The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-16
Books and Authors
NEW BOOKS.
TALES ABOUT TEMPEaAMENTs. By John

TALES ABOUT TEMPEaAMENTs. BY John
Oliver HOBBIES. New York, D. Appleton &
Co. Price 81.
Mrs. Craigie, doubtless had a very bad
dream or nightmare before she wrote
The Worm that God Prepared" There
Is IN 1t something Of the quality of Doug
las Browns, : The House with the Green
Shutters No doubt, however, there are
people who think everything Mrs. Graf
gle writes is Just lovely" and regard
the tale of the Malveres and Lambert
Montague Montgomery as masterpiece
There are, no doubt, girls like Eve1ina
Corde1ia Speranza st. Almond Malevere,
who detest girls and adore men and ape
mems ways, but it is not pleasant or ed1--
flying to turn the search light upon their
daily routines. Nevertheless one may
feel pang Of sympathy even with Eve
lima Cordelia, etc., known generally as
Little Rat and ''Billie-boy," and with
Lambert Montague Montgomery, when the
curtain falls upon the major and his
bloody knife: '''Tis An Ill Flight With
out Wings" is ealmer story. Prince
Toto Is a sch1ld's story, and "a. Repent
ance' is a play which was produced at St.
James Theater in London, and is based
upon the Carlist uprising in Spain in 1859.
The Journeys End in Lovers Meeting
was written for Miss Ellen Terry.
mold. New York: New Amsterdam Book
Company. 156 Fifth Ave. Price 81.
This volume of Matthew Arnold's works
embodies, in a special manner, his pre-
scription for recasting religion, a process
which he thinks is necessary, in view of
scepticism which. he believes with 9TH
ers is sweeping away faith in God and the
Christian Bible. Unlike his great father,
who. with his splendid, scholarly attain
rnents, had the faith Of young child in
the self-revelation Of God to humanity
through a nature and verbal communica-
ton, Matthew Arnold detached himself
from such belief and adopted the German
rationalstic philosophy as solvent of
moral and religious problems, and appar-
entity settled down in what he considered
safe resort behind series Of interro-
cation marks. His prescription to scep-
tical minds Is culture, but all the culture
of German scholarship has failed to give
the world, a recaSt of religion which is
satisfactory and is accepted by the crav-
ing soul of humanity, which would get
closer to God than it can through bald
rationalism. The dominant motive of
his book Is culture, essential to compre-
hension Of 1.-The Eternal who makes for
Righteousness" According to Arnold one
must understand the mysteries Of the
eternal God first and then he may be-
ueye. Christ's prescription was that we
must believe have faith, that we may
know the truth, the way to God, and per-
ceive something Of the abundance of his
nercy and grace This volume embodies
the finest example of Matthew Arnold's S
literary style. Denouncing dogmatic de-
tenders of the Christian scriptures, he is
himself painfully dogmatic. He admits
that the world has been the gamer
through Christianity, but he claims that
even the adherents of Christianity do not
know what righteousness Is and ne
dueiis unon their ignorance of .'the meth
ed and secret Of Jesus" as II he alone
cornprehended that method and secret
Il is easy to find fault with Christian
lives. Many Of them are very Imperfect,
but there are more people than the fault
finders imagine who are living daily after
the method and secret Of Christ