temporaries," has already set an impressive example of how history may best be studied. Life of the Bee (The). By Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 5x7 in. 427 pages. $1.40. Reserved for later notice. Lover's Replies to an Englishwoman's LoveLetters (The). Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. 42x74 in. 196 pages. $1. Magic Seven (The). By Lida A. Churchill. The Alliance Publishing Co., New York. 4×61⁄4 in. 88 pages. $1. This is one of the many publications now representing the new thought." Its seven directions for an effective and healthy realization of the possibilities of life seem to be based on the author's experience. It is open to criticism as fostering an extremely individualistic life, self-centered, self-engrossed. Surely there is a higher method of cultivating mental concentration than the spending of hours in gazing with introspective thought upon one's solar plexus. The author truly says that to accomplish as the Christ accomplished one must live as the Christ lived, but her application of this principle is singularly egoistic. Manasseh. By Dr. Maurus Jókai. Retold from the Hungarian by Percy Favor Bicknell, L. C. Page & Co., New York. 5x734 in. 328 pages. Christian in Hungarian Romance (The). By John Fretwell. The James H. West Co., New York. 42x7 in. 124 pages. $1. Dr. Jókai has now published more than three hundred novels and stories. In dramatic unity and powerful description the present volume may not rank with "The Poor Plutocrats," but it outranks" Dr. Dumany and His Wife." "Manasseh" is the absorbing story of life among a primitive people hidden away in Transylvania. The opening scenes of the tale, however, are laid in Rome, and, as may be expected, the novelist draws a dramatic and rather too lurid contrast between the cor rupt society of Roman intriguers and the scenes of peaceful Transylvanian simplicity and also of savage Transylvania border warfare which succeed. The characters are like all of the Hungarians; they get up and sit down, they talk and move, like real, not like fictitious, beings; they inhabit no atmosphereless planet; they have none of the defect which M. Maeterlinck cleverly finds in Racine's personages, namely, that when they cease to speak they cease to live. The Jókai characters always thrill the reader with their life. Mr. Fretwell's capital little book comprises a study of Dr. Jókai's novel, which he does not call "Manasseh," but, instead, "There is a God; or, The People who Love but Once!" It is perhaps not so necessary to ! speak of the literary merits of the Jokai masterpieces as to place emphasis on their tendencies. Like the work of Dickens for England, so the work which the Hungarian novelist has done for his own land, in aiding by his romances the liberal thinkers and workers of our time, can really be appreciated only by those who have lived among Hungarians. Mr. Fretwell's study is full of the intimate touch which comes from such living. As his appreciation appears in the very week in which" Manasseh is published in English, we have a double reminder that Jókai has always stood for advanced religious and political thought. He has shown the courage of his convictions in deed as well as in word. He has exposed himself to risks as incredible as any related in "Manasseh." There are still heroes in Hungary; one of them is described in "Manasseh," another is the man who wrote that book. His fate Man in the Iron Mask (The). By Tighe Hopkins. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 52x8 in. 368 pages. $3. Mr. Tighe Hopkins, who has already given interesting glimpses into French history and topography by his "Idler in Old France" and his Dungeons of Old Paris," has now published a book on that somewhat well-worn theme "The Man in the Iron Mask." As the supposed victim of Louis XIV.'s vengeance, Mattioli, whose name was first mentioned a hundred and thirty years ago in this connection, is now shown to be the real victim. was neither exceptional nor uncommon. Mr. Hopkins thinks that, if it did not accord with French jurisprudence, at all events it accorded with the administration of French justice. The whole affair was arbitrary from beginning to end: trial and sentence were both dispensed with. The Dreyfus affair at the close of the nineteenth century shows us that justice in France can still be a thing of small security to the prisoner at the bar. The documents now offered present with some new lights a graphic picture of imprisonment under the old régime. May-Flower and Her Log (The): July 15, 1620May 6, 1621. Chiefly from Original Sources by Azel Ames, M.D. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 7XII in. 375 pages. $6. This is quite different from the so-called "Log of the Mayflower"-the name inaccurately given in England to Governor Bradford's "History of Plimoth Plantation," recently restored to Massachusetts by the late Bishop of London. Its successive chapters are devoted to the Mayflower, her unlucky consort the Speedwell, her charter, crew, passengers and their quarters, food and cooking, her mixed cargo, and finally her daily journal, or "log," from July 25, 1620, to April 15, 1621. The author specifies a score of points in which Pilgrims' history. The plot by which they the volume makes new contributions to the were brought to Cape Cod instead of the Hudson, as they intended, is exhibited in full detail of the evidence. Dr. Ames has written with critical care and fondness for all the minutiæ of that memorable voyage, and his book is a fit companion to Governor Bradford's. The publishers have made it a fine specimen of their art. Modern Missions in the East. By Edward A. Lawrence, D.D. Illustrated. The Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 5x7 in. 340 pages. $1.50. A new edition of a peculiarly valuable and helpful book. Mononia. By Justin McCarthy. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. 54×74 in. 397 pages. $1.50. Mr. Justin McCarthy's latest novel has its setting in 1848, when Ireland not unnaturally caught the sparks of governmental conflagra tion which lighted that revolutionary year throughout Europe. The glare seemed to point to greater justice and liberty. The Young Ireland agitation, traced through these stirring times, and the hopes, fears, and failures culminating at Ballingary, are turned to good account in "Mononia,' a delight ful romance. The chief charm of the book, however, lies in what seem to be glimpses into the youth and interests of the genial novelist himself. Any one who has ever come in contact with this mellow and altogether lovable son of Erin is glad to know about the environment familiar to his early manhood. He sketches it for us with the charm that accompanies reminiscence when a man's heart has not been chilled by sorrow and age. Irish traits at once quickening and endearing are also patent in the various characters that dwell within the covers of this engaging story. The hero is Philip Colston, whose character, it may be surmised, has been drawn from Mr. McCarthy's memories of Thomas Francis Meagher, with a touch here and there suggestive of John Mitchell. The heroine is Mononia Desmond, a fine type of the Irish gentlewoman. Poems of the Unknown Way. By Sidney Royse Lysaght. The Macmillan Co., New York. 734X5 in. 171 pages. $1.75. Prairie Flower (A). By Alice Pierson. The Abbey Press, New York. 434×7 in. 88 pages. 50c. This, the story of a college girl who jilted a lover and threw herself away on an idle loafer belonging to a low and vicious family, might be set down as rather poor fiction, were it not asserted by the author to be real fact. The story is written with a warning purpose. The writer, however, as a glance at her preface shows, needs study for the cultivation of good literary style. Prince of the East (A). By James W. Harkins, Jr. The Abbey Press, New York. 54x8 in. 5 pages. $1. That Mr. Harkins has a prolific mind and a facile pen is plain, but his product shows the ating Spirit as a condition of its effectiveness. Representative Men by Ralpe Waldo Emez- School Hygiene. Br Edward R. Stav. D So close are the relations of the home and the There is hardly any particular in vract existing subditions are not far short of the ideal and potr school boards and teachers seriously beet such a book as this Search for an Infidel A. By Team Love Second bent. need of the curb. It is not easy to discri Yes Kennard, D.D. George W. Jachta É CL .2 as is this volume, its title by no means fulfills the reader's expectations in being so welcome a change from "A History of Greece" as was the similar change made by John Richard Green in his "Short History of the English People." Symphony of Life (The): A Series of Constructive Sketches and Interpretations. By Henry Wood. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 5x8 in. 302 pages. $1.25. Mr. Wood is an attractive representative of the so-called "new thought," for the essential antiquity of which he gives full credit to the seers and singers of the Bible. The present tendency of the Occidental mind to revert from its mechanical literalism to the symbolism and mysticism of Oriental religion is exuberantly exhibited in his pages. He expounds a spirit ual philosophy, monistic and highly ethical. Religion is in conscious oneness with God, and salvation is in the soundness both of physical and moral life. Various speculations connected with these fundamental ideas are not so well grounded. In opposing the dogmatism of Mrs. Eddy's extreme followers, Mr. Wood sees dogmatism also in those who deny the potency of mind to resist poisons and contagions. He finds in the efficacy of vaccination only the result of auto-suggestion in the subconscious mind, and suggests that water furtively substituted for vaccine might prove equally effective. A large screw is loose in his reasoning that the non-effect of poison on a body freshly dead, contrasted with its effect on a living body, points to the cause of the effect as subjective, ie., in the subconscious mind of the living person, not objective in the chemical agent. Few will concede this assumption, that a chemical agent, carbolic acid, for instance, does not act chemically on dead as on living tissue. Nor is there aught of proof that subconscious mind has more to do with death in a chemical than in a physical disturbance, as by gun-shot, or in the case of men more than of mice. Beyond this lies a question which may be conceded to be still open, whether mind will hereafter attain to mastery of the disturbance caused by poison, as in the case of St. Paul and the viper. Mr. Wood thinks it will, and it is a hope that one is at liberty to cherish, as a pious opinion, whether illusory or not. Taste of Death and The Life of Grace. By P. T. Forsyth, M.A., D.D. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 4x6 in. 127 pages. 50c. Dr. Forsyth is a leader in the Congregational churches of England. The first part of this volume is based on Hebrews ii., 9-Christ's tasting death for all; the second on Philippians ii., 5—8—Christ's emptying himself in the Incarnation. Here Dr. Forsyth shows himself among the foremost living theologians. To keen psychological analysis and deep moral insight suffused with warm feeling is added a rare gift of literary expression. Titian: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter. Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. Hurll. (The Riverside Art Series.) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5/8 in. 93 pages. 75c. A special value of this book lies in the fact that it introduces us to the pictures by Titian now in the Prado at Madrid. As most American travelers do not visit Spain, they are therefore more familiar with the works of Titian exhibited in other galleries, but none are more typical of his great genius than the Prado portraits of himself, of the Empress Isabella, and of Philip II. We are glad that the author does not disdain to include some account of the exquisite legends which form the basis of some of Titian's most appealing pictures, the girlhood of Mary or the St. Christopher, for instance. While Miss Hurll's introduction is couched in technical phrase. she describes the various pictures in untechnical words which any child might understand. The books of Mr. Claude Phillips stand as the recognized authority on the life and works of Titian, but the present volume is a valuable summary for the young student, and is particularly valuable to any student because it emphasizes the abundant life which was the keynote of the great Venetian's pictures: They are breathing human beings, of real flesh and blood, pulsing with life. They represent all classes and conditions, from such royal sitters as Charles V. and Philip II. to the peasants and boatmen who served as models for St. Christopher, St. John, and the Pharisee of the Tribute Money. They portray, too, every age: the tender infancy of the Christ-child, the girlhood of the Virgin, the dawning manhood of the Man with the Glove, the maidenhood of Medea, the young motherhood of Mary, the virile middle life of Venetian Senators, the noble old age of St. Jerome and St. Peter, each is set vividly before us. Unlike most Italian painters, Titian's list contained no ascetics and no mystics. He did not need them as interpreters of the inner life of sane men. It is true that we do not consider Titian so profound a psychologist as Leonardo or Lotto, for example; but even they rarely created portraiture more striking in psychic interpretation than Titian's wonderful "Man with the Glove." Again, Miss Hurll does well to emphasize the fact that while others excelled Titian in single efforts, no artist ever equaled him in sustained grandeur. Trois Comédies. By Alfred de Musset. Edited by Kenneth McKenzie, Ph.D. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 42x61 in. 30c. Types of Christian Life. By E. GriffithJones, B.A. Thomas Whittaker, New York. 4×6% in. 142 pages. 50c. The author, an English clergyman whose work on "Ascent through Christ" attracted wide and favorable notice last year, presents here the intellectual, devotional, and practical types of life, with their harmonious combination in Christ, and the problem of Christianity as the realization of a type of manhood in which these fractional aspects of humanity are blended. Why I Became a Baptist. By Rev. Madison C. Peters, D.D. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5x7 in. 78 pages. 50c. The first half of this volume is devoted to personal notices of Dr. Peters. The remainder does not touch the really vital point of difference between the Baptist and other churches. Consequently it has no weight with those who hold, as all but Baptists hold, that the body of believers has plenary power over the outward form of ordinances. It is seldom possible to answer any inquiry in the next issue after its receipt. Those who find expected answers late in coming will, we hope, bear in mind the impediments arising from the constant pressure of many subjects upon our limited space. Communications should always bear the writer's name and address. Any book named in Notes and Queries will be sent by the publishers of The Outlook, postpaid, on receipt of price. I would like a thorough understanding of the "Single Tax" question. Please refer me to reliable books. J. E. W. Henry George, "Progress and Poverty;" E. R. A. Seligman, "Essays on Taxation." Can you refer me to any books on the following topics: 1. The Hebrew Prophets, their functions and literary methods. 2. The History of Palestine (not merely" Jews," but " Palestine"). J. G. M. 1. See Professor W. R. Smith's "Prophets of Israel" (The Macmillan Co., New York, $3.50). 2. Sayce's "Patriarchal Palestine" ($1.50); Hommel's "Civilization of the East," in the Temple Primers Series, and a forthcoming work, Paton's "Palestine, Syria, and Palestine" ($1.25, Scribners, New York). I am on a hunt for some verses that went the rounds of the religious press some years ago. The theme, refrain, or title was: "Give us pure air, Sexton" I shall be much indebted for a hint as to where I can find them. J. C. H. They are to be found in L. B. Monroe's "Public and Parlor Readings." I have just received a letter asking me to name a boarding-school to which a boy of fifteen can be sent, in order that he may learn a trade. The letter closes with this inquiry: "Is there a place in this country where a white boy can be taken in and taught a useful trade, without first becoming a criminal?" I have felt for a long time that some one should found a school in the Northern States which would do what Booker Washington is doing for the blacks at Tuskegee; and I have heard a number of very strong teachers express themselves to the effect that if such a school were founded, they would be very glad to enter its service at lower rates than they can secure elsewhere, because they felt that this problem is so important. In the meantime, if you can render any assistance in finding the right school for this boy, shall be greatly obliged. M. "T." will find the poem beginning with "I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers" in "Reading and Elocution," by A.T. Randall, page 236. The title is "Auction Extraordinary:" the author, Lucretia Maria Davidson. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York; Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia. (F. L. T., H. I. H., M. D. B.) A little book printed A.D. 1835, by Lilly, Wait, Colman & Holden in Boston, entitled "The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine, written by himself," purporting to be letters printed in the Portland Courier," January, 1830, to November, 1833, contains the poem “ T." asks for on page 130, dated April, 1831. (H. K. V.) "A. K. M.," who inquired, June 8, for the author of the poem entitled "After Death in Arabia,” will find it in a collection of Sir Edwin Arnold's poems entitled" Pearls of the Faith" (Hunt & Co., New York). Cannot some one help me to find the poem containing these lines: "The still small voice in Nature's hush, J. H. A. "A. K. M." will find the poem "After Death in Arabia" in a volume of Sir Edwin Arnold's poems published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co., of Chicago. The book is entitled " Light of Asia.' K. W. B. It is printed with Arnold's "Light of Asia" in A. K. M.-The poem "After Death in Arabia was written by Sir Edwin Arnold, and is to be found in Stedman's "Victorian Anthology." On page 291 of this "Anthology" will also be found eleven stanzas of F. W. H. Myers's "St. Paul." See Outlook for May 18 and June 8. F. H. M. If the edition of "St. Paul" published by Macmillan in 1900 can be relied upon as correct, your correspondent's "correct version of the misquoted stanza," given June 8, needs revision. The lines were not misquoted. The latest authorized version reads: "So even I, and with a pang more thrilling, It is not easy to comprehend why this poem should F. W. "J. R." asks, June 15, "Does Bob Evans get his nickname Fighting Bob' from the character of Bob Acres in Sheridan's Rivals'?" No. This sobriquet was first given to Commodore Stockton when he was a lieutenant. Reference to it may be found on page 15 of The Life of Commodore Stockton." The name in the navy is of highest pedigree. Admiral Evans's name is Robley D. Evans; and your querist should not call him "Bob Evans.' C. R. A. C.-Your inquiry, June 15, where to find the hymn beginning "O Galilee, sweet Galilee," is thus answered by several correspondents: In "Songs of Joy and Gladness," published by McDonald and Gill, Boston (F. W. H.); in "Sacred Songs and Solos with Standard Hymns," by Morgan & Scott, London; the first line is, "Each gentle dove and swinging bough (A. F.); in “The Gospel Male Choir," by John Church & Co., Cincinnati (A. S. D.); in "The Heavenly Echo," by Ward & Drummond, New York, page 94 of Part II. (B. M.); in “The Encore," by O. Ditson & Co., Boston, (M. F. H.); in Palmer's "Book of Gems," No. 79, by the Biglow & Main Company, New York (A. E. M.); in "The White Ribbon Hymnal," by the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, Chicago; the author is Robert Morris (M. A. S.); in "Triumphant Songs," page 88, by E. O. Excell, Chicago (W. H. P.) ; in "The Young People's Hymnal," by Barbee and Smith, Nashville, Tenn. (S. T. B.); in the Brethren Hymnody," by W. J. Shooey, Dayton, O. (J. C. E.). It first appeared in the "In His Name" series, I., by the Emma Pitt Publishing Company, Baltimore, and was written by H. W. Porter (V. P. V.). The Divinity of Jesus Christ' To the Editors of The Outlook: In your article on the resignation of Professor Gilbert you do not give the position of the Board of Trustees and of the great majority of the Christian Church who would approve their action. That position is this: The moral divinity of Jesus Christ cannot be logically held apart from the belief in his metaphysical divinity. And what cannot be logically held will not be long held practically. Therefore, the practical result of the teaching of Professor Gilbert is sure to be to destroy all belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ in logical minds. And therefore the Board of Trustees had an intensely practical reason in accepting the resignation of Professor Gilbert. This position is my own, and can be easily defended. The position of the humanitarian Unitarian, that Jesus Christ was a man like the rest of us, to whom God gave an extraordinary amount of spiritual power and who thereby has become the spiritual leader of the race, is tenable. But the position of The Outlook, that Jesus Christ is divine and worthy of divine worship, and yet that it makes no difference what metaphysical relation he has with God, seems utterly untenable. It seems sound common sense, as well as logical, to hold that Jesus Christ cannot be called a divine person unless he is God. No extraordinary natural capacity, no extraordinary endowment from God after birth, no extraordinary attainment, no extraordinary companionship with God, can make a man other than a man. "The indwelling of the divine life in humanity" can only be in the form of personal companionship, conscious or unconscious on the part of man, between God and individual men. In that personal relationship there can be no confusion or merging of persons, as though persons could merge together like the water of the river and the ocean. And there can be no amount of that companionship between God and a man sufficient to lift that man up from his fellow-men See editorial on this subject on the editorial pages. so that he may be called divine. No amount of spiritual "value" can put one of our fellow-men in the place of God in our thought and feeling. According to this position it is not necessary to find the pre-existence of Jesus Christ taught apart by itself in the New Testament. It follows the belief in his divinity as the trunk and the roots of a tree belong to the branches of the tree. If Jesus Christ had no existence before Bethlehem, then he is certainly not God. If Jesus Christ began his personal life in the manger, then he is not God, and we cannot think about him and feel toward him as though he were God. One argument referred to in your article is very interesting, because it seems to me a fair example of the rhetorical rather than the logical nature of much that you say about the Incarnation. It is this: "The pre-existence apparently implied in some passages is or may be ideal rather than personal. They are paralleled by the statements in the Book of Proverbs respecting Wisdom,' as One who was with Jehovah in the creation of the world." Where is the parallel to sustain the argument intended? It is merely rhetorical. In one case eternal existence is predicated of an impersonal thing, and, of course, it can only be impersonal existence. In the other case eternal existence is predicated of a person, and it is the solitary instance in the whole Bible, and so there is no parallel. But it is the practical and vital side of the question that I wish to emphasize. The essential motive-power in my Christian life is the peculiar feeling of loyalty made up of duty and love, that I have toward Jesus Christ. That feeling toward Jesus Christ is the vital, practical center of the Christian life. Without it the Christian life becomes some dead thing of speculation or ordinary morality. But that peculiar feeling is conditioned on my belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ. I can have no such extraordinary loyalty toward any man. It is only because I believe that Jesus Christ is my God, who made a great sacrifice in my behalf, that I have that peculiar feeling toward him. |