style...
...Oursler puts it, she always leaped before she looked...
...We have not been so fortunate...
...Reed does as finished a bit of acting as you are likely to see today...
...But as Mr...
...STOYAIq CHRISTOWE, former special correspondent from tim Balkans, is a frequent contributor to current magazines...
...Somehow the circumstances of their lives are too special to give them general value...
...Mayo's side of the chasm and throws verbal brickbats across into the camp of her opponents...
...Since the capacity of Pius X Hall, 130th Street and Convent Avenue, where the lectures will be given, is limited, early application for tickets is advisable...
...The B & O The 8tory of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, I827-~927, by Edward Hungerford...
...At the Cort Theatre...
...I N veals THIS four collection of his major of twenty-three interests, the papers, theatre, the author mysticism, reart and letters...
...Marion Barney as the "common" Mrs...
...Webster's famous Reply to Hayne was a stupendous step in the development of that concept...
...biography futilely is like but a butterfly with never-abating imprisoned energy she strives to raise herself into the air, to reach the flowered meadows that border the river...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...It justifies Bismarck who years ago told General Sheridan, "I wish i could go to America to see Chicago...
...CONTRIBUTORS DR...
...GILBERt BLAKE is a member of the staff of the Long Island Chronicle...
...Ossining 1452 I Syosset, (Long Island) New York A Residential and Day School for Girls Conducted by the Sisters of Mercy I -OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY COLLEGE OF SAINT ELIZABETH MORRISTOVCN, NEW JERSEY A Catholic college for women offering courses leading to Bachelor degrees in arts, science and music...
...The Pins X School of Liturgical Music, in consequence of its recognition of the demand for a comprehensive treatment of the sisterhood that existed, and still exists, between religion, arts and letters, announces two lectures by Professor Karl Young, Chairman of the Graduate School of English, Yale University, in a series on Sacred Art for November 1 and November 15...
...Even in physical appearance he was highly endowed...
...Maggie the Magnificent Maggie the Magnificent is by no means a poor play...
...Catalogues on application to the Secretary IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA Chartered Institution for the Higher Education of Women Four-year College Course leading to Collegiate Degree Accredited High School Department Hollywood, California i IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE BETHANY HOUSE (Conducted for Women by the Maryknoll Sisters) Rates~ $4.00 per day and Upward, Including Meals DELIGHTFULLY SITUATED AMONG THE WESTCHESTER HILLS Spacious Grounds--Modern Structure---Excellent Table and Service Chapel--Daily Mass St...
...One reads monotonously, admits the authenticity of the premises, yet instinctively feels that the truth is somehow missed in the underscored conclusions...
...If little novelty is offered, egregious subjectivity is likewise avoided...
...How Dolores Adios McChord, after a rather "accomplished" education, was suddenly delivered over to poverty and to the exposures of ballet-dancing at the French Opera House in New Orleans how she passed from an interval of polite school-teaching to an interval of bareback riding in an itinerant circus--and how, after the defection of her conscientious but difficult clown lover she changed both name and faith (the latter being far less definite than the former) to marry an equally conscientious and difficult Jewish musician, makes up the first and more conventional half of the story...
...Part I closes with the years in which Chicago rose from her ashes...
...This work does not suggest the mind and method of Strachey Suit:s are priced $6.5 to $95 MEN'S CLOTHING--SIXTH FLOOR A dash of hero-worship penetrates this book, but it is not objectionable because the author possesses a critical sense...
...Adcock's volume is not a guide-book to popular shrines in London, though it might be read with particular relish and profit just prior to a tour of Cheapside and Chelsea...
...Reed and her daughter Margaret, alias Maggie...
...Augustine Birrell, I think, coined the phrase, "It is the Mass that matters...
...After Mother India, by Harry Field...
...That it is not quite the same George Kelly who and corruption, in places high and low...
...November 6, I929 . _ The chief defect of the book is that the emphasis is ever put on the evil side of Chicago's history, especially when that evil is aIlied with business or politics...
...Two volumes, Szo.oo...
...She never wins, never escapes...
...Lydia Van Gilder shows a mezzo soprano voice of unusual richness...
...But it lacks both bite and point, as well as the universality which Kelly achieved in his earlier plays...
...Benson's style is informal, sometimes inelegant...
...DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, 449 Fourth Ave., New York NEWMAN SCHOOL Lakewood--New Jersey Prepares boys for all leading colleges and universities...
...One man, Joseph Stephen Wright, the first 0f the gogetter type, whose name was sunk in obscurity, is brought into the light...
...Tennis, hockey, riding and other sports...
...One thing this book makes clear--that Chicago is unique, because like no other city, it draws to itself venturesome souls, leaders of brawn and brain who become practical boosters, daring many new things and accomplishing most of them...
...Benson points out, was manifested chiefly in the extraordinary acumen of his legal mind, especiaUy when it fastened on constitutional subjects...
...out to Goldfield, Nevada, back again, broke--tireless endeavors to make ends meet, cooking for laboring crews, working as a domestic--the death of her second husband--one circumstance after another pulling her back to her first level, yet never vanquishing her...
...FREDERIC SIEDENBURG...
...On the other hand, there are moments when the play comes vividly to life in the terms of conflict, and of the truth that mutual respect begins to grow only when one of the parties to the conflict makes a firm, if seemingly heartless stand...
...Pocono, Pa.~ House of 17 rooms, 6 tiled baths, large open porch, also sun and sleeping porches, 7 acres fine land, adjoining Golf Course...
...In an article reviewing Alfred E. Smith's autobiography, UP TO NOW, he says "there are not a few of us fifteen million voters who voted for Smith in 1928 who would not far rather have gone down into the dust of honorable disaster with his dancing plume than unite in any te deum that ever celebrated a victory...
...Fill your lungs with ozone Prepare for Winter Blasts Your feet are always well shod In shoes on PEDIFORME lasts...
...HARRY McGumE...
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...GEORGIANA PUTNAM MCENTE~ iS a n instructor in history in I-Iunter R~V...
...Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...We welcome, too, his treatment of the eighteen-nineties, already celebrated by Holbrook Jackson, Richard Le Gallienne and Thomas Beer...
...In mentioning that women were more attracted to Webster than Webster was to them, Mr...
...His descendant today has to be almost as many-sided and in one conspicuous direction must be infinitely superior, for "light is the most important agent at the command of the artist in the theatre for achieving the equilibrium he seeks, and for inducing the appropriate psychological mood...
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...But it is cluttered with romantic claptrap, conventional types of hero, villain, heroine, and melodramatic situations that fail to bring off the intended atmosphere of adventure...
...Neither does she cease to hope and to strive...
...J. ELLIOT ROSS...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...But in the process of reaching, he creates some uneasiness as to the final pitch...
...The authors interpret but do not pass judgment, and according to the technique of the press, caution Massacre...
...Roy Cropper does not meet the same standard...
...The important words of the book are the subtitle, The History of Its Reputation, for it is not a didactic and sequential history but a human-interest story of a city, of high-spot events that have happened from trading-post days to the present, and have given the city a reputation for good or evil--especially for evil...
...New York: Harper and Brothers...
...2I BOOKS ~2 COMMONWEAL THE . . . . . . . . . C(ff HE OMMONWEAL BOOK UMBER Former Senator William Cabell Bruce, of Maryland, requires no introduction...
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...m Webster had great gifts...
...The Liturgy The Mind of the Missal, by C. C. Martindale, 8.J...
...When books fell into her hands she devoured them...
...Ribaldry and scepticism have always been common enough in French literature...
...It is the interior spirit of the saint as discoverable in his popular treatises and letters that claims the principal attention of the author...
...College, New York City, and the author of The Catholic Social Movement GEORGS K. McC~E has been an instructor in economics in Yale Uniin Great Britain...
...So there came the tragic episode with the prize-fighter Heenan--the turbulent episode with the poet Swinburne, one of whose verses to her gave title to the present book the sentimental, almost soothing episodes with the elder Dumas . . . . These, with a few pages of her own passionate and melancholy verses--of which contemporary readers might have been glad to see more--and the memory of her melodramatic performance in Mazeppa, make up the tale of a woman who was for awhile the toast of two continents, and who chose for her epitaph the two daring and pitiful words, Thou knowestl KATHERINE BREGY...
...Campus Catalogue Convent Station, New Jersey of 400 acres...
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...She has recently published Witch and Other Poems, a volume which includes Witch Girl, appearing in this issue...
...Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by A. St...
...Mass will "come alive" for many to whom otherwise it would have remained a mere jumble of haphazard prayers and actions...
...Mention is made, too, of Chicago's charitable institutions and agencies, but not with the same insistence that pictures its squalor and its poverty...
...And it is an inspiring record of human struggle, of the way in which the human spirit fights to victory, though every trial is but one more defeat...
...HIS novel is betwixt and between...
...Rightly or wrongly, Mr...
...The collaboration is well-nigh perfect, although Part II is twice as long, and phrased in more eloquent language...
...Sucl~ was his love of the union that in his great but long misunderstood seventh of March speech, he deliberately sacrificed his personal fame for it...
...The romantic spirit finds one of its best expressions in music--and I venture to say that the romance of popular understanding has seldom found a better musical expression than in the limited but refreshing genius of Victor Herbert...
...GP.Atm HAZARD CONKLING iS associate professor of English in Smith College...
...Altitude 2,000 ft...
...New York: Harcourt Brace and Company...
...Though it is deficient in the subtle artistry characteristic of the most brilliant of modern biographers, it has greater historical objectivity...
...GEORGE K. McCABr...
...Shirley Ward as the daughter is almost too impassive...
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...Cornelius Clifford...
...Louis University...
...But he does not stop there...
...Pocono, Pa...
...Upper and Lower School...
...F ~ATHER he touches...
...T of HERE biographical are times writing when is an likely observer to conclude of the present that mankind vogue has succumbed to the alluring but misleading dictum of Carlyle that history is the essence of innumerable biographies...
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...FOgE~GIR MI$$ION CATHOLIC AMERICA sociETY COMMONWEAL THE z6 iturgital rama "Two Lectures by Professor Karl Young The tremendous influence of religion on arts and letters is widely recognized as one of the most hopeful trends of the age...
...New York Bronx East Orange, N . J . 275 North Avenue, New Rochelle BURR PRINTING HOUSE FOUNDED ~8~7 FRANKFORT AND JACOB STREETS NEW YORK...
...Then comes the great fire, a world event, splendidly described by Mr...
...The amazing Gabriel, who philosophises for his creator and has a predelictian for standing on his head at odd moments, is utterly unorthodox ;n his methods of crime detection...
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...One of the notables who most impressed the author is A. E. T H E C O M M O N W E A L November 6, z929 (G...
...Maggie's father is never made real to us in dramatic terms...
...They were members of a class which includes the Marquise de S6vign6 and Eug6nie de Guerin...
...and Poets and Pilgrims...
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...The moral laxity of the Restoration period in our literature is generally described by righteous historians as something the Stuart cat dragged in from that horrible place across the channel...
...Many charming drawings illustrate a text which gossips amiably about Goldsmith, Johnson, Lamb and others...
...DOUGLAS BUSH is associate professor of English in the University of Minnesota...
...but so has deep religious piety...
...versity...
...The author is sufficiently familiar with the factual details surrounding life at Bent's Old Fort--the southern Colorado citadel ~or pioneers of the Santa Fe Trail in the middle of the last century--to be technically justified in considering his tale "historical...
...JAMES J. DALY...
...And if there were about the Stuart court ladies notable for their purity and holiness of life, history has been strangely silent about them...
...introduction and Part H by Henry Justin Smith...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...it makes no mention of the many home and foreign missionary societies...
...John Marshall and Daniel Webster so interpreted the constitution of the United States that our original amorphous collection of states was forged into a federal union and not a confederation...
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...Two articles by the editors will particularly interest our readers...
...The author confesses that she has never written anything except this story of her life...
...translated by Sister Benita...
...But although he does state this problem, he does not succeed in making it real...
...The religious element in our literature has been for the most part dull and provincial whenever it has been popular, or exotic and alien to the multitude whenever it has been brilliant...
...But Walter Pater has pointed out that, if France had splendid sinners, she also had splendid penitents...
...His tactful and successful negotiations with England over delicate issues which might have led to war prove that he was a statesman of the first rank...
...Registered by the State Boards of Education in N. Y., N. J . and Pa...
...New York: Alfred ,4...
...neither does it approach the imagination and sincerity that elevate such recent western novels as Death Comes for the Archbishop, and La Farge's Laughing Boy...
...Her mother's death--responsibility for younger brothers and sisters--a kid love affair that made her an incurable romantic--the courtships of young men already sunk beyond salvation in the routine of the penniless laboring classes --the eventual loveless marriage to escape boredom and drudgery--poverty still unconquered, and her own children coming into the world under the same hopeless squalor that marked her childhood--her husband dying, another man taking his place--treks from one camp to another...
...Benson's Daniel Webster...
...Write [or our FREE Style Book K that ills in the natural way...
...It is admitted that Lyman Gage is at the head of a civic federation, George E. Cole is a fighting reformer, Daniel H. Burnham is a supreme planner and builder, and that there are jane Addams and William E. Dever and Charles E. Wacker and others...
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...He is so vague a shadow that the play never seems to start from him and his unhappy marriage...
...The length of the work-7oi pages is due to the reproduction of pertinent documents that should prove valuable to students of American history...
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...Failing into a journalistic device suggestive of a method employed by Dorothy Dix in dispensing advice to the lovelorn, he does not always trouble to write complete sentences...
...Professor Young is an undisputed authority on the part dramatic art has played under the aegis of the Church...
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...For Information Address W. GRIFFIN KELLEY, Headmaster November 6, I929 might have quoted in explanation of the first fact a remark ,.of Sydney Smith that "no man was ever so great as Daniel Webster looked...
...Nevertheless it is true that ideals tend to become standards, and that even the thought of carrying out some action in the grand manner tends to lift routine to a higher appreciation...
...MARTINDALE He has the happy always faculty illuminates of finding whatever new and arresting aspects in the most familiar things...
...His lectures," developed consecutively on the above dates, will make accessible to the public the beneficial influence that the Church exerted on the drama...
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