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mr.uon or MIN in mis- youth ana who had been

XIV. TO write letter 20 the Pope peauinR Ior
and almost demanding the Archbshops condeul-
nation. He also ,rsnaded Louis co strike Fene-
Ions name from on the young Princes household,
vengeance was complete. AS mis- biographer
says:-.'Tne shadow cast over life spent to Gods
glory and the Church's service Is his bitter, unre-
lentlng persecution 81 Fenelon.n
Early in 1908 Bossuet gave evidence OF his ap
iort ''Do not deceive me. Gods viii be done. I
am well aware how weak am" During Faster
De st. Andre arrived he said. Il feei the machine
going to pieces Let US say the Lords Prayer
t.a.' On Toe night OF April 1o-Ii st, Andre
foand his pulse last falling. and at halfpast TOUR
peacefully from this lie his friends words were
appropriate "rruly great light Is gone ont
ana there Is bright torch tue less III Gods
We must not fall TO say that the book ID pub
llshcd In q convenient form Tor the student and 10
o credit TO the house ftom whose press 1t comes.
RELIGION AND MATERIALIsM. Martineau. g. p
Putnams Sons.
This Is wei come book to the close ana osrelu,
student. James Martineau Is an authority any.
where. He is probably one OF the first ten think.
ers OF the. age. Careful, patient candid. impsr.
tial, We listen to his utterances, which are uevei
deciamatory, but always golden, with the con.
seriousness That the speaker never guesses snc
never speaks for effect. He deals with tho ten.
denotes OF modern thought with a sharpness
which will probably become casus belt with the
matertalists and deals with TyndaM and Huxley
with familiarity OF admontton which Will at least
awaken ripple OF surprise in their august and
autocratlc minds. Their assertion that religion
is an rotion entirely harmless. and resembling
homeopathic pill which neither kills nor cures
opens tho noodgates OF Mr.. Martineau's Sarcasm
and Indignation. He says:-
Better at once to own our occupation gone than
to llnger on sentimental sunerance ana accept The
1ndulgent assurance that though there Is no lon.
ger any truth IN relgiOn there is SOME nice feeling
IN IT. ana mat while, Tor all we have to teach. we
keep open still as nursery OF emotion. l trust
that when emotion proves empty we shall stamp
II out and get rid or 1t.
That Is q nne sentence ana quite worthy OF the
faclle pen and delicate analysis OF Mr.. Martineau.
lie further characterizes the relation between
science and religion In this wise:-
1t Is needless to say that the new "Book OF
Genesis" which resorts to Lucretius tor It's '1rss
ina tural selecton'' ior It's Adam aud Eve, and TO
evolution for all the rest conradcts the old book
cream Of Paradise and removes the tragedy OF the
lall. cancels at once the scheme OF redemption.
and so leaves the historical churches OF Europe
crumbllng away from their very foundations.
After this strong ana pungent statements OF the
work which modern scientists have undertaken
and which they stiu have on hand-ror 1t Is by no
means completed as yet-the author treads over
the ground OF debate like colossus, and at every
step gives you the impression OF an honest
thinker and true conservative. The book Is
only duodecmo Of So pages, but 1t Is full OF sug.
gestlons and stimulus.
NATURE AND CULTURE. BY Harvey Rice. Boston:
Lee h shepard.
Here is o book, without preface or dedication,
containing 200 pages OF honest common sense.
1t is not great book, for 1t neither displays the
erudtion OF the author nor startles the reader BY
its dashing rhetoric and trenchant logic. II ID,
however. a good and wholesome book, In that 1t
contains plain mans thought oil the times in
which he lives. The author very evidently illus
respected accordingly
Give me a man with an aim,
T Thssssr 'I Me ai may "a Whether ~. ANA
Let him walk in the path Of right,
And keep his aim III sight,
His criticism on educational institutions 10 at
once generous and pungent. The time will como
when better heed VIII be given to such sentiments
as these, and when the FOSSIL methods OF our time
will give way to something better ''In most
American colleges. as well as In the universities
of Europe, definite course OF ssudy Is prescribed
and made fixed fact-a kind OF Procrustean bed
which every lad is stretched or abridged to 1T;
and this is done, as schoastics tell US. for the
purpose OF disciplining the mind"
The essay on woman aud Her Spheren Is per.
Mr.. Ri;e as author. He says:-"An old writer
remarks that In order to make an entirely beau.
tiiul woman 1t would be necessary to take the
head from Greece, the bust from Austria. the feet
from Hindostan, the shoulders from Italy, the
walk from Spain anu the compile xion from Eng.
land. At that rate she would be q mosaic Ia
her composition. and the man who married her
might well b. said to have taken up q col.
lection.'"
becoming severity, and predicts the evils which
must necessarily beiall our country If matrimony
shall long continue to be q simple matter of
money. Instead Of Its being an affair OF the heart
It Is really a very different sfYair-nothing but
hasty transaction In fancy stocks; and II the of
floating clergyman were to employ an appro-
pirate formula OF words In celebrating tins
nuptials he would address the parties thus:-
"Romeo, wilt thou have this delicate constitu.
tlon TINS bundle OF silks and satins this crock Of
gold, Tor thy welded wifer IL WILL"
'Juliet. witt thou have this false pretence. this
p "S N.Y. wca ID s' BILL
The happy PAIR are then pronounced man aud
dissipation, splendid misery, reduction to pow.
erty. domestic dssension, separation and hoaliy o
divorce.
This may be somewhat severe, but 1t Is not en-.
tirely unjust, neither ls 1t wholly undeserved The
other essays ore on mature and Her Lessons"
'America ana Her Future, - and "Life and Its A..
pirations."
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT
Henry Holt 4 CO. Will soon bring out Jones'
"Compilation on African Adventure aud Discov.
ery.n
Mr.. Horace Scudder, formerly editor Of the
Riverside Magazine, and lattery OF the firm OF H.
q. HouRhton Il Co., is about TO devote himself
entirely to writing. Mr.. Scudder has already
written some Of the pretticst stories that have
been published in this country.
r. worthington & Co. will publish "Proctors
Transits OF Venus" IN this Country.
The London Academy has only just published