Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-07
of the people.

of the people.
Immortality is a subject about which
every human being is interested, ana
one provocative of endless discussion.
OF all the arguments offered in favor OF
it, none, doubtless, carries more inher-
ent weight than does the instructive IN
tuition that a future life is a necessary
complement to this present one. Argue
as one may, there still exists that fact
that a something in every mind tells its
possessor that this is not all. In Init
nations of Immortality" Helen Phil
brook Patten has attempted to gather
from every possible source, ancient and
modern, significant statements regard
ing the souls future life. Beginning
with 1.-The Bibles Of humanity" the
Oldest known religious works, she has
compiled statements bearing on an ex-
istence beyond the grave, until her vol
ume reaches large proportions and be-
comes convincing by it's very cumula-
tive weight of evidence. The selections
in the main are admirable.
Intimations of Immortality. BY Helen
Philbrook Patten. Boston: Small, May
nard & Co. $1.50.
In the fourth series of the "Shelburne
Essays" Paul e. More has gathered
eleven papers contributed to various
magazines and to the New York Even
ing Post Like the other volumes in
this series, those essays represent the
result of the ripest literary criticism
| They lure one to read about people and
their work of which one has fancied
that the last word has been said. Here,
for instance, Is very striking pen pic
ture of Fanny Burney, whose "Evelina"
| was one of the literary marVels of the
sentimental age of DR.. Johnson. Then,
too, there are excellent papers on
George Herbert, Keats, Franklin, Lamb,
William Blake and Horace Walpole.
But the essays that are best worth
reading are those on Whitman and the
Vicar of Morwenstow. The book is full
of good criticism, which is worth more
than a single reading
Shelburne Essays. By Paul f. More,
New York: G.. p. Putnams Sons.
The Theatre Magazine for April is
crowded with excellent features. Will
liam Griffith contributes an interesting
article on the fatal fascination of play
writing, and Harry P. Mawson pre-
sents the facts about the theater ticket
specuator who is once more the object
of much public discussion. Ada Patter-
son has one of her usual entertaining
interviews, the chat this month being
with Jessie Millward who is now play
ing in 1.-THE Hypocrites." There is an
interesting account of Fernando Eliseu
who from successes in Broadway the
aters has gone to play in the Bowery
in the Yiddish dialect, and Henry p
Goddard gives "reminiscences of JEFF.
ferson and Florence. Benjamin de
Casseres considers the art of Novelli
the Italian actor now visiting Amer.
lea, and there is an account of Eliza
beth Schober, the only woman in Amer
lea actively engaged in directing a bic
metropolitan theater, The pictures OF
this month include a large portrait In
colors of Frances Starr in The Rose
of the Rancho"
The April number of Scribner's mag
azine is a spring number with a
charming colored cover and a frontis-
piece in beautiful colors from a draw
ing by Guerin. For many years the
outline OF a huge arch has been con-
spicuous in Morningside park, New
York. Grant La Fargo, one of the
architects explains what part it plays
in the structure of the great Cathedral
of st. John the Divine which will ul-
timately crown that imposing site
How the completed cathedral will look
is shown in Guerin's drawing, and the
idea which the plan develops is lucidly
elaborated by Mr.. La Fargo. The
building OF the cathedral will be the
work Of a generation. This article
shows why it viii be worth while
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