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Five months ago the League of Nations gave Austria 24 months in which to recover economic health. The granting of the 130 million loan is evidence of what Austria has done in five months under the Roman Catholic priest who is her leader...
Approved by the Roman Catholic Church, invented by Signor Rossi, an Italian dancing master, " modesty bumpers" for modern dances were sponsored by the Dancing Masters' Congress at Paris...
Pilgrimages. July, not the Chaucerian April, is the month of pilgrim- age for American Roman Catholics. Several hundred New Englanders are arranging to go to Lourdes and Rome under the auspices of the Holy Name Society. The Pope will give them audience...
Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...
...likeable distinctiveness; and certainly for suavity they lend an air of dignified austerity. If Mr. Robinson could claim to be American's first poet before he wrote this latest book, he still can claim that honor--although one questions if his title to it will be increased by "Roman Bartholow:"--for excellence at verse and excellence at portraiture alone don't make a poet. . . . And as for verse, what is it more than prose? As someone will discover, this review is written in Mr. Robinson's won metre...