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Chase, Mary Ellen & Boyd-Carpenter & Pineda, E. R. & Kennedy, Leo & Phillips, Charles & Kolars, Mary & Eustace, C. J. & Repplier, Agnes & Ross, J. Elliot
BOOKS Another Ludwig Trifle Lincoln, by Emil Ludwig; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $5.00. IT WOULD take an adding machine to count the...
...We see the pompous McClellan, the duty-driven Lee, the call to arms, the arrival of the New York troops, "the only reality among the myths," the sensitive neutrality of Baltimore, the boundless patience of the President which veiled the unbreakable determination of his soul...
...Sullivan for not having fulfilled this Arabian Nights promise on the jacket of his book...
...Landau brings out, not so much by asseveration as by inference drawn from the record of Pilsudski's career...
...they aren't 'artistic' in the South Kensington art school sense...
...Livingstone, I presume...
...2.50...
...In a period of transition and reorganization, with an entire people, 28,000,-OOO of them, thrown into the maelstrom of a sudden restoration to freedom and independence after more than a century of subjugation and division, Pilsudski has played his part by knowing the temper of his country to the utmost sensitive reaction...
...Nor is it to say that he is always wielding the punishing lash...
...Were it not for the fact that nine-tenths of the Catholics of modern England are factory hands, and live in suburbs," he says, "there is no doubt but that modern ecclesiastical art would drive them into atheism...
...There are fashions in intellectual matters as well as in women's dresses, and naked syllogisms have gone the way of read sermons and two-volume novels...
...It might yet save us dollars and lives, for instance, if we could understand what Napoleon meant when he said that Poland was the key to European peace...
...John Erskine, some few years ago, remuneratively bored the nation with the monologues of a whitewashed Helen of Troy...
...But it is a plain story, deriving virtue from its simplicity...
...It is a question, for instance, whether readers sold on internal secretions will benefit much by the essay on the discovery of the religious gland-A New Cure for Religion...
...That saying is still true...
...If his style were only less expository, less austere, less detached, if he could only let go the reins and allow his character the bit for a while, we should be better satisfied...
...Belloc proved that The Path to Rome consists of three fragments by separate authors who lived hundreds of years apart, he did this sort of thing once and for all...
...A more austere writer would have borne always in mind that the one thing of importance in the great President's life is that he "was permitted"-to use Emerson's phrase-to be of service to his country...
...New York: The Forum Press...
...It is undeniably true that Mr...
...The Polish Mussolini Pilsudski and Poland, by Rom Landau...
...2.50...
...But he is always omniscient and omnipresent...
...The man at the door of Westminster Cathedral said to me once, 'They'll never fill the Cathedral until they bring back Gounod.' I dare say he was wrong...
...Gill builds his artistic foundations upon firm rock- upon the Rock of Peter...
...If much that he thought supremely comic now seems to us the dreariest of fooling, this is because the flavor of humor does not last...
...Her method was to make a home for those who had no home...
...He relates rather than depicts, describes rather than creates...
...and through his misuse of power, to foresee the final tragedy...
...Poems from The Commonweal are included...
...Mary Ellen Chase...
...Ernest Hemingway staccato through one novel after another...
...France, Germany, Russia, they are all vitally woven into the fabric of the Polish entity...
...Infinitely preferable to the Cowley Fathers' church at Oxford is any lowbrow slum Catholic church in Liverpool and, after all, the ecclesiastical furnishers, degraded though they are, are at any rate the lineal descendants of the preindustrial tradition...
...The book, written for the most part with restraint, has one serious lapse into unctuousness...
...Lincoln's faults of temper is unduly generous...
...Gill is concerned primarily with architecture and sculpture, and he does not hesitate to remind us that there is a system of Christian aesthetics, just as there are systems of Christian economics and Christian philosophy...
...he rarely allows him to present himself...
...they are bad because they have got bad-badder and badder-not because they started bad, and so they still retain certain goodness of a negative sort...
...North is north and south is south...
...History is the thriller of the world...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...He surpasses Mussolini in his gift for leadership that leads rather than imposes, and subjects and perhaps inflames...
...Admirably persuasive as is the treatment on the whole, I wonder if Father Mainage does not fall into a fallacy when he writes: "Man could not be hungry if he could not find food to appease his appetite...
...We are far from liking or approving all his selections, but those who care to see what the world at large actually read during 1929 will find the volumes eminently useful...
...Nevertheless," he goes on, a little later, "I must not be supposed to mean that I would prefer the comparative decency of High Church culture...
...But back of his genial nature, as I saw it, was, no mistaking, a canny mind, a keen penetrating force, an imaginative power, that has made it possible for Pilsudski to live a high-pressure life focused whole and entire and unswerving on the single ideal of a free Poland...
...Wright's treatment of his character falls short of its mark...
...Its purpose is too deadly...
...Griffith supplies two volumes, one of which culls from the European harvest while the other contents itself with gleanings from the American product...
...Collectively, Spaniards and Anglo-Saxons are not alike and although the course might involve dangerous speculation, English-speaking authors writing for non-Spaniards are in duty bound to point out the differences, tracing the current of Spanish life from the rivulet to the tributary, thence to the main stream and the encircling ocean of civilization...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...After the sketchy preamble of a few pages of direct narrative-which might be interpreted as a slight concession to tradition-we are plunged into conversation about a breakfast table...
...The method is legitimate enough, I suppose, but untrustworthy...
...Rummaging among the annals of the outmoded, one recalls that Mr...
...Landau's book...
...Less inspired he might with more excuse lapse into idealistic Thoreauism or a Wordsworthian pantheism, but his very spirit breathes through the beauty of his prose a recognition of truth which transcends the limits of any but the beliefs of Catholicism...
...To me he was a more genial man than Landau's pages make him...
...It was my contention that bare syllogisms are almost useless...
...Charles Phillips...
...THIS novel is a reprint after thirteen years...
...In these three interesting points of Livingstone's career, Dr...
...The individual members of these tandems amply complement each one the other, but radiate in spite of such satisfactory intimacies to intermatrimonial plans...
...Lincoln's heart was sad because of his incurable honesty...
...They are all written with sincerity, scholarship, and they lead the reader unawares into deep waters...
...Paderewski, and Paderewski only, could save the Poland of 1918, and his saving of it insured the peace that Europe enjoys today...
...This is the chastisement of wickedness, feebleness and folly by a master of form whose hatred of them is directly proportional to his own secure beliefs and unconfused perception of reality...
...The study is restricted to an internal history of the rebellion -a restriction to which the author has a right, although it deprives the subject of considerable interest, for it has significant connections with nationalism, imperialism, the reformation and the modern age...
...In this story of the career of Josef Pilsudski, told in a fluent and highly interesting narrative and beautifully translated into English, we see not only the weaving of the threads of recent and contemporaneous history in eastern Europe, but the whole texture of a hundred years and more of European political life...
...He could not long for immortality if it were a sheer illusion...
...The characters there encountered discuss their way into our good graces, and thereafter for a cycle of uneventful fair-weather years, the talk goes amiably on, leaving one at the end drowsily appreciative of so many fine phrases, and puzzled as to what it is all about...
...but it may be felt by some that when Mr...
...So can beefsteak," I replied, "be reduced to carbon and water...
...To put the usual scholastic textbook in the hands of a doubting friend, would be worse than useless-it would be repulsive...
...Is not this our old friend, the onto-logical argument...
...To enjoy-I do not say to admire, but genuinely to revel in-the just and unpitying perfection of such a performance as the second essay in this volume, Reunion All Round, for example, requires a greater freedom from wickedness, feebleness and folly than most of us possess...
...New York: Harcourtj Brace and Company...
...A canvass of one day's issue of a dozen of our influential daily papers shows us up badly in this regard...
...Father Mainage has put flesh and blood on a skeleton...
...C. J. Eustace...
...It is strange that a man so innately cautious and far-seeing should have let himself drift into matrimony which then had the quality of permanence...
...But it is good, sincere ranting, and much needed in this so-called "enlightened" age...
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...Perhaps the great castigators of the eighteenth century, who worked from the same profound intellectual passion and the same intense and clarifying contempt, were read, in their day, with laughter in which there was no wryness or dread...
...that better environment for human beings, that the development of the world's material resources, are but a means of providing an avenue for a readier acceptance of the loftier standards of conduct, and finer feelings of man toward man...
...The author dismisses the meeting with the phrase, "All the world knows who the rescuer was...
...WHAT Will Irwin did for New York City in Highlights of Manhattan and what Lyle Saxon did for the Crescent City in Fabulous New Orleans, Charles Moore attempts to do for Washington...
...The papers applying the higher criticism to Sherlock Holmes and Pilgrim's Progress are just as good...
...A Life of Livingstone Livingstone, by R. J. Campbell...
...The book is intimate and anecdotal...
...J. Elliot Ross...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...The book is unfortunately too expository...
...It is a mistake and may again prove a costly attitude...
...The quality of taste, which is the guardian of our minor morals, is essential to that by-path of history which is called biography...
...Wright has a great and moving story to tell...
...war in Poland means war in Europe...
...Campbell appears to fail to grasp their dramatic value to the reader, and equally has failed to realize that few persons alive today can recall any of these outstanding events...
...Fairless's understanding should stop just at the gate-a gate which, perhaps, in his soul he realizes and fears because it inevitably leads to Rome...
...Wright's story leaves one unconvinced that the 1916 critics were altogether right and the reading public altogether wrong...
...The Roadmender, by Michael Fairless...
...The Wrath of Eric Gill Art Nonsense and Other Essays, by Eric Gill...
...2.50...
...Undoubtedly the influence of the moral codes of the West will inspire the Oriental and African and perhaps in time teach them that western civilization has a Christian basis...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...HERE is a bold voice of certainty raised in an age of chaos...
...The Return of William Shakespeare, by Hugh Kingsmill...
...If much of its material is a thrice-told tale to Americans, we may reasonably infer that it is new to Germans, and that such as are curiously inclined may be interested in the lively and sympathetic narrative...
...He presents him...
...It would lend itself also to comparative study in relation to the Barons' War against John, the English Civil War, the French Revolution and the American War of Independence, which it resembles in the sixteenth-century Spanish abhorrence of foreign entanglements and a certain attitude closely akin to the American principle of no taxation without representation...
...Washington Past and Present, by Charles Moore...
...Here is a Jude the Obscure thesis which fails to win a Jude the Obscure effect simply because the author fails in making his character act and suffer...
...WE strongly doubt whether "a strange and fascinating tale of the stock market" could ever be written, and therefore hold no grudge against Mr...
...Campbell, in commenting on this mental attitude, says that Livingstone was before his time in his belief in the psychological benefit of a good example...
...He could no more cheat himself than he could cheat his neighbor...
...Spanish Rebellion The Great Revolt in Castile: A Study of the Comunero Movement of 1520-1521, by Henry Latimer Seaver...
...Two couples, not involved in the resurrected scandal, eventually marry, but with an air and effect of abstraction: one feels that among such inanimates any action would prove a cataclysm...
...TO THE accepted forms of novel writing, one hastens to add the conversational, or all-talkie form...
...The audience which Queen Victoria granted to the explorer is passed over with the comment that "On February 13 Livingstone was received in audience...
...The illustrations, from photographs and drawings by the author, are interesting and illustrative, a quality often lacking in so-called illustrations, but the work suffers from a rather academic treatment and rhetorical style all the more unfortunate in that the complexity of the events and facts involved clearly indicates simplicity of method and lucidity of expression...
...He is fortunate in that the present age has but little personal knowledge of the vast trials and miseries of a missionary and traveler during the period of 1840 to 1873-which in Africa was largely a roadless, railless time-hence they will read his life of Livingstone in much the same way as they do the journeys of eighteenth-and fifteenth-century travelers...
...The story deals with a genealogical tangle...
...Boyd-Carpenter...
...We are not only not internationally-minded, but we are provincial and parochial...
...It gives a picture of the man rather than of the maker of history...
...The commentary is a sad one...
...However often these things have been told, however familiar with them we have come to be, they never lose their power to stir our hearts...
...But preachers are seldom novelists, and characters like Milton's Satan and Hardy's Jude and Flaubert's Madame Bovary succeed only when they get well out of the tight clutches of their creators...
...The drama becomes an account, the character, true and moving as he is, becomes a puppet in too-careful hands, his tragedy a recital...
...THERE have been so many reissues of "best articles of the month" that the idea of an annual anthology commends itself as a possibly practical enterprise...
...FATHER KNOX'S good biting falchion is assuredly calculated to "make them skip...
...If so, their public was either more robust in virtue, or more indurated to scorn, than we...
...translated from the fourth French edition by J. M. Lelen...
...2.25...
...Yet it is curious to note that perhaps no country in the past hundred years has done more to support and encourage emigration than England, claiming that the passing of the younger sons to the colonies has done much to raise the business and moral tone...
...E. R. Pineda...
...But the whole invariably fails to rise from its foundations...
...What we think funny, the coming generation will probably consider a blot on our mentality...
...He had also a minor, but very serviceable, talent for keeping aloof from annoyances...
...Yet at no time, staunch though he is in the cause of truth, can he be accused of indulging in spiritual frivolities...
...THE author's versatility and training-he is professor of English and history-find further demonstration in this scholarly book...
...translated from the French by the Dominican nuns of Portobello Road, London...
...1.50...
...and yet for some reason Mr...
...New York: Dodd, Mead and Company...
...Moore is a Rooseveltian Washing-tonian-his chapter on the Senate is sufficient to betray him- and he is too inclined to regret the Washington that was before the war, to disregard her transition present, and to dwell on new glories yet to come...
...edited by William Griffith...
...As one revolution succeeded another during the period of her life, which almost covered the past century, the Bonne Mere was able to keep her institution intact...
...This lack is no doubt caused by the fact that Mr...
...2.50...
...Despite an element of rowdyism, the whole is stimulating enough...
...it makes godliness out to be so awful...
...while more currently, the hard-boiled characters of Mr...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...Mary Kolars...
...SOME years ago I was advocating, with a clerical friend, the need of something more than the cut and dried textbook treatment of philosophical questions...
...R. J. CAMPBELL is by nature an orator, but an orator whose persistent and continuous study has made his sermons and writings of abiding interest...
...The discovery of a generation-old illegitimacy thoroughly maladjusts two such projected unions, and furnishes the group with animated but pointless and protracted side talk...
...KINGSMILL is one of the most attractive and the most exasperating of the newer English writers...
...There can be no questioning the power and influence of Pilsudski...
...For here is a great story...
...Philosophical Beefsteak Immortality: Essays on the Problem of Life after Death, by Theodore Mainage, O. P...
...Agnes Repplier...
...He could not aspire to a hereafter if there were no hereafter...
...but they're just cheap and vulgar and thoroughly sentimental and commercial...
...That reason, I think, is easy to ascertain...
...It is disappointing not to find more character, more atmosphere made vivid in describing a city which has so marked a personality...
...Wholeheartedly he condemns what he is pleased to call the "ecclesiastical furniture shop," and that artistic attitude which produces, not beauty determined by nature and purpose, but a self-indulgent representation of what pleases the artist sentimentally...
...Briefer Mention Bonne Mere {Reverend Mother Chupin), by R. P. Mortier, O. P...
...The result, of course, is inevitable...
...but he voiced a popular view...
...Even in the present instance the space devoted to Mrs...
...Time will tell whether or not Pilsudski's work of preserving Poland and European peace has been a lasting work...
...Immortality should be supplementary reading in all our courses in philosophy, and it should be in the libraries of educated Catholics generally...
...For example, Brothers and Sisters, a book which embraces two generations of charming but insufficient young members of the English squirearchy, tends, in spite of its author's familiarity with his language, and the requirements of modern fiction, to make the gentle reader impatient at so much well-articulated parlor talk...
...Lincoln possessed the kind of philosophy which makes the best of an indifferent bargain...
...We are already awaiting its successor, which is doubtless on the verge of appearing...
...Poems from The Commonweal are included.d during 1929 will find the volumes eminently useful...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...London: Cassell and Francis Walterson...
...They will, alas, be laughing too hard to take the deeper lesson in...
...As if to balance the sober introductory essay, Father Knox ends his book with a take-off on radio broadcasting which is an explosion of hilarity...
...As a nation we seem to have taken Washington's admonition concerning "entangling alliances" as an instruction on how to shut our eyes to the whole world outside of our own boundaries...
...A Biting Falchion Essays in Satire, by Ronald Knox...
...Gill is not afraid to browbeat, where browbeating is needed...
...Wright writes about Stanford West...
...a tapestry, as it were, taken down from an ancient wall and turned inside out for our special benefit...
...But no one, especially American readers in need of enlightenment on these matters of vital import, can read this book without profit...
...or whether Baconians will be properly chastened by the startlingly ingenious reasoning which proves that Queen Victoria wrote In Memoriam...
...Yet here is another life of Lincoln- a "full-length" life as its publishers announce-and it is written by Ludwig, to whose amazing industry a five-hundred-page biography is a bagatelle...
...Its meretricious embellishment at Herr Ludwig's hands would be more pardonable in a novelist than in a historian...
...This conservative Spanish rebellion also has a particularly timely bearing, being contemporary with the "Germanias" of Valencia, guilds of class-conscious workmen and peasants organized into a union of Soviets...
...This is the man to whom that greatest of all patriotic statesmen produced by Europe in the world war, Paderewski, delivered a reunited Poland a decade ago...
...but life is full of misadventures...
...3.00...
...The combination of a sad heart and a gay temper, which was his inheritance, invariably makes the most lovable of men...
...From this it will be seen that Mr...
...Originally issued in 1916, it received from foremost American critics an ovation seldom accorded works of fiction and yet, in spite of praise, succeeded relatively ill with the reading public...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...She offered them, not a prison or a reformatory, but a dwelling-place whose doors were always open within and without...
...they aren't highbrow...
...His character, Stanford West, whose ironic life and more ironic failure are here sketched, engrosses the reader's attention and sympathy, even though that attention and that sympathy are of a strangely detached variety...
...2.00...
...But the books whose style you admire so much," retorted my friend, "can all be reduced to a series of syllogisms...
...Recommended to that section of the public who incline to the substitution of Wall Street for Providence...
...Rather we ask blandly, if not impatiently, what does European peace mean to us?-forgetting that European peace today means world peace, and that nothing can better promote world peace than world-mindedness...
...Today, whether there be peace or war in Poland rests with one man, the hero of Mr...
...Still a graver charge is a certain lack of depth, regrettably characteristic of most books written on Spain and Spanish America...
...But to a modern reader it is as much more interesting in its present form, as beefsteak is more appetizing than charcoal tablets...
...Landau's book, if read by a large number of thinking Americans, including editors of daily papers, would serve as an eye-opener to the peace-and-war situation in Europe, and to the key position held by Poland in that situation...
...Shall they never meet...
...An interested perusal of Mr...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...IT WOULD take an adding machine to count the lives of Lincoln that have been given to the world...
...In one sense this book is remarkable for its omissions-such as in describing the meeting of Stanley and Livingstone where no mention is made of the historic remark of Stanley, "Dr...
...Wright's manner of portraiture...
...A Genealogical Tangle Brothers and Sisters, by I. Compton-Burnett...
...Father Mainage's book on immortality can doubtless be reduced to a few syllogisms...
...You can no more roar with laughter at passages like the following, in support of "A Plea for the Inclufion with the Church of England of all Mo-hametans, Jews, Buddhifts, Brahmins, Papifts and Atheifts," than you can roar with laughter at Swift's Modest Proposal: "And here I do not refer to the Unitarians...
...This is not to disallow either the motive or the high value of Father Knox's satire...
...New York: E. P. Dut-ton and Company, Incorporated...
...Lincoln's political integrity, his personal magnetism, his popularity, his hold on his party are well described...
...You recognize, in the iron gravity and the antique spelling, the devices of humor, and in the incongruities laid bare, the materials of humor...
...His gaiety of temper meant an equally honest enjoyment of human society, of the give and take of political badinage, of a good story and a laugh...
...The 1930 European and American Scrapbooks...
...A Character in Shackles The Man of Promise, by Willard Huntington Wright...
...Gill says about ecclesiastical art is quite right...
...In the present instance, one has an agreeable extravaganza involving Shakespeare's return to earth...
...And while it cannot be expected that students taking an ordinary course of philosophy in one of our colleges should read such an extended treatment of every topic here studied, they can at least know that there are such books...
...Catholic Mysticism, by A. J. Francis Stanton...
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...It lies in Mr...
...Though he believes that "humor without satire is, strictly speaking, a perversion, the misuse of a sense," he himself is delightfully guilty of such perversion in several of these papers...
...The Schoolmen may have been satisfied with syllogisms, but our generation is not...
...He is fully as important a figure in European, therefore in world, affairs as is Mussolini...
...here is excellent and thoughtful writing...
...For this is irony in the heroic tradition...
...The Catholic Church is not a cultured clique-that may, at any rate, be proudly boasted of her...
...for it is to be fear'd that if thefe Perfons have gone out of their way to feparate themfelves from the other Sects on the Ground of a Doctrine fo little taught in our Church, and fo little be-liev'd in, as that of the Trinity, they muft be a pettifogging, cantankerous fet of fellows, that prize their own Opinions too highly, to become Parties to our Policy of Reunion...
...It has been overlooked of late in favor of scandalmongering...
...A Little Way Ahead, by Alan Sullivan...
...But the intention passes far beyond the intention to amuse...
...Five distinct pairs of brothers and sisters are circumstantially drawn together and form one discursive group...
...Throughout the volume, Livingstone appears as a dominating, if somewhat egotistical person, doing the right as he saw and understood it, believing that Africans could be raised morally and mentally, that the color bar was a mistaken idea...
...And, it is refreshing to note, although these essays deal with divers subjects, they are linked together and rendered substantial by dogmatic definitions of absolute values...
...All his books have dash, some excellent ideas, parts at least of a memorable plan...
...He makes it quite clear that to possess criteria of artistic criticism, it is necessary first of all to consider that the physical form of things is determined by their nature and purpose...
...to live with them as a sister who pardoned their follies and thought only of their immortal souls...
...Consequently our young people, when arguing with those educated in secular colleges, are helpless when they trot out a few syllogisms learned in class, and find that they are unconvincing...
...Much attention is given the utterances of leading statesmen and figures in the public eye, but the editor has tried to be as comprehensive as possible...
...He lacks Mussolini's genius for newspaper publicity, but that lack is a virtue...
...Nonetheless, Professor Seaver has combined interest with scholarship in his dramatic presentation...
...Much is made of the brief, sad story of Ann Rutledge, of Lincoln's mild flirtations with Sarah Rickard, his lukewarm courtship of Mary Owen, and his final capitulation to Mary Todd who had made up her mind to marry him...
...Leo Kennedy...
...Surely this would be sufficient for the reader if it were the only book of its kind in the field, but Washington in its physical aspects is too well known today...
...Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
...As for The New Sin, which impartially takes a shy at the yellow press, the literary weeklies, the Broad Church canons, the High Church traditionalists, the letter-writers to the London Times (a really glorious bit of foolery) and the general public, Father Knox extracts, in it, so much pleasure from all these categories and classes that it may well make them as happy about themselves as he obviously is about them...
...AT A time when Anglo-Catholics are drifting from avowed submission to an infallible Church to a reliance on personal experience as the ultimate authority in religion, it is fitting that a convert, living in that centre of Catholic converts- Briton, England-should point out that there is a constant testimony, unanimous and authenticating, supplied by Catholic mystics, to the truth of objective authority...
...But Father Mainage speaks a language the modern man can understand...
...This affords opportunity for discussion of British Babbittry, for sending pointed little barbs toward diverse portions of civilization's bosom, and for introducing a more than usually incisive survey of Shakespearean poetry...
...Instead he has produced a book which is little more than a superior guide-book account of the capital, her history, her concrete actuality and her plans for the future...
...He has produced a readable story, tinged with allegory, of a stockbroker's clerk whose suddenly acquired gift of second sight enables him to look down far perspectives and arrive at the gold pile...
...IT IS a pity that Mr...
...The story of the youthful Lincoln watching the sale of slaves in New Orleans finds a place in every biography of the emancipator...
...It has been and is a strange career, full of the alarums and escapes of picturesque heroism, wary diplomacy, courage tested with fire, hope wrung out of despair...
...Difficult to make at any time, conversation presents especial disturbances if it is to be engineered through some two hundred and seventy pages, the length of this present novel...
...Even the world war did not serve to change this attitude of ours...
...Nothing of consequence ever happens...
...but perhaps that was because I was an American-and Pilsudski admires and likes Americans...
...In answer to a question put to him by the London Missionary Society at the time of his application (1839) for election as a missionary, Livingstone wrote, "To make known the Gospel by preaching and improving so far as in his power the temporal condition of those among whom he labors, by introducing the arts and sciences of civilization...
...Again when pressing his kindred to emigrate he says that he believes that the cause of Christ will be better advanced by emigration than by missionaries...
...A great deal is said about Lincoln's temperamental melancholy, which is always overemphasized by sentimentalists...
...Again in dealing with the attack on Livingstone by a lion the author says, "The facts are too familiar to need recital here...
...All of this Mr...
...He saw life as it was, and he counted costs...
...But I prefer beefsteak...
...Better still are his election to the Presidency, his coming to the White House, and the first staggering weeks of the war...
...IN SPITE of the lesson which the world war should have taught us, we Americans are still fatuous in our indifference to international affairs...
...Where Christian experience deviates from dogmatic and moral truth it ends in sentimental and contradictory vagaries...
...Wright's purpose is too zealous, and it stares at us from every page...
...The sole criticism that can be made of it is that sometimes it is too good even for the happiness of the onlooker who is supposed to laugh at the skipping...
...This idea of the arts and sciences of European civilization being useful to the non-Christian races finds expression repeatedly in his writings and utterances, as in the opening chapter of the Missionary Travels wherein he gives utterance to the emphatic expression "that the promotion of commerce would do more than the missionary with his Bible under his arm...
...Her tact and enthusiasm overcame all the difficulties which both Catholics and Revolutionaries made for her...
...2.00 ALONE, unaided and often misunderstood, Victorine-Teresa Chupin carried on her work of befriending those whom the world treated with contempt...
...The essays vary in subject-matter, from The Revival of Handicraft, to Enormities of Modern Religious Art...
...To judge from the copious notes and the various passages which he quotes and discusses, he has made a painstaking collation and analysis of his sources, a contribution to learning in itself, for hitherto the material in question had not been subjected to the standards of present-day historical criticism...
...It would take an adding machine to count the books which Emil Ludwig has given to the world...
...but when we hear it, we do not comprehend it...
...New York: The Century Company...
...When Napoleon said that Poland was the key to European peace, he meant just this: peace in Poland means peace in Europe...
...They begin as satire, but the fun will creep in...
...Reading this story, I have brought vividly to mind memories of my own meeting with Pilsudski, of my impressions of his personality...
...Her greatest victory came in her old age, when she surrendered her will to others, and became a novice in the religious order which was chosen to continue her work...
...With the broadening of Herr Ludwig's canvas, the volume grows in dignity...
...But it fails to cohere, it breaks down again and again...
...I will hold McClellan's stirrups for him if he will only win us victory...
...During the two generations that have passed since the death of this exploring evangelist, many facts have come to light, not only concerning the London Missionary Society and its remarkable labors, but also of David Livingstone, such as his Locked Journal, and many scores of personal letters to friends who courteously allowed them to be read by his new biographer...
...This book, which is a series of lectures, delivered at Portsmouth, clearly shows that the same God Who has provided light to the intellect, and guidance to the will, has also completely satisfied those yearnings of the whole man which we call his heart...
...To quote liberally, for a book of this nature is well worth quoting, what Mr...
Vol. 11 • April 1930 • No. 22
