Life — August 29, 1912 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Old Story HY can't they eat together, The Puritan and Priest? Why must they be a fightin’ And a spoilin’ of the feast? Is there to be another unpleasantness? Has it really begun? Already we hear scattering shots along the skirmish line, and, at times, the booming of a gun. Protestant muzzles seem to be frowning from the windows of public schools, And from the Christian Herald comes a bomb, bursting through the air. Here is a fragment, about the Catholic Church: Her truckling with Presidential candidates; her arro- gant claim of equality with royalty for her cardinals at public functions ; her attitude toward civil marriage, and her imposition of the ban of illegitimacy on ecclesiastical marriages between Catholic and Protestant; her wide- spread interference in politics and her dictation to the “bosses”; her declaration that “the Church will not > her own until there are more Catholics in Con- gress,” and her demand, reiterated in her church organs throughout the country, that American Catholics should work together “to make of the United States, according to a dream that is no longer visionary, the first Catholic in the world "—these are among the reasons why d independent American people must jealously guard their privileges against a power which has been repudiated in every country in Europe, with one solitary exception. Is free America, with its inheritance of liberty, to become Catholic America? ‘That is the great question which now overshadows all others. A hot shot! But the Catholics are not easily scared. There are more than twelve millions in the United State: they are masters of strategy, and their organization is the best in the world. Moreover, the prize is well worth a struggle. GN This novel looks awfully interesting. Is it good? Grapys: It’s perfectly splendid. minute, but it belongs to me. I'd lend it to you ina DOCTORS TEKYLL AND HYDE The Bawlerout, by Forrest Halsey. The love story of a professional dun and an entangled debtor, with an exposé of Ioaa-shark methods on the side The Drunkard, by Guy Thorne. A sensational tale of duplicated crime and a gruesomely realistic presentation of the physical and mental ciiccts of alcoholic poisoning. Fate Knocks at the Door, by Will Levington Comfort. The history of a young sailor's ‘career in the Orient and mission to the West. A mixture of sturdy adventure, romantic mysticism and feminist propaganda. The Golightlys, Father and Son, by Laurence North. In which we look over Fate's shoulder ‘while an interesting hand is played in the game of life. In Cotton Wool, by W. B. Maxwell. grand serieux) of the effects of easy circumstane indulgence upon a young hero of exemplary habit The Labyrinth of Life, by E. A. U. Valentine. A high- browish tale of Paris and pessimism, in which a dull hero with an intermittent grouch finds a cure that one doubts the permanency of. The Loss of the SS. Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley. A connected account by a cool-headed and capable witness. The Marriage of Captain Kettle, by C. J. Cuteliffe Hyne. A volume of rather staccato adventures in which a once popular hero makes a belated reappearance. My Life in Prison, by Donald Lowrie. The author served a twelve-year sentence in San Quentin for burglary, His book is one of the most engrossing “human documents” of recent appearance. The New History, by James Harvey Robinson. Interesting essays on post-Darwinian aspects of history as a science One of Us, by Ezra Brudno, The autobiography of a hunchback, compounded of almost equal parts of melodrama and morbidity. The Penitent, by Réné Bazin. ant tragedy, done with the effective but Plicity characteristic of the author of “ The Nun. The Permanent Uncle, by Douglas Goldring. A jolly tale of an unconventional and unlikely, but highly likable, trio of travelers. The Principal Girl. by J, C. Snaith. Another attractive summer novel. A light satirical skit with a solid fictional foundation. Problems of Sex, by Prof. J. Arthur Thompson and Prof. Patrick Geddes. | A ‘masterly miniature discussion, written by the authors of “The Evolution of Sex" for the series of Seu Tracts for the Times" A study (written an s and self- The skeletonized tale of a rtificial sim- Recollections of Guy de Maupassant, by his valet, Francois. The mild-mannered and unmomentous memorics of a faithful and hero-worshipping attendant. The Theories of tion, by Yves Delage and Marie Goldsmith. The outlines of evolutionary speculation since Darwin intelligibly presented in simple form. White Ashes, by Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble. An interesting story founded upon the intricacies and exciting possibilities of the fire insurance business, The White Waterfall, by James Francis Dwyer. A would- be Rider-Hagardish tale of high-pressure doings in the Isle of the Centipede. A cheap china nest-egg for setting imagina- tions. J. B. Kerfoot. comicbookst¢om