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BOOKS Inventory of Science The Universe around Us, by James Jeans. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.50. SIR JAMES JEANS, the author of this book which tells in a popular way the recent...
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...In some future millennium, when each avenue of human activity has come under the microscopic and telescopic vision of specialists, the word will have no significance, but merely an archaic flavor...
...In his account of the discovery of the cellular, he emphasizes perhaps unduly the role played by Weismann...
...Theodor Hampe's summary of what was done with malefactors in Nuremberg during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, is an excellent example of how a special monograph can prove absorbing and important...
...INTEREST in the middle-ages is certainly not diminishing...
...Dying, he has passed his mission on to the gentle girl, Chantal de Clergerie, made her the mystical heir of his charity, transferred to her childlike and fragile spirit, through some inexplicable inspiration of Providence, that burden that has almost overborne Chevance's own rude strength, the dreadful secret of the Impostor, the Abbe Cenabre...
...A few structures (called nebulae) are still in a completely gaseous state, and seem to be the future breeding places of stars...
...Candid inquirers," he says, "are becoming increasingly convinced that the true renaissance occurred around the twelfth rather than the fifteenth century, that mediaeval Latin and Scholasticism possessed great merits, that Gothic painting has been neglected just as Gothic architecture and sculpture once were, that democracy and popular education declined rather than advanced in early modern times, that organized charity and care for public health received much attention in mediaeval towns, whose unsanitary streets seem largely a figment of the modern imagination...
...Lovelace has also done good work with her minor characters Eva Boles, the fastidious and puritanical wife of an army officer...
...And Chantal has recognized and accepted this sadness, simply and unques-tioningly, as she has accepted everything else...
...The essays on Leonard of Bertiplaga, John Michael Albert and Lippo Brandolini are virtual monographs, and the more cursory discussions of general scientific topics are admirable introductions to untilled intellectual fields...
...The whole story is told here in a fascinating and really understandable manner...
...one of those simple men," Bernanos himself tells us, "born...
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...The best part of the book deals with matters personally discovered and realized...
...Paris: Librarie Plon...
...What scientists almost succeeded in organizing yesterday was disheveled by the passage of time...
...That a large number of cases of vampirism must be accounted for as certain," he tells us, "only the most prejudiced will deny...
...New York: Horace Liveright...
...the mill children, Dilsy and Lonny, and their guardian, Martha, a "ig'runt old woman...
...The humble Abbe Chevance "confessor of nursemaids" as some wit has called him...
...Witness the writing of volume after volume devoted either to the period as a whole or to some more or less curious aspect of it...
...They will "order" the dice to come seven . . . and, at least with the experts, seven does turn up...
...He seeks to evoke from a thousand memorials the life and dreams of the "fair-haired" people who worked beside the Italians and the Slavs to create Europe...
...In the present volume legends and tales from all countries of Europe resurrect the horror of the "wandering corpse...
...He thinks that it is more probable that the planets owe their existence to an eruption from the sun...
...The most certain thing in the world is uncertainty on that you can bank, with a low discount and rediscount rate...
...This is the historical background for Maud Hart Lovelace's pleasing idyll...
...Blair's Attic, by Joseph C. Lincoln and Freeman Lincoln...
...van Dyke himself...
...He rejects those frequent Whitmanian ebullitions in "semi-intoxicated prose" which it is "an abuse of language to call poetry," and he ventures on a parody of Walt's "agglutinative" verse which does more to debunk the Sage of Camden than a volume of serious discussion...
...What follows is designed to be merely a resume of selected publications...
...And the answer to the strange happenings that took place in the musty old attic of Blair's house is the story which the Lincolns, father and son, have presented...
...We should not be swayed by the verdicts of the Literary Guilders, or even by the awards of academic prize committees...
...parts of life, noble or mean or base...
...Briefer Mention Early Candlelight, by Maud Hart Lovelace...
...And there is a constantly increasing amount of this currency daily pouring into our laps from the cosmic coffers...
...the worldly and complaisant ecclesiastic, Bishop Espelette, who is proud of boasting he is "a man of time...
...The law that enthropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature...
...This latest novel from the indefatigable Lincoln pen has the familiar ingredients: the wreck of a bark back in 1883, a Chinese, chest, with other salvage, stored in the attic, a message from the grave, "one foot, one hand...
...It is absurd as a contingency, to be sure, and yet it is the essence of all contingencies...
...He has seen the face of sin, he has uncovered the void and the death of its brooding malignancy, he has looked into the abyss of hell...
...New York: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...a few are smaller, and a few up to 500 times as large...
...The casual rhythm of chance is anathema to the well-tempered rhythm of the scientific method...
...Not so with scientific thought...
...He cannot behold his fellow-men except under the shadow of that sinister pall that weighs upon them, the corruption that the dark angel has sown in their flesh...
...and old Denis DuGay and his wife, Tess, who were respectively first in demand at dances and sickbeds...
...Chance is absurd, regarded as a contingency...
...New York: The Century Company...
...They are all marked by the ripe judgment of a thinker, the reverence of one who refuses to see the eternal decencies outlawed from life and literature without a protest, the instinct for style of a poet...
...Luck, they say, resolves itself into knowledge about operating causes...
...New York: Columbia University Press...
...The charming country from the St...
...Sitwell appears as a poet off on an archaelogical holiday...
...He upholds the ideals of permanent marriage and the sanctity of the home, and vigorously opposes the degrading idea of "companionate marriage...
...Sometimes this curiously chased and interwoven prose appears to dissolve in pure fantasy, but it comes round sharply and suddenly to the definite results of a process of Einfiihlung...
...Beautiful photographs of celestial formations adorn the text...
...The Trophies, with other Sonnets, by Jose Maria de Heredia...
...And there is about Mrs...
...For, as George Santayana liked to put it: "Events in the long run will falsify any policy...
...One recognizes them as drawn, though slightly blurred in transposition, from life as it was lived in thousands of cities and villages just emerging from the shadows of a fratricidal war...
...The Dice Luck, by Lothrop Stoddard...
...While the judgments arrived at may not always be definitive, one feels that they (and the volume as a whole) are about as satisfactory as any available in so brief a compass...
...We must read with our own eyes...
...In discussing the probable life history of the earth, Jeans discards the Kant-Laplace theory, according to which the sun once extended through all the space now occupied by the planets, and left them behind in contracting to its present size...
...Recognizing the great influence of environment in determining development, and the valuable results obtained in the application of this knowledge, the author stresses heredity as basic and all-important...
...New York: Charles Scribners Sons...
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...Luck, then, is wisdom after the fact and superstition before the fact...
...These qualifications, then, make Johnny Reb a rather unusual book in this era of stark realism...
...It is only gradually that the revelation of evil, the stirring of the vast shadows that encompass mankind, close upon her fragile peace...
...To anyone who knew the Paris of pre-war times, it brings back floods of memories, of long-ago pleasures and impressions...
...For a moment she wavers, thinks of flight...
...Only on a few points is the author at variance with the teaching of the Catholic Church: unfortunately his attitude toward birth control is one of them...
...Mercy nevertheless had its day, too, and the care expended upon the spiritual well-being of the condemned may probably be accepted as the source whence more recent floods of pity have flowed...
...This law of probability, along with "the random element," is gaining increasing attention in the scientific world...
...These in reality played no part in his condemnation, which was brought about by his pantheistic doctrines and by his attitude against the Church, of which he spoke in terms similar to Voltaire...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...It has one defect: it is too short for the varied subjects which it covers, and in certain passages it is too superficial...
...To know man, Bernanos tells us, we must enter, by a miracle of compassion, into this sadness...
...And she accepts the Passion...
...Dr...
...He knows books and loves them, and the "men behind them" have for a lifetime been as real to him as his own associates at Princeton...
...VAN DYKE says: "Understanding is the first thing that we owe to a book and to the writer behind it...
...Stoddard's book does not attempt to explain what luck is, but what luck has done, in and to the lives of prominent persons, historical and contemporary...
...so for that matter were the Latin and Greek poets...
...This book presents the picture of a subject which is in a most rapid development, and gives information of the most interesting kind...
...Written in a mood of languorous refinement, his most unusual book avoids the topics (cathedrals, stained glass, guild halls) which dozens of authors have "worn threadbare" and draws elusive substance from the lore of tapestries and miniatures...
...It is true that Nuremberg was an unusually enlightened and well-governed city...
...SIR JAMES JEANS, the author of this book which tells in a popular way the recent progress of astronomy, has himself made prominent contributions to physics and astronomy...
...And though luck, like ghosts, survived the centuries, his point of view has its modern proponents...
...The interiors must be much hotter...
...He discusses parenthood in the entire scale of animal life always in a reverent spirit, and in language free from the crudities which characterize many books dealing with this topic...
...As a matter of fact, the newer knowledge does not confirm this older logic: rather, it elevates chance or luck into a law...
...The sun with all its planets is thereby seen to be part of a huge system, the galactic system, formed by other fixed stars which are only other suns...
...the venomous Catani, anonymous slanderer and betrayer...
...All of us will agree, at any rate, that the tale here related confirms the truth of the sad condition of the human race...
...There are, in conclusion, a few points to which I would object...
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...Mystical Tragedy La Joie, by Georges Bernanos...
...It is even possible to determine the weight of many of the stars...
...Like rats," the rude Abbe Chevance declares, "our sins are, as devouring and as cruel as rats...
...It is all so charmingly described that one puts down the volume with considerable regret...
...He writes of them with understanding, sympathy and a zest which is irresistible and which sends us back to the originals with new insight, fresh enthusiasm and a reorganized sense of values...
...to the Abbe Cenabre, the riddle of God...
...a critic, not a worshiper...
...van Dyke does not consider Poe a great poet, nor does he accept the Whitman tradition without a challenge...
...SWEETNESS and nobility and cheerfulness are pedestaled here...
...The only reason why I cannot like some of the new books is because they are so unmistakably old, born old, old as Sodom and Gomorrah, old as the Greek sophists, old as that primal pessimist, the ape, who always chatters, often misbehaves and is usually sad or spiteful...
...It is this that makes the love which he shares so costly to the saint...
...A recognition of the structure of the solar system was relatively easy, because the distances and sizes of the planets could be measured without difficulty, but it needed much more powerful instruments to do the same for the fixed stars...
...We should disregard the ticker reports of the literary stock market, the propaganda of the cliques and coteries, the flaming book notices written in the explosive style used in advertising refrigerators, tooth-paste, and vacuum cleaners...
...D. W. Swann, prominent chemist of the Bartol Research Foundation, who is quoted in the book here under review: "We now know that the results of many purely physical phenomena, such as the transmission of heat, depend upon what science inadequately calls the 'law of probability,' which is just another name for chance or luck...
...The information which the Reverend Montague Summers has collected regarding vampires, ghosts and sundry other grew-some phenomena is almost the eighth wonder of the age...
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...To Chantal, the meaning of her life is revealed...
...Mr...
...The growth of astronomical knowledge in the last thirty years is due to several causes...
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...Born of an endeavor to "write down" the Dialogues to below the level of the average college student in the classics, it bristles with curious sentences like the following: "There are many mathematicians who are not virtuous, who are notoriously queer and unsociable...
...Jeans shows first how it is possible by a number of processes to compute limits within which the age of the earth as a solid body, the age of the sun and of the stars, must lie...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...Johnny Reb, by Marie Conway Oemler...
...Then some of us may legitimately add the wish that Dr...
...DOUGLAS POWERS...
...Luck" will pass out of the sphere of events because it will have developed into known facts and demonstrable results...
...WALTER V. ANDERSON...
...However, this superficiality can be accounted for by the breeding which stands out so prominently in all its pages...
...He is generous without idolatry...
...The Mediaeval Time The Middle-Ages, by Edward Maslin Hulme...
...But let no one doubt that the author is in earnest...
...A. S. Eddington...
...Indeed the science of mediaevalism has taken on such dimensions that it would be folly for anyone not to mention the present reviewer to attempt to express a critical verdict on new books...
...Under these circumstances, the existence of planets on which life can exist must be a very rare occurrence, not as if every fixed star were, as a sun, surrounded by planets...
...Many will find in it pleasant and gentle entertainment...
...New York: The John Day Company...
...In a historical introduction Jeans gives on the whole a fair account of Galileo, but he follows the present custom of making Giordano Bruno a martyr to his scientific convictions...
...Let us hear a recognized man of the scientific cloth expound: Dr...
...Critical Art The Man behind the Book, by Henry van Dyke...
...This independent and refreshing declaration establishes at once the tone of the thirteen essays which follow...
...You are laid bare to my eyes as a child to the eyes of its mother," is his anguished cry on that fatal night when L'Abbe Cenabre declares his apostasy...
...Professor Thorndike, delver and note-taker, concerns himself with diverse aspects of science and learning during the fifteenth century...
...leading to an idol's necklace of great price, and the successful sale of antiques down in 1927...
...JOSEPH J. REILLY...
...We are said to control," sarcastically commented the Spanish sceptic, "whatever obeys us...
...Crime and Punishment in Germany, by Theodor Hampe...
...Sitwell is not concerned with the central institutions of the middle-ages...
...We can, however, expect translations which will stand on their own merits as poetry, meanwhile reflecting the excellences and beauties of the original, and in this direction John Myers O'Hara and John Hervey have advanced decidedly farther than any of their predecessors...
...We predict that this scholarly book, which has been well translated by Malcolm Letts, will find numerous interested readers...
...translated by John Myers O'Hara and John Hervey...
...His analysis of the significance of Gothic costume seems a bit of remarkable poetic insight, and in general his art comment has the great merit of being itself artistic...
...van Dyke's tastes are extraordinarily catholic and he insists brilliantly that they are limited by no prepossessions for the old, if it is bad work, and no prejudice against the new, if it is good work...
...Rather, when did we first call this unknown quantity by the name of luck...
...It is a collection of distinguished and valuable papers, which no other American scholar I know of could have written...
...Furthermore, reasons which have been given before but which Jeans sums up very convincingly make it highly improbable that the world has gone on since infinite time, and will go on in cycles to infinite time...
...Furthermore it develops that the size of most of the stars is about the same as that of the sun...
...Possessed of their mournful secret, it is her mission to dispense to men her joy, "a joy as mysterious as their sadness...
...While the outer part of all the stars is in a state of vapor, their centre seems to be liquid...
...Frankly professing his own lack of faith, he finds one-half of religion superstition and the other half incomprehensible...
...PAUL CROWLEY...
...Behind her she draws him to the summit of her sacrifice, and in her final Joy it crumbles at last, that Imposture, that "neant," that "mensonge," before the Divine Love that is light and life and truth...
...Croix River to Lac Qui Parle is made vivid in a series of fine passages, and Mrs...
...There are two items interesting from a philosophical standpoint...
...I wish somebody would publish an authoritative investigation of Bruno's trial, as has been done with so beneficial results on Galileo...
...Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century, by Lynn Thorndike...
...Equally entertaining is Lady Barbara's appreciation of the sacred rules under which, in pre-war France, marriages were arranged...
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...New York: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...Yet beneath their saccharine ideality, the characters Johnny Reb, the Civil War veteran who becomes a mule-car driver and a town favorite...
...seems, one regrets to say, a "Will Durant" which got away to a bad start...
...Santayana is fond of illustrating with the spectacle of Negroes shooting dice...
...The descriptions of life in a Paris flat when central heating and bathtubs were unknown, and servants were plentiful, are extremely true and amusing, as well as the vivid lines dedicated to the then fashionable school for young girls in Paris, the Cours Knoertzer in the Rue Du Colysee, of which the Directrice seemed to have mastered the secret of perpetual youth...
...The best we can still do is to "look wise" when the emergency hits us which Mr...
...to lavish upon others all the holy forces of their nature, all the genius of their charity" sees truly through l'imposture, penetrates with his "divine ignorance" the ruses of sin...
...the Dam-yankee from Massachusetts transplanted to South Carolina...
...So, purely scientific reasoning leads to results which Catholic philosophy had proclaimed long ago...
...An enormous amount of information has been packed into the book and on this account, though each part is written in language which can be easily grasped, I do not think that it will make quick reading for the layman...
...And in the humble girl, as in the rude Abbe Chevance, the stubborn rationalist who has searched in vain to pierce the secret of the saints comes face to face with the Divine Love he has always denied...
...He stands as the arch figure of the hollow hypocrisy of that group that live within the shelter of the Church, unctuous, spinning intrigues, Brahmans and Pharisees: the mean and time-serving journalist, Pernichon...
...Their civilization is seen as reposing upon a foundation of certain simple ideals: bravery in men, race-perpetuation in women...
...From the different objects in the sky which, as he shows, are other stellar systems of different ages, he reconstructs the history of our stellar system as we might, by seeing in one moment a child, a boy, a grown man and an old man, reconstruct the average development of man...
...The word belongs to Dr...
...This shows that the coldest stars visible have a surface temperature of about 2,500° (about the same as the wire in an incandescent lamp) the sun about 6,ooo° (an arc lamp has about 4,000°) the hottest star about 28,000...
...SCHMUCKER gives a very simple and reliable account of our present knowledge regarding the facts of heredity and discusses the proper relations of the sexes to each other prior to marriage...
...Never was there a more erudite marshaling of bibliographies, or a more graphic presentation of evidence...
...Crime and Punishment in Germany, Dr...
...4.75...
...Hence we cannot draw and act upon the moral continuously thrown up to us by an examination of all history...
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...Heredity and Parenthood, by Samuel Christian Schmucker...
...She perceives sin obscurely, only in its effect, its "tristesse" "the sadness of so many wasted hours, of vain ventures, of bitterness and enmities, of ambitions as immovable as stone and as light as dreams...
...He concedes that much of the belief in vampires is pure superstition, but asserts that it opens the door wide to the machinations of the demon...
...His book is certainly an interesting commentary on one aspect of mediaeval life...
...At still farther distances, there are many similar systems of stars moving in space...
...WHEN did the world first become aware of luck...
...Paul...
...There is, in particular, a fresh and fascinating chapter on the monasteries of Portugal...
...The expression always vigorous, the scholarship never heavy, the humor keen, the irony biting...
...Paris Long Ago The House of Memories, by Barbara Wilson...
...Oemler's narrative a style of leisureliness and repetition which, because leisureliness and repetition were notably characteristic of these people, match her theme...
...ALTHOUGH they leave something to be desired, these are the best translations of the sonnets the reviewer has seen...
...But, in a critical state of despair, "la pensee que, dans un instant, elle ne pourrait sans doute plus rien pour ces etres, qu'elle aurait perdu mille fois plus que leur chetive presence, le secret de leur tristesse, de leur misere, de leur mensonge, que le celeste lien de la pi tie serait entre eux a jamais rompu, qu'elle ne pourrait plus les plaindre, partager leur souf-france obscure, la traversa comme un eclair...
...Dee's brother, Narcisse, the harum-scarum voyageur whose liquor selling brought down the wrath of the fort authorities on the DuGay houshold...
...Summers had been less comprehensive and more critical...
...Einstein's theory of general relativity has made it extremely probable that the world has a finite size...
...AMONG the salt inlets and little bayberry-crowned hills that spell Cape Cod, stood the long, low, white-clapboarded house of the Blairs...
...KARL F. HERZFELD...
...The various strands of the characters' lives are tied finally in the happy knot of matrimony...
...Even so, the tempo and spirit of the volume remind one not unfre-quently of Jeremy Taylor...
...Accordingly, the book will be of great value to students of literature and culture...
...It divides the years between 300 and 1300 into two periods, in both of which the Church is seen as the central social institution...
...There are a few other remarks about life in the book which I fear will make good copy for headlines and give a wholly wrong impression of a work which is both scientific and popular in the best sense...
...This brings us to a new subject...
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...and those who love them become the same...
...By its "free" conception, the idea was germane and grateful to fanciful thought...
...But the new books which are free from these faults, and have virtues of their own, are a joy to my mind, all the more because they are new, because they belong to the very strange and interesting age in which you and I are living...
...This obviously seems, one regrets to say, a "Will Durant" which got away to a bad start...
...This view follows from the fact that Bruno was burned in 1600, sixteen years before the Roman commissions concerned themselves with Copernicus and Galileo...
...New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated, $2.00...
...IT MUST suffice to say that the present curiously named study of Platonism is hardly what one would have expected from a man of Dean Woodbridge's position and attainments...
...WHEN the DuGays and other fellow-squatters were banished from the territory protected by the garrison and guns of Fort Snelling, they went further up the Mississippi River and formed the settlement that was later to become St...
...Establish all the causes as facts, and you can demonstrate the result, and variations to boot...
...His book is therefore an attempt to place definite achievements of the fifteenth century in their proper perspective and to correct the distorted notion of a "rebirth of learning" which bellicose humanism bequeathed to later eras...
...the devotee, Madam Jerome, who is a vaporish mixture of piety, perfume and poetry...
...Misamy, the sweetly suffering woman who sews and embroiders while she watches the placid flow of the life from which invalidism bars her...
...Of course, it is hard to see how we can ever have wholly satisfactory translations of Heredia: the tonal qualities which distinguish his French are precisely those most difficult to suggest in English...
...This having been done, it is possible to give their grouping in space...
...We must try to see books as they really are...
...The author's comment is guarded but almost invariably fair, and his bibliographies devote plenty of room to Catholic authorities...
...New York: Henry Holt and Company...
...She has discovered a world in which the moralist advances only with feet of lead, she has penetrated in a flash, as if by a divine skip, the sorrow of men...
...They reveal a wide range of taste: Chaucer, Poe, Whitman, Edgar Lee Masters and The Spoon River Anthology, Wordsworth and diction, Byron, Hazlitt, Shelley, and Carlyle, while under the caption Four Noteworthy Modern Novels, Dr...
...In The Gothick North, Mr...
...It is as if reluctantly that the Divine Mercy that has sheltered her asks finally for the consummating sacrifice, unmasks for her the hate and the design of sin, opens plainly to her eyes "the frightful solitude of the children of God...
...The Gothick North, by Sacheverell Sitwell...
...The next important step in astronomy is due to the increasing knowledge of physics gained in the laboratory...
...It is the climax of the sublime drama...
...2.50...
...I see into you...
...The Vampire in Europe, by Montague Summers...
...It is readable, as the Lincolns always are...
...CATHERINE RADZIWILL...
...van Dyke considers The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and Death Comes for the Archbishop...
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...Events for next month's activities are more uncertain than events for tomorrow's diary...
...We hope that many an American professor will profit by Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century...
...Professor Hulme's substantial treatise is the modern textbook, outfitted with helps for the student but none the less readable...
...I see the very soul of you perishing...
...The laws which govern the emission of light by hot bodies enable us to find out the state of the outer parts of the stars...
...Neant," "mensonge" emptiness and lies...
...Chaucer and Shakespeare were free in their use of the term...
...Nev) York: The John Day Company...
...Lady Barbara Wilson could have said a great deal more, and if she has not done so, it is because she is so kind, kind as only those can be who were reared in the principle that one must never hurt anyone, even those who deserve to be hurt...
...Stephen Ambry, the physician and pioneer in medical research...
...No other book in general circulation gives so clear an idea of the pre-modern attitude toward crime...
...Yet society keeps on putting its faith in men who do not double squares by doubling their sides...
...She has combined the elements of description and narrative so skilfully that the reader's interest is impartially divided between the life at a military frontier post, the comings and goings of voyageurs and friendly Indians, the enforced amity of Chippewa and Sioux, on one hand and on the other the course of Dee DuGay's burgeoning into womanhood and the happy realization of her love for M'sieu Page, the territory's great and beloved factor...
...In La Joie, the spiritual life of Chantal unfolds itself like a delicate lyric, a lovely canticle...
...It is very agreeable and very entertaining reading...
...The nomen magnum of scientific thinking, Aristotle, drilled it into the race's early consciousness that events have beginnings, middles and ends...
...His volume is a series of essays not closely interrelated but yet made to revolve round a central idea...
...It is the Agony of the Garden...
...After teaching for some years at Princeton University and in England, he has taken up his residence in the latter country as secretary of the Royal Society...
...the sensualist Guerou, whose literary reputation is a sufficient tithe to excuse his Laodicean attitude to the policemen of orthodoxy...
...The technical improvement in telescopes and the application of photography has shown half a million times as many stars as are visible to the naked eye...
...The Son of Apollo, by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge...
...In a more serious strain are the impressions of people then prominent in Parisian society, and of the author's visits to great French country houses, like the castle of Chan-tilly and that of Vaux le Vicomte, the former residence of the famous Fouquet of Louis XIV's days, now the property of the millionaire sugar refiner, M. Sommier...
...THIS is a refreshing book to encounter amid the worthless trash in the way of personal remembrances with which we are being inundated nowadays...
...The practical measure of the random element, which can increase in the universe but can never decrease, is called en-thropy...
...2.50...
...He speaks of Hazlitt's gusto...
...It is on the last dolorous way that the routes of the two meet, the little "Rien du tout" ascending to Calvary and the Impostor descending into the night of madness...
...IN L'IMPOSTURE, of which the present work is the sequel, Bernanos has given us a sombre chronicle of the Abbe Cenabre's progress in apostasy...
...and Maryville, a personified town of the foothills do live and are real...
...but it is precise as a measure," speaks the famous Dr...
...but there was an abundance of burglars and murderers, convicted on the evidence of personal confessions secured through torture and often executed with what seems to us horrible cruelty...
Vol. 11 • January 1930 • No. 9
