The National tribune., 1894-04-19
DR.. PETER FAHRNEY.
RECENT LITERATURE.

"IF CHRIST CAME TO CHICAGO" By VIII
liam T. Stead. Published by Laird 4 Lee Chi.
cago. Price. in paper, 80 cents.
The author famous English literary man.
the founder of the Review of Reviews. and one
time editor of the Pail Mall Gazette has for
four months studied Chicago as the typical
city of the world in corruption and greatness.
The most interesting lessons of the age are
embodied In this book by that brilliant and
incisiye writer. Mr.. Stead says of his book:
MY object is to point out that if any substan-
tial progress is to be made toward a better
social system which should deliver the people
from the evils under which they are at present
suffering. Ii is absolutely necessary for ali good
citizens to put more religion into their politics.
Ny whole book is plea supported by q survey
of the condition of things as they exist in Chi
csgo for revival of civic religion. To put 10
into nutshell if Christ came to Chicago He
would 90 into politics and endeavor to bring
about the Kingdom of Heaven here and now
by recognizing the responsibilities and fulfill.
ing the obligations which are incumbent upon
every good citizen in a democratic state. I
came from city which is enjoying the FIRST
fruits of civic revival, the signs of which are
visible enough on every side in Chicago. Hence,
/ came as q messenger of hope. speaking words
of good cheer and encouragement. London is
q great city, greater even than Chicago, with
population almost as cosmopolitan, weighed
down with a multitude of evils which are here
in Chicago but in the germ; yet in the London
County Council we have not single boodler,
or anyone who is even suspected or accused by
his worst enemies of boodling; neither have ve
q single saloon keeper on that council or per.
son of dsrepute. In the London County Coun-
Gil Lord Rosebery aud the Duke of Norfolk sis
side by side with John Burns and Ben Tillett.
1t is the most representative. hardworkingS
and. at the same time, purest assembly in
Christendom. What we have done in London
he inG nd khar faru esf in,
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Natural development of character and plot,
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which have ever distinguished Miss Douglass
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In none of her stories are these qualities more
marked than in this beautiful story of Christ
ian endeavor. The book is pervaded by deep
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Magazines and Notes.
Mr. George w. Smalley, the New York Tri6-
unes London correspondent, is embodying the
results of his long contact with public affairs
in q series of careful articles. A paper on the
House of Lords, considered from the contem-
porary standpoint as THE English Senate" is
printed in the April Harper's, and an early
number of that magazine will contain Mr..
Smalley's "reminiscences of Wendell Philips.
Personal secollections of other distinguished
Americans will follow.
Outing for April contains the usual variety Of
material for the lover of nature and sport.
Quaint Artist Haunts in Brittany, by Birge L.
Harrison, gives delightful glimpse of the life
while preparing their pictures for the salon.
Six Months with University Crew, by r ID.
Paine a noted Yale oarsman, gives an inside
glimpse of the crew mans life, which has
hitherto been described chiefly from the point
of view of the newspaper reporter.
The April Century makes new departure In
printing q story told wholly in pictures. The
artist is Andre Castaigne, whose Worlds Fair
pictures aud other drawings for the Century are
we'll known. The subject is the course of the
emigrant From the Old World TO the New, and
the scenes represented are typical experiences
In the Fields of Old Europe, Hard Times, On
the Deep. The Land OF Promise, etc.
Edward Bellsmy tells singular, interesting
story in his account of How Wrote Looking
Backward in the April Ladies' Home Journal,
and adds to the interest by describing how the
idea of Nationalism first occurred to him. Not
less personally interesting is Mr.. William Dean
Howels in the fifth article of his literary auto
biography, My Literary Passions. The clever
woman whom Robert Louis Stevenson married,
and is now his wife. is presented in a portrait
and sketch, as Is also the wife of E s. Willard,
the actor.
Scri5ner's Magasine for April opens with the
second of Octave Thanet's sketches of American
Types, suggested by her observations among
the State buildings during the Worlds Fair.
In this article she describes The Farmer in the
South, whom she knows very well at home, as IL
Is her custom to spend every Winter on plan
tation in Arkansas. The illustrations by 4. B.
Frost are in his very best manner
Among the writers of articles in The Popular
Science Monthly for April the well-knOwn
names of Andrew ID. White, Herbert Spencer,
Alfred r. Wallace, James ID. Dana, and Joseph
LIE Conte. DIR. White contributes another chap
Ter in the Warfare of Science series, dealing
with Theological Teachings Regarding the
Animals and Man. The unnatural and dog
matte character of these teachings of bygons
times is almost past belief URder the title
trusts Their Own Corrective, Mr.. Geo. A. Rich
shows that combinations which have sought to
make unreasonable profits have worked their
own destruction. In New Lights on the Prob
EN- of Flying. an illustrated article, Prof. Jos.
LIE Conte discusses some recent experiments by
Prof. Langley, and admits that human flight is
lot the impossibility that he has declared it to
Do.
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