The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-03-14
THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON.

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THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON. i=,8
t.The Night Side of London BY Rob:
ert Machray. Illustrated. 8 vO.E Deco
| ated cloth. $3.50 net. Philadelphia: J.
B. Lippincott Company. :. / :
| 1.-THE Night Side of London" by Rob-
ert Machray, is an unusually interesting
! book The Illustrations by Tom Brown
are dram With skill and en-, enhance the n n
tersst one takes in it. The zen -, OF tbs thS
used with fine effect in laying bare the
infinite varit ty of human characters and
| types whose contrasts are more striking
in London than even in Paris or else
| where in the great and pOpulous centers
! Of human vice and virtues. So vivid is
! the author's description Of the human
with the nights, in -Pieadilly,' like unto
the ebb and flow of the eternal tides;
and so picturesquely, has the artist in
terpreted the authors ideas and illusions
that we fancy ourselves promenading
and parading up and down the illuminat-
ed scenes of Picadilly at night, entering
the. lounges and cafes, which stand
streets, and participating in the gay and
pleasure pageantry of the crowds
i or watching in silence and pity the moral
legion there.
| TT is a scene that stirs the fancy and
touches the imakination: AS. the the
aires and music halls of London empty
themselves into the streets, the Circus is
full of the flashing and twinkling of the
multitudinous lights of hurrying han
SONS, of many carriages speeding home
ward to supper, of streams Of people,
men and women, mostly in evening dress
walking along, smiling and testing, and
talking of what they have been to see
ening electric light Of slyph-like forms
, pink flushed, happy faces, snowy Shout
, ders hidden in lace or chiffon, or cloaks
of silk and satin: Diamonds Plan sparkle IN
over to you, and you smile responsive
faint fragrance perfumes the wander
ing air, and the vision sweeps past you
on outside your radius. And there are
many such visions. each with it's owl
story, it's own revelation-but with these
/ we have nothing to do, further than tt
say that they are all part of this pageant
And of the London half-world the au.
Y thor says: "On this lovely summer nigh
badly dressed, nor are all painted. Some
j. of them are foreigners, but most Of then
ba Eng na SeS hay
sober-every one. But what a number
t of them! And all sorts and sizes, so II
say. all ;, fond of kiss and fond Of
The night side of London thigh life
= is on the surface extremely Kaleidoscope
e but beneath the surface and in all es
+ sentials it differs little from the nigh
. side of high life from what it was since
q high life began. Its main feature is, a!
| it has always been, and always will be
: Mr.. H. G. Welrs anticipations to the con
! trary notwithstanding, the pursuit o
|, pleasure in an everlasting Vanity Fair
1t is a merry-go-round, whose merrines
y 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
l. ing people and their amusements; sketch
-, es of the social outcasts and their strug
q | gle for existence in the dens of human
vice,-are drawn with skill and withou
comment, the author is simply painting
endeavors to teach no lesson in morals.
The book ought to have large sale.
:, BIRD GODS IN ANCIENT EUROPE. .
Bird Gods in Ancient Europe" B!
Charles De Kay: With DECORATIONS b;
5 Wharton 12mo 27s PIP; Cloth. $500
. New York: A: S. Barnes & Co.
l rather unique title of a volume full of tn
rarest class Of information relative to tn
feathered deities of the Northern Euro
There IS the eVidenc ees Of ~ much researc
; in this book research. which is Fexposee
4 in narrative style at once attractive an,
\ entertaining. t5S5...@-$'% :tr:% ~ -"
J. The author not only tells us what bird
: the ancients worshipped, but goes int,
[ the philosophy Of such worship, and tell
: us it's reason, in: fables and anecdotes
I | which make very delightful myths.
'"Take the woodpecker as an instance
: When we picture to ourselves the Eu
, ropean savage, noble ancestor Of GU
deep Thought how to Keep a roof owe
L | his head loving murder, bloody tyran
| to- the weak, bringing before power, sub
S ject to periodical famines because of hi
sloth and ignorance to disease becaus
g of his laziness and filthy habits. we cal
, understand his envy and admiration o
L a bird which in addition to various mar
| velous, superbuman traits, has the prac
|, teal side so developed that it can chlse
J. for itself in a few hours a neat, dry cav
l in the hole of a tree-a bird ever gay o
| heart that seems to find nOurshmen
: where no green thing grows, right unde
y it's busy beak.
Il Mr.. Woodpecker was thought to kno1
the he m s1eciai creao Of
~ | high god J.kko of the Firms and has
8 mysterious affinity to fire, also rain an
| thunder god.
> The author then proceeds to tell II
= | of the power the woodpecker eXerte
. over the Romans at the time OF Hannl
n balls entry into the peninsula: s a1;as u
| the eyes Of the Roman soothsayers ca
hardly he overestima ted. l have a sea
scarah-like in form, showing man seat
| ed with bird before him. which he ap
| pears to be teaching q trick. That tn
man is an auspex or soothsaye: IS reg
| sOnably certain from the TACT tnaI II
S wears the conical cap seen on the. Httl
statuette with Etruscan inscription IN tn
# Vatican Museum. Then follows severa
very interesting anecdotes anent - tn
q mysterious power for good or evil clus
| terng about the little winged god.
Tha Cuckoo. Peacock. OW! and othe
: | birds have in turn been WOEsh1ppeo by tn
q early European races-bE the Greeks. 10
mans, Egyptians. Abyssinians and othe
J. powerful races who wrought so mlghtll
. in days Of antiquity. ...4
It The author further tells us that 1T l
recorded of King Edward the First o
England that on a certain solemn occa
sion in the year 1904. his investiture a
T knight, two swans decorated with gol
nets. were brought in, and he thereupo1
S swore an oath to the God Of Heaven o.
| these two swans.
CHURCH BUILDING.
Church Building. A Study Of the Prin
ciples of Architecture in their Relation t.
the Church. BY Ralph Adams Cram
Cloth decorative gilt top, illustrated So. SO
r Boston: Small. Maynard & Company
Surely, if there is any power in the worlt
: today capable of evoking vital art, de-
handing art as her true means of outward
: expressing, it is the Church.
A church is a house of God, place o.