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BOOKS The Truth at Last The Monstrous Regiment, by Christopher Hollis. New York: Milton, Balch and Company. $2.50. THE title is from a phrase of John Knox, Scotland's Calvinist apostle, the...
...There were moments when feminine wilfulness, a taste for domination or a motive of mere honor flamed up in her, as when she told the unspeakable Cecil that she had raised him out of the dirt, and could return him to his natural element when she chose, but such moments were rare and of brief duration...
...So Williams went to Plymouth for two years...
...Seriously, of course, he advocates nothing of the kind...
...New York: The Viking Press...
...And the American President's note to England, penned in the hope of averting war, is a typical state document along the lines of the public utterances of our Mr...
...Flick concludes, they became actualities in Luther and the Protestant revolt on the one hand, and in the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent on the other...
...Hollis asserts that it is no longer possible to accept him as an authority at all...
...He noted no persecution in the plantation, but he found that church and state were not separated and he questioned the land titles of his neighbors, who conveniently found him disloyal to the king...
...The chapter on peace is unsatisfying, because of its declamatory statements against "practical men" and "peace societies and women's clubs" and serves but to remind us of the columns of the European press during the few days prior to the outbreak of the world war, at which time one paper said, after printing paragraph after paragraph of quotations fom German writers and papers full of nagging against England and France "what after all is the essential difference between a nagging wife and a nagging press...
...This "something" is indefinable, but its expression is always definite...
...This may be in part due to the dullness and modern insignificance of Puritan religious controversies and the drab character of the primitive, humdrum people with whom Williams was cast...
...He objected to placing an unregenerate man under oath...
...By the time that the clergy had reformed themselves, the laity had become irreligious...
...Hollis's book—so honest, so carefully documented, so full of comprehension and sympathy even for the enemy—is a work of the very first importance...
...And in America I believe it is already expressing itself in this way—in a new approach to the word, a new vigor given to the word, a freshness that is not to be found in English poetry, because the English standard literary dialect is becoming more and more inflexible, and the word slowly but perceptibly losing its strength...
...The present reviewer has no pretention of being a historical bloodhound, but he can recall one monstrous distortion on the part of the late James Anthony— his suppresion of the "noble and stainless" Moray's complicity in the murder of Darnley, Mary Stuart's husband...
...Expressed in the simplest way it would seem to be this—it cannot be said to exist in America unless there is something common to American poetry which is not to be found in English, and therefore in a wider sense in any other national poetry...
...He had denied the control of magistrates over religious offenses...
...One insists upon it because it represents a unity in the variety of American poetry, and an analysis of this variety is clearly beyond the scope of a review...
...His general conclusions would have more weight for the average reader were more attention paid not only to statements of fact but to the proofreading...
...A strange persuasion in his mind arose and gathered strength, that round and about the present appearances of historical continuity something else quite different and novel and not so much menacing as dematerializing these appearances was happening...
...Revelation, by Andre Birabeau...
...It would be far-fetched to say that Elizabeth was no more a free agent than the present English king—far-fetched but not too far...
...A medical staff of 226 doctors and 855 trained men and women nurses are divided among 691 hospitals and 1,848 medical dispensaries...
...His last service was in King Philip's War...
...Wells serious...
...W HILE the new Clarendon Edition of the Holy Bible, several parts of which have already been published, will naturally not seem entirely adequate to Catholic readers, it is nevertheless a remarkably fine thing...
...Taking as his point of departure the end of the thirteenth century, he describes in detail the progressive steps in the failure of the Church to maintain the position of preeminence to which it had been raised by the genius of such Popes as Gregory VII and Innocent III...
...At any rate he became enamored of Jane Whalley, whom he allowed to be too socially superior for a man of his slim estate and mean outlook...
...The Australia of late pioneering days emerges here in physical pictures which do veritably suggest a radiant, rich, unconquered land...
...The story of Venetian art is rich in incident and color...
...It is a pity, however, that his critical notes provide so little informed and lucid criticism...
...CONFRONTED with the vast body of American poetry ^^ from Emily Dickinson to the present day, one is tempted to ask one question in particular: "How far is it American, how far does it represent a distinctively national poetry...
...Here it is traced with far more discrimination than one usually meets in works of this character, and with relative thoroughness...
...The most numerous missionary fields are in Asia, where the work is distributed among a Catholic population of over six million...
...1.00 IF THE adage, "There is many a true word spoken in jest," were applied to Mr...
...The triumph was not, as the pages of this work make clear, so much a vindication of the inherent merit of the new ideas over the old, as a demonstration that the upholders of the old were incapable of freeing themselves from the incubus of accumulated abuses in morals, administration and law...
...On completion of a course in theology, he apparently subscribed to the religious tests and became a chaplain at Otes in Essex, the seat of Sir William Masham...
...The others are not very impressive, but show the evidence of hard work and constant practice, of a right attitude toward the cultivation of poetry as an art...
...By the time that the laity had become educated, the clergy had become corrupt...
...His own thesis of the Reformation is simply that which would occur to any honest man who had studied the question, after freeing his mind of tags and slogans, of Froudian cant, of the "Liberal" and jingo complexes and all the others...
...Harold Samuel and Sir Wilfred Jameson Jicks are all presented as members of the House of Commons which falls before England's bloodless revolution...
...The Clarendon Bible: The Gospel according to Saint Luke...
...Summoned before the court on various occasions, he was convicted of dangerous opinions...
...Even Mr...
...Its reference is to the fact that during one decade of the sixteenth century, the religious affairs of much of western Europe seemed to be hopelessly entangled in the capricious hands of a trio of reigning women—Catherine de' Medici in France, Mary Stuart in Scotland, Elizabeth in her "merry" England...
...In England, under Henry VIII, the whole social tendency of the sixteenth century was toward the narrow redistribution of wealth in the hands of a few nouveaux riches who became the natural champions of the religious changes and the subsequent anti-Catholic crusade under Elizabeth...
...His life among the Indians lacked the fire which one finds in the Jesuit narratives, and Miss Easton's pen fails to give a touch of that spirit which one expects in pioneers if not in prophets...
...Yet Mr...
...Williams was given six weeks to leave the jurisdiction of Massachusetts...
...There are loosely phrased sentences which might mislead the casual reader, such as: "Great Britain and Spain colonized India, Australia, South Africa, and America, both by discovery and occupation and by conquest" (p...
...The final result was a victory for the new—the modern—as against the old—the mediaeval...
...They vary even in the different states of the Union, and vary outside America in meaning...
...The picture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in their ecclesiastical aspect, as presented by Dr...
...Untermeyer's labors one has nothing but gratitude...
...For Mr...
...Wells's novelistic jest is barbed with the conviction that Mr...
...For the greater part of her long reign, Elizabeth was content to play the role of deceitful discretion at the expense of valor and often of common honor...
...From Charterhouse the youth went to Pembroke College, Cambridge...
...edited by H. Balmforth...
...The number of non-conformists in Elizabeth's reign appears large, and it may be possible to stress non-conformist courage to the breaking point...
...He found the church intolerant, the Prayer Book in use, and an interlocking directorate of magistrates and clergymen who rigorously ruled both the godly and the ungodly...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...edited by Louis Untermeyer...
...The enslavement of the natural governors of England to the same suspect and cunning coterie was even more extraordinary a few years later, under Elizabeth...
...Here he came to appreciate the Wampanoags and the Narragansetts who later welcomed the missioner whom his fellow-nonconformists would not tolerate...
...He was not a recognized minister but he "prophesied" regularly before the separatists as he worked the fields with a hoe for his daily bread...
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...But the book is nevertheless a fine, poetic diary in which a Platonic love affair verges sometimes on the flesh and sometimes on a curious religious mysticism...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...He soon learned that neither free speech nor free thought would be permitted...
...VTHILE it is certainly not correct to say, with the publishers' jacket, that "Victorian prudery" suppressed "all mention" of Amiel's friendship with the so-called Philine, it was an excellent idea to seek out and correlate those passages of the sixteen-thousand-page diary which chronicle the affair...
...But the term "distinctively national poetry" remains to be defined...
...The pagan ferment of the renaissance—its hatred of religious authority, its Asiatic kingworship and gaudy nationalism—provided the appropriate seeds for the so-called "religious" revolt...
...New York: Oxford University...
...Parham represents the historic, the traditional, way of doing things...
...His device for raising Mr...
...The panorama opens, after the historical setting has been provided, with Byzantine Venice and closes with the achievement of Titian, the "greatest painter" of the Lagoon City...
...The clergy, consisting of 12,952 members, reported 8,039 missionaries from many lands, listed simply as foreigners, besides 4,305 natives of the various missionary territories, most of these graduates from the missionary schools...
...Chanson, the American ambassador to London disguised more effectively by his pseudonym, is easily recognizable...
...Alfred Deakin took exception to the continuous use by Mr...
...Untermeyer has seen fit to exclude Raymond Larsson, technically one of the most brilliant poets of today...
...There are two general considerations, however, which are extremely suggestive—the influence of French poetry upon American, and the revival of the Anglo-Saxon tradition...
...But the Puritan hostility for Williams was hardly softened...
...Baldmin, Sir Austin Chamberland, Lady Asper, Mr...
...The great example of the latter system is, of course, Froude...
...A lifelong student and exponent of history and philosophy, "It was a trouble to his mind to feel how completely out of tune was the confusion of current events with anything that one might properly call fine history or fine philosophy...
...for 609 priests no separate distinction was made...
...He was not a great man but an honest man who by chance founded, like Baltimore, a plantation where men tolerated the religious practices and principles of their fellow-settlers...
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...The few remaining territories in North and South America have a population of 2,280,541...
...Hoover...
...Two sets of forces were in conflict— the conservative and what the author calls the modern...
...H. G. Wells's recent novel, there would be serious import in the gorgeous burlesque which he has unfolded...
...Wells jocose more disturbing than Mr...
...A great part of this weakness is due to the limitation and sentimentality of Mrs...
...Franck has covered his ground thoroughly but in doing so has failed in that most important duty of a travel writer—the duty of making his readers see places through his descriptions...
...To catalogue the many questions that arise in regard to the author's assertions would far exceed the limits of any reasonable review...
...Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta...
...Mussolini is not the only European statesman who is parodied...
...Miracles are defended as credible substrata of the Gospel narrative, there are excellent notes on the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection, the historical authenticity of the text is ably upheld, and (incidently) major works of Catholic scholarship are cited in the bibliography...
...The first is associated in some measure with T. S. Eliot (still the most considerable poet of our time), and the second might be more precisely defined as the Middle English tradition—the tradition of Piers Ploughman and Gawayne and The Gest Hystoriale—as it appears in the work of Gerard Hopkins, its great and only English exponent...
...He died as he lived, a seeker, not a Baptist...
...And Williams went to Salem, where he continued unfalteringly his spiritual denunciations and admonitions...
...Into the task of averting such disorder he plunges himself...
...The nursing nuns and brotherhoods are not listed in this number, although their work is directed by the missionary medical staff...
...Internationalism This World of Nations, by Pitman B. Potter...
...Wells is spoofing for the sake of spoofing—an accomplishment which he carries off with tremendous success...
...Wells, himself a historian—at least he has The Outline of History—advocates scrapping himself...
...In plainer words, the restoration of Rome meant, or seemed to mean, that the great gentlemen must disgorge some of their swag...
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...The facts of history," he sometimes said himself, "are like the letters of the alphabet which by selection can be made to spell anything...
...The permissibility of the theme of Revelation is not so certain...
...His ideal of a Christian society is one in which there is an educated clergy and an educated laity...
...Flick makes it clear that a catastrophic upheaval such as the Lutheran revolt would have been unthinkable and impossible at the beginning of the fourteenth century: it became a reality in the sixteenth...
...Boyd-Carpenter...
...He had termed English churches anti-Christian...
...In certain passages, particularly in the description of the battle of the North Atlantic, the author out-Wells Wells...
...We might as well be frank, as well as accurate, and avow that the Catholic view of the sixteenth century is usually one of lucidity opposed to confusion, of pity as opposed to hate, of international sentiment as opposed to jingoism, of calm truth often opposed to bare, systematic and sacrilegious lying...
...In the land of the Narragansetts, he founded Providence Plantation for which he later obtained a charter...
...Untermeyer might profit from a close study of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, from which one lesson at least is to be learned—that poetical criticism should avoid poetical expression...
...There is no attempt to portray a "new and true" Williams, but there is a fulfilled desire to tell in detail the life and times of the author's hero...
...As an example one would like to know more about "the new type of repentance called attribution," or that predominate event in Boniface's pontificate—his conflict with France...
...Powers can be accused of indulging a flare of his own now and then, particularly when estimating the position and objectives of the Church, his books are always what they purport to be—readable, useful guides to the creative work of a given era...
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...So it is with legal phrases and diction...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Venice and Its Art, by H. H. Powers...
...Of course this hope is not realized...
...Other characters in the story are real and even memorable in flashes: there is the childish tragedy of Sandy whose mother was always drunk, the heroic devotion of the half-caste Baada to Old Backs, her husband and master, the pitiful death of the young wife Martha, the final triumph of Sara, the good and patient woman...
...Cuthbert Wright...
...Whatever their country of origin, or the nationality of the individual missionaries all are organized and directed by an international congregation such as Propaganda Fide, receiving their passports and spiritual guidance from the head of an independent and sovereign state, which because of its pecuilar nature and character lives outside all national competitions...
...M. Jaloux and his friends hope that such culling will "give a sufficiently complete portrait of Amiel . . . every side of the man...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Perhaps it is the instinct for this danger that lies behind what we have called the prohibition of taste...
...Winston Churchill of the word "taxes," Mr...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...This is why Mr...
...The missionary brotherhoods reported 3,222 foreigners, 1,317 natives and 574 members of whom the nationality was not mentioned...
...Irene di Robilant...
...He aided the Puritans during the Pequot War by acting as an interpreter and mediator...
...In the middle-ages," he says with comprehensive terseness, "the laity was not educated...
...Missionary Statistical Record Missiones Catholicae...
...Even his pipe seemed an offender against sobriety...
...Cottrell's dialogue...
...Cranmer, for instance, who has perhaps been too roundly abused by historians of all shades (save of course the ineffable Froude, who makes him out a major saint, a more heroic Peter) adapted his too Catholic First Prayer Book, "by the aid of the Holy Ghost," he said, but, more accurately, under the auspices of the Protector Somerset...
...1 HE delicacy of touch and moral sobriety of M. Birabeau, and the skill of his translator, are beyond question...
...Already a separatist, he had given up hopes of preferment through Coke because his conscience was too tender for even the nominal conformity demanded of men who would rise in church and state...
...But in Boston he was disappointed...
...Philip Snowfield, Sir Osbert Moses, Mr...
...The missions own 42,853 separate churches and chapels of which only 6,100 or about 13 percent, can accommodate more than 500 people...
...and this is important...
...His was a tolerant democracy and he himself was never more than one of the governing proprietors...
...Ramsy McDougal, Mr...
...Franck's travels...
...The mother whose love for her dead son receives its death shock, seemingly, in the discovery of his degeneracy, is an authentic figure of tragedy, and her final softening and appeasement might form a significant study in morals and psychology...
...Briefer Mention Tharlane, by Dorothy Cottrell...
...Deakin holding, as did most of the Australian delegation, that any money-charge, demanded at the port of landing or imported commodities, was a duty, and ended the passage of verbal warfare, by saying, "We of Australia will understand that when you say tax you really mean duty...
...Of the poets new to this book, MacLeish is the most important, but three others are outstanding—Hart Crane, Robinson Jeffers and Allen Tate...
...New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated...
...A Scandinavian Summer, by Harry A. Franck...
...THIS is not a new biography in the sense that it aims to dethrone Roger Williams from a deserved pedestal as one of the sectarian refugees in seventeenth-century New England who believed in toleration...
...Richard J. Purcell...
...Actually they were not the subjects of the crown, but with a remarkable celerity became its master, abolishing it altogether in the next century, after cutting off the head of its anointed holder...
...As for the advent of the Orangeman and Hanoverians, it represented no compromise at all...
...both allow a habit to blind their reason...
...Salem would have called the independent preacher but feared the court at Boston...
...but the book as a whole is not as good as its source material or its central idea...
...George Dangerfield...
...THE Vatican publishing house has recently issued a 575page volume in which for the first time an official record of the missionary movement dependant from the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide is published...
...Hence the serious student cannot hope to gain much from the narrations of any one of these fascinating subjects...
...THE title is from a phrase of John Knox, Scotland's Calvinist apostle, the only good thing, so far as we know, that can be attributed to that savage...
...Parham from his classroom to the position of Lord Paramount, dictator of England, is not as effective as those he employed in The Time Machine nor in The War of the Worlds but it suffices...
...None of the four great movements which the author discusses with such minuteness and elaboration would in itself have been sufficient to shake the solid foundations on which the Church rested when Boniface commenced his tragic pontificate, but coming one after the other and gradually undermining the faith and loyalty of the peoples of Europe, they loosed forces, which, though operative for a long time within the Church, became elements of destruction when unified and directed from outside in the form of Protestantism...
...At a Colonial Conference during the Bannerman-Asquith regime, Mr...
...Here he became acquainted with his later rivals, John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, two silenced ministers, learned of the affairs of the Massachusetts Bay Company of which Sir William was a member, and gained the reputation of being "divinely mad...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Incoporated...
...In contrast, the human beings who move across it are drawn in weak and conventional lines...
...translated from the Unpublished Journals of Amiel by Van Wyck Brooks, with an introduction by Edmond Jaloux...
...By the middle of the sixteenth century, after the masterful and cunning Henry had gone to his reward, the Anglican prelates directing the religious movement were as much the slaves of the rich men as was later the poor monarchy...
...Such a transformation was not brought about without arousing rancor and causing destruction...
...This vigor and freshness in the word of American poetry emphasizes a point of departure from which the development of a great national poetry becomes not merely a possibility but a certainty...
...The purely religious character of the Catholic Missionary Service has therefore become particularly apparent...
...Probably there will be many on the other side of the water who will find Mr...
...Retired, he lived with his son Daniel until he died in 1683 leaving numerous descendents and a people who soon ceased to practise his broad toleration and democracy...
...The figures do not include the territories of Australia and New Zealand which, although dependant from Propaganda Fide, have an autonomous ecclesiastical jurisdiction...
...Africa follows with 3,402,993...
...It is this constant variation of meaning which makes much of our modern troubles...
...The mother, reconciled and understanding, seems almost to acquiesce, to condone...
...Amiel's Philine...
...He labored in the fields, published A Key into the Language of America, and wrote bitter religious brochures, as The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience...
...The translation is extraordinarily good...
...But aside from the objection still raised by taste to the mere adoption of this material for purposes of artistic entertainment, there is the practical danger that the contraction and simplification inseparable from artistic form will reduce or sentimentalize the stern moral issues involved...
...but as he continued to teach in his house, it was determined to ship him to England...
...The author sticks very close to his thesis...
...Flick, is decidedly a gloomy one...
...its bigness, its primordial life, its challenge to the wilderness-tamer and the poet, are authentically given...
...Williams was born about 1602 in the region of Smithfield, baptized in old Saint Sepulcher's church and educated at the Charterhouse school as a protege of the famous jurist, Sir Edward Coke...
...W HILE Mr...
...The reader must fall back on the explanation that Mr...
...He received the Quakers without approval and assaulted their founder with a pamphlet, George Fox Digg'd Out of His Burrows...
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...This time, as Mr...
...From 1688 on, the crown has had organized capital on its back like an Old Man of the Sea, and if one wishes to establish a legitimate parallel between the Georgian present and the Elizabethan past, one has only to read for the names of Harmsworth and Beaverbrook those of Cecil and Dudley...
...John Gilland Brunini...
...New York: The Century Company...
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...To this number 1,307,194 catechumens can be added...
...AS CONCEIVED by Dr...
...In respect of the long and honorable history behind it, this might seem a very impertinent question...
...So he fled in the wintry night to the more charitable red men...
...In short, this edition can be warmly recommended to the qualified student of exegesis and biblical history...
...The missionary nuns have made notable progress in enlisting native members: out of a total of 27,392 the natives reported at 11,399...
...From the table of contents, where there is reference to the Bull, Ausculti Fili, to the last pages where mention is made of Bandrillart, typographical errors, usually in words from foreign languages, occur with a frequency altogether out of keeping with the character of a work so pretentious as this...
...En passant, it is unfortunate that the author's erudition or limitation of Roger Williams's breadth of view did not prevent unnecessary references to "Bloody Mary" and assumption that Henry VIII put the Bible into the churches, that 1,500 copies of the Bible each year in the late days of Elizabeth guaranteed circulation among all the people, and that the publication of King James's version concluded Elizabeth's work of putting the Bible in the hands of the people...
...Except for the manner of presentation there is very little in the book that is new...
...Hollis says amusingly, "He was ashamed to acknowledge the assistance of any such Collaborator...
...A general survey had been attempted by Arens in France in 1925, reporting figures for the years 1923-24, but it naturally lacked a great many data published for the first time in the official report, which it is hoped will be revised from year to year forming an exact and exhaustive reference book for all studies in this particular field...
...Objectors in Plymouth feared that his radicalism would lead to Anabaptism, but Williams could not be silent...
...But if we assume, as is surely not unreasonable, that the early history of American poetry was the history of a slow dissociation from contemporary English influence, a history of gestation before birth, then we are simply in the position of maintaining that the birth will be neither easier nor quicker than it has been in other countries at other times...
...Modern American Poetry is an indispensable book, and for Mr...
...Dark Ages The Decline of the Medieval Church, by Alexander Clarence Flick...
...To him worldly prosperity counted for nothing if gained by a sacrifice of principles and views...
...Printing and format are all that could be desired...
...For reasons best known to himself Mr...
...These forces—intellectual, moral, social and political—were the expression of a new conception of life and religion and did not finally run their course and receive ultimate form until, as Dr...
...Two centuries intervened between Boniface VIII and Martin Luther...
...Once recognize this fact and everything that is shameful and obscure in her reign becomes clear—the persecution of the Catholics, the murder of Mary Stuart, down to the distracting dissimulations and vacillations of the queen herself...
...George, Mr...
...In the accumulation of the findings of many writers, principally German, and the arrangement of these findings in a manner to show that catastrophe was the inevitable outcome of the conditions that had arisen in the Church, the author has drawn up what is, perhaps, the most serious arraignment in the English language of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries...
...The survey is based on figures as reported on June 30, 1927, and although the volume has just been issued it contains the most recent available data for the missionary field as a whole...
...Today and Tomorrow The Autocracy of Mr...
...It is well known that many authors have produced whole books on a single one of the above enumerated topics, each of which Professor Potter dismisses in some twenty pages...
...The lives of the clergy from the highest to the lowest come in for unqualified condemnation, while the morals of the people and the laxity and corruption in Church and state cried out for remedy and reform that never came or, at least, came too late to maintain the status quo...
...The Catholic population in the fourteen different sections outlined by the report numbered 13,345,373 souls, the figures for 1927 showing an increase of 479,995 souls as compared with those reported on the same date in 1926...
...He welcomed exiles from the Bay Colony...
...THE author states in his foreword that he has been accused of being too "legalistic" in his outlook upon international affairs, to which he replies in this new volume, that he has endeavored to present the "institutional and procedural aspects of international affairs," which of course does not answer the previous criticism that in his former writings he has stressed the "legalistic outlook" of international relations...
...Unfortunately the illustrative printing nowhere rises above the very ordinary...
...He undertakes to point out the causes which transformed the ecclesiastical world of the thirteenth century into that of the sixteenth...
...Patrick J. Healy...
...In examining the carefully tabulated figures we learn that on June 30, 1927, Propaganda Fide had a missionary force consisting of 163,615 individuals among whom were 281 bishops and 91 prefects apostolic...
...Its tone is at once clear-cut and admirably dispassionate, and in both these qualities it suggests a work sometimes cited in its context—Oskar Meyer's England and the Catholic Church, which, though written by a non-Catholic, is conspicuous for its Catholic point of view...
...Then Somerset gave way to a more Protestant (that is, money-grabbing) camarilla, and Cranmer was obliged to compile a second Prayer Book, the present one...
...translated by Una, Lady ' Troubridge...
...The restoration of the monarchy was a feeble compromise, soon followed by the exile and ruin of the Stuarts, the legitimate kings...
...That is what comes close to happening here, is spite of the author's austere care for fact...
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...It was in this spirit that he rewrote the story of the English Reformation, and most writers on the subject, many with an unscientific but disinterested sincerity, have followed his lead...
...ivENMARK, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland are treated with a wealth of encyclopaedic details in this latest book of Mr...
...Literally he was great as an artist in the same proportion as he was illustrious as a liar...
...Hollis limits his contemplation of the monstrous regiment to the last, and has produced what I can only call the best general study I know on the tortuous Elizabethan period...
...Thus it stands as one of the first documents in a lengthy literature of the same kind...
...Later he married Mary Barnard, a lady-of-waiting in Sir William's service, and within a year (1630) sailed from Bristol to Boston...
...Such a conception as H. B., for example—the old squatter brigand, gigantic, cruel but almost impersonal, whose struggle to subdue the vast tract of Tharlane makes a frame for the lesser lives of shearers, tenants, laborers and tramps—is unusual enough, but it is never even adequately conveyed because of this failure of the author to write living and characteristic speech...
...Thereafter the finest Wellsian characteristics can be noted in every page...
...The Salem church was forced to disavow his errors, if it desired representation in the general court...
...Eighteen colonies for leprosy are further supported...
...But above all, he denied the royal right to give Indian lands to English settlers...
...and the clearest example for an effective combination of the two is Archibald MacLeish in whose work there are at least the possibilities of a major poetry...
...Parham, history, the historian, should be scrapped...
...For the first time figures are given concerning the medical service employed by Propaganda Fide...
...Define your terms, is good advice to all...
...He believed that the natives should be recompensed...
...He kept the Narragansetts and Mohegans from going on the war path...
...In general the editor's point of view is conservative...
...JL HE author of Tharlane has a far deeper and sounder sense of the character of her country than of the characters of its inhabitants...
...The present Saint Luke prints the revised text, flanked by a scholarly introductory essay and critical notes of great value...
...Readable enough, the style is not especially animated...
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...This volume which has twenty chapters, each being followed by a slight bibliography of suggested books of reference, deals with the origin, rise, present conditions of this World of Nations, diplomacy, war, peace, League of Nations, Pan-Americanism, conferences and administration of international affairs, and some account of "personalities and politics in future international affairs...
...It is very generally believed that in no field will the new political status of the Church have so far reaching an influence as in the development of missionary service...
...And what is the Catholic standpoint applied to the religious and social history of the sixteenth century...
...Parham, by H. G. Wells...
...It is to be found in Sandburg and Lindsay and men of their caliber, but is perhaps more demonstrable in Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore and Louise Bogan: it is a question not of brawn but of spirit...
...Flick, the decline of the mediaeval Church may be traced through four great movements: the Babylonian captivity, the Great Western Schism, the great reform councils and the renaissance...
...The balance is distributed among European and Oceanic countries...
...Reasons for Patriotism Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology (4th revised edition...
...And many pages would have to be thumbed to discover such perfect travesty as that which occurs when the English meets the Italian dictator...
...Any who contemplate a voyage to these countries will find here much valuable information and without doubt their keenness to see for themselves will be increased by the book's many omissions...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...An Honest Man Roger Williams, Prophet and Pioneer, by Emily Easton...
...3.50...
...The serious import would be that Mr...
Vol. 12 • September 1930 • No. 20
