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...One is, to be sure, not threatened with excessively high blood-pressure by the story (which is pretty tame) nor by the translation (though this is guaranteed to be unexpurgated) nor by the pictures (all of them just merely fair...

...It would be, therefore, merely an act of decent gratitude on our part to call attention to the committee formed in England for the purpose of erecting a memorial to the great churchman, whose intellectual labors so brilliantly illuminated English historical science and literature, and whose monumental achievements as head of the Church's Biblical Commission so solidly supported the fundamental apologetics of Christianity...

...OF ALL the forms of plastic art, mural painting has been explored the least by our contemporaries...

...John McCormack, Mr...

...The increased wages for many who had formerly been abjectly poor produced, according to his observations, a definite elevation in the standard of living...

...But Japan outdid all other countries, even our own, in the apotheosis of Mr...

...Robinson and the proprietors of the commercial house his murals will decorate: the first for dismissing the American painter's reluctance to express contemporary life on anything but a dwarfed and stunted scale, and the latter for so handsomely indulging a desire both for decoration and for record, neither of which is considered essential to success in trade...

...To us, the "scientific knowledge" already acquired or to be acquired by the Antarctic Expedition, does not seem very exciting...

...adding that among a score of other contributions, there are especially provocative and interesting ones by Oswald Spengler, Arnold Zweig, Carlo Sforza, Henri Barbusse and Adolph S. Ochs...

...Two reasons are given: the unqualified opposition of the English public, which the commission admits...

...Chief among its achievements in this field was the Football Review organization of the Permanent Committee on Better Understanding, comprising three Catholics, three Protestants and three Jews-forerunner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews which has operated so effectively in informal seminars at Columbia and Harvard...

...Following so closely upon China's appeal against the Russian invasion, it takes on a significance which might be interpreted as the international favoring of the oriental republic...

...If his noble intellect was, like Martha, busy with many things, it was always busy to good and lofty purposes: and his soul, like Mary, the contemplative soul of a great Benedictine, guided the works of his intellect...

...Britain does not begin to send out her present increment of 200,000 a year-and the dole costs her approximately $500 a minute...

...He affirms that his country is developing away from it-and largely as a beneficent by-result of the war...

...The work will be entrusted to that eminent architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A...

...new attendance records will be established as regularly as another autumn rolls around...

...Subscriptions to the fund, or correspondence concerning it, may be addressed to the Reverend G. B. Hicks, O.S.B., the secretary of the committee, Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Bath, England...

...Fifty thousand years from now it may be another matter...

...The note which SecreChina tary Stimson has forwarded to Russia and China calls to the attention of the Concedes two nations their obligations under the Kellogg pact...

...But the general tone of alertness, generosity and good-will is admirable in itself and, we are glad to say, admirably characteristic as well of the American Hebrew's long and honorable tradition...

...We know that John Bull dislikes formulations and forbiddings, and that he likes punch, egg-hot and ale-or did when Dickens and Arthur Morrison were writing...

...Whether or not such Expedition an accomplishment has its practical value seems unimportant...

...The imbroglio created by Chinese seizure of the Mukden railroad would probably not have been ended by notes from any foreign power, but they would have been just as effective when the dispute began as now, and would have obviated the present awkwardness...

...The constituent factors in the situation which has made 1,200,000 men jobless are already familiar: a population which is steadily increasing in spite of a falling birth-rate...

...Boardman Robinson has placed on public exhibition at the Art Students' League...

...China, as a matter of fact, has shown her lack of faith in the ability of other nations to quiet troubled waters...

...We are the more pleased to salute England's achievement in this field, whatever its dimensions may be, in view of the fact that the same issue of the Times happens to contain an analysis of the unemployment problem which shows its present gravity...

...Van Doren's hand...

...Taramura, dealer in electrical apparatus...

...By traveling at an altitude of 10,000 feet, Commander Byrd and his aides surveyed a territory about thirty times as large as that seen by Amundsen and Scott, but the answer to this is in the very fact that it was surveyed at 10,000 feet, and not at closer quarters...

...Of course there is no such partiality in our attitude...

...As long as the football field is a place where anything can happen, and does happen, there will be no limit to the growth of the sport...

...The big thing for us is that Commander Byrd has successfully undertaken one of the greatest deeds left to the ambitious explorer...

...The magazine reviews, with understandable satisfaction, its half-century of effort for liberal and humane ideals...

...Though there is admittedly no likelihood that either of these works will figure in coming literary menus, the mere thought is staggering...

...Eugene O'Neill might possibly claim the copyright on this idea, because of his creation of the god of the dynamo in one of his recent plays...

...Felix M. Warburg's enlightened and tolerant paper on The Future of Palestine...

...At the close of the exposition, the shrine was moved to a permanent site...

...Pleasure, once understood largely in terms of a degraded drunkenness, was reinterpreted in terms of motion pictures, nice clothes and Ford cars...

...UNLIMITED opportunities in literature are opened to the view by the Literary Guild's decision to take for its next monthly offering Voltaire's Candide, with illustrations by Rockwell Kent...

...and in spite of the postwar economic slump, the new attitude has somehow persisted...

...It would seem that Mr...

...We believe that the Literary Guild could sell an edition of Kenilworth or even of Pilgrim's Progress...

...an industrial system weakened by the war and unable to absorb the surplus workers...

...The expedition's geologists, traveling on foot, may discover coal, oil and minerals of all kinds in the mountains and plateaus, but we can afford to remain in ignorance about them so long as the ice age is secure in the Antarctic...

...Football being what it is, the under dog (when not too completely under) always has the better chance...

...Taramura, dealer in electrical apparatus, was indebted to Mr...

...Moreover, the surveyors were passing along the centre of this territory at a speed of 100 miles an hour...

...We have hopes...

...But there is nothing in any of this to indicate the workability, or the non-workability, of the Kellogg pact...

...WEEK BY WEEK COMMANDER BYRD has flown to the South Pole...

...and the increasing sobriety of the English public, which Sir Philip interestingly infers from what look like perfectly sound statistics...

...We would merely mention, in passing, Henry Morgen-thau's fine counsel to American Jews, that they abandon the tradition of "martyrdom" (which he ventures to call occasionally "self-imposed") and "become warp and woof of the American tapestry...

...WORLD-WIDE refractions of the Light Jubilee and Hero Edison's glory," remarks Time, the news magazine, in its usual staccato style so appropriate to this machine age of ours, with its suggestion of clattering typewriter keys, or an electrical riveter...

...PROHIBITION, says Sir Philip Gibbs in the New York Times, is a dead issue in England today...

...The spectacle is absorbing because so many tens of thousands who made wry faces at "classics" in the old days will purr contentedly now while they eat one right out of Dr...

...Whether the astute Mr...

...Yet despite this, the improved communications, and the fact that the home government now actually supplies one-half of an intending settler's expenses, the figures of those leaving the British Isles show a yearly shrinkage...

...Buried, we dare say, hidden behind mountains of files, and one will have to wade knee-deep through blue-prints to reach the Patent Commissioner's desk...

...Prospects are very, very bright...

...Sir Philip does not accuse these writers of overdrawing their picture...

...And in European and South American countries were held illuminations, displays, public lectures, exhibitions...

...and our tendency to inquire whether they actually go as far as he thinks he sees them going in England now is at least challenged by Mr...

...Well for her indeed if she can say that she at least has her drink problem in hand...

...The humanity of his time he observed with some amusement...

...It is the recently issued report of the Patent Commissioner which strikes this alarming note...

...THE football season ends most unsatisfactorily, with no less than five undefeated major teams: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Purdue, Tulane and Saint Mary's, and no way to get them together...

...The Fides News Service relates, in a recent despatch from Osaka, that Thomas Alva Edison "has been declared a prophet of the god of electricity, with the Edison in Apotheosis title of 'Edison no Mikoto.' The new god came into prominence last year at the electrical exposition held under the auspices of the city authorities, at which was displayed a facsimile of the Shintoist temple with the god enthroned, erected by a Mr...

...THE fiftieth anniversary number of our contemporary, the American Hebrew, is so rich in names of international distinction that this brief The paragraph to which we must confine our American friendly salute will not suffice for the Hebrew telling of them...

...The typical American reader will perhaps find the first objection so consistent with his idea of the typical Englishman as to be a good deal surprised at the second...

...WE FEEL that Sir Philip's ideas on the relation of certain social phenomena to decreased drinking are perfectly sound, so far as they go...

...This is due in part to the dominions' insistence on a higher economic and educational status for their immigrants than heretofore, and in part to the industrial specialization which has rendered the latter unfit to become agricultural pioneers...

...If the commissioners of Mr...

...a decline in the demand for British coal, which has rendered about 200,000 miners permanently unemployLiterature for the Elect able...

...Alarming because if the Patent Office has fallen so far behind at this time, where will it be, in relation to its unfinished business, when the rising generation with its flair for mechanics of all kinds, with its superior knowledge and training, with its Edison scholars, begins to submit inventions...

...Of course the diet is flavored with a certain naughtiness- and with Kent-but the possibilities are obvious...

...Yet we feel that a better motive even than gratitude animates us in this matter, believing as we do that both society and the everlasting Church are nourished and promoted most effectively by that union and harmony of spiritual and intellectual culture which was so splendidly exemplified by Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet...

...At the recent celebration of the golden jubilee of the incandescent bulb, the god was installed on the third story of the palace of electricity, and was formally adopted by a Shintoist sect recognized by the state...

...THE COMMONWEAL has had no stauncher or more understanding friend than the late Cardinal Gasquet, whose interest in all matters which tended toward the intellectual and literary expression of the Faith seemed to increase rather than to languish as his long and nobly memorable life drew to its close...

...In professional football, which to the disappointment of Professor Stagg and other coaches grows more prosperous every year, the Green Bay Packers, who need a Rand McNally to find their way home, defeated the New York Giants with such ease as to leave no doubt about the identity of the year's best professional team...

...We believe with the New York Times that a more perilous flight has never been made, and with M. Coste, the great French avia-The tor, that there has never been a more Antarctic "beautiful" one...

...It may come to pass that all manner of machines and devices will outlive their span of usefulness without ever achieving the coveted stamp: "Patented, June 19, 1933," and while an application for patent is awaiting its turn, there may be submitted two or three or half a dozen destined to supersede it...

...It is true that she is now willing to reinstate the ousted Russian officials of the railroad and allow them to continue operation, which would be a return to the status quo ante, and that despatches from Shanghai indicate that the negotiations looking to a peaceful settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway controversy have reached a fairly advanced stage...

...1 HE disturbed situation in Manchuria has at last provoked action from this country in conjunction with Great Britain...

...All this is what makes football so good a game...

...Snowden's declaration that the budget is embarrassed by the lessening in the country's wine and spirit revenues...

...We leave it to the meteorologists, who can look upon Commander Byrd's observations as simply a day's work...

...It has been aided, moreover, by the movement for greater publicity and sociability in all amusements, including drinking...

...The commission appointed by the present Britain's Ups government to recommend possible liquor reforms has just finished its and Downs investigations, including a study of the situation in this country, and it is definitely known that they will not enter even a minority report in favor of adopting the "noble experiment...

...A Navy team which had been taking lickings from every side all year beat one of the strongest teams Dartmouth has ever mustered, and a mediocre West Point team held the greatest of all Notre Dame's great squads to a single touchdown...

...But the present state of Ameri-canistic literati must dissolve his soul in guffaws by comparison with which the mightiest stages of his earthly mirth were momentary smiles...

...An INDICATION of the inventiveness of the American mind, or, should one say, the fertility of its inventive genius, is that the work of the Five Years Patent Office at Washington is piling up in such volume that five or six years Behind will be requjred to make it current...

...The mere existence of these canvases contradicts the superstitions that commercial enterprise must maintain a course in which no divergence or embellishment is possible, and that the natural laws of decay are accelerated to our own speed...

...The British dominions are badly in need of settlers, and are said to prefer British immigrants...

...Edison...

...It is therefore with something of the excite-Art in ment of discovery that one approaches the ten exhilarating and successful cancommerce vases destined for a Pittsburgh department store, which Mr...

...What has not been so clear heretofore is the serious hitch in the emigration schemes which have been counted on to drain off the superfluous population...

...Patent Pending" may not yet be a national slogan, but we are waiting...

...It was on this occasion that Edison was declared a prophet of the god...

...It is proposed to erect a canopied tomb over Cardinal Gasquet's grave in Downside Abbey, and in fulfilment of his own wish, it is also The Gasquet Memorial proposed to complete the tower of the abbey church which he himself began in 1880...

...It is merely unfortunate that this country, which is the agent immediately responsible for the Kellogg pact, did not see fit to send an earlier reminder to Moscow and Nanking...

...and Andre Siegfried's tribute to the French Jew...

...They record the history of commercial enterprise, and one is moved to praise both Mr...

...A. De Navarro and other gentlemen whose names are familiar in the United States, are members of the distinguished committee headed by Cardinal Bourne, which is raising the fund for the memorial...

...If there were, we should bet the office furniture on Saint Mary's to wallop any of the others by two touchdowns, simply because it has the least impressive record...

...Some of the articles in the issue deal with what may be called the internal differences of the Jewish religious body, and on these no outsider may comment with anything like authority...

...As for Voltaire, he must view the situation with some misgivings...

...Indeed, one cannot but feel that the vigorous spirit which these paintings celebrate deserves that its memorials be housed in something sturdier than the swift cycles of modern architecture permit...

...He had his doubts about Candide...

...While the promoters of the new deity are known as fanatics by the authorities, nothing has been done to suppress the superstition for fear of arousing the great number of electrical workers who have joined the ranks of the faithful...

...Sir Esme Howard, Mr...

...O'Neill or not, evidently he possesses in full measure that curious mixture of business astuteness and of fantastic religiosity which is so marked a feature of our own American life...

...The last week of the season is an example...

...Robinson's paintings have built a structure that is planned to live the twenty years American architects are supposed to allot each new building, they have caused to be created in these canvases something of greater endurance...

...China has merely seen that she has no unified support within her own borders to back a high-handed procedure...