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Whalen, Frank & Shuster, George N. & Canisius, Sister Mary & Dangerfield, George & Thompson, Frederic
BOOKS Denouncing Dr. Watson Behaviorism: A Battle Line; edited by William Peter King. Nashville: The Cokesbury Press. $2.25. ''I"* HIS book is a symposium to which seventeen writers * have...
...From our American point of view the book is a precious complimertt...
...Madame de la Fayette although herself so attached to "Madame," as the daughter of Charles I was called at the court of France, does not want us to become attracted toward her on account of what she tells us about her, but seeks to awaken in us affection for this fascinating Princess, by persuading us that she deserves to inspire it...
...Enjoyment of Miss Benet's Goods and Chattels should entice the reader to secure her recently published Noah's Dove, a book of lyrics characterized by the fine qualities of her legends...
...One of the Giants The Trough of the Wave, by Olav Duun...
...Dottery, vicar of Tadnol, who is the humor of spiritual kindness, by his servant-maid who is the humor of earthly kindness...
...Near-allegory, adventure and a touch of magic half conceal a satirically shrewd moral...
...Behaviorism and Metaphysics...
...The most remarkable events, therefore —a bishop disguised as a witch, the village saint catching minnows in the river—can only surprise the reader without, but are taken for granted by the character within...
...its proportions are more just and simple, and its world of humors more coherent...
...A number of the papers indicate briefly the antidote furnished by the Gestalt doctrines...
...Turin: Societa Editrice Internazionale...
...For nothing in the world he creates can offend so long as it conforms to the peculiar logic of that world...
...IT HAS not escaped the attention of anthology makers and users that there exists a definite relation between the scope of a given collection and the college literature course normally based upon it...
...But he has a certain ingenuity, fancy, call it what you will—something that disperses his imagination at the moment when it should be most concentrated, and in occasional speech or action does violence to his characters and the world they live in...
...DURING a stay in the United States, which he visited as a member of the staff of the Vatican Library, Count Giordani sought to obtain information regarding Catholic literary activity...
...D. K. Adams, of Yale University...
...It is realism that makes all the other ism's seem frail and ineffective and self-conscious by comparison...
...This book breathes affection and cordial interest, remaining always both scholarly and human...
...New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company...
...Frank Whalen...
...2.00...
...but do, by all means, "Always keep a butterfly...
...edited by Percy Hazen Houston and Robert Metcalf Smith...
...The present volume is the most extensive and discursive we have seen...
...12 Lire...
...New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company...
...Types of World Literature...
...She knew this time that it was hers...
...The present anthology is the result...
...What it has to say is related simply, and humanly, and life, real life, with its petty as well as its great side, oozes out of its contents, all through the story...
...the outstanding scholars of the Catholic University, particularly Fathers John A. Ryan, Edward A. Pace and Peter Guilday...
...This story of English Dorset has two themes: the temptation of Mr...
...In two tales of penetrating analysis and delicate satire woven into the tissue of a highly fanciful realism, Miss Laura Benet points to the wisdom of the one practice and the folly of the other...
...his English country humors have nothing whatsoever to do with English country manners...
...Finney and Bishop McConnell, are nationally known in their fields...
...These imaginative studies from life are among the fifteen legends and tales to be found in Laura Benet's Goods and Chattels...
...In the shape of a shadowy little fawn it stood beside her and motioned for her to get on its back...
...one (Dr...
...but neither religion nor decency are offended...
...It is written in the beautiful language of the seventeenth century, where every word is used in the right place, and where no expression is ever misplaced...
...It is on the back of the shadowy fawn that Laura Benet scampers off into enchanted lands...
...Others, like the Magic Balloon, and The Lake and the Mountain, are pure fairy-lore, while the concluding lines of The Girl Who Wanted a Career, are suggestive enough of Miss Benet herself to justify quoting: "Suddenly she saw her career come out of the woods...
...In such a world the real enemy is Canon Dibben, the humor of puritan morality, who, fetching his stupidity from our world, and searching the innocent Mr...
...and the contributors to The Commonweal, in which Signor Giordani discerned the organ of that "Catholic Action" which has been urged so strongly by the Holy Father...
...Or do you rent eyes...
...It contains selected essays excellently translated into Italian, as well as an introduction and supplementary notes...
...This paper is especially good for its data concerning the refutation of Thorndike's theory of learning by Dr...
...Several of the contributors, notably Dr...
...New York: Alfred A. Knopf...
...Dottery of unkindness in the shape of a neighboring canon and his wife...
...Our way of life is not so easy that we can accept the humors in their original—that is reformatory, two-dimensional—shape...
...3.00...
...after having read McDougall's paper, the reader is annoyed to find the other writers leaning so heavily on McDougall, and so on...
...2.So...
...Memoirs of the Court of France, by Madame de la Fayette...
...Weston's Good Wine, was, in spite of its almost naive soliciting of the imagination, a very important book...
...Twenty-seven authors are represented...
...The attractive figure of the Princess Henrietta, the wife of Philippe d'Orleans, the more than despicable brother of Louis XIV, is presented to us not only in a charming but also in a true light...
...for Miss Benet is as persistent a moralist as was Hawthorn, but in her woman's hands the moral takes the form of a bit of yeast hidden in three measures of meal...
...And when he has rid himself of this, he will write the perfect novel of humors: an event of major importance as far as the growth of the novel is concerned...
...It nails the persistent rumor that Italian Catholics are bitterly opposed to the spirit of America...
...real, life-sized lusty people walk in the palm of his hand and he surveys them with a curious and kindly eye...
...One wonders, however, just what the educational effect of such a volume is likely to be...
...We are not a little proud of the circumstance that so much of the work done by our editors and contributors is here, offered to the Italian public as a sample of what we are attempting to do...
...The Humors Restored Kindness in a Corner, by T. F. Powys...
...Josiah Morse contributes a very strong historical introduction...
...Powys's work has been to translate them to another world, independent of ours because it offers no comment upon ours, where their life and meaning, their originality, their third dimension, depend entirely upon the consistency of their relationship to each other...
...Fifteen of the authors are Protestants (as far as one may judge), most of them teachers in state and Protestant universities...
...In still another way this anthology is a source of gratification...
...The papers are loosely gathered under three heads: The General Principles of Behaviorism...
...A book of this type necessarily suffers from a certain amount of repetition...
...3.50...
...The selections range, therefore, from samples of the Iliad to the Communist Manifesto...
...Signor Giordani concedes that not all his geese are swans, but hopes the volume may convey an impression of the virility with which Catholics are now attacking cultural problems in the United States...
...One and all, they agree that as chiropractic has been called the first six weeks of medicine, so behaviorism may justly be called the first six weeks of psychology...
...Never rent eyes," she warns us...
...It is for this reviewer the perfect illustration of the narrowness of the creed of unbelief, the torturing, mentally incestuous, isolating belief in unbelief, held to be heroism by its protagonists but in fact futile and unkind egotism...
...We see her such as she was, with her frailties, weaknesses, feminine coquetry and love of admiration, but at the same time with her sincerity, love for her family and keen political sense...
...The people about whom Madame de la Fayette writes are all of them living people, differentiated among themselves not by places but by persons, people who can love, intrigue, hate or avenge themselves in a human, natural way...
...This however is only one of the book's facets —one that perhaps would be most interesting to Catholic readers...
...not the unrelieved frightfulness so many of those who miscall themselves realists pour over in print...
...his rustics offer their daughters to their vicar, his Anglican clergy forget all about confirmation day, or offer a sacrifice of pigeons according to Leviticus...
...1T WAS a happy thought to reprint this translation of one of the most interesting books of Memoirs in old France The volume is fascinating from the first line of it, to the last...
...His own interpetation of the national scene is shrewd and entertaining...
...George Dangerfield...
...The story portrays two brothers who seek to carry on the proud unbelief of their fathers, unbelief on the one hand in the benevolent God of Christianity, and unbelief on the other hand in the old pagan ill-omens and placating magic and horrible "things that go bump in the night...
...As might be expected, the authors emphasize the moral (or immoral) implications of Watson's doctrine, and since the book is an attack, they may be excused if they have nothing very solid to offer in its place...
...The reader who begins it begins an adventure...
...Sister Mary Canisius...
...The gentle reader will be well repaid if he makes an effort to learn why...
...She is Hawthornesque, likewise, in her predilection for the preternatural, some of her tales, such as The Harvest, being positively uncanny...
...Frederic Thompson...
...A GREEN and rugged island of delight awaits the wayfarer on the uncertain seas of literature who comes upon Olav Duun's first book to be translated from the Norwegian for American readers...
...Sanborn, Dr...
...It is this that hurts, not our morality ( which only responds to more important attacks) but our sense of values...
...Most of the material is interesting and valuable, even if the translations might occasionally have been chosen with more care...
...Powys does not affect the allegory or the satire...
...We have something to look foward to...
...It has many, it has depth, it is rich, rich as life...
...Powys is one of the few contemporary English • writers whose work is likely to be taken seriously when we are dead and most of what we have praised forgotten: he has restored the humors to English literature...
...DO YOU always keep a butterfly...
...translation with an introduction by J. M. Shelmerdine...
...3.75...
...One hopes that the book will interest many in the land of Dantey and also that some of the charitable sympathy for new world.conditions manifested by the author will prove contagious and thus instrumental in promoting Catholic cordiality...
...I"* HIS book is a symposium to which seventeen writers * have contributed their opinions concerning behaviorism...
...New York: The Viking Press...
...Centner, of the Pontifical College Josephinum) a Catholic...
...Will it merely add to the student's knowledge or will it help to convey a loving understanding of the literary life...
...And above all, as might be expected, it is healthy realism, admixed of good and evil, like life...
...McDougall spoils a good paper by entitling it, The Psychology They Teach in New York...
...and the assault upon Mr...
...McDougall, Dr...
...Anthology of Americans Contemporanei Nord-Americani, by Igino Giordani...
...George N. Shuster...
...Dottery's study for evidence of a red-haired girl with green garters, comes to merited disaster among the fish-hooks in his neighbor's cupboard...
...Behaviorism and Value...
...Barring this fault, and a strong fundamentalist tone in several of the papers, the book is an able presentation of the objections to behaviorism, both historical and scientific...
...but she rarely fails to carry along her own twentieth-century self...
...Particular attention is paid to three groups of writers: the hierarchy of the last generation, represented by Cardinals Gibbons and Ireland...
...His first novel, Mr...
...Briefer Mention The Secret History of Henrietta, Princess of England...
...His compatriots Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset have this same spaciousness and naturalness of view...
...Kindness in a Corner is still more important...
...by Laura Benet...
...Truly the man who cast together this cosmos is one of the giants...
...It aims to represent all the types of composition and all the major literatures...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...and one (Rabbi Julius Mark, of Nashville) a Jew...
...Kindness prevails: it is the pagan humor, the humor of an earthy world...
...ranciful Wisdom Goods and Chattels...
Vol. 12 • July 1930 • No. 9
