Among the Fall Books
Hennrich, Kilian J. & Shuster, George N. & Walsh, James J. & Vernon, Grenville & Fitzpatrick, Benedict & Sharp, John K. & Steiner, Arpad & Simpson, Herman & Kilcoyne, Francis P.
October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 611 AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Papal Infallibility The Vatican Council: The Story Told from Inside in Bishop Vllathorne's Letters, by Dom Cuthbert Butler,...
...a monarch who was forced by a chain of events to lose his preconceived faith in his own infallibility...
...His interpretation of its decrees is "substantially correct and the one accepted at Rome...
...2.00...
...For In Araby Orion is an elegy of which the tender and mystical beauty sets to shame alike the hard-boiled photographers and the neurasthenic wailers who have afflicted the recent literature of the war...
...Tutt in every court in the land...
...Thompson speak of these last moments in his own words: "He was poor, and lonely, and forsaken...
...2.50...
...There is Dupanloup who made the council possible by his political influence, and though a strong champion of the Papacy, numbered among the non placets...
...In things still very much disputed among criminologists, like capital and corporal punishment, individual confinement, etc., the author's reasoning makes the reader inclined to agree with him...
...He does not believe that all criminals are insane nor that crime is a disease...
...indeed, compared to certain contemporary democratic dictators, he was humane and considerate...
...The first conclusion he supports on the ground that it is a legitimate exercise of a state power, promoting public welfare...
...Their zest comes from Bishop Ullathorne's letters sent direct from the council...
...The third part suggests means to prevent crime by taking good care of the young...
...Whether the ancient empire could have possibly been molded into a Switzerland on a large scale is a question that has but an academic value today...
...A fair consideration of the wages now received by unmarried women workers, and of the wages they should receive—"the amount required to secure to her the necessaries and decencies of life"—is also presented...
...On investigation Dr...
...As the council proceeds Ullathorne writes some reassuring characterizations: "In spite of the attempts of the extremists on either side, preeminently the journalists, to vilify their leading opponents, it may with truth be affirmed of these men that they were one and all true bishops, worthy pastors, devoted sons of the Church, loyal to the Holy See and the Holy 1 Father...
...There is an Armenian archbishop who reminds Ullathorne of the picture of Our Lord at Oscott...
...The crisis of the story—and its meaning—is the lonely death, under the Judean stars, of Corporal Henry Bateman, abandoned through necessity by his comrades and his dearest friend after the attack had failed...
...The editor of the Century Catholic College Texts, Dr...
...He writes also: "The work [of revising the schema] has shown how much philosophical and theological learning the Church possesses in the episcopate, and I doubt if any previous council has exhibited as much...
...Other students of the Negro population in Haiti, San Domingo and the Virgin Islands, have also reported among them various cultural survivals that are seemingly of Hebrew origin...
...Expert sanitarians can lower the death rate and prolong average life if but given the chance...
...John K. Sharp...
...That aroused public attention more effectively to the danger of tuberculosis than anything up to that time...
...The problem that Dr...
...There is our own irrepressible Bishop Verot, the splendid Austrian and German bishops and a host of others...
...It is, however, surprising that on the list of books consulted none is mentioned that appeared within the last ten years, not even the classics like Lindworsky's Training of the Will, or Aller's Das Werden der Sittlichen Person...
...He, of course, spots our murderer and reconciles our lovers for us by the time our boat reaches San Francisco...
...Fortunately the attitude of mind of the great majority of people toward disease prevention has changed much for the better during the twentieth century...
...There are discouraging factors in the conspectus, however, that Dr...
...Dom Butler, whose narrative and comments are of a piece with the Bishop's, tells us that the value of the letters lies in the fact that Ullathorne's position was middle...
...It will stand long after this day of revelations and intimate pictures as an authentic, dignified and heartening record of the twentieth oecumenical council (18691870), which promulgated the doctrine of papal infallibility...
...3.50...
...In the first two decades of his rule he attempted to revive the days of the eighteenth century without the Encyclopedic His great misfortune was his premature accession to the throne: he was incapable of spontaneous growth after having attained the highest position that could fall to his lot...
...This is the assignment Marjorie Johnston has voluntarily set herself in Domination, which is a report on the characters who were Napoleon's satellites...
...3.00...
...He is stunned by an "hour's roar" 612 THE COMMONWEAL October 15, 1930 from a Swiss bishop who talks "as though from one mountain to another, against wind and thunder...
...Those of no character he considers hopeless cases...
...He cites authority to show that there are in all history but twelve certainly infallible ex cathedra papal (as distinguished from conciliar) utterances...
...Williams found that a considerable number of the Jamaica Negroes were originally brought from the Gold Coast, the land of the Ashantis...
...It should not have been so, his life should have been like a cornfield swaying clean and bright and ready for the sickle...
...The characters are real, the attack is real, but there is a spirit informing both the characters and the attack which lifts the story to a far higher and more universal plane...
...Arpad Steiner...
...Hitherto most Englishspeaking persons have been content perforce with such obiter ¦dicta of the council as they could glean from English biographies and Latin footnotes...
...Orphan asylums were a tragic farce...
...All in all, The Lost Tribes A Myth is a most unusual work, the work of a great scholar imbued with the scientific spirit and content to write for those, specialists as well as laymen, who are grateful for any new light offered them on old and difficult problems...
...Notwithstanding the fact that reform is possible with many convicts, the author places his greatest hope for bettering criminal conditions in preventing crime by the training of the character—mind, conscience and will—of the young...
...Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press...
...This enables enmities and romances to develop to a nice stage of fermentation by the time we stop in Honolulu to pick up Charlie...
...Tobey, 20,000,000 in the epidemic just after the great war, and we have no hint of any possible mode of lessening its mortality, though it has made its appearance regularly about once every forty years in history...
...There is not much to criticize in a work of this type...
...Medical Heroes Riders of the Plagues: The Story of the Conquest of Disease, by James A. Tobey...
...The volumes are based on the official documents and the immense literature of the council...
...Whereas Tschuppik is very moderate in his judgments and tries to do justice to all characters in the great drama, he does not hide his liberal tendencies...
...The pointed wit, the delicious apothegms, are missing...
...There are georgeously rich passages descriptive of the many ceremonial spectacles...
...of the textbooks...
...Tschuppik's work, being intended for German and Austrian readers, lacks the clarity and precision of Redlich's classic biography...
...He adduces cogent reasons for believing (though he would be the last to claim that he has furnished irrefutable proof for this belief) that the worship of Yahwe originated in Lower Mesopotamia, and not in the Arabian desert, as has hitherto been generally assumed...
...Again, "all [are] in earnest, all feeling a deep sense of responsibility but some, one thinks, trying to manage their neighbors perhaps a little too much...
...John A. Lapp, well states in his introduction: "Mankind is not here treated objectively, as in a laboratory, merely to see the cruel facts...
...The minds of men were not as broad then as they were two generations later at the signing of the Lateran Treaty...
...And Newman in his quiet study, his heart filled with misgivings...
...His great achievement was to avert the most serious crisis, a threatened diplomatic move of the English government, to bring about a general interference of the governments in the liberty of the council...
...It is more than a mere biography of an important personage, following the lines of the old tradition...
...The portraits reproduced of her whom he actually made his wife, and the revelation of character provided by her acts and speech, would appear merely to intensify the enigma...
...Not minimizing the physical part of man, he also recognizes the soul and upholds the perfect freedom of the will...
...Careful attention to the plain issue of government might, therefore, benefit us all...
...hospitals a shambles, with 50 percent mortality in surgical cases...
...Haas asserts...
...MADAME DE MAINTENON, born a prison waif, educated by charity, married off through sheer pity to a paralytic though highly gifted gnome, and finally rising through court favor to become the consort of the haughtiest monarch that ever lived, had assuredly a unique role thrust upon her, and this book can hardly be said to reveal the heart of the mystery...
...He takes us around the world with a dozen people, all of them inseparably welded in a de luxe cruise, and one of them certainly a murderer...
...Flick's work has been so thoroughly recognized by all authorities on the subject that it should find a place in any Story of the Conquest of Diseases...
...Most of the epidemic diseases, above all the worst of them, are now under control...
...New York: Coward-McCann, Incorporated...
...Since these causes are many and varied, the author suggests in the second part several means which he thinks will be successful with convicts who still have character...
...As to the agitation respecting the council which moves the outer world," he writes, "we only mark in it, how much the solemn assembly of God's Church weighs on the minds of men...
...Francis P. Kilcoyne...
...While not for an instant minimizing the horror of war, it shows that horror as but the transitory setting of man's eternal spirit, a spirit which suffering and defeat may serve only to purify and ennoble...
...Gorgas who showed how that scourge, yellow fever, could be conquered, and replace him by an osteopath who thought Pasteur a fool, Lister a charlatan and attributed all diseases, including yellow fever and malaria, to subluxations of the vertebrae...
...New York: Samuel French...
...People are kept alive longer to die from lingering diseases of heart, kidney and arteries...
...The pathetic figure of Dollinger and the lay popes trouble the pages...
...In it the reader meets practically every name of nineteenth-century importance...
...Among these I would include confessors, teachers and parents...
...Education and religion are his choice...
...FOURTH and final volume of the life history of Olav Andusson, Sigrid Undset's latest book is also in a measure the highest point she has reached as a writer...
...The patchwork of characterization is sewed on to the thesis that the story of the Napoleonic era may be translated in terms of the Emperor—a thesis which remains unproved...
...Everything is well explained and well documented by interesting cases...
...The great epidemics that used to carry off so many, are a thing of the past...
...Louis, despite his monstrous self-esteem, had a genuine anxiety concerning the hereafter, and the revelation of this side of his nature is the nearest approach to a solution of the mystery of his union with the old gouvernante of his bastard children...
...This she does very effectively by demonstrating from the actual records that La Maintenon was essentially a religieuse at heart, that her interests were far removed from political intrigue and the excitements of the court, which wearied her to tears, and that her highest ambitions were wrapped in saving the immortal soul of Louis and the development of such semimonastic institutions as the Maison Royale de Saint-Cyr...
...We do not profess to know whether the plan drawn up by Sir John Simon's commission is the right one...
...Her presentation, save in a persistent and intrusive attempt at dramatics, is suave and effective...
...Indeed, Dr...
...The Son Avenger is by all odds the most impressive single book of this series...
...Kilian J. Hennrich...
...New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated...
...7.50...
...Meanwhile Eirik in turn has set out on a strange adventure, from which he is brought back to the ideal of renouncement and explanation...
...Williams himself is by no means sure that they are, every one of them, of indubitable Hebrew origin, but he thinks that cumulatively they furnish good ground for the assumption...
...To environment he does not attribute so much importance as many ultramodern writers do...
...it was called to deal with the errors and evils of the times—"a magnificent but too vast a program...
...There was not an apostasy from the Faith among its bishops and theologians...
...WILLIAMS lived five years in Jamaica, much of the time in the bush, among the simple children of the soil...
...Happily, lest the general reader think that the theory defined at the council is wholly devoid of justification in history or theology, the author cites "certain words of highly credited historians of recent times, English and foreign, not of the Roman communion, who are recognized on all hands as among the foremost crtitical scholars of our days," and he brings out the fact that "some cases may be made out, from history by witnesses with no theological axes to grind, in favor of the theory of the primacy, and even the infallibility defined by the council...
...She has skilfully avoided the twin pitfalls which her subjectmatter immediately suggests...
...The average length of life has been increased from under forty to nearly sixty years of age...
...The council itself is "one mass of many-colored mantellettas and episcopal faces, and a very lively scene, ever in gentle waving motion, unless when some able speaker rivets attention...
...Those people vary, as in life, from the majority who do not, by any merely human standards, merit such service, to the minority who reward it by deserving it...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...Charlie Chan Carries On, by Earl Derr Biggers...
...suave, blunt, meek, ranting, humorous, crafty, as best suits his purpose...
...Serocold, by Helen Ashton...
...The Adventures of Ephraim Tutt, by Arthur Train...
...India has hitherto lacked the advantage of a well-considered constitutional theory adequate to effect the federalization of its inchoate tangle of provinces, states and groups...
...Haas is to be commended for his diligence and scientific altertness...
...It is evident from his version, too, that Francis Joseph, matured by age and experience, was not the reactionary he was considered by his adversaries...
...The English edition of the work was probably intended to be a memorial to the one hundredth anniversary of Francis Joseph's birth...
...Then he "saw a cornfield, overgrown with tares and thistles, willow herb and brambles—the weeds flaunted their red and yellow flowers in the sun, and the corn was so choked by them that none could tell that the ground had been sown...
...There is a Netcher portrait of Madame de Montespan, the predecessor and rival of La Maintenon in the affections of Louis XIV, which satisfactorily explains her hold over the Sun King...
...The "family wage" seems to have replaced the "living wage" which the male worker formerly was presumed to earn, and sometimes receive...
...2.50...
...Though everybody now realizes that India is not a simple, homogeneous country facing no more complex political difficulties than (let us say) the duchy of Luxemburg, many are still too ready to think in terms of freedom rather than in terms of fact...
...AT PRESENT when so much is talked and written about prisoners, their housing, care, treatment and reform, a book like the one under review bearing the imprimatur of Archbishop Glennon, is not without interest to many...
...Let us hope for his complete recovery in his next volume...
...Grenville Vernon...
...Haas believes that married women should be excluded from factory work and gainful trades, provided that the husband or father be paid a wage sufficient to maintain the members of the family in health and decency...
...Domination, by Marjorie Johnston...
...Yet there is Darboy, another opponent, who a year later refuses to flee from the Paris Commune for the sake of his priests, and is shot in cold blood...
...In Araby Orion, by Edward Thompson...
...helpless and dying...
...Low-wage classes pay their way while they work but have nothing "to tide them over" the period during which they remain idle...
...Louis: B. Herder Book Company...
...Science has made marvelous achievements...
...It is a history likewise of the times in which Madame de Maintenon lived, and a gallery of portraits of most of the conspicuous people who played a part in the entourage of Louis...
...It is a very lucid summary of the reasons why the commissioners set to work and of the conclusions to which they arrived...
...New York: E. P. Button and Company, Incorporated, $5.00...
...October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 611 AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Papal Infallibility The Vatican Council: The Story Told from Inside in Bishop Vllathorne's Letters, by Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B...
...That face was bending over him, and in his last delirium, all of comfort and love that life had ever brought him took form as one Figure he had often imagined...
...7.50...
...I believe that so far no pre-Columbian traces of syphilis have been found on the American continent...
...Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company...
...He also proves the incessant commingling of the Jews with other peoples, through intermarriage and, even more, through proselytizing, both in Palestine and in other countries, the endless action and reaction between them and all the peoples—white, yellow and black—among whom they have dwelt...
...J.OO...
...It is neither propaganda nor realism, though it is both true and real...
...That most serious of contagious diseases, influenza, carried off, according to Dr...
...Yale One-Act Plays...
...Recent progress in nutrition makes for intensity in individual life, while mental hygiene renders life saner and more complete...
...There should be a Mr...
...And Manning who kept the minority off the deputation de Fide, the most important committee, turning them into an opposition...
...And the triumph of faith is greater in that among the eighty-eight who voted "non placet" in the trial ballot there were, apart from those who believed the definition inopportune, a few who could not believe in infallibility...
...For Mr...
...Perhaps one may say that on the whole Sigrid Undset is engrossed here in the analysis of a man who is upright of spirit, eager to protect and serve those who are weak and dependent, but also prone to go to any extremes for the sake of those he loves...
...How different that state of mind from that which prevailed twenty-five years ago when the Panama Canal project was taken up...
...It ended controversies and rallied all parties to the Pope as never before...
...It is to be hoped that they were not...
...Some of them, like patriarchalism, or dancing as a part of the religious ceremonial, are so widely prevalent, that it is impossible to assign them to any particular source...
...His life is, therefore, definitely an affair of coming to cross-roads and making resolves...
...And he concludes that "the Vatican Council takes its stand alongside of Trent as a great landmark in the life of the Church...
...His chief goal was to keep the balance in the midst of the crumbling foundations of his slowly disintegrating empire...
...TOBEY has compressed the story of sanitation and disease prevention down the ages into a very interesting and significant book...
...It is out of that slough of despond that we have lifted ourselves during the past generation...
...It is probably true that not many will concede to this tetralogy anything like parity with Kristin Lavransdatter...
...He cried out, certain that the night and wilderness were not empty...
...Among the Bishop's letters there are many human touches and intimate sketches of some of the 800 successors of the apostles...
...After a moment of tragedy the story grows almost idyllic as Eirik and his father move hesitatingly toward reconciliation and the boy tries to put on the habit of Saint Francis...
...and how portentous to the heart of man is the power of the Church...
...Six years were spent in preparation and five committees prepared matter for discussion on faith and dogma, discipline and canon law, religious orders and regulars, oriental Churches and foreign missions, and relations of Church and state...
...WHEN the newspapers have a big story to cover a reporter is generally assigned to write up the sidelights...
...Man and Society is a balanced, sane consideration of problems in modern social life...
...Probably a witness as well-informed and independent, as impartial and objective, as could well be found," likewise he was a shrewd observer, of sound practical judgment, and he cut no mean figure at the council...
...Leapt with a start the shock of His possession.' To that Figure he lifted up his hands, and sent his whole life out in a cry of appeal...
...Tobey does not hesitate to tell us: "Bad as had been the middle ages in the treatment of the insane, the hundred years after 1750 were if anything worse...
...Hating it though he does, it brought to him the realization that the value of man is not to be measured by the happiness of this world...
...General history and the individual human story here alternate and intertwine, and though the book may appear hard to take up, it will usually be found harder to lay down...
...But in this darkness he grew aware of help coming swiftly toward him, he knew that he was going to be lifted from this ground of time that was failing beneath him...
...Concerning unemployment Dr...
...nor is he the haloed Friend of All the World of the even more devastating tradition of sentiment...
...Of the debates he writes to Newman: "It is not the first time I have seen the work of the ablest theologians, when the episcopacy bring their deeper instinct [their episcopal charisma] and keener experience upon it, go to pieces like chaff and consigned to reconstruction...
...There is ample reason to rejoice over the advance achieved and above all the prospect for still further improvement...
...translated by C. J. S. Sprigge...
...He believed in duties as well as in rights, and the same man who rose each morning at four o'clock in order to spend ten to twelve hours at his desk, lived in two rooms, slept on a soldier's couch and had three simple meals a day, had a paramount conception of his authority...
...Let Mr...
...He deserves credit for that...
...He recurs to this thought again and again...
...foundling asylums "angel factories...
...We have cut the death rate from tuberculosis in two, but cancer has come to take its place in the mortality rate as a much more serious scourge...
...Though risk-taking is well compensated, yet industry makes no payment to the low-wage classes for the risk which they assume of being without wages for a considerable period of the year...
...Williams unrolls before us a panorama of the vast activity and influence of the Hebrews, as merchants, soldiers and proselytizers, in northern Africa, in the Sahara, in the valley of the Nile, in Abyssinia and along the ancient route of trade and migration from the Nile to the Niger, that is of absorbing interest to every student of the history of the Jewish people...
...Then, too, it is a book which attempts to pierce through psychology to metaphysic, maintaining without flinching the concern with nature and grace as protagonists in the soul...
...When this turns to gall and tragedy, relationship between Olav and Cecilia is embittered...
...3.00...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...There is much evidence of her diligence in research but unfortunately her treatment of material reflects more of the encyclopaedia than of early nineteenth-century documents...
...and he considers insurance a practical remedy for many industrial evils but states that it cannot be used indiscriminately, its application to this particular problem being peculiarly difficult...
...It was well, humanly speaking, Butler says, that the last question was not touched...
...In Araby Orion is his testimony to the truth...
...It is safe to say that few characters in our fiction equal his popularity...
...75...
...With the outcome of the council all are familiar...
...Wandering armies led to serious outbreaks of the disease in various parts of Europe about that time, but America is blameless as the source of it...
...f I AHIS simple and exquisite little story of an attack in the -i- Valley of the Jordan may very well, when the fires of time have done their work with the literature of the war, find itself untouched by the flames...
...Haas comes to two conclusions: "(1) The evil of unemployment is so widespread, and has been met so inadequately by private initiative, that governmental intervention through some form of compulsory unemployment insurance is imperative...
...poor houses a disgrace to humanity...
...1.50...
...Briefer Mention India and the Simon Report, by Sir John Simon...
...But again and again and again Olav's own mistaken decisions and the absence of grace in the world turn the most promising events into failures...
...3.75...
...Francis Joseph was simple in habits of mind and body alike, though dynastic pride caused him to array himself in public with all the Byzantine pageantry of the empire...
...We miss the name of Dr...
...Popular imagination has at all times been haunted by visions of a resplendent court, the frozen October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 613 ceremonial of Spanish etiquette, and the lavender-fragrance of Biedermeyer Vienna behind which there lurked shadows of cruel and fateful tragedies...
...Still, he grew to be no despot...
...After an introduction, a brief survey of the physiological psychology of man, he outlines the causes that most frequently contribute to the making of criminals...
...To Edward Thompson, soldier and poet, war has not been a bloody mess, devoid of meaning...
...In that pit he was sure that Eternity had found him, and that its face was full of compassion...
...A HOSE who wish to know something about the problem of India and who cannot dig through the voluminous Simon Report would profit, we think, by reading the booklet into which Sir John has compressed a good deal of the essential information...
...J F THE large number of plays written in the past four years in playwriting courses of the department of drama, Yale University, six have been selected for presentaton here...
...This is his third biography published in English in the course of three years...
...2) The entire financial burden, both of preventing unemployment and of supporting able-bodied and industrious workers who cannot be employed uninterruptedly, should be borne by industry...
...It is rather surprising to have Dr...
...Olav is then mortally stricken...
...The Lost Tribes A Myth, by Allen H. Godbey...
...he refused to act with any party and kept himself austerely aloof from all agitations and movements both within and without the council...
...These give ready entrance to that august assembly...
...Tutt is a lawyer whose activities, though frequently on the ethical borderland, are centered, in ensuring, not that the laws are enforced, but that justice is done despite the laws...
...Of the freedom of discussion he writes: "Never perhaps did a question [papal infallibility] get such a sifting on all sides of it and through all the pores of it, as this will have before it is done with...
...The council met to consider the good of the Church and of human society...
...But one there was who had been able to find a handful of good corn and would lay it in the balance—" George N. Shuster...
...The life of Francis Joseph was not a tragedy in the Aristotelian sense but a grand spectacle loaded with melodramatic effects...
...Nevertheless Miss Johnston has done a workmanlike job...
...But this "first substantive history in English not by the hand of an enemy" clothes with living flesh, the dry bones of the si quis dixerits...
...the facts are seen, to be sure, but man as a divine creature with a glorious destiny, and as a being worthy of all that can be done for his safeguarding and upbuilding, is never lost from the sight of the author...
...Lawrence Flick of Philadelphia, pioneer in calling attention to the fact that tuberculosis as a house disease caused deaths in successive families who moved into quarters where tuberculous patients had lived...
...Biggers produced such a really notable combination of suspense, humor and authentic quaintness, that he himself is to blame if we expect it to be repeated whenever the priceless Charlie Chan reappears among us...
...He found among them various customs and superstitions that seemed to him to be of Hebrew derivation...
...There is no virtuosity in Miss Ashton's writing, but her picture of life behind the facades of a small English city is quietly rich and complete...
...it was prorogued sine die after the loss of the temporal power...
...He draws from the gestation and procedure of the council some very practical suggestions for future councils...
...Family traditions and his early training predestined him to be an autocrat...
...Still, the portrait he gives is sympathetic enough to the hero...
...Professor Sudhoff, whom the author hails as an eminent medical historian, laid that ghost effectively some years ago by showing that syphilis was in existence in Europe long before Columbus's time...
...The text presents a well-organized set of subjects considered under six main divisions dealing with the individual, social virtues, family, state, property, and production and human welfare...
...James J. Walsh...
...Moreover, the question of how these people came by their superstitions may seem to be of very restricted interest...
...Under the heading, Industrialism and the Home, considering particularly changes in home life, Dr...
...There is Ullathorne himself, a moderate Ultramontane of the old Bellarmine school...
...He was responsible for the order of the first words of the decrees (which represents also the mind of the American and English hierarchy): Sancta Catholica Apostolica Romana Ecclesia in place of Sancta Romana Catholica Ecclesia—a question recently agitated in the columns of this journal...
...Its dramatic moment, the formal voting and declaration of papal infallibility, was accompanied by a severe electrical storm, as its critics remember...
...and afterward his effort (or rather the effort of God to retrieve one who would at bottom be His servant) leads to the noble if sombre ending...
...Out of his dispassionate tone only at times sounds a note of elegiac regret: Si jeunesse savait...
...Tschuppik shows that his fundamental quality was caution based on experience...
...It dealt principally only with the position and authority of the Pope in the Church...
...JL HE character of Mr...
...New York: The Century Company...
...Tobey omits...
...Tutt is almost as familiar to the American reading public as the cartooned Uncle Sam, to whom he can claim a decided physical resemblance...
...1 HE device of describing twenty-four hours of the life of a busy English doctor enables Miss Ashton to fuse a score of unrelated tragedies and comedies into a natural organic pattern...
...the heir to an old and proud dynasty who was conscious of his heritage being doomed...
...But it is obviously so much better than anything previously held to or suggested that one really believes it prophetic of progress...
...Tobey repeat the old fable as to the bringing back of syphilis from America by the sailors of Columbus's expedition...
...IT IS ungracious to launch one's comment on a mystery story as good as this one, by saying that it is not as good as its predecessor...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated...
...Professor George Pierce Baker does not tell us in his foreword that these six were considered the best...
...Her doctor is not—in spite of his lack of conscious religion—the mere scalpel-wielding naturalist which an established literary convention would almost require him to be...
...The more we know about the middle ages, the more we realize that according to their lights—and there was much more illumination than we have been inclined to think—they took marvelous good care of the patients in hospitals and the inmates of institutions...
...The volumes offer a palpitating cross-section of a momentous period in the life of the Church of God...
...His failure was due not only to his lack of vision but also to the fact that Austria had survived herself...
...Starting out to prove what is almost a self-evident proposition, namely, that the deported ten tribes (or rather, their patrician clans) of the northern kingdom of Israel were no more "lost" than their brothers of the southern kingdom of Judah, who were deported to Babylon a century later, Dr...
...His work abounds in facts, political and social alike...
...The most terrible of these is the failure of Cecilia's marriage...
...Organization and legislation are suggested as the two means of securing fair wages...
...The perusal of the book is recommended not only to those who are in physical contact with prisoners and their problems but to all who are interested in the betterment of society...
...In many industries, operations run through several months and are discontinued for the rest of the twelve...
...Herman Simpson...
...These are the best-organized considerations yet brought to the writer's attention...
...New York: D. Appleton and Company...
...The suggestions he makes in this connections are clear, definite and to the point since they are based on the moral and natural law...
...But in Behind That Curtain, Mr...
...It is on the personal side that he seems disappointing...
...He affirms that living wages for all male workers will be more easily established, following this exclusion...
...It is gratifying to find that Dr...
...No doubt this is due to that spirit of rebellion against law innate in all of us...
...At the end of the nineteenth century it was difficult to get most people to think that disease could be prevented...
...He touches upon the home, school and church but does not include as character-training agencies organized recreation for leisure time, although he mentions drill, games and athletics as helpful preventives...
...The author proves the vast extent of Jewish activity throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, as settlers, traders, soldiers and proselytizers, from time immemorial...
...10.50...
...He never got rid of the Hapsburg idea that nations could be bargained like second-hand clothes...
...The council safeguarded the basic principles of Catholic Christianity and vindicated the Papacy...
...Olav had succeeded in inducing his daughter to accept a marriage which promised fortune rather than love...
...Catholic Sociology Man and Society, by Francis J. Haas...
...The wealth of names and details may prove somewhat confusing to the American reader, the more so as the author seldom stops in the stream of narrative to draw clear-cut portraits of the dramatis personae...
...Sociology—and this text is intended as an introduction to that subject—is not a godless science although it has been fashionable in certain quarters so to consider it...
...He sheds new light on various Jewish sects, like the Samaritans, Sadducees and Karaites, as well as on Jewish fragments that have long been lost to view in China, India, central Asia, the Caucasus, etc...
...Explorations in Hebrew History Hebrewisms of West Africa, by Joseph J. Williams, S.J...
...His work might have been called more appropriately A Political History of Austria under Francis Joseph I. It is doubtful if the author could have written 500 pages about the man alone...
...Williams set himself to solve was, therefore, this: By what means and by what routes could Hebrew influence have reached from ancient Palestine to the west coast of Africa...
...Godbey proceeds to revolutionize most of the accepted ideas concerning the Jews and their history...
...Benedict Fitzpatrick...
...At first he turns left and the consequences of his sin are ominious...
...It is modern centuries—the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineeenth—that were supremely blameworthy in their almost incredible neglect of humanity...
...the emperor's struggles with the German Liberals in behalf of a partial recognition of Czech rights were a tempest in a teapot compared to what he might have had to contend with in Hungary in case of a serious attempt to federalize the monarchy...
...God's Justice The Son Avenger, by Sigrid Undset...
...Still the general character of the episcopate is high-mindedness, straightforwardness and deep conscientiousness...
...The second conclusion is an elementary dictate of justice and humanity, Dr...
...Haas points out that where the wife or mother is employed outside of the home, the most serious of the changes is that the rapidly increasing divorce rate has run parallel with the increase in the number of women so employed...
...What makes the book eminently practical is the fact that, after showing the defects, it offers constructive programs that are possible of execution...
...New York: Charles Scribner's Sons...
...This present book displays its author's old ingenuity in scattering our suspicions...
...Nevertheless this is a conscientious, successful, and welldocumented book...
...He also indicates that certain laws and their administrators are equally in need of reform...
...Herr Tschuppik gives a vivid portrait of the emperor but does not dwell long on a psychological analysis...
...His American biographer, Bagger, accused him of narrowness...
...This disturbed the Pope and as Butler says: "It [is] regrettable that Manning's Ultramontane principle 'sentire cum papa' did not on this occasion make him bow to the Pope's wish...
...Such writing, above all the spirit which animates such writing, is rare indeed today, and rarest of all in the literature produced by the war...
...Much modern history of Church and state fall within the scope of this work...
...Just as the United States could not flourish until the clumsy Articles of Confederation were supplanted by the constitution, so an age-old oriental empire will not thrive unless it finds a satisfactory recipe of cohesive principle...
...Social and economic factors have been of prime importance since the advent of industrialism, but nationalism has grown to be at least as significant an issue in the turmoil of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
...To achieve this end, he brings to bear a truly astounding erudition in all the branches of Semitic scholarship: biblical criticism, Assyriology, Egyptology, the study of Arabian, Phoenician and Hittite inscriptions and much besides...
...New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company...
...On the whole, he is a reliable historian of Austria during Francis Joseph's reign, though he barely touches upon the Hungarian side of the numerous problems involved...
...He is another Man of Last Resorts, human in every respect, a friend of the oppressed, a vituperative foe of those who would prey on the helplessness of the poor...
...But out in the field there walked one—sometimes he thought it was his guardian angel, but sometimes it was Eirik—a friend who did not ask whether the dying man had done him wrong, but thought only of gathering up the poor ears of corn that he could save among the thistles...
...We are here given numerous glimpses into the intimate circle of his home life, and he emerges as much more of an able and comprehensible human being that the periwigged, high-heeled and ermined manikin of popular imagination...
...An Expert on Crime The Criminal, by Henry A. Geisert...
...These aspiring playwrights have achieved a certain technical aptitude, but bring nothing definite to the theatre...
...We meet Hefele the historian who constructed the machinery of the council and is against its definition...
...Many poor Spanish and Italian bishops walk even through heavy rain" and "sit long hours in damp things...
...3.50...
...But among the latter, too, travelers have reported the existence of certain cultural elements that may be ascribed to Hebrew influence...
...Kenrick was such a one, and years afterward Pope Leo XIII defended him warmly as "a noble man and a true Christian bishop...
...He leaves no one in the dark and is convinced that his principles are correct...
...2.00...
...He points out further that, while gainful employment does not necessarily cause or occasion divorce, it is true, nevertheless, that "the environment of industry and commerce provides an atmosphere favorable to its propagation...
...New York: Farrar and Rinehart...
...It assumes even greater importance from the fact that the author is a prison chaplain who combines knowledge with an excellent opportunity to confirm his conclusions by practical case work...
...There are the Orientals who "smoke their pipes" and hold their tongues...
...A King's Tragedy Francis Joseph I: The Downfall of an Empire, by Karl Tschuppik...
...Yet, during both periods, returns come to industries from the work done in the busy period, though the workers do not profit by this...
...The author knows what he wants and states it clearly...
...This book, a worthy account of that gathering, should help dissipate the bogys current even today among some otherwise well-informed minds...
...and as he lies dying, he hears son and daughter appraise his career affectionately...
...Many aspects of such a novel cannot even be mentioned in a brief review...
...Shonts, in control at Panama, wanted to get rid of Dr...
...Now, the question whether certain practices and beliefs of these Negroes, in Jamaica or in their original African home, are traceable to Hebrew influence, is rather debatable...
...Other institutions were just as bad...
...At the age of eighteen, in the spring of 1848, he was placed on the throne by a stroke of a powerful cabal, at a time when the French Revolution still kept vibrating the nerves of Europe...
...It cannot be doubted that the experiment would have stirred up a commotion comparable to the world war...
...He is given to us, in simple and entirely believable pictures, as a grim, steady, selfless man, who understands his job and has the disillusioned love, born of service and much deeper than emotion, for his people...
...The gloom through which Olav moves is a little incomprehensible to our more western and variegated minds, accustomed to find that even the culprit condemned to die has a pale jest—or a cigarette— to adorn his lips with nonchalance...
...his conservatism was a result of his being conscious of the infirmity of the structure built up by his ancestors...
...The author's main effort is directed toward vindicating the actions and character of its subject from the accusations of writers like Saint-Simon who, belonging to the old noblesse, were unable to stifle their chagrin over the rise to the loftiest eminence of "la veuve Scarronique," "la vieille sorciere," to whom they ascribed most of the errors and disasters of Louis's reign...
...The protagonist was a character with solid burgher virtues, a correct bureaucrat whose matrimonial life was wrecked by his very virtues...
...Louis XIV and La Maintenon Madame de Maintenon, by Maud Crutwell...
...Sins of his youth were heavily visited on him though, reasonably, he could not be held responsible for them...
...Father Geisert divides his treatise into three parts: Etiology of Crime, Therapeutics, and Prophylaxis...
...But in attempting to answer this question upon the basis of his hypothesis, Dr...
...The council opened in an atmosphere of controversy...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...how it stirs them with hopes and with fears...
...Now they are willing to recognize that community health is a purchasable commodity...
...The fiction of a pure Jewish race of Semitic origin, which the anthropologists have undermined, he demolishes completely by means of archaeological and historical evidence...
...ATAHE cataclysm which swept away the old empire of Aus•JL tria-Hungary is intimately linked up with the person of Francis Joseph, even though he did not actually witness the downfall of his house...
...WHILE intended as a college text, this volume presents a consideration of many perplexing questions of modern social life which should make an appeal to those who seek an understanding of these problems...
...The sub-title of Professor Godbey's book, Suggestions toward Rewriting Hebrew History, gives a much better idea of the aim and scope of this truly monumental work than the 614 THE COMMONWEAL October 15, 1930 title itself...
...Even in War...
...The century was a period of brutal oppression, general ill treatment and extreme cruelty for those who got into the clutches of the keepers of persons considered to be lunatics...
...Dom Butler judges that the definition has been no bar to the reunion of the Churches or the conversion of individuals...
...Tobey has given the names and deeds of most of the men who have done distinguished work in preventive medicine...
...it would be a worthier memento if it had fared better at the hands of the translator, whose work is not altogether free from scarcely justifiable blunders...
...It is unfair to judge him by the measure of the ordinary citizen: he had to cope with difficulties which might have proved too hard for "the genius of a Bismarck...
...We have reduced the death rate from contagious disease but so far from reducing the suffering of humanity, it has increased...
...I ^HIS work must prove absorbing to those within and those A without the household of the Faith—for the human interest it stirs up, for the high scholarship it evinces and for the deep questions it reviews...
Vol. 12 • October 1930 • No. 24
