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most significant. DIR. Butler discusses the
distinction between liberty" In the demo-
cratic ideal and equality" Liberty is the
object of the government of the United
states, bat equality is an impossibility be-
cause no two men are born equally ell
dowed in any particular. a government
which would establish equality would de-
stroy individual liberty because it would
constrain those of superior attachments to
the level of me .iocri:y. The true ideal of
democracy is that of MazZ'ni: THE prog
ress of all through all. under the leadership
of the best and WiseSt." What the United
States needs is an aristocracy OF intellect
and service which Shall counteract the
pIedomnance of the power of money.
Dir. Murray's theories are closely rea-
sOned and brilliantly expressed. The open
!Is statement will arrest the attention of
many who will be forced to admit its truth:
If knowledge is power, surely there are
times when ignorance seems more powerful
STILL
An EFFICIENT CHURCH. BY Carl Gregg
Doney, Pm; D.; author 2,.. of The throne
ton by Earl Cranston. Ii" D. bishop
in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
New York: Fleming II. Revcll Com
pany.
Scientific investigation applied to religious
things has just appeared in a volume from
Revells. entitled An Efficient Church" by
Carl Gregg Doney with an introduction by
has applied the principles of psychological
investigation To religious feelings. He has
Intercepted an amazing number of people
by means of selected questions and secured
such a mass of credible material that it
seems as If H. We're able to present what
is really felt He presents for instance, the
reasons of forty men who dropped prepara-
ton for the ministry and as many men who
did not. he tnus out what really appeals
to the various members of an average CON
grcSation. and many other things. The
novelty and sanity of his investigation
make the book of unusual interest
Or. Doney IS tae pastor of the Hamline
NJ. b Church of this city. and much local
interest is felt in this second volume of
his Investigations into the practical
phases of church life.
THE: NEW THEOLOGY. By r. ]. Camp
bell, MA New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Woodward d
Lothrop.
Mr.. Campbell is the minister of the City
Temple, London, and one of the most IA
mo preachers in England today. He has
attempted to embody in the published book
an epitome of the doctrine which he is
preaching. He takes care to state the term
new theology" is used only because of its
accuracy. 1t is new" only in the sense
that it is the underlying belief of the
earnest men of all creeds today. But Mr..
Campbell believes that the religious con-
ceptions which he advances We're taught by
Christ and were the underlying principles
of his life. The world-od topics of God
and the Universe" The Nature of Evil"
The Atonement' are discussed by man
who is thoroughly In sympathy with mod
crn scientific thought and yet deeply at
tuned to spiritual things. The style is
clear and forcible, popular and yet digni-
fed.
DECORATIVE ART IN AMERICAS; A
Lecture by Oscar Wilde; together
With Letters, Reviews and Interviews
Edited with an introduction br Rich
ard GlaenZer. New York: Brentano's.
The lecture on Decorative Art in Amer
ica," which Is acknowledged to have been