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...James which they founded eight years ago. They advocate a change not in theological doctrine but in church services, with pastors wearing proper vestments, decking their altars with flowers and tapers, emphasizing the crucifix, reviving traditional Lutheran rubrics, singing only the purest liturgical music. These practices, common in Scandinavian Lutheran churches, are anathema in many a U. S. parish where Lutheranism is austere and puritanical. The liturgists argue that what they want is nothing new. Martin Luther called a mass a mass. He favored vestments, tapers and incense; genuflected and even approved of private confession. And Luther, who wrote...
...great pre-War entertaining when 20 maids and 20 valets would accompany their masters and mistresses to a great house for the weekend, bringing outside gossip. Some of the footmen and chauffeurs were also British but the rest of the butlers' underlings were Irish. German and Scandinavian, more rawboned and clumsy than a good butler likes...
...father's death, she let it be clearly understood that there never would be a prince consort. Her bedfellow was a lady-in-waiting. Personally popular with her subjects, she soon got into hot water because she imported foreign intellectuals (notably Descartes) to liven up the heavy Scandinavian atmosphere. When she decided that she had had enough of being ruler, she amazed Europe by abdicating, going to Rome to live. There, although she had turned Roman Catholic she was a constant source of embarrassment to the authorities by her loud, eccentric and unladylike behavior. On a visit...
...high point of the Christmas Scribner's is a critique on Thorstein Veblen by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Bates has been charmed away from the truth, one feels, by a romantic sympathy for the immigrant Scandinavian, for his racial humiliation by the native Americans of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is supposed to explain much of Veblen's vitriol as a critic of the economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption...
...unlikely, on the other hand, that a Scandinavian union will be achieved shortly. Already in Norway and in Sweden the internal attack of Fascism is beginning; before it becomes too potent, the Liberal and Labor parties of each nation may find it logic to oppose the foreign menace no less than the domestic, thus gravitating toward triple agreements with Denmark against Herr Hitler. Though the Fascist movement in Norway has not made startling progress as yet, it is still very young. Moreover, if its strength lies in the ineptitude of the democracy it opposes, then it has ample grounds...