Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-30
BOOK REVIEWS.
THE SPIRITUAL UNREST. BY Ray
Stannard Baker author OF Ne"
Ideals in Healing" etc. New YORK
Frederick 4 Stokes COmpany.

THE SPIRITUAL UNREST. BY Ray
Stannard Baker, author or Ne"
Ideals in Healing" etc. New YORK.
Frederick A Stokes Company
HEY who are keen to the gem
eral socializing trend OF pres
ent reforms will take a deep
interest in Ray Stannard Bak-
er's summary Of both churched
and unchurched influences In this pios
ress toward spirituality through s'oia'
ameIioration and common orothei iioou
Concrete!y clearly and in per1ectis ian
mind he states the case or the church.
hunting on a clean trail the causes oi 'he
widespread apathy in churches whetheF
these he Protestant, Romish or JEWISH
He makes record of their patheucahS
nervous ardors toward rehaDlhtatioi
through ingenious devices-authority' re-
vivalism. institutionalism, ism ana ISM.
Then follows description of the social
aims and activities of the unchurcheo'
from Jerry McAuley in the first slum mis-
sion to the most ambitious OF modern
philanthr opists Out of the completed &C
count comes the fact that results, In re-
lation to effort are meager, temporary,
unconstructiye In the last twenty five
pages the tone lifts to cheer ana nope
through the vision of new Chrlstlanity.
The heart of this vision is that IN human
life there are two entities-the human
souI and the human race-both to be
saved by religion. but by religion actihs
as a diffused force rathe' thah as an IN
stitution. In this vision the church mas
taken on social foresight, hitherto VelIeu
by an exclusive zeal for individual saIva-
ton Out of ii a new eVaneellSHi SPINS,
and the church, now counting the IuI
scope of social welfare quite W1thih the
purview of religion. sets out 10 sur the
a.
sin. and to lead in all efforts toward So
ciaI soundneSs. the book. III It's sTouhu-
work of investigation. gives most inter
estinC type studies. using Trinity Church'
an Institute nal chu oh, the jewish syna-
gogue. the Emmanuel movement, the
slum mission and the social settlement
for this purpose. The whole is reao-
able informing, significant study.
THE HYGIENE OF THE SOUL: The
Memoir of a Physician and Philoso-
pner BY Gustav Pollak. New
York: Dodd, Mead X Co. Washing
ton: Brentanos.
Seventy-five years ago the Austrian
philosopher and physician Ernst Baron
Won Feuchtersleben produced the re-
markable work whose synopsis. together
with a sketch of the authors life. is here
riven The exposition despite the lapse
of time sounds as modern as yesterday,
and comes as a most timely contribution
to the present discussions concerning the
relations of the mind to the body. The
Imagination and the will are cited as the
mental activities engaged in bodily re-
newal. The Imagination is analysed In
its operations and effects and in it's re-
lation to the development of the Will.
These two in combination make the
means of mental healing. The whole
constitutes one of the cleareSt and most
soundiy based of the arguments under
lying the theory of psychotherapy. Adj
vocates of the new thought will seize
upon this discussion both as means of
definite self-teachiag and as a convincing
instrument of propaganda.
THE EDDY. Novel of Today BY
Clarence L. Cullen. illustrations by
G. Weber DitZler. New York: &. W.
Dillingham; Company. Washington:
5. Kann. Sons & Co.
;f Count Leo Tolstoy had written this
story ii would have borne the name
Of Anna karenina. But Mr.. Tolstoy
did not write it. Too bad. One
wonders why another book on this par
ticular subject is necessary. However.
having made his choice and carried 1t to
issue. the author must be accredited with
making his story take on the dignity of
message, the message that conformity to
rule is, for women. the law of life. The
book is pathetic INSTALLATION of this
fact The tale can claim, too, some real
people. three OF tNeSe hot only real, Dut
fine and admirable as we'll The young
girl is a lovely creature whose only mis-
fortune is. unhapply. her mother, toward
whom she is beautifully gentle and pa
tient. even maternal The woman of the
world, truly a friend in need. is ideal
The man is honest and fine and depend
able Besides these three worth-wh' lie ones,
there is the mother with ghOuls and ogres
about her. The love story. that of the nice
girl ard the good man. is little tedious,
just a littie--not enough spring to 1t. On
the whole, the author has with good art
and skill made story of point and in
terest out of what might so easily have
10 note good humoredly and somewhat in
sc authors own manner certain vocab-
'''aric idiosyncrasies that time WILL no
jrubt serve TO mollify-
oUNTRY NEIGHBORS. BY Alice
Brown. Boston: Houghton Miffiin
Company.
These true stories stand as if the au-
thor. with gifted intuitive soul. had made
house-to-hcUse canvass for them in any
New England village. AS If she had
gathered there. from behind closed doors
and curtained windows. guarded emo
lions and secret dreams. imprisoned
ghosts of love and passion and pleasure.
AS II she had set these out soberly and
decorously in the midst of toll and thrift
and scantiness. mindful that New Eng
land soil and Puritan stock make no
count of pleasure revel love as
riot. These stories are faithful docu-
ments. They quicken through the scent
of new-plowed fields. through tie CLEAN
OF long rows OF milk pans -sweetenng in
the sun. through the drone of bees in
and out the hives under the harvest