The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-01

has created a noble and unselfish char acter, such as are still found in the world in spite of so many worse people.
 It is story of love and purity, where the better affections ars set toward the richer things of life. David's steadfast consideration for others reaps a de- served r: ward. and it is good to read of him. It would be better for the pub lie if books of this class could have more of the attention that is given to- problem stories. It is, nor: over. a deeply interesting book, with a plot of strength skilfully evolved and with the splendid moral lesson taught. The reader will find his better nature stirred with a keen heartfelt interest in this story of a thoroughly good man. The illustrations by Mir. Fosberry are of a high order. David Ransom's Watch is issued by Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company. Boston, with imprint of Lo- throp Publishing Company. Price S1.5O; for sale at all bookstores.
 Prof. Felix Adler's new book The Religion of Duty, published by Mo Clure, Phillips & Co.,, abounds in lofty sentiments that appeal to thoughtful persons of whatever religious faith. This latest book by the founder and leader of the Ethical Culture society is composed of selections from written and spoken addresses, and the excerpts have been edited by Leslie W. Sprague. "The Religion of Duty" is a book. says the New York Herald, destined to become a reference work for rever- ent free thinkers
 'The reverent free thinkers in relig- ious matters are to be distinguished from those who cut loose absolutely from established faiths, and Prof. Adler does not belong to the latter class. To be sure. he does not accept as final any established faith, and in his introduction, wherein he sets forth that
 man is always in search of true relig- ion, he says: The way cannot be to prostrate our intellects at the feet of authority: to bind that Samson, the human mind to abjure our
 reason, to perpetrate an act of self mu- tilation in that noble part which dis us HUH lllS
 Whatever religion we adopt must be consistent with the truths with which
 we have been endowed at the hands of 1 science
 This, of course is unorthodox, but in all. his allusions to Christian and other faiths Prof. Adler uses language no
 more condemnatory than the foregoing, In Tn ;,,
 reverence of the stepping stones upon which humanity has climbed to the vast plain of thought over which it now roams like an explorer in search of a new pathway to ultimate truth. 1 "The main fact of all," he says, lis
 that the spirit exists and that will be
 established 'by searching, painful ex- perience." One gets religion through experience he adds, and the object in view is the requirement of religion of progress. If we move forward and
 upward we shall have faith in an up- ward movement, without limit; we shall have the trust of which the poet l speaks:-
 That somehow good shall be the 1 final goal of ill.
 l Passing to the teachings of Jesus in the modern world" tn eauthor's opinion
 may be found in the following words: | "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye shall love one another. | Is that possible? Take the point
 of view of Christian theology. The doc trines, when taken literally are unac-
 ceptable to the reason of many. But if
 these doctrines may not be believed
 Literally, they may yet be taken sym
 bolically, and then they appear in a to- tally different light, as the metaphor
 ical setting forth of deep moral truths"
 Prof. Adler's reverent spirit toward
 ,Tesus is otherwise contained in his be-
 lief that He is far more than a moral-
 ist or an author of ethical sayings,
 and in a later chapter are the words
 Tt is no deduction from the value of
 the Sermon on the Mount to say that
 ali it's truth was implicit in Isaiah. Im-
 plicit it may have remained until the
 end of days, buried and unknown, but
 for it's application in the teachings of Jesus"
 For sale by all booksellers, $1.25.