New-York tribune., 1906-06-11
LITERARY NOTES.

E. Kay Robinson's new work THE Religion
Of Nature" which our London correspondent re-
ports as published this week in England. is to be
brought out in this country by Mcclure, Phillips
Co. The author is the editor Of Countryside
and has made a lifelong study of nature. In his
book he aims TO explain away one of the great
difficulties which the theory of evolution presents
10 those who would maintain their faith in a
personal God-the apparent wholesale cruelty in
Volved in the struggle for existence in nature.
Mr.. Robinson believes that there is no cruelty
n nature because other animals than man have
no conscious knowledge of happiness or unhappi-
ness. Mr. Robinson undertakes TO prove that
the doctrine of evolution demonstrates the Gre
alton Of man in the likeness of Cod" and that.
therefore. the truth of religion and the truth of
science are one In the English reviews Mr..
Robinsons theories have been the topic of warm
and sometimes heated discussion. and have met
with vigorous opposition by those who refuse
to believe that animals have no consciousness of
pain, ard consequently no soul.
Gerald Stanley Lee. the Editor Of Mount
Tom" which he calls IAN all outdoors magazine"
has fallen a little behind the lighthouse in his
issues. and has only succeeded in getting out
his April number in June. He tries to blame ii
On the printers, as a matter of form; but at last
confesses that he has been having trouble with
his proofs 1t is so hard to decide. when cor
recting them. what words will most improve
What he has written, that he is forever postpon-
ing the task He appeals TO the sympathies OF
his readers:
When your ideas keep coming as the best ones
% generally months or years ahead or just Wheii
hey Ike il really reckless TO let mem ns @ @it
60 70 look over proof. stare at some oIa ohess
S~hle ones YOU have already anyway: an ana ay IpiaS
row even r they tried. Why for instance 70 @ Idhg
case IN point. should stop writing AT thIS Sbfc6
Is what 7 am do.ng) 10 get out this April NUMBER
which was due three weeks ago? Doing ones VOTE
ttnybody know it. When one is very marry p9y ann M
sssy end the light perhaps IS PLAYING soII9 pot.s @
aD'lt the public rumble OF 4 DoOh
coming IS NOT half pleasant sounding as one
foot5aie thundSr is ratasT % SecTa one middle Of some
ne it new Lightning one does not IKE tb 10 suo5 the
boeSs and correcting the proof Is worse imam
Carl Evald author Of My Little Boy re-
GENTLY published by Charles Scribner's Sons in
an English translation by Alexander TeHeira de
Aattos. is a Dane. and was born in 1896 in the
Duchy of Schleswig The son OF writer OF
historical and other novels he moved with his
ia'her's family to Elsinore after the war OF lS14
the elder Ewald having refused 10 accept Prus-
sian nationality From Elsinore they went later
70 Copenhagen. Carl Ewald studied at the uni
Persity. vas for some years forester. and after
ward a schooinaster. His first published writ
lngs were long series of fairy stories. Then
came My Little Boy" followed by number
of psychological haIf-mystical tales the nero
U Ny Little Boy is now a growing lad OF
thirteen with four little sisters to keep him com
pany
Henry " Nevtnson. whose book "A Modern
sene Ia