Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

more than passing interest to the lit
erary world.
His recently completed work, 1.-THE
Romantic Movement in English Po-
etry," is an even more ambitious piece
of work than its title suggests, for
instead of an essay or a narrative, Mr.
Symons gives us separate and distinct
appreciations of the personality and
poetry of not fewer than Sc of the
writer's who, born in the last eighty
years of the eighteenth century, have
been accorded place on the roll OF
fame-either by their contemporaries or
by succeeding generations. Yet he does
not fall into the mistake of suggesting
the biographical dictionary. The au-
thors business is with personality and
everyday life; and the book forms a
stimulating and illuminative body OF
constructive criticism, expressed with
imagination, eloquence and artistic
taste.
The plays, Acting and Music" too
which is now being issued in new
and revised form by the same publish
ers, has been practically rewritten
though the charm and Vigor of these
brilliant impressions of the stage and
tits principal opponents, which consti
tute the value of the volume, are re-
tanned, and even added to and more
highly polished as a result of the au-
thor's later observation and experience
to say nothing of the entirely new
material incorporated.
The Romantic Movement in English
Poetry" By Arthur Symons. e. p.
Dutton & Co.
An Encyclopedia of Faith
The second volume of that monu-
mental work, "catholis in spirit and
ecumenial in scope" 1.-THE New
Schaff- Herzog Encyclopedia of Re-
ligious knowledge" is fresh from the
press. The complete edition will ag-
gregate twelve Volumes including 5000
pages and treating upward of $4,000
topics, with 600 editors and collabo-
rators. DR.. Samuel Macauley Jackson,
professor of church history in New
York university, is editor in chief, and
under him is an INSTRUMENTATION
editorial board of nine.
The resulting product, judging from
the contents of volumes l and 2, will
be a complete storehouse of Biblical
lore. Although the general point of
view is Protestant, the avowed purpose
is to put into the hands of clerical and
lay students of all creeds the fruits of
modern Interpretation and research. In
matters of controversy the aim has
been to present the conclusions of the
latest scholarship, with due regard to
divergent opinion, special articles be-
ing written on issues of vital difference
Neither the basic dOctrinal dogmas OF
varying faiths nor the most recent re-
suits of scholastic criticism are ig-
nored. Especially painstaking is the
history of the development of church
government and the elaboration of dis
cipline The history of every great re-
ligious movement, within or without the
historic Christian church, is ably
elucidated.
Among the articles in the second
volume which will appeal to students
of religion are those on Biblical Yer
sions," biblical Criticism" Benedict
of Nursia" and Bernard of ClairvauX.
The exposition of "Catechisms" is
very exhaustive and the article on
THE Celtic Church in Great Britain
and Ireland" by DR.. Heinrich Zim-
mer of the University of Berlin while
provocative of controversy from both
Roman Catholic and Anglican camps, is
exceedingly Informative. Clergymen of
every religious body will find this mas
slve work a valuable library adjunct.
The New Schaff- Herzog Encyclopedia
of Religious knowledge, edited by
Samuel Macauley Jackson, DID, LID.
Funk & Wagnalls company.