Communications
COMMUNICATIONS IN DEFENSE OF BLAKE Williamstown, Mass. UNIONIZING THE FAITHFUL Esopus, N. Y. TO the Editor:-Proust and Blake! how surprised he would be. Poor and harassed and often hungry, able...
...However, the lack of cooperation by Catholics in matters of this kind is proverbial...
...TO the Editor:-It is a pity that your correspondent from Maryknoll did not cite some reference to Saint Augustine's works to prove his statement that "the maxim attributed to Saint Paul"-by the author of Unionizing the Faithful-"was not formulated by the great Apostle, but Saint Augustine, and reads as follows: 'In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus charitas.'" I wonder if he can...
...2) that the author is unknown (some say Melanchthon, some Gregory Frank, and others the enigmatical Meldenius...
...TO the Editor:-The Negro's Place in the Sun, which appeared in one of your recent issues, was very interesting as well as timely...
...Hoover expressed amazement not so long ago at the contempt for laws and courts that exists in the nation...
...SACERDOS...
...If she will communicate with the Franciscan Monastery, Paterson, New Jersey, or the Franciscans of Graymoor, Garrison, New York, she can obtain for $1.00 a dozen of strikingly pretty cards...
...and after all, a creator asks for little else...
...In regard to the Irish situation, the letter read to the effect that the Republicans were refusing the sacraments...
...Is the federal judiciary to be packed with unqualified men simply because they have the backing of that insidious lobby-the Anti-saloon League...
...His visions and exaltations were attributes of his own original mind...
...REFLECTION UPON ART Berkeley, Cal...
...Six months ago, a paid lecturer of the Anti-saloon League was endorsed by the Anti-saloon League and the two senators from Kansas for appointment as federal judge in that state...
...After six months of bickering, Mr...
...He was completely detached and that in itself is of importance in trying to understand the man...
...At the Interracial Conventions at Washington and Cincinnati I am very sorry to say I was the only Catholic associated in this work...
...He sought to express what was a chaotic, but not necessarily abnormal mind (this point must be left to another school of dissectors...
...HOWARD W. TONER...
...Poor and harassed and often hungry, able to exist through the constant care of an uneducated wife-that is, in books, but intelligent, sympathetic and with that all-too-rare perceptive insight...
...Blake was not trying to prove anything, to explain anything, but he did seek to put into shape dreams, visions, longings, all that was part and essence of the man...
...I have been a vice-president of the Interracial Commission you mentioned therein since 1920, and while a great many activities have engaged my attention, I have found that it is not only a pleasant but a most interesting experience to promote better relations between the races...
...Blake sought to express, and as beautifully as possible, that which was within himself and which he longed to put into form...
...Van Winkle says, "heaven-sent lyrics," and if possessed of that elusive and yet very tangible poetic faculty, the images intended by Blake will form themselves...
...THE DEARTH OF RELIGIOUS CARDS Newark, N. J. TO the Editor:-In your issue of October 23, Anne Squire "would like to hear from some of your readers" on the subject of religious Christmas cards...
...and (4) that it seems to have been coined for the purpose of promoting indifferentism and latitudinarianism...
...second edition, volume 1, page 423) where it is asserted (1) that the attributing of this maxim to Saint Augustine is without foundation ("grundlos...
...Even an anti-Croce will admit this truism...
...I wonder again if he ever came across the footnote in the learned Father Henry Denifle's Luther and Luthertum (Mainz, 1904...
...In the effort to give him belated praise (or is it high-pressure best-selling characterization...
...3) that it became a proverbial expression only after 1630...
...A KANSAS JUDGE Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editor:-At the beginning of his term of office, Attorney-general Mitchell announced that only qualified men would be appointed as federal judges...
...He offered no philosophy but he was a mystic, a poet and an artist...
...P. H. CALLAHAN...
...It is said he worked without models and could recall a complete composition at will...
...The Attorney-general opposed the appointment because the proposed appointee was not qualified...
...AGNES G. GARRIGAN...
...It should read to the effect that they were refused the sacraments, if they did not promise to give up their activities...
...JOHN EMMETT GERRITY...
...THE NEGRO'S PLACE IN THE SUN Louisville, Ky...
...he sought to understand a world of which he had not the slightest practical conception...
...Hoover and Mr...
...Will this appointment lessen that contempt...
...A Poison Tree written when he was about to leave a friend entirely lacking in understanding of him, contains a world of thought...
...If ever the word personality can bt meaningly applied, it is to Blake...
...MARY ROOD...
...He did write as Mr...
...The President sustained Mr...
...let us hope an entirely new Blake won't be offered for popular consumption...
...In addition to his poetry, a casual study of his line, his color and his sense of decoration and arrangement will transport one to another world...
...TO the Editor:-In my recent communication regarding art, published in the October 23 number of The Commonweal, there was a mistake in my copy which might lead to confusion...
...President Hoover approved this declaration...
...Mitchell have surrendered...
...Furthermore, it is possible to get cooperation from both the white and colored groups to a much greater extent than was my experience with the religious groups...
...The unqualified man gets the appointment...
...Mitchell's objection...
Vol. 11 • November 1929 • No. 4
