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

fore them In respect to the government of
the countries that have SO Unexpectedly
come under the protection of the nag.
THE ETHICS OF IMPERIALISM; an
Enquiry whether Christian Ethics
and Imperialism are AntagoniStic.
BY Albert r. Carman. Boston: Her
bert Il. Turner IL Co.
There is much good reading in these pages
devoted to a discussion of one of the most
important questions of the period. The
author has laid down broadly the bases
upon which are constructed the arguments
of both the altruists, who oppose all wars
and all forms of national expansion. and
the CYCLISTS, who believe in the doctrine of
the survival of the ittest. He balances
these arguments adroitly, to bring into eff
fective contrast their resultant issues. His
philosophy is stated in plain terms, which
every reader may understand. There is no
excessive hair-splitting, but the tests of the
questions involved are applied in the
phraseology of the man in the street"
His own position seems to be best stated
in these words:
Imperialism is the proper display of
egoism in an age in which the great ma
tons are maneuvering over the vast battle
field of the world hoping TO make actual
war unnecessary by the skill with which
they take UP their positions for it. Im-
perialism will be the right policy until the
nations are safe without it. Nothing but
the delusion of altruism could induce demon
cratic leaders to think otherwise. They
imagine. because they are giving their lives
TO fight for justice for their fellowmen
that they are moved by a devotion to the
interests of these fellow-men. If q dog,
rescuing one of his own pack from drown
ing is an altruist, then they are altruists;
but If this be altruism. then altruism is
nothing but the enlightened egoism of pack
loyalty hardened into an instinct And
that same enlightened egoism will make
| .,Irf fSr.,g
MODERN MASTERS OF PULPIT DIS
COURSE. By William CleaVer Will
kinson, author of The Epic of Saul"
&c. New York: Funk & Wagnalls
Company.
These eighteen biographical and critical
sketches of great modern preachers have
heretofore appeared in the source of a
serial publication under a group title In
the pages of the Homiletic Review. Assem-
! bled, they make a volume of exceptional at
| Effectiveness to students of the pulpit. and
| there is none better able to develop the
| theme to It's utmost than Prof. Wilkinson
| of the University of Chicago. He tells the
! story of each man chosen for his group
| with vivid realism that makes the person
| age stand distinctly forth upon the print
! ed page. He notes the pulpit methods of
each preacher, shows his sources of
| strength, and in some cases his deficiencies,
4 =
utteranceS to Indicate the style or the per-
| sonal manner of presentation. The modern
| preachers selected for the work are Henry
| Ward Beecher. Thomas De Witt Talmage,
! Richard Salter Storrs. Phillips Brooks,
! Alexander McLaren, John Henry Newman
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Henry Parry
| Liddon, Eugene Bersier Charles Grandson
| Flnney Pere Felix, William Mackergo Tay-
| lor, John Hall, John Albert Broadus
! Dwight Lyman Moody, Frank Wakely Gun
saulus William Morley Punshon, Ezekiel
Gilman Robinson.
| Following these chapters are printed
| eighteen sonnets, the names of their au-
| thors omitted. the subjects relating to the
| types of men presented in the preceding
pages. The volume concludes with chapters
| on Jesus and Paul, appropriately contrast
| ing the two greatest preachers of the first
/ days of Christianity with the modern ex-
Founders of the great truths they enun-
| lowed by two sonnets, by the author, ex-
| pressive of the spirit of each of those pro-
ponents of the Christian doctrine.
ROSE OF DUTCHER's COoLLY. BY
| Hamlin Garland, author Of Main
| Travelled Roads," &c. New York:
| The Macmillan Company. Washing
| tom: Brentano's.
Mr.. Garlands greatest success in his earlier
literary activities lay in presenting the life
| of the western farm folks. with their toll,
their sufferings. their romances. In Main
| Travelled Roads he offered a series of short
| tales that were classic in their outlines and
the vividness of treatment Rose of
| butchers Coolly'' Is an old favofite, story
with a grip. powerful influence upon the
reader. and 1t is gratifying to find from
this second reissue, ten years after its frs,