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...T. LAWRASON RIGGS...

...as one might expect, the pleasure and satisfaction with which we read them is very much like the pleasure and satisfaction with which we find ourselves in a quiet library when we are disposed toward reading...

...and that most "tips" are to be classed with fortune-telling...

...Moore nothing more than "Latin exuberance...

...James does not assume to know the inner thoughts of his characters...

...What is said of this section, in general terms, might be said with equal truth of the other parts of the poem-John, The Stone, The Resurrection...

...He does not accord the full due of merit to the Whigs who opposed the Texas annexation...

...But there are so many people who seem never to have heard of it one hopes Mr...

...Nor does her ability to understand sensations and psychological states need any extolling...

...How does anybody get rich, and how may somebody follow the fortunate example ? Mr...

...It is one key to his career...

...The burden of proof makes the conclusion almost inescapable that Folk made use of flimsy pretext to order the Mexican war...

...It is little wonder that young Sam preferred the civilization of the Cherokee Indians...

...The chapter on this topic should be read by every college teacher and administrator...

...There is above all the fact that Mussolini, whatever he may say, has in practice admitted a power within the state which is not under the domination of Leviathan...

...There is also a silver whip, which stands for chastisement and the ultimate invincibility of the humiliated...

...Only in such a fashion is it possible to avoid the merely annalistic method and to present a connected narrative on the basis of such an abundance of fact...

...The coronet is not the only symbol to appear...

...The title of the book arises from an episode of Houston's boyhood...

...But this does not necessarily mean any degree of control, and control is the fundamental notion in the word "democracy...

...There is no such nobility in the long stretch of Mr...

...Such an expectancy is disappointed in an early section, He, where an intricate and involved disquisition on natural phenomena is accompanied by a confused impressionistic account of Christ's sensations while on the Cross...

...Starting with the discovery of a pile of bones, a fossilized tree, a footprint preserved in stone, he suggests, always briefly, never sensationally, and never with any offensive assurance, what might have been their original setting...

...Sam Houston deserves a vivid and a truthful presentation, for his career can well be said to have changed the course of American destiny...

...THE new school of biography has many blemishes, and yet occasionally there comes along a very admirable product written under its influence, which evens the balance of a score of shabby pot-boilers...

...On the contrary, The Raven is a colorfully written, carefully documented and sympathetically depicted account of one of the unique characters in the making of these United States...

...He does not make his account of his main character's life story merely the vehicle for dragging in endless stories of scandal and of smut...

...Since Serajevo Europe since 1914, by F. Lee Benns...

...When he was a little boy, Sam's mother gave him a ring, which he wore throughout life...

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...It is a poem in depiction of psychological states, written by a poet whose sensitiveness to impressions of all sorts impedes the revelation, and whose literary profusion results in an unfortunate crowded and blunting obscurity...

...The others are dealt with in a manner that the limits of space allowed...

...It is, as a matter of fact, nothing of the kind...

...THE parts of Mr...

...A Poem of the Passion Firehead, by Lola Ridge...

...Student Welfare Problems of Student Guidance, by Maurice S. Sheehy...

...Speeches by the Holy Father and the Duce are quoted at length in justification of their agreement...

...With such a theme it is difficult for the reader to escape a possibly arbitrary expectancy of lean and stark grandeur...

...but even on the giants of satire Mr...

...Brookings gives them little or no consideration...

...Space does not permit even a brief limning of Houston's colorful career...

...that the dollar is no respecter of persons or sexes...

...However, there is nothing in this volume, nor in the companion volume previously published by the author entitled Industrial Ownership, to substantiate his statement in the introduction that the "saving wage . . . has grown to a size which is rapidly making capitalists of all our workers...

...The merits of the book have much to overcome...

...1 HE point of this play is apparently that two people who love one another and who don't get married (even if each is already married) visit misery and tragedy on themselves, their children and even upon those to whom they are trying to be loyal...

...A company which was organized according to the provisions of this Act would pay the bondholders a fixed rate of interest (estimated at 5 percent) and the stockholders a larger compensation to cover additional risk (estimated at 8 percent...

...All the additional profit would be divided among the employees, thereby creating the labor shares...

...The psychological element, which might be (and in places is) interesting is thickly overlaid with sensuous impression and obscured by an involved style which makes formal confession of its own fault by frequent dashes and parenthetical interpolations...

...One discovers few of the heresies of the modern school...

...Chapters on Guidance through Discipline, The Problem of a Plan of Life, Guidance of Students through Students, and Guidance in Religious Matters, present very forcibly these different phases of a competent guidance program...

...Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press...

...That the work contains inconsistencies, inadequate statements of fact and some inaccuracies goes without saying...

...He does not pretend to interpret their lives from random dreams of childhood...

...That social power has always depended largely on material power, and that material power has always depended largely on avarice or chance, cannot be gainsaid...

...Crowther's book will have a wide sale...

...Indeed, though the author says of Fascist patriotism that it "approximates to a national intoxication," he has no other word of criticism for the Duce's regime...

...It is too soon for a thorough genetic history of the subject...

...Generally, however, he confines himself to a bald recital of fact...

...Komroff undoubtedly has high gifts for narration: humor, balance, a sense for both space and detail, and the vivid and simple style of the classic story-teller...

...Brookings obviously represents desire and hope rather than actuality...

...The Planted Heel, I think, is exceptionally fine, although I can appreciate why others might give preference to Upon New Year's Eve, The Shadows, Alma Mater, or The Splendid Spur-grand poems, all of them...

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

...Indeed, he seems to stress the receipt of dividends as the essence of the democracy in which he believes...

...Briefer Mention Notes on English Verse Satire, by Humbert Wolfe...

...Yet, though the thesis is not real enough to make a commanding unity of the book, sections of it do quite extraordinarily come alive...

...But it must be added that Mr...

...One might have expected better things of Waldo Frank...

...There is a vast lot of mysterious talking about love, freedom, and the holiness of life...

...May it not, coming from a man who has a considerable vogue in this country, direct the attention of young writers to the possibilities and the need for the strong medicine of satire ? And in America at present is there any literary opportunity so great as that open to a satirist...

...In that of Benedict XV, the mention of Monsignor Kelley, now Bishop of Oklahoma, in connection with the negotiations attempted during the peace conferences, is of particular interest to American readers...

...It simmers down to this...

...This is a genuinely mystical idea, but it never really takes root in the story...

...Lola Ridge, as a poet almost painfully aware of every light and shade and color and curve in the natural world, needs no heralding here...

...although he adds little new to what is already known about him, he removes from it much of the sordid and the sensational...

...THIS book is "a study of administrative attitudes and current guidance practices prevalent in American Catholic colleges...

...The regrettable thing, here, is the want of anything approaching singleness of effect...

...Moore's volume, which is handsomely printed and well illustrated, is essentially a compilation...

...He tells you that money is made through wise administration of industries and properties, not through speculation...

...He quotes the text of The Companies' Empowering Act of New Zealand, 1924, which authorizes corporations to issue a special kind of stock known as "labor shares...

...IT IS only through such a summary and survey as this that it is possible to coordinate and classify the significant and varied, the scattered though interrelated facts of world history during the last fifteen years...

...One is impressed by the progressive character and spirit of the Catholic colleges in this connection...

...We are pleased," said the Pope to the Lenten preachers of Rome, "that the material domain is reduced to such a minimum that one can speak of it, and one should consider it as spiritualized by the immense, sublime, divine spirituality which it is destined to support and to serve...

...All of this is relatively well-advertised common sense...

...New York: Harcourt Brace and Company...

...Civilization there was rude and schooling unbelievably scanty...

...The latter are probably more progressive than the views of the majority of business men...

...The author starts with the premise that "the first step in educating college students is not teaching them: it is learning them...

...James describes simply and with rare restraint the amazing episode of Sam Houston's first marriage...

...Each is treated separately and in isolation, and the subject-matter, in each instance, is the individual's reaction to the cataclysmic event and his or her effort at some kind of adjustment to it which will make life possible...

...MISS EDWARDS'S characters, defined as "dream-bound children waiting for someone to awaken them into reality- held now in an enchanted spell," are six young people, equally divided as to sex, who are drawn by some inexplicable but powerful sympathy to one another...

...How he set his face against the breakup of the union...

...The work is a useful summary for those who are too young to remember war times and for those who desire to refresh their recollection of what happened...

...Many such surveys have appeared in many languages, and, though presented from widely different points of view, they have this in common, that they are planned to present the subject in a series of pictures covering different periods and different localities...

...His material origins and his personal deficiencies, most of all his fatal tendency to be brutalized or corrupted by privilege, must be weighed against the formal ideal that sustained the type during the centuries when it was an organic social force, giving it a worshipful character in the eyes of the many and investing it with the semi-sacramental responsibility which lingers on today in the tag, noblesse oblige...

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...In The Raven, Mr...

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...New York: F. S. Crofts and Company...

...PATRICK J. HEALY...

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

...There is no attempt at omniscience...

...It is regrettable that here she has essayed a task which is impeded by her lively and crying sensitiveness...

...Big Business and the Public, Trade Relations and Agriculture, Education for Political Leadership, are typical of all the rest of the papers in their failure to fall directly under any such head as Economic Democracy...

...The young governor of Tennessee, already preparing to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Andrew Jackson, found that his wife had married him in spite of her love of another man...

...He was adopted by a noble chief, and was given an Indian name, Co-lon-neh, a mystic Cherokee word for raven...

...How he ran for governor of Texas on a platform of peace and charity...

...A man not without idiosyncrasies, and not without the vices of his day and generation, he possessed to a superlative degree those qualities of courage, both physical and moral, which were so essential in the upbuilding of the West...

...Only one of them, that headed Industrial Management, deals directly and specifically with the subject denoted by the title of the book...

...As an expose of aristocracy, it sets forth an indictment which is neither very novel nor-in spite of its solid usefulness as a corrective of the simple romantic snobbery of the past-completely adequate...

...He begins by tracing the history of the papal sovereignty since it was attacked by the French in 1796...

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...These things have been among the attributes which constitute her fine and distinctive gift...

...The book's later chapters contain a historical sketch of the Pope's temporal sovereignty, followed by descriptions of the Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo, and by brief biographies of the Popes since Pius IX...

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...Anything more ambitious would be futile and boresome except for those who are able to believe that our knowledge of the dawn rests upon much except some nimble guessing...

...Aristocracy Indicted Coronet, by Michael Komroff...

...One regrets too, the title The Raven...

...In the paper on Industrial Management the author advocates employee representation on the board of directors and a resultant employee voice in corporation management, and condemns the recent practice by some corporations of placing the voting power entirely in a small portion of the common stock...

...Aside from his advocacy of employee membership on the boards of directors of corporations, Mr...

...WOLFE'S contribution to the Hogarth Lectures is a particularly engrossing book...

...the dialogue is turbid and often pregnant with sententious lack of meaning...

...He does not insist upon forcing an economic interpretation on every episode of history...

...The chapter on Fascism and the Church gives us the Fascist catechism, a statement of doctrine whose extreme nationalism and complete disregard of individual rights seem to Mr...

...But there are other reasons why one welcomes this book...

...The play is a muddled echo of finer works like O'Neill's Strange Interlude and The Great God Brown, and of sketchy experiments like Lawson's Processional...

...The section dealing with Judas comes nearer to success than any other, by virtue of having less profusion of matter and manner...

...the final brief and malicious sketch of an American millionaire...

...THIS volume comprises ten papers, almost all of which had been published previously in magazines or in newspapers...

...Subsequent chapters deal with the first steps in a guidance program which include freshman-week orientation programs, initiatory courses, religious orientation, supplemented by a number of interesting case studies...

...Their existence, so passive, so colorless, so uneventful, in an English village during the winter, forms in consequence not a sonata but a monotone...

...The utterances of English statesmen in regard to the importance of the Pope's independence, and the essential shortcomings of the Law of Guarantees, are the most interesting matters dealt with in these chapters...

...J. O. CREAGER...

...The Roman Question Peter's City, by Thomas Ewing Moore...

...the characterization of the foolish, good-natured Count Burin, ennobled for acting as the czar's go-between with a French actress...

...The words are a conclusive answer to the captious apprehensions of those to whom no papal action can be other than sinister...

...FASCINATING is the word for these thumb-nail essays of prehistoric western America by the president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...

...THIS is a book excellent in purpose and design...

...GEORGE FORT MILTON...

...The silver whip does no service beyond suggesting it to the author, and gets buried, in the end, in a dead scoundrel's boot...

...The impact of his Indian experience affected Houston's after life, and it imbued him with a rare understanding of and sympathy for the Indians, always being cheated, debauched and plundered by the agents of the Great White Father in Washington...

...In certain minor points Mr...

...Komroffs narrative...

...There are other things equally memorable: Balzac's life in Paris...

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

...Poems by Q. New York: Oxford University Press...

...Wolfe's comments are surprising enough, and direct enough, not only to hold one close until he has finished, but to send one back to the poets themselves afterward...

...Crowther considers these questions but gives no answer which leads immediately to crowded coffers...

...Moreover, the pattern of the book is of a kind that makes possible a high degree of concentration on the several persons during the most critical twenty-four hours in their respective lives...

...Professor Mears's book is a discussion of the Greek economic, social and political outlook...

...Marquis James has written a biography which deserves to endure...

...Winter Sonata, by Dorothy Edwards...

...How he refused to take the oath to a secession confederacy, and endured the wrath of an ebullient revolution rather than shirk his devotion to the stars and stripes...

...The picture of Napoleon's Moscow campaign, though more particular in intention, is worthy of being set beside The Dynasts...

...ONE'S favor, of course, remembering an old debt, is predisposed toward anything from the hand of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch...

...Money, by Samuel Crowther...

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...The book could well be used by college faculties interested in organizing programs of guidance-a much-needed reform in many colleges and universities...

...Maurice S. Sheehy...

...Naturally enough, the reader's first inclination is to do no more than skim through the chapters on the times of Dryden, Pope and Butler, and to give his greater attention to the chapters on more sterile periods...

...MOORE, formerly secretary of the American embassy at Rome, has written a well-documented account of the Roman question's origin, development and solution...

...It is entirely conventional in style and its thoughts remain pretty well on the surface of the great events with which it deals...

...The case studies greatly enhance the validity of such a survey and the chapter-end bibliographies are carefully selected...

...In the account of the Lateran Treaty which follows, it seems scarcely accurate to describe Cardinal Gasparri's announcement of a modus vivendi on February 7, 1929, as "like a thunderclap," since the press had given well-founded statements to the world before the end of the previous year...

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...when he died, on the inside of the ring was found engraved the one word: "Honor...

...MARY KOLARS...

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...It is based upon a cooperative investigation of thirty-seven Catholic colleges, the work being directed and the results from the study organized and presented in this form by Dr...

...Nevertheless, all the papers in this volume are well worth reading...

...Nobody is of course under the obligation of paying any attention to his opinions...

...But even without that, one would feel that the quality of this volume is tonic...

...It is easily the best available compendium of facts regarding the subject and may be recommended to all who require a volume of this character...

...James has given a singularly appealing account of the sunset of the life of this gallant warrior...

...One comes off from the poem, too, with something like a definite picture of Mary Magdalen on that day, in her feeling for the central figure and for the event of his death...

...The Living Past, by John C. Merriam...

...London: Harding and More, Limited...

...In the relatively long preface and long introduction, the author gives an interesting account of his own career as a business man, his viewpoints and some of his fundamental economic beliefs...

...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...

...they on their part were charmed with the boy who lived with them for months on end...

...James well says that this strange sense of chivalry, this almost Quixotic gesture, changed the phase of American politics, and eventually led to the independence of the republic of Texas, and to great changes in the American scene...

...Wolfe, worrying about his own country, seems to include himself among those who "pray heartily for a great satirist in verse in our time...

...In between are a succession of grabbers, thieves, wasters, fantastics, even honest bourgeois- but no one, by any chance, who conceives even cloudily that he must pay for place and power by any sort of reciprocal obligation...

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...It enlists the special and curious interest that goes always to persons intimately connected with a world event...

...Boston: The Stratford Company...

...These shares would have all the rights and privileges of the common stock as regards dividends...

...there are blackouts, vast jumps backward and forward in time, a kind of chorus which has no connection with the main action, and a full measure of the kaleidoscopic hocus-pocus so dear to emancipated writers...

...The present author does occasionally venture into the field of speculation with no particular advantage to his narrative...

...What is offered-in verse of varying metres and textures- is an account of the twenty-four hours from dawn to dawn on the day of the Crucifixion, as those hours were lived by the individuals most affected-Mary the Mother, Mary Magdalen, John, Judas, Peter and one or two others...

...The final owner is his descendant who, with the business aid of the descendants of the original count's scavenger, bags an heiress in post-war Chicago...

...The first owner of the little golden crown which figures throughout as the symbol of seigniory is the count of Senlis who marries the Fugar millions in the sixteenth century...

...New York: Coward-Mc-Cann, Incorporated...

...not only the war with Mexico, but the seeds of war within the union...

...The final passages of this section are a fresh and vigorous and sympathetic approach to the psychology of that historic sin and sinner...

...Although a colorful word, it is not generally recognized as descriptive of Sam Houston, and has a somewhat novelistic touch which is far from being borne out by the careful record of documented fact which is to be found within the book...

...The book is a real contribution in a field too little and too poorly understood among college people...

...Greece Today, by Eliot Grinnel Mears...

...Appendices contain the texts of relevant documents...

...And the chapter on The Victorians and Ourselves is wholly admirable...

...There are in the book just a few references to the countries that did not take part in the war-Holland, the Scandinavian countries and Spain...

...Komroffs novel impress one as being much more considerable than the whole...

...Pollyanna in Economics Economic Democracy, by Robert S. Brookings...

...But it can and should be supplemented, if we are ever to exchange the mere childish delight of despising the aristocrat for the somewhat more exacting and disciplined pleasure of understanding him...

...His widowed mother and her large family had moved from Virginia to Blount County, in east Tennessee...

...The last chapter presents a Program of Guidance for Catholic Colleges, and proposes an organization involving a department of student welfare, a placement bureau, health and psychiatric service, a staff of advisors, a director of admission and confession-but emphasizing the student guidance of students throughout...

...Possible, not to say probable, causes of friction between Church and state in the future, as well as the very serious reprimands which the Holy Father has already felt obliged to administer, are alike ignored...

...This seems to be the most enlightened and most scientific scheme for a fair distribution of the surplus profits that has yet received formal approval from any government...

...It would give to capital only the amount necessary to bring it into business enterprise and keep it there, leaving all the surplus to those upon whom the production of any surplus primarily depends and who would receive therefrom a powerful incentive to productive efficiency...

...James likewise dismisses lightly the northern Free-Soilers' convention that America had no real and legitimate cause for declaration of a state of war with Mexico in 1846...

...Indeed, it is a rare book, this biography, and one which well deserves a wide and general sale...

...Among such utterances the following words of Pius XI are supremely noteworthy...

...In as much as at least one-third, and possibly one-half, of the workers do not receive the "saving wage," this statement by Mr...

...Yet it must be added hastily that the obbligato to this monotone is certainly very lovely...

...The characters are vague neurasthenics and erotomaniacs presented in a futuristic stage setting...

...His chapter on the problem of learning the college freshman and the one following on pre-registration practices constitute a very able treatment of the whole question of getting the necessary information for an intelligent program of guidance...

...Labor sharing in shop management, labor unions and labor control of business policies through ownership of a majority of the stock, are all essential elements of economic democracy, but Mr...

...For really they saw into the future with an almost prophetic vision that the annexation of Texas would bring war in its wake...

...Curtailment of statement can be understood, but it can be carried to the extent at times of being misleading, as for instance in saying that the Gallipoli campaign was carried on by a force made up chiefly of inexperienced Australian, New Zealand, Indian and French colonial troops...

...James seems to me to have missed the truth...

...This influx has greatly complicated already existing economic problems, so that the greatest concern of Greece today is something far more material than taking snapshots of the Athenian ruins...

...Brookings does not discuss any other feature of genuine industrial democracy...

...Phila-delphia: The Dolphin Press...

...His proud spirit would not endure the thought of holding a woman who loved another in bondage to him, so he resigned his gubernatorial chair, abandoned his career and departed for the West...

...Miss Edwards has, indeed, succeeded in making a thing of beauty out of snow and sleet, rain and clouds, firs and bare trees...

...JOHN A. RYAN...

...This makes it doubly regrettable that the publishers characterize it as a "narrative poem...

...DAVID MORTON...

...New Year's Eve: A Plgy in Seven Scenes, by Waldo Frank...

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...Like everything else he has done the poems are rugged, scholarly, sometimes ironical...

...For who (or what) else fights or can fight for us...

...SINCE the war nearly two million refugees have trekked to Greece from Turkey and the near East...

...A thorough study of the situation should surely consider such obvious clouds on the Roman horizon, though hopes for their dissipation are no doubt well justified...

...New York: Pay son and Clarke, Limited...