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Francis Stuart himself is a controversial enough character in my part of the world. In 25 words or less he's the 96-year-old holder of the suí of the Aosdána (kind of like a council of Irish writers and artists) and a man who allegedly worked as a writer and broadcaster for the Nazis during WWII until he got sense... For anyone who has ever pondered the effects of war on the ordinary citizens of Europe in the immediate aftermath of 1945 then this is the one for you. Vivid and graphic in its portrayal of a sort of love story amongst the suffering of the ordinary people in the bombed out streets with little or no money, food, clothes or comforts...

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Hugo Walter's poetry anthologized and showcased in A Purple-Golden Renascence Of Eden-Exalting Rainbows are like an Impressionist painting: filled with color, rhythm, and a rich swirl of images. Autumn is a delicate symphony/Of soft-madrigal swallows and alumen-/Crimson nirvanas of jen-amber light. Colors are an integral part of his nature-inspired poetry, enjoy its refreshingly different syntax, rhythm, and presentations.

But inside is a wealth of information. This is the 9 th edition of Radio-Craft magazine Jubilee Souvenir it is a collection of the best stories and articles for the 50th year of radio.. chocked full of old radio advertisments. really a fun book

Cliched reviewers say, "you can't put this book down." In the case of poet Richard Hugo's autobiography, I found I needed to put it down occasionally. The book is so intense, so brutally truthful, that the reader has to take a break and walk away from it periodically, just a prize-fighter needs that break between rounds. Growing up on West Marginal Way with his grandparents in Seattle, going through his tour as a bombardier, his early life and eventual emergence as one of the top nation's best poets - and certainly one of the top poetry teachers - Hugo spares neither himself nor the reader. Although modern-day Americans are accustomed to seeing blood and gore on the TV screen, few are prepared for the concussive effects of Hugo's unflinching reminiscences. When the book finally is put down at the end, it stays with the reader, as does an admiration for the extreme courage Hugo took in putting all this down on paper.

Meynell is a vary lucid writer and he is quite good at giving a general overview of the philosophical positions that he thinks are incorrect.

This book includes arguements against extreme and moderate scepticism. On the first of these scepticisms his arguements are cogent. He does not, however, overcome the force of Hume's arguements for moderate scepticism.

Next, Meynell explains his version of the correspondence theory of truth, based on how we come to know. Sense-data are taken to be metaphysical simples, from which we articulate intelligable theories about the world. These theories approximate reality, Meynell claims, because they can predict how things would have been if they were true. Since we may combine this feature of expirimentation with intelligent thinking and our experience of a designed world we can have knowledge about the world.

Although Meynell does not state Theism at the beginning of the book his theory does not seem plausable without it, due to the fact that his realism is permeated with idealism. If there were no Necessary being what reason do we have to hold that the world, reached through our experience of knowing, is a world for knowing? In short, Meynell's world looks like a world made to be known. His order of presentation leads me to think that he wanted to show the reverse of this point: that because the world is knowable it is made.

Meynell then claims that this view of correspondence implies a radical Cartesian internalism and a Thomistic metaphysics of immaterial essences along with mind\body interactionist deulism. By the end of the book his realism surely does require these positions, however I cannot see how Meynell arrives at his Thomistic conclusion from his initial chapterrs on truth, reality and data. It seems to me that Meynell's love for God makes him exagerate the implications of his premises. Naturally, my claim here instanciates both the fallacy of "to the man" and the so-called "genetic fallacy." Here I hope not to argue against Meynell, but simply to give my impression of his book.

I also think he fails to explain the metaphysics of causation, in most of the particular details of his Lonerganian philosophy.

This book is fun and worth reading because of its broad outlook and its innocent, though not uninformed, and speculative view of philosophical problems. Indeed, correspondence theories of truth are not dead, as long as we have articulate and acute Englishmen like Meynell to endorse them. Meynell also seems like a good person.

"Those who write treatises of natural law, can only declare what their own moral sense and reason dictate in the several cases they state. Such of them as happen to have feelings and a reason coincident with those of the wise and honest part of mankind, are respected and quoted as witnesses of what is morally right or wrong in particular cases. Grotius, Puffendorf, Wolf, and Vattel are of this number." - Thomas Jefferson.

Better known under his latin name, Grotius, Hugo de Groot (1583-1645), a Dutch protestant jurist, is generally considered the "father of international law". Another great father, that of the U.S. Constitution, praised his "genius and erudition", while U.S. historian George Bancroft saw in "the admirable Grotius" "the first political writer of his age", though he was a contemporary of the more widely known Thomas Hobbes. And yet here am I, writing the first Amazon review of his masterpiece, *The Rights of War and Peace*, published in 1625.

In his introduction to this first volume of the beautiful collection, "Universal Classics" , published in 1901 by Walter Dunne, David J. Hill provides a fascinating portrait of this precocious genius : "At eight he wrote Latin verses which betrayed poetic talent ; at twelve he entered the University... and at fifteen he defended 'with he greatest applause' Latin theses in philosophy and jurisprudence... at the age of seventeen he was admitted to the bar". As for the present treatise, a document discovered in 1868 revealed that "the entire plan and even the arrangement of the *De Jure Belli ac Pacis* were in the mind of Grotius when he was only twenty-one years of age."

To summarize the main thrust of his argument, Grotius believed, in Hill's apt words, that "war is never to be undertaken except to assert rights, and when undertaken is never to be carried on except within the limits of rights." These two fundamental requirements, without which no war can be called just, organize the two major sections of this three-book work : Book II, which articulates the just causes of war, namely "the defense of person and property" ; and Book III, which describes the just prosecution of war, by identifying "what is lawful in war." (The two quotes in this sentence are the titles of the first chapters of each book.)

But to reduce this treatise to these two questions would be unfair to the scope of Grotius's intellect. For the Dutch jurist digs deep, not only philosophically, as when he discusses the foundation of property rights, the moral nature of oaths or the relationship between the law of nature, God's commandments and positive law ; but culturally, offering a magisterial survey of mankind's treasuries of knowledge and wisdom, from Scripture to Homer, Aristotle, Thucydides, Livy, Ulpian, Justinian, Cicero and Seneca, among others.

*The Rights of War and Peace* should be on the reading list of all American patriots, who cannot ignore such a landmark in the Natural Law tradition. Grotius's discussion of the right of self-defense is strong ammunition for a libertarian interpretation of the Second Amendment. And his treatment of "pirates and robbers" applies perfectly to modern terrorists, those "atrocious malefactors... [whose] calling... is to extort terms by fear." Reading this book in the week that followed the destruction of the World Trade Center, I was fascinated by its relevance to the whole situation, and how its clarity can help refute the whitewashing of bin Laden's acts by some perverted muslim intellectuals, preying on a West disarmed by moral relativism, ignorance and confusion.

Of course, Grotius is not "modern" in all his opinions. He does not seem to recognize a people's right to rebel against an unjust monarch, for instance, though a James Otis managed to quote him in support of American independence. But Russell Kirk, in a passage of his *The Roots of American Order* praising Montesquieu, went too far in reducing him to the idea "that a conqueror has the right to slaughter or perpetually enslave a whole people whose armies he has defeated." Doesn't Grotius write that "No one can be justly killed by design, except by way of legal punishment, or to defend our lives, and preserve our property, when it cannot be effected without his destruction"? Doesn't he beautifully affirm that "it is the characteristic of bravery to esteem our opponents as enemies, while contending with victory, and to treat them as men, when conquered"?

Let us not distort the thinking of this prodigious individual by dropping the context and putting an undue emphasis on the errors he shared with his time. Let us rather concur with James Madison's assessment : "Grotius is not unjustly considered, as in some respects, the father of the modern code of nations. Great, however, as his authority deservedly may be, it yields, in a variety of instances, to that of later jurists; who, to all the lights furnished by this luminary, have added those derived from their own sources, and from the improvements made in the intercourse and happiness of nations."

(Note : The editor, A. C. Campbell, made a few cuts in the original text, mostly of what he considered to be redundant or too technical or obscure paragraphs, but included a certain number of interesting footnotes drawing parallels between some of Grotius's points and the writings of Vattel and Blackstone, through whom, when not directly, Grotius influenced the Founding Fathers.)

This volume of spectacular sculpture rocks. I have never laid my hands on enything quite like it. The pieces are well-written and the photography is excellent. Kudos.