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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Lovers of transcendental literature will hail
with delight book just off a Los Angeles
press Progressive Life or the Benehcence of
Nature Laws will not attract the masses
even those Of a religious nature will seldom
be able to so apply the lash TO their own life
and habits as to gain the attitude prescribed
in this book as necessary TO spiritual pro-
erosion in unison with natural and spiritual
laws. which are herein held one and the
same. But he who truly aspires TO be that
which he admires will, from the study of this
book, find the ladder which to rise to
plains of understanding of the teachings of
the lowly Nazarene rarely gained by man.
The book is perfectly practical and to those
who have earnestly entered this line Of
thought the book is open and fascinating. T1
quote portion from I'm Instruction H."
under the Value, Uses and Benefits of the
Physical Organism THE use OF the human
body lies in the fact that it forms sort of
armor for the spirit to dwell in while sojourn-
ing on earth and at the same time II is sem
sitive, high class mechanism or organism
through which the spirit functions. While the
use of the body cannot be overestimated, It
should be the obedent servant of the spirit
Beyond giving 1t necessary food and protection.
to best conserve its health, energy and the
purpose for which 1t is intended. the Individual
should serve the body. Because Of the
perversion and the confusion in which the
world is involved, the body has been given
the position that should be occupied by the
spirit. The body is enthroned as though it
were the sole object Of living 1t has been
given place of prominence until in human
consciousness the spirit has been almost
eclipsed, and the theories that support the
idea of the spirits non-existence have many
advocates and adherents In this false posi-
ton the body is over-fed. over-clothed and
over-housed by nearly all who, through fair
means or foul can gather together the re-
quisite materials. The that lies back of
this is the fact that desire has become king.
ruler and leader of the people, and that
through the body, its senses and faculties,
human desire is eratified That which was by
nature intended to serve the highest purpose
OF the spirit through its abuses. becomes a
, medium of all kinds of Indulgence. which
weaken and darken the spirit and check pro-
gression." This book will appeal strongly to
all thinking people.
Progressive Life or the Beneficence of Ma
tures Laws. By Lucie Blackman Stevens
Los Angeles. Terrace Publishing Co., Parker
Bros.
The Theater Magazine for July contains
nearly one hundred halftone portraits in addi-
| ton to the colored cover showing portrait OF
Rose Stahl. George G. jerks gives an inter
| esting account of Adeline Genee, the dancer
whom London critics hail a Taglioni
| This article is particularly interesting in view
this country this coming season. Another read
able contribution is paper by Medora Rob
| bins Crosby entitled Theatrical Association!
| on the Thames" which tells of all the famous
| theatrical people whose fame more or les,
connected with that historic river The inter
view of the month is devoted to William Col
| lier-the man and the comedian. in which Mr.
| Collier relates his earlier struggles on tn;
stage. Another article gives an account o.
Master William Betty. known in England {
century ago as the infant Roscius.
| A charming summer story entitled Mrs
| Cievenger' is the leading feature Of the Aug
ust Smart Set The author is Grace Eleanor
| Tcwndrow a new writer who reveals grea
| promise. The scenes of this novelette, are laiC
| a. a Long Island house party and the actor
| is brisk and the dialogue brilliant. It is ex
! actly the type of story wishes to read II
| the hot weather.
| The Popular for August containus the secon,
| instalment of 1.-The Devils Puplit." by H B
L W. R~lK raNw tfwt.N.
| the reader as the story progresses. Treasur
hunting by modern devil-may-care adventur
ers and their success is the theme of Mr.. Wat
| sens new serial. In the same number 0f TIL
| Popular there is a story by T. Jenkin
| Hams, 1.-THE Shanghaiing OF the Tong" whicl
| relates a stirring episode in the life of a sci
| rover on the Bahama banks. This romance o
| the tropical seas is one of the best things MI
| Hams has done yet. Two short stories dealin
with western life. "Sound-of- Many Guns" b
4 Bertrand W. Sinclair and THE White Hors
| of Drowning Ford by p. NJ, Bower, make
strong appeal TO those who like TO read Of tn
] life of the plains.