The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-03-07
THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

ert Machray. Illustrated: 8 70. Deco
rated cloth: $3.50 net. Philadelphia: j.
''Ine Night Side of London" by Rob
crt Machray, is an unusually interesting
book The illustl atoms by Tom Brown
ass ran yth s III and ha nee the M th
sutflcr and pencil Of the artist are both
us, d with fine effect in laying bare the
infinite variety Of human characters and
in London than even in Paris or else
where in the great and populous centers
Of human vice, and virtues. so vivid is
hotsam and jetsam, coming and going
with the nights, in Picadily, like unto
the ebb and flow of the eternal tides;
and SO picturesquely has the artist in
that we fancy ourselves promenad aiding
ed scenes Of Piicadilly at night, entering
the lounges and cafes, which stand
with inviting appearance along the
streets, and participating in the gay and
pleasure-bent pageantry of the. crowds:
or watching in silence and pity the moral
and physical cripples whose names are
TT is scene that stirs the fancy and
touches the imagination: AS the the
themselves into the streets, the Circus is
full of the flashing and twinkling of the
mutitudinous lights of hurrying han
v Ward to Supper :At Of Streams Of people
men and women, mostly in evening dress
walking along, smiling and jesting, and
talking of what they have been to see.
ening electric light Of siyph~like forms,
pink flushed, happy faces, snowy Shout
ders hidden in lace or chiffon, or cloaks
Of silk and satin. Diamonds sparkle IN
my lady's hair; her light laughter ripples
over to you, and you smile responsive;
a faint fragrance perfumes the wander
ing air, and the vision sweeps past you,
many such visions, each with it's own
story, it's own revelation-but with these
we have nothing to do, further than to
say that. they, are all part of this pageant
! of the night
And of the London half world the ,au--
! thor says: ION this lovely summer night
| they flaunt themselves in all their BRAY
cry; the majority of them indeed are not
| badly dressed, nor are all painted. Some
| of them are foreigners, but most of them
are enthusiastically English. Some have
bold eyes, some have not. They seem
sober-every one, But what a number
of them! And all sorts and Sizes so to
say, all fond of a kiss and fond of
guinea
! is on the surface extremely Kaleidoscope,
but beneath the surface and in all eS-
sentials it differs little from the night
side Of high life from what it was SINCE
| it has always been, and always will be-
Mr.. H. G. Wells anticipations to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, the pursuit of
pleasure in an everlasting Vanity Fair
It is a merry -go-round, whose merrin ess
quickly or slowly, according to the tough
ness of ones physical and moral diges-
| ton, passes into monOtOny.
| Sketches of club life among the work.
| ing people and their amusements; sketch
es of the social outcasts and their strug-
gle for existence in the dens Of human
comment, the author is simply painting
| in vivid word coloring what he sees, and
endeavors to teach no lesson in morals.
The book ought to have a large sale.
BIRD GODS IN ANCIENT EUROPE.
Bird Gods in Ancient Europe BY
Charles De Kay With Dee9rations d BY
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co.
bird Gods,' by Charles De Kay, is the
rather Unique title of yolume fun Of the
| feathered deities of the Northern Euro
! pean and the older races Of the earth.
! There is the evidence of much research
! in this bool1-research which is exposed
| in narrative style at once attractive and
| entertaining.
The author not only tells us what birds
the ancients worshipped, but goes into
| the philosophy of such worship, and tells
US it's reason, in fables and anecdotes
! which make very delightful myths.
Take the. woodpecl1er as an INSTANCE.
| When we picture to ourselves the Eu
| ropean savage noble ancestor of on,
puffed-up race, finding it a matter of
| deep thought how to keep a roof over
| his head loving murder, a bloody tyrant
to the weak cringing before power, sub
! ject to periodical famines because of his
| sloth and Ignorance: to disease because
Of his laziness and filthy habits, We can
! understand his envy and admiration OF
a bird which in addition to various mar
| velous, superhuman traits has the prac-
tical side so developed that it can chisel
| for itself in few hours neat dry cave
l IL, t1o ho1 Of
| heart that seems to- find nour1shment
| where no green thing grows, right under
| it's busy beak.
mi. Wo6dpecker was thought to know
| the whereabouts Of hidden treasures;
! wherefore he is sDecial creation OF the
high god Ukko Of the Firms and has q
! mysterious affinity to fire, also ram ana
! thunder god
The author then proceeds to tel us us
over the Romans at the time OF c Aann II
':'rhe Importance of the woodpecker IN
the eyes of the Roman soothsayers can
hardly be overestimated. 1 have a seal
scarab-lik in form, showing a man seat
ed with a bird before him: which he ap-
pears to be teaching trick That the
| man is an auspex or soothsayer is rea-
sonably certain from the fact that {+1 ne
statuette with Etruscan inscription in the
Vatican Museum Then follows several
very interesting anecdotes a mel o,1 the
| MYSTERIOUS power lO SOOu VI SFAA NA'A>o
| tering about the little winged god.
! The Cuckoo, Peacock, Owl and other
| birds have in turn been worshipped by the
early European races-by the Greeks, 10
mans, Egyptians, Abyssinians and other
powerful races who wrought so nightly
| in days of antiquity. ... =:
The author further tells us that 1T is
recorded of King Edward the First Of
England that on certain solemn occa-
sion in the year 1904, his investiture as
a knight, two swans decorated with gold
nets, were brought in, and he thereupon
swore an oath to the God OF Heaven on
these two swans.
CHURCH BUILDING.
Church Building A Study of the Prin-
ciples of Architecture in their Relation to
the Church BY Ralph Adams Cram.
Cloth decorative gilt top, illustrated, $3.50.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company.
Surely, if there is any power in the world
today capable Of evolxing a vital art, de-
handing art as her true means of outward
expressing. it is the Church.
A church is a house of God, place of
His earthly habitation, wrought in the
fashion of heavenly things, a visible type
Of heaven itself. From the day when God
gave to Solomon the plan and fashion of
the temple down to those wherein Euro
peans of the Middle Ages layished their