The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
WHAT Is WHILE, SERIES.

'WHAT Is WHILE SERIES.
L. Y. Crowell & Co., New York, have
added six little books to the long list al
ready included in the What Is Worth
While series. The books are of uniform
size, convenient for reading or reference,
and for that reason much more useful and
desirable than If the one paper contained
In each were bound with others II larger
volumes. The new volumes are as follows:
Religion in Common Life" by John Card,
D. D., late principal Of Glasgow Univer-
sity. This is an eloquent appeal, in plain
words. to Christians, TO live their religion
at all times and in all occupations, for it
is the art Of being and doing good; to be an
adept In 1t Is to become just, truthful. sin
cere, self-denied, gentle, forbearing, pure
In word, and thought, and deed And the
school for learning this art is not the closet,
but the world . the coarse, profane.
common world. with fits cares and its temp
%tations, its r~ivalries and competitions. it's
hourly, ever-recurring trials Of temper and
character"
THE Greatness Of Patience" by Arthur
Twining Hadley. president of Yale Univer-
sity. This is an address to the graduating
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the speech can be suggested by a brief quo
tation: Not only is patience a surer means
OF attaining success amid the imperfections
OF human knowledge and the uncertainties
Of human fate than intellectual b~riIliancy
ever can be, but the successes which are
won through its exercise are OF a higher
character. The achievement which comes
through trial and failure is nobler in quail
ity than that which seems to come OF
itself. With patience, the deeds
become so inwrought into the character of
the man that his success or failure in ex-
ternals is a small thing as compared with
that success which he has achieved in him
self"
1.-The Expulsive Power Of a New Affec-
tion," by Thomas Chalmers. This is one Of
the great sermons OF the past century,
treating of one of the deepest truths of
spiritual life and the only sure method Of
spiritual development.
Practical or IDEAL" by James M. Tay-
Tor, D.. D., Ii. ID. In this fine essay the
president of Vassar College declares THAT
there is really no practical which is not
also ideal, and that nothing ministers to
life in any proper sense unless it touches
something deeper than what we generally
mean by the actual and useful. 4" . .
That life loses itself which fails to keep in
touch with the invisible. with the deeper
principles which make business more than
barter. and science more than hammering
rocks and a skilled use of the scalpel. and
life more than the baking and eating of
bread"
"Ecclesiastes and Omar Khayyam," by
TOA, ErropI~If- Co-,r4- Tho ,g1 1900
furnishes the text: Wherefore 1 perceive
that there is nothing better than that a
man should rejoice in his own works; for
that is his portion; for who shall bring him
to see what is after him. The philosophy
taught in the poetry of Omar Khayyam
was 10 live only for the present, to find
JOY In idleness and In self-indulgence. The
Hebrew sage had tested this way Of life
and found it unsatisfying, vanity and vex-
alton of spirit. Hence the praise of labor
and the injunction to man to rejoice in 1t.
The essay is ingenious and suggestive of
good.
1.-The Meaning and Value Of Poetry" by
William Henry Hudson. Poetry is defined
as 1.-The Interpretation of the emotional and
spiritual natures" and 1t is asserted that,
for human culture and development, the
discipline of poetry Is quite as important
as the discipline Of physical culture" The
above little book is of great value on ac-
count Of its clear definitions and plain in
structions for reading poetry so that the
emotional and imaginative power may be
developed" and 1.-The beauty and signih-
canoe of the poets thoughts and feelings
may sink deep into the soul and there
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