Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-12
BOOK NOTES

john Fox Jr. has made the Cumber-
land mountains his own bailiwiclk SRI
Iar as fiction is concerned, and so the
title of his newest romance, "a Knight
OF the Cumberland tells its own story.
In these mountains a modern edition of
the old-time tournament is held and
the hero of this tale is one of the
Knights who therein ride for my lady's
favors. How he rides and how he wins
both lady and favors--this is the ro-
nance. The story has been published
serially.
A Knight of the Cumberland. By
John Fox Jr. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons.
Hiram Chellis Brown, author of '"The
Historical Bases of Religions" sees In
religion natural and progressive
growth from the crude and cruel con-
ceptions of primitive man to the re-
fined and highly spiritualized religious
sense of cultured Christianity. This
evolutionary process has been along
certain we'll defined lines, subject to the
same inexorable laws of growth and de-
velopment that fully accounts for all
other human faculties. To explain the
religious sense it is unnecessary to look
beyond purely natural causes.
The superior civilization of Babylo-
MIA and the debt all subsequent civil
their own, are facts that our author has
brought prominently to view. The spir-
itualization of religion by the thinkers
of the new empire Is we'll exemplifed
in such literary remains as the prayer
of Nebuchadnezzar.
| That portion of the work devoted to
Israel is intended as summary of the
results of modern research and the
higher criticism by competent scholars.
and of conclusions that seem to be in
evitable from such study. To the
Judaic features prominent in dogmatic
Christianity he believes, must be at
tributed that paralysis that held the
intellectual world in thrall for more
than q thousand years.
The Historical Bases of Religions. BY
Hiram Chellis Brown. Boston,: Herbert
B. Turner & Co. $1.50 net.
In "Enigmas of Psychical Research
Professor J. H. Hyslop discussed the
phenomena of clairvoyance, premoni-
tion, apparition telepathy. crystal
vision and other phenomena classified
as supernormal, drawing his data from
the immense accumulation of cases in
vestigated by >the Society for Psychical
Research. In Science and Future
Life" the author extends his inquiries
to mediumistic phenomena as exempli-
fled by the celebrated Piper case. In
this his latest volue, "Borderland of
Psychical Research" the author has
covered those points in normal and abb
normal psychology that are vital for
the student of psychical research to
know in order that he may Judge the
abnormal and Supernormal intelligently.
The book contains chapters on normal
sense perception, interpreting and as
sociating functions OF the mind, mem
ory, dissassociation and oblivescence,
illusions, hallucinations. pseudo-spirit-
istic phenomena, subconscious action
and secondary personality. mind and
body, hypnotism and therapeutics, rein
carnation, reservations and morals.
Borderland of Psychical Research. BY
Professor James H. Hyslop. Boston:
Herbert B. Turner & Co. $1.5O net.
A supposititious war of a fictitious
kingdom of Krovitch against Russia
kingdom that would be reigned over
by fair lady, Trusia by name. and a
wild attempt of a young American, Car
ter to help her reign her throne, is the
basis for the lively story of "Trusia'
which Davis Brenton gives u.s. OF
course, 1t doesn't succeed-that is, the
war doesn't. But when Trusia tells
Carter that though all thrones have
fallen, you are still my lking'-well,
what matters If Russia does win? Lord
knows she needs victorious war, If
only in a book
Trusias BY David Brenton. Philadel-
phia: George w. Jacobs g. Co.
Tales of the Welch country are Allen
Raine's forte, and as Queen of the
Rushes" is a story of that locale it
may be accepted at once as an interest,"
ing novel. He catches not only the at
mosphere but even the language of the
land and its people and from the simple
material at hand gives US a most inter-
esting tale.
Queen OF the Rushes. BY Allen Raine.
Philadelphia: George w. Jacobs & Co.