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BOOKS The Social Sciences in Review The Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences; Volume I. New York: The Macmillan Company. $7.50. THE Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, of which this volume is...
...INTEREST in Egyptian civilization has grown in consonance with the increasing knowledge regarding it amassed by archaeologists and historians...
...In Urban's thought, an intelligible world is one in which "a life of meaning and significance can be lived...
...Often it is ourselves that begin handicapped, with none of the compounded wisdom got from human living...
...The earlier headlining of the universe is sure to recur...
...After the cynicism of Strachey and the omniscience of so many psychological biographers, Febvre is a delight to the tired spirit...
...translated by Arpad Steiner and Edward A. Fitzpatrick...
...No similar work has ever been undertaken...
...The older sciences had such a great mass of phenomena to arrange and to interpret that each of them was busy in pursuing its own problems...
...Dublin: The Talbot Press...
...Here are the full-view dichotomies, God or no God, spirit or no spirit, the chief place to time or to eternity...
...Perhaps...
...CONTRIBUTORS Rt...
...Kiang-Hu will serve to quicken the memories of some and to inform others...
...There are so few peaks...
...This characteristic is emphasized in the title and arrangement of Mrs...
...Beginning as a novel, it becomes in turn a series of informative articles, sketches, essays, depositories of observation: its final form is indeterminate...
...Yes,' he replied...
...I am and have been that...
...The format is most attractive both as to text and to contemporary illustrations...
...PHILOSOPHY, says Professor Urban of Dartmouth, is "intelligible discourse about the world...
...Opposite the title page, indeed, Professor Febvre prints a passage from Mathesius (vii) which seems to bear this out: "A friend once said to him that he was the liberator of Christianity...
...Bynner does much to prepare the reader for the proper approach to the poems, when he says: "They are the heart of an intimate letter...
...For those who like red herring or who bring no deductive mind to the reading of detective stories, the story will provide some minor thrills...
...Ayscough's new translations, The Autobiography of Tu Fu...
...This gives peculiar point to the appearance of Mr...
...The first volume introduces the social sciences to the world by a series of articles by eminent authorities which constitutes a fairly complete treatise on the history and the prospect of the social sciences...
...What we want is not the modern or other temper but intelligible thought...
...Then comes the beginning of the procession of subjects from Aaron Aaronson to Allegiance, each by a specially selected author...
...and several novels...
...Williams is stepping-up their sorrow for a deliberate effect...
...Vincent Sheean is the author of An American among the Riffi...
...There are full-length discussions of Yeats, Synge and Sean O'Casey...
...It should be noted that the publication is not a commercial venture...
...Kiang Kang-Hu, the book is supplied with a historical chronology, a chronology of the poets, a topography and explanatory notes on the poems...
...John A. Lapp is the Dean of the School of Social Service of Mar-quette University, and the author of Our America-The Elements of Civics...
...Hewn to the Plot Touchstone, by Ben Ames Williams...
...The mere repetition of energetic acts of will does not produce a strong will...
...Moreover, what Luther left behind him on earth was a mocking counterfeit of the "edifice that a fair architect, inspired with Luther's ideas and believing in his task . . . might easily have erected on the soil laid waste by the powerful hand of revolt...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...God knows that in Luther's days, there were abuses and corruption enough to cry to heaven for reformation...
...This same defect is also noticeable in his characterization of Tony, whose lovableness is loudly proclaimed by the other figures but whose impression on the reader is that of a flip, irrepressible wise-cracker...
...It is not without significance that such western figures as Cranmer-Byng and Judith Gautier and our own Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound and Witter Bynner have found something in this Chinese poetry to satisfy a need unsatisfied by the poetry of our own tradition, and that our own poetry has been so hospitable in assimilating something of this alien art...
...We admit it now in life but try to keep it out of theory...
...The intricacy of Chinese verse forms is an appalling thing and has little interest save for the curious-beyond furnishing a furtive hint of what is necessarily lost in translation, which cannot hope to reproduce the tone effects which those prescriptions were designed to create...
...and Frederick Law Olmstead, a Critic of the Old South...
...The style is delightfully colloquial...
...And if he had died immediately after the Diet of Worms, he would have been a more attractive figure...
...The central position which religion occupies in the system of values and its importance in coordinating other values in life's ideals, is admirably discussed by the author...
...Justice First...
...And if there is to be a lasting will power, we must necessarily have a lasting and ever-present motive...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...Evolution and progress cannot be grasped as devoid of the elements of perfection and value...
...Biographies are included of deceased leaders of and contributors to the social sciences throughout the world...
...Luther knew as little as the papal court that conditions were such as to precipitate a successful revolution wresting practically the whole of northern Europe from Rome...
...The central theme of Father Lindworsky's work is the doctrine of values...
...SUCH adventures as have fallen to the lot of the Abbey Theatre players are of universal interest...
...John Gilland Brunini...
...The short but comprehensive bibliography indicates that the author has delved into the sources...
...A work so bold in design is almost sure to fail in the first draft from a single pen...
...Cornelius J. Connolly...
...James Hugh Ryan is rector of the Catholic University of America and the author of An Introduction to Philosophy...
...John Gilland Brunini is a member of The Commonweal staff...
...It merely means, however, that not all insight began with our negative visions and that some of the light shed in the past will always shine...
...Beginning in 1923 with a resolution from the American Sociological Society, the representatives of the various groups continued to assemble and plan actively throughout the years since 1925...
...Bynner's book...
...A devoted mother and father discover that one of the two boys they had raised as twins is not theirs, but the infant nurse who revealed this secret is unable before her death to say whether Tony or Sandy is the real heir...
...If I cannot acknowledge a man's purposes and values, his life is unintelligible to me...
...3.75...
...The poems are all taken from T'ang Dynasty (618-906) the golden age of Chinese poetry...
...Written in the modern way, with due attentiveness to geographical and economic factors, it utilizes documentary evidence wherever that is to the point...
...THE originality of Mr...
...translated by Roberts Tapley...
...The conclusions reached by the separate sciences were gradually recognized as incomplete and provisional, and the demand went forth to attempt a better analysis through a more comprehensive synthesis...
...More Chinese Translations The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology, by Witter Byn-ner and Kiang Kang-Hu...
...But Luther was not a builder...
...This knowledge, which they share in dread and guilty silence, distorts their lives, colors all their relationship with the two who do not question their paternity and makes them supersensitive in all their parental reactions...
...The result was that all the sciences continued in water-tight compartments and it was thought that the greatest progress could be made by emphasizing differences rather than similarities...
...What not inconsiderable virtue it possesses arises from a sense of immediacy of experience it arouses through vivid and clipped description...
...Broadus Mitchell, associate professor of political economy in Johns Hopkins University, is the author of William Gregg, Factory Master of the Old South...
...Greek Culture and Thought, The Roman World, The Universal Church, The Growth of Autonomy, The Renaissance and Reformation, The Rise of Liberalism, The Revolutions, Individualism and Capitalism, Nationalism, The Trend of Internationalism, and War and Reorientation...
...The editor-in-chief, Professor E. R. A. Seligman, as a part of the preparation, visited during 1927 all of the leading universities of Europe to solicit the cooperation of scholars...
...Why a great encyclopaedia of this kind...
...and yet quite sure to succeed...
...And it is only after initiation, that the English reader acquires the feeling of the profound richness of this poetry into which a whole life has passed-a poetry which did not confine itself to selected moments of thrilling intensity and significance, but recorded also the sweet and common uses of everyday experience, which after all, make our lives what they are...
...Briefer Mention A History of Egypt, by James Baikie...
...Harvest...
...He stresses throughout the significance of motives...
...2.50...
...Cornelius J. Connolly is associate professor of psychology in the Catholic University of America...
...The emotions of the parents are mainly expressed in physical symbols-"looks of anguish," "a red weariness" of eyes, pitiful collapse, "sagging of cheek"-so that the reader is made to see and not to feel their grief...
...Wherever there is an aim, a value, a motive, will power is found at work...
...Destiny or Accident Martin Luther: A Destiny, by Lucien Febvre...
...It was Rome rather than Luther that came through the ordeal of those trying years purified and spiritually refreshed...
...The Significance of Motives The Training of the Will, by Johann Lindworsky, S. J...
...J. Elliot Ross...
...Here were opportunities for splendid character portrayal but unfortunately Mr...
...J. Elliot Ross is the Catholic member of the faculty of the School of Religion, Iowa University...
...In the present book Father Byrne (for the author is a priest) has chronicled the small talk as well as the more sedate memorials...
...The difference was not in Luther, but in the circumstances under which he worked...
...Williams has done a workmanlike job- it may, perhaps, be said that he has been too workmanlike, that he has too strictly hewn to the bare outlines of his plot...
...It is not merely that such poets as Amy Lowell and others have poured characteristically Chinese images and colors into their verse...
...The editor-in-chief answers that question thus: "It is only in comparatively recent years that the interdependence of the social sciences has come to be recognized as a concept necessary to their progress...
...but there has come a slow realization that, while there are all kinds of associations and many angles from which human contacts can be profitably studied, it is a mistake to separate them permanently into independent sections...
...The author states that the results of experimental psychology indicate clearly that there are many false conceptions of the will...
...Leo R. Ward...
...and Mrs...
...Bynner and his translator, Mr...
...While experimental research at first rejected the will, it now supports the common-sense view, that it is something distinct from thinking, imagining, feeling and acting...
...The tired rascals of philosophic modernism, which is as old as the hills, allow time, novelty and creative accumulation but deny God, spirit and eternity...
...He might have said, also, that the poetry as a whole has a marked diarist character, that to read any considerable quantity of a single poet's work, is to acquire the feeling that one is reading that poet's diary, his day-by-day journal, where the casual and apparently trivial is set down side by side with the crucial and affecting...
...Beginnings and endings, long neglected for the intermediaries, need to be reexamined, it is so well known, as Balfour said, that "origins qualify values...
...THE comparison between the writings of Jack London and this book by M. Rouquette suggested by the publishers need not seriously engage one's attention after one has read little more than a few hundred words of The Great White Silence, since obviously the resemblance is confined entirely to choice of subject-the Yukon countries made romantically familiar to all who run...
...The music we must count as lost...
...Leo R. Ward, C. S. C., of Notre Dame University, is the author of The Value of Philosophy...
...The newer sciences found enough to do in staking out their respective fields and in vindicating their claim to existence as separate disciplines...
...Thus Mr...
...Father Lindworsky severely criticizes the view which regards such research as superfluous, because the results of experiments coincide with common sense...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...This is a large undertaking, and anyone who faces it appears handicapped...
...The introductory essays of Mr...
...Nevertheless, the book will be especially welcome to those persons who like their history served to them in a particularly enticing dish...
...But it will be especially welcomed by those who see in it another entrance into that world that is so richly entrancing in itself, and that is becoming increasingly significant for the English tradition because of certain congenial elements which are assimilated by American poetry, to the latter's great enrichment...
...For full intelligibility, the ends of the world itself must be looped up together...
...Caterson are satisfied, the reader is not...
...The final chapter is devoted to Practical Suggestions in problems for groups and for self-education...
...In the crucial years after 1525, Luther often asked, "Why did not the Lord accept the offering of my life...
...2.50...
...New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation...
...On the contrary, it is quite frankly a popularization...
...Headlining Lucidities The Intelligible World, by Wilbur Marshall Urban...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...Professor Urban has made perhaps the best lone effort to bring together the two worlds, modern philosophy, shorn of moods and impressions, and the great tradition...
...as Santayana has said, to aver that each thing is nothing but something less than itself nears saying that everything is nothing...
...Like many another man, he lived too long...
...But after finishing Febvre one wonders if a truer title might not have been, Martin Luther: An Accident...
...5.00...
...We That Are Left, by Isabel C. Clarke...
...Joseph Lewis French, poet and anthologist, is the author of Christ in Art...
...Consolation in Sandy's eventual emergence as a happier, more substantial man, and Tony's final dissolution and heroically tragic death is Mr...
...The Great White Silence, by Louis-Frederic Rouquette...
...The New Persia...
...It is history seen through loving eyes, but its veracity is the greater because of affectionate concern with every detail...
...However, "philosophy dare not be moody...
...But one is a little disappointed that the chronicler stops short and fails to rehearse the story of the expedition against Constantinople and of the crusades of the Emperor Frederick II and Saint Louis...
...Caterson, difficult enough before the revelation of the secret of their birth and intensified thereafter, to be impartial in their love of the two boys, while their preference for Tony is all too obvious, prepare the ground for their quiet and unspoken acceptance of the fact that he is not their son...
...Charles David Abbott is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
...American poetry of recent years has given increasing evidence of contact with the nature poetry of China...
...In the matter of suspense the author has tripped over the obvious...
...And he proves that one can be interesting without descending to the worn-out tricks of modern journalese...
...The restrained exuberance of M. Rouquette's book, its gentlemanly deportment in a novel milieu is French...
...They bring the true, the beautiful, the everlasting, into simple, easy touch with the human, the homely and the immediate...
...they are unintelligible as something, or, if substance be denied, as nothing coming from nowhere and going nowhere...
...What are the Social Sciences...
...2.50...
...Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company...
...Alison Kent, daughter of an impoverished baronet, marries the elderly Clyde Delarode whom she does not love in order to further her devotion to her brother, Aubrey...
...And life itself, in Tolstoy's words, is a centre of values...
...His theme possesses a wide appeal and is to be commended as one which treats of paternal love in terms other than the sickly sentimental ones of the cinema...
...Herein a summary of the author's principles is presented and their main implications emphasized...
...The various complexes of motives must be harmonized and integrated that there may result a unified life ideal...
...And no better reasons are needed for reading it...
...A second series of articles deals with The Social Sciences as Disciplines, and covers the same for all of the leading countries of Europe, and for Japan, Latin America and the United States...
...It is true to say that it embodies the ideal of the Scholastic movement, the ideal of linking all that is persistent in earlier systems with what is significant in present views...
...1 HIS book adds nothing to our knowledge of the crusades, so far as scholarship is concerned...
...The editors of the Encyclopaedia have aimed to "provide for the scholar a synopsis of the progress that has been made in the various fields of social science," to call attention of students "in a hitherto unusual way, to the relation of his own science to the other disciplines involved" and "to serve as an incentive to the votaries of the younger and more inchoate sciences in order to bring to fruition what is now only in germ...
...This can be done only in terms of finality...
...The translators have, indeed, rendered a valuable service in making Die Willensshule available to the American teacher and the student of psychology...
...It is managed as a cooperative enterprise and is backed by the Social Science Research Council...
...His own work, which is philosophic on these terms, is an attempt to make an important turn in thought...
...There are spirited accounts of the first three crusades together with an account of the Templars and the romantic but tragic Children's Crusade...
...1.80...
...There are 349 double-column, closely printed pages in this comprehensive introduction and review...
...IF THE numerous detectives and investigators of the murder of Steve Bryson had devoted less time to capturing Chinese butlers, Greek bootleggers and Basque girls and unearthed the explanation of why he was in Anne Coleman's apartment, no mystery would have existed...
...While American in design and management, five countries, England, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland, are represented among the advisory editors and a large number of foreign scholars contribute, the announced policy being to assign a subject to "the scholar who is indisputably best qualified for that particular topic...
...John A. Lapp...
...Bynner and Mr...
...One regrets merely the occasional faultiness of the proof reading...
...Its spirit is always courteous and discriminating, and its subject-matter merits sympathetic study...
...The Story of Ireland's National Theatre, by Daivson Byrne...
...and other books...
...Baikie writes very well, and the amount of illustrative material he adduces does not tax his ability to compose...
...MARTIN LUTHER: A Destiny...
...This system of moral training is exemplified, the author shows, in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola...
...It is an interesting and significant achievement, of which all libraries must take notice...
...He would "build up the whole of education on the significance of the motives...
...MRS...
...THE Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, of which this volume is the initial product, is a vast project...
...Discarding both the mythical saint and the mythical devil of early Lutheran and Catholic controversy, he utilizes the results of the most modern research...
...IN THE flood cf current behavioristic literature with its total disregard or outright denial of the existence of the will, it is refreshing to come upon a work treating specifically of this largely neglected subject...
...For example, we await an intelligible concept of evolution...
...It is too close to modern thought as thought, too far from mooning over a dead past, too firmly woven into the continuity of the race to fail...
...Throughout Mr...
...and engrossing first-hand impressions of theatre-going Dublin...
...Although the author is repetitious and heavy handed in her development of this situation, and despite the overexaggeration of the three principals' difficulties, it holds a deep interest...
...It asks us to see old truths in a new way and undoubtedly it takes a long step in that direction...
...In almost every other respect the volume seems not merely the best account of the Abbey Theatre yet written, but also one of the very best essays in literary criticism to have come from Ireland...
...The pleasure which comes from hearing the Egyptians speak for themselves compensates the reader for the tedium, unavoidable in narratives such as this, of juggling divergent historical opinions for the sake of arriving at a judicious compromise...
...He even comes to suspect that Mr...
...2.00...
...And for that reason the ultimately unfavorable impression of Luther is the more emphatic...
...The effect is-on the English reader, at first-of a kind of pointless horizontalism...
...There is an introduction by Edward A. Fitzpatrick, editor of The Marquette Monographs in Education, of which this book is the four in the series...
...As Professor Eby, a Baptist, once phrased it, Luther hanged masters for religion...
...Mystery of the East Wind, by Dwight Mar field...
...It would be welcomed, I fancy, merely on the score that it is a beautiful thing, and that it is his...
...There was in truth much to be said for this point of view in the early years of development...
...Hospital Law...
...Practical Social Science...
...It is no disparagement of Arthur Waley, pioneer and excellent scholar in the field, to rejoice in the fact that one who is first and essentially a poet, has turned his attention to Chinese poetry...
...But as a genuine reformer, Luther (even in this sympathetic biography) suffers terribly by contrast with Charles-Borromeo, or Bellarmine, or Francis de Sales, or even Erasmus -to say nothing of that supremely lovable reformer, Francis of Assisi...
...In addition to the prefaces by Mr...
...The problem of the self-willed child, for example, is not solved by "breaking the will" but by correcting the motives...
...It was not due to any particular organizing genius in Luther that he did not prove as ineffective in shaking the papal power as had Wycliffe or Arnold of Brescia...
...But if Mr...
...Professor Febvre has written a fascinating life of a colorful figure...
...The doctrine of final causes cannot be kept down, because thought, and life before it, is committed to meaning and finality...
...Williams's concession to a happy ending...
...He observes "that 'common sense' was greatly embarrassed when facing the experimental findings which seemed to disprove the existence of volition, and that 'common sense' was unable to furnish any information to the psychologist whose confidence in the prescientific form of introspection was shaken by many self-deceptions unveiled by experiments...
...The men of "the great tradition," from Plato to Hegel, affirm novelty and time and perhaps matter, but in the long run interpret in other terms...
...Ernest Hartsock is editor of Bozart and the author of Narcissus and Iscariot...
...One acquires the feeling that these poets observe, for the sheer love of observing, and contemplate, for the sheer love of contemplating, and the observations and contemplations are recorded for that delight, whether they be peculiarly acute and significant or not...
...3.50...
...10.50...
...Williams's story does not need overstatement of tragedy to assure its interest and poignancy...
...The international character of the new Encyclopaedia is noteworthy...
...His demand is big, for modern thought is under the impression that such patterns were logically dissipated long ago and cannot be reassembled...
...In the absence of these, the poems have, in his version, the dignity and quiet integrity which we think of Chinese poetry as possessing...
...The method and even the temper of American poetry has been affected to a degree which, in the near future, will suggest the necessity of our knowing something of this alien tradition that has touched our poetry and left it changed...
...A widespread campaign to enlist American scholars brought enthusiastic responses...
...In a word, for intelligibility and livability Professor Urban asks us to respect the classic doctrines of origin, substance, development and end...
...The Crusades, by Konrad Bercovici...
...IT IS no longer possible to regard Chinese poetry as an entirely alien and exotic product that can have no very real significance for us and our tradition...
...One's only regret is that the author let himself be coaxed into adding a list of Little Theatres in America, the utility of which is exceedingly dubious...
...When it is discussed by a master such as the distinguished Jesuit psychologist, Father Lindworsky, it becomes a matter of importance in the literature of education and psychology...
...He substituted the Prussian state for the Bishop of Rome...
...its quiet acceptance of movement as an end in itself is of the present, or rather, of the immediate yesterday which overlaps with the reactionary tomorrow of reflection, investigation and declaration to encompass the present, and its style the impersonal, unreflective manner which Paul Morand has most acceptably made to translate a world in which questions of moralty and ethics exist only as a fourth dimension supplied by the reader...
...David Morton is associate professor of English at Amherst College, and the author of Ships in Harbour...
...The present volumes carry the story to the end of the eighteenth dynasty, it being hoped that the work may later be added to...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...Baikie's two-volume work is undoubtedly the best general account yet made available...
...Joseph P. Donovan, CM., J. C. D., is professor of introductory moral theology and canon law at Kenrick Seminary, and of social science at Webster College, Webster Grove, Missouri...
...5.00...
...Extreme reductionism also is unintelligible...
...translated by O. W. Allen and A. Le Rebeller...
...Williams is not interested in anything but an actual narration of what happened...
...Few theatrical endeavors have been more widely discussed, and few indeed are of such importance to the historian of modern drama...
...But we turn for consolation to the good fortune which directed so gifted and musical a poet as Witter Bynner to the Chinese field...
...carefully compiled lists of the actors...
...The encyclopaedia has therefore been launched with the benediction and support of all of the forces which count in the field...
...The latter, a neurotic weakling since a bomb during a London air raid wrecked his nursery, stands between her and the awakening and proper fulfilment of her love for Delawde...
...There are encyclopaedias of economics, of political science and of sociology but never before has an attempt been made to bring the subject-matter of all of the related social sciences together in a book from A to Z. The preparation for the project quite befitted its vastness...
...Margaret Tod Ritter is a Colorado poet...
...David Morton...
...2.50...
...This, however, would have ended the book before the third chapter...
...The subject-matter of the book, originally delivered in a series of lectures at educational conferences in Germany, treats first of the psychology of the will and on this basis there is constructed a pedagogy of the will followed by chapters illustrating the practical applications of his principles...
...But in spite of the biographer's sympathy, Luther emerges rather a sorry figure...
...Febvre evidently sympathizes with his subject...
...Bynner has resisted what must have been a temptation to make English verse out of his originals-verse characterized by the cryptic turn of thought and phrase, or resolving into the catch-throat denouement...
...The extraordinary efforts of both Mr...
...CLARKE has introduced a new variant of the eternal triangle in We That Are Left...
...and Mrs...
...These are the older lucidities to which men return as to the great works of art...
...and other books...
...But in the manner of a blind horse who knows not whither he is led.' " In 1517 Luther had no more idea of bringing about the results which we now call the Protestant reformation, or the Protestant revolt, than the Pope himself had...
Vol. 11 • April 1930 • No. 26
