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the Fourth Crusade. By Edwin Pears,
LII. B. New York: Harper & Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony No
historical subject has attracted more atten-
ton in Europe during the last twenty years
than the Latin conquest of Constantinople.
Perhaps no other historical question has
had devoted to it during the same period the
labors of an equal number of illustrious his
torical students. A literary controversy has
been waged, and is still waging, about sew
eral of the important questions which have
arisen in connection with the subject. The
object of this writer is to call attention to
the political aspect of the conquest of Con-
stantinople, to point out that the empire had
fought continuously, and in the main success
fully for a hundred and fifty years against
the forces of Asia, and had spent its strength
partly in this struggle, and partly in educat-
ing the races which had flowed into the en-
pire. Only when it was struck in the rear
was New Rome unable to defend itself The
conquest of the empire was the final blow
given after long series of attacks by enc
mics on every hand, and the capture of Con-
stantinople by the crusaders was the cause
which brought about the fall of the Roman
Empire in the East, rendering its ultimate
capture by the Turks both certain and easy.
The results of the Fourth Crusade upon
European civilization were altogether disas-
trous. The light of Greek civilization, which
Byzantium had kept burning for nearly nine
for his capital, was suddenly eXtinguished.
Everyone knows that the Turkish conquest
of Constantinople dispersed throughout the
West knowledge of Greek literature, and
that such knowledge contributed largely to
the bringing about Of the Reformation and
of modern ways of thought. Still, it must
be regretted that the knowledge of Greek
literature was so dearly bought The cap
ture of Constantinople and the Balkan pc
ninsula handed them over to six centuries of
barbarism, and rendered futile the attempts
of subsequent statesmen to recover Syria
and Asia Minor to Christendom and civiliza-
ton.
Observations on the Growth of the Mind.
By Sampson Reed. New edition, with Bio
graphical Preface by James Reed. Boston:
Houghton, Miff1in & Co.; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony The author of this essay
was born in West Bridgewater, Mass, June
10, 1900, and died in Boston July s, $780, He
was the youngest son of the Rev. John Reed,
D. D., was pastor of the First Chuch in West
Bridgewater more than fifty years. Fitted
for college by his father, he entered Harvard
in 1914 graduating with high honors four
years later. During the three years subse-
quently spent at the Divinity School at Cam
bridge, he became thorough believer in the
doctrinal system propounded by Emanuel
Swedenborg. His attention being turned to
secular business he had little leisure for lit
erary pursuits, though he was contributor
to the New Jerusalem Magazine, and editor
for some years of the New Church Magazine
for children, This essay was first published
in 1926, and was written at odd moments
during the authors intervals of business as
an apothecary. From the first it attracted
the attention of thoughtful people, and has
passed through several editions in this coun-
try and two in England.
Mrs. Herndon's Income. A novel by Helen
Campbell. Boston: Roberts Brothers; Port
land Loring, Short & Harmony Mrs Camp
bells book is a novel written with a purpose,
and we have nothing for it but unqualified
praise 1t would be better for our young
men and women if there were more of such
books written and read, for their effect must
be both wholesome and invigorating to mind
and morals. In letter to the author writ
ten just before her death Mrs Jackson (H.
H. says: 81 am too ill to write, but must
thank you for your eloquent plea for the
Your story is tremendous
ly strong. 1t must tell. read it every
week. | do not know anything in the least
like it. | congratulate you on having done
it,, The story first appeared serially in the
Christian Union.
High-Lights. Boston: Houghton, Miffiin
& Co; Portland Loring, Short & HARMONY.
ITO larger sight
The RIM of shadow is the line of light"
This is the text of very bright, sympa-
thetic and well written story, by an author
whose name does not appear on the title
page of her book. We say 'her" adyisedly,
as the dedication is ''To my husband"
is pleasant narrative of New
England life and landscape. The style is of
marked simplicity and purity, with sufficient
plot to keep up ones interest, but it is not
wildly exciting, nor especially original. 1t
Is, however, so good story in all ways that
it ought to be popular, but to the vitiated
taste of the modern novel-toper it may seem
a trife tame.
Heads and Faces. How to Study Them. |
New York: Fowler, Wells & Co; Port |
land Hoyt, Fogg & Donham. The de-
mand for standard publications Of low price |
has increased greatly with the tendency of |
to meet it. Popular editions of |
the poets, historians, scientists have fallen |
in line with the thousands of cheap editions |
Of the better classes of novels, and now we |
have this yoluminous yet low-priced treatise |
on Heads and Faces from the standpoint of |
physiognomy and physiology. |
There are nearly two hundred Illustrations |
great variety of faces, human
and animal.
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