Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17


rapid production and appeals to passing
fancy is sign that the truly good prod
ucts of the pen are sincerely appreciated.
Mr.. Garlands story rings true. Its charac-
tiers are fesh-and-blood men and women.
1t is possible to understand their emotions
and to sympathiZe with their sufferings
Rose is heroine of a type to restore conf
dence In the ability of fiction makers to do
something better than the milk-and-water
girls with whom the books of the period
are SO wearisomely peopled.
SCIENCE AND A FUTURE LIFE. BY
James H. Hyslop, Ph.D., LID, for
merly professor of ethics and logic
In Columbia University. Boston:
Herbert b. Turner & Co.
DR.. Hyslop seeks In this volume to re-
duce to size and form which will appeal
to a wider circle of readers the substance
of the elaborate reports of the Society for
Psychical Research relative to the exper-
iments which have been conducted to dem
onstrate an existence after death. He
recognizes that even some members of that
society are unacquainted with the conclu-
sions of the investigators and the i'm
portant data upon which they are based.
He devotes much of his space to an explana-
ton and an analysis of the so-called Piper
case, meaning the experiments conducted
through Mrs. Piper as a medium. He ap
peals for greater hberality of support for
the Investigations and caustically COM
ments upon the large sums given in sup
port of collegiate sports and certain indie
terminate scientific experiments, while what
he regards as the vitality important field of
pSych1cal research is abandoned to those
who devote their small private means with
many sacrifices, to the pursuit of invesu-
cations. Discardng absolutely the theory
of fraud in explanation of the phenomena
and revelations recorded by the society, he
examines at length the telepathic and spir-
itistic hypothesis, finally concluding in
favor of the latter.
THE RELIGION OF DUTY. By Felix
Adler, author of Life and Destiny"
&c New York: Mcclure Phillips &
Co. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
This volume is composed of a number of
DR.. Ader's addresses before the Ethical
Culture Society of New York. of which he
is head. and when thus presented as a
whole they offer an ordered statement of
the tenets of his belief, having undergone
process of careful and sympathetic edit
ing at the hands of Mr.. Leslie Willis
Sprague. DR.. Adler breaches in these dis
cussions a doctrine of moral living based
upon the vital principles of brotherhood
and essential morality, without adopting
any formula creed. The scope of his
of his addresses, First Steps Toward Re
ligion, Changes in the Conception of
God" THE Teachings of Jesus in the
Modern World" THE Religion OF Duty
giving the volume its title and keynote
standards of Conduct Based on Ethical
Religion" "The Ethical Attitude Towards
Pleasure" THE Ethical Attitude Towards
Suffering" The Consolation of the Reli-
gion of Duty THE Essential Difference
Between the Ethical Societies and the
Churches"
OUR AsIATIC NEIGHBORs; Edited bv
William Harbutt Dawson-CHINESE
LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Adapted from the French of Emile
Bard, by H. Twitchell. Illustrated.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
NJ. Bard wrote this work on the basis of
a four-year stay in China and in doing so
he tried to interpret the country and its
people from the point of view of a man of
affairs, avoiding exaggeration and depre-
cation. While he recognizes the many
qualities and conditions of Chinese life
that are strange and shocking to western
ers, he seeks to explain and describe them
as the ways of a conservative race that
have been pursued for hundreds of genera
lions. He tells Of the squeeze" which
corrupts the entire Chinese government;
he fails to see any sign of immediate hope
for reform, as long as the empress dow
ager is In dominance; he believes that Chi
ma must be wholly renovated, gigantic
task before 1t can begin to progress &C
cording to western ideals, and he takes no
stock in the so-called yellow peril, as far
as China is concerned for emma, he de-
clares lacks capital, and without capital
she cannot come into competition with the
western producing nations. On this sub
ject he concludes:
awaits the Industrial world, that world will
be prepared to meet the eventuallty, even
If il should mean redistribution of the CEN
tiers of production. 1t would be indeed sur
prising if land newly born to industrial
life should, for centuries, find itself In a
condition to supplant nations having behind
them the experience of generations OF en-
nghtened capitalists and skilled, alert work
men,
THE HUNDREDTH ACRE. By John
Camden. Boston: Herbert B. Turner
& Co.
Here is a detective story of modern Paris
and London. tale of mysterious crime
and It's solution Suspicion fastens upon
several people Two of those who are sus-
pected undertake to ferret out the real
criminal, working in harmony but not ex-
actly in partnership. For while Lawyer
Brinton tells his colleague, Gillette Lavaur,
all that he does, I.avaur on his part, with
d
best points for proper denouement. The
whole situation turns upon a prolonged
fight between two New Englanders over
piece of land, the "hundredth acre" for the
possession of which they have squandered
many times its value in litigation.
missing will a forged substitute, poisoned
wine glass, subterranean passages, double
identities and a love affair combine into an
effective novel which keeps the readers
eyes open with eagerness for the climax.
ADDRESSES AND OTHER PAPERS.
BY William Williams Keen, MD,
LID, F.R.C.S. (1on.), professor of
surgery Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia. Illustrated. Philadel-
phia: w. B. Saunders & Co.
DIR. Keen's work as surgeon and lecturer
has called for frequent literary efforts,
which have caused him to be rated high in
his profession an expounder of its prin-
ciples. In this volume have been assembled
some of his most notable addresses and
lectures, in a form to appeal to a wider
public than the members of his own special
line of work. There is indeed much of
popular character in its pages, explana-
tory of the progress of the science of sur
gerry the history of practical anatomy, the