The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-08

Author Of ..The CAN Of the Mnd." . story
Of exceptional strength and finish.
the period They mirror life for the eyes
| of the living, and in general provide a
| wholesome lesson and q stimulant more
/ potent than that OF the classic idealism. In
! the main. they are simple, arc pure, are
| sane. They treat the baser passions and
| recognize the dominancy Of noblor incen-
| tives and impulses. They embody the ideal
| Of the Twentieth Century, an ideal which.
! unless We confess to the worlds retro
| gression. is greater than the pats roman
| ticism. alegory and exalted image. It is
| a developed and toned ideal, brought within
| the grasp Of practice; the ideal which civil
| cation in the later centuries has seized and
| followed.
The chiefest fault of modern writings
would seem not to lie in spirit. in tone.
Give US books Of genuine presentation. Of
substance and Of literary finish. and we
shall find no fault either because on the
| one hand they lack the barehanded "vigor''
| of earlier literature, or because on the
other hand. they fall short OF ancient
| idealism.
with the massacre at KfshineR fresh IN
mind. w. C. Stiles. B. D., discusses the
duty Of the American people to tho Russian
Jew and in general way the relationship
of. the world at large to the Jew; under the
title, ''Out Of Kishineff." The book par
takes Of the nature Of an impassioned plea,
which must stir the blood of sympathizers
Aside from its argument, 1t will interest
because Of its data and Information. Al
though the author himself IL Protestant
clergyman. the book has been prepared
with the advice and assistance OF some Of
the leading literary Jews Of America, hav-
ing, 1t IL asserted. been made In the same
office where the Jewish Encyclopedia IL in
S,vav aro%f Ov NJ h.
York Ghetto IL an interesting feature Of
sOut of Kishineff"
Its argument and tone arc well Indicated
by a passage on page 100, following the de-
scriptiou of the Kishineff victim: ''This
figure, with the blood stains ON him,
whether In KishineR or elsewhere. Il q
child OF the future. and the blood stains
are the mark Of his divine baptism into
the spirit OF the future. He is of the num-
Der Of those who. out OF all nations, are
coming up out Of great tribulatons, be-
cause they have washed their robes In
blood. II it be in the economy of the
moral universe that In the past he could
come to his own by no other path, we
might consider well whether or not he has
not been purged with blood, to the salts
faction of God and man. The long expia-
ton Of blood conflicts. coming down from
the brutal ages Of the world. cannot be
meant to endure forever. II Christianity
has any divine Significance In this economy
of the ages, then 1t should be . power to
turn back the conflict, and Introduce an
other order Of procedure" Published By
G. w. Dillingham; Company.
Clever Is fairly apt to characterize the
Joint werk OF Henry Goelet Mcvfckar ana
Percy Collins In "A Parish Of Two" which
is tale told in letter form, twenty.three
letters filing the place Of chapters. In adj
dition to the love story. which has a nj
quaint flavor. there is a wealth OF light
epistolary comment covering a great per
iphery. The world OF fashionable society Is
displayed in an intimate way. while in
sharp contrast, the life spiritual Is revealed
fascinatingly In the words OF an invalid
clergyman. as he writes to his man-of-the-
world friend. The novel, II Il may BE- so
termed. is neatly turned and possesses q
measure Of literary quality. Tho only fair
criticism which may be offered against It
II that the cleverness sometimes. but not
often, seems q bit forced. and the literary
quality" now and then hints OF a6fecta-
ton. Voiced. however. even this criticism
seems tfifis severe. a Parish OF Two /.
. book upon which people Of tasts may hon
estly differ. A majority would probably
bold that Il fuln1ls IL puEposAL which q