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...titles: Shakespeare's Complete Works, Tolstoy's War and Peace, e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, Don Quixote, The Education of Henry Adams, St. Augustine's Confessions, Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. Not included...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, who is on a visit to Patriarch Sergei of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared that there is complete freedom of worship in Russia, that the Soviet Government has stopped all antireligious propaganda. Said the Archbishop: "Stalin, being a great statesman, has recognized the power of religion...
...airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap. He was Britain's No. 2 primate, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. He came to visit Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan of All Russia, a fortnight after Joseph Stalin had given his blessing to the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), a few days after the 76-year-old Patriarch had been enthroned in his jampacked Cathedral with Ritualistic pomp not seen in Russia since the Bolshevik revolution. Following his enthronement, the Metropolitan blessed the Soviet Government (whose members, like all Communists, are atheists...
...When Forster described businessmen somewhat leniently in Howards End, D. H. Lawrence wrote him that he had made "a nearly deadly mistake. . . . Business is no good." "But Forster, who is too worldly to suppose that we can judge people without reference to their class, is also too worldly to suppose that we can judge class-conditioned action until we make a hypothetical deduction of the subject's essential humanity. It is exactly because Forster can judge the 'business people' as he does, and because he can judge the lower classes so without sentimentality, that he can deal...
...Human Possibility. Trilling also pays his respects to Novelist Forster's "attachment to tradition. . . . Most of us, consciously or unconsciously, are discontented with the nature rather than with the use of the human faculty; deep in our assumption lies the hope and the belief that humanity will end its career by developing virtues which will be admirable exactly because we cannot now conceive them. . . . This is a moral and historical error into which Forster never falls; . . . The very relaxation of his style, its colloquial unpretentiousness, is a mark of his acceptance of the human fact as we know...