Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-21

up of twenty-five years of study and
writing on this subject. Any out-of-doors
boy would naturally be delighted with
this fascinating and capable guide to al
most every sort of purely outdoor life.
THE GLOVER OF GLOSTER." BY Il.
Temple Thurston. author of 1.-The
City of Beautiful Nonsense" IL
Illustrated by w. r. Dakin. New
York: Dodd. Mead 4 Co. Washing
ton: BrentanO's.
After reading about it here, you will
never be quite content till you, too, char
ter the Flower of Gloster, and, boarding
her, meander for whole month by your
self along the canals of England. No
other barge than this one will do. as you
discover by saying its name aloud two or
three times. For Catching the spirit of
this adventure. no other horse than
Fanny" will serve to tug at the long
and lazy tow-line. And above all else,
for captain it must be "Eynsham Harry
"a guide to every hedge-row charm along
the way, an unSchooled deep-Seeing poet
and philosopher. and, finally, at the
months end parting at Inglesham lock, a
friend Oxford and Coventry are familiar
names. But after these places creep
away, strange ones whose very names are
invitation stand along-Lowson Ford,
Marston Meysey, Princes Risborough.
Monks Risborough. Abbots Stafford and
the like. An amazing heaven Of a month
this seems to have been. Only one other
thing. it appears to the reader. can ap-
proach this delightful account Of it. This
is the exquisite and vital quality of the
pictures. the scenes. that keep step with
these charming pages Travellers of a GER
tain temper, loiterers in way. say like
MIR. Van Dyke In many of his moods, will
seize the essence Of pure joy that lies in
this Incompatible story.
CHRISTIANIZING THE SOCIAL Or
DER. By Walter Rauschenbusch,
Rochester Theological Seminary,
author of "Christianizing the Social
Crisis etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Out of the scholarship and professional
standing of its author. this searching
and inclusive study takes on the char
acter of an authoritative summary of
what the church has done and is doing to
objectfy in the social order Christ's
vision Of brotherhood and democracy Sep
arating into logical units of discussion
there is first description of the present
social awakening in the church, of the
quiet revolution going on therein. Then
the author gathers out Of history, proof
that. from the beginning, this Christian
iziDg of the social ORDER the humanizing
of it, has been the aim of the church
He next analyses society in order to de-
termine what in 1t is Christian, and what
not, with results that to him are i'm
mensely cheering" The following exam
ination discloses the fact that the un-
regenerate elements of society are mot
quietly waiting till We get ready to re-
form them. but are actively invading
Gods country and devastating the
moral achievement built up by centuries
of Christian teaching and sacrifice" The
discussion closes with a forecast, and a
constructive scheme by which juster
and happier social order may be accom-
plished. In substance this is an attempt
to try the church out as an agent in the
midst of our present economic Industrial
ism. In effect 1t is justification of the
church in its present aims and efforts
l. to the outsider the church seems in
the rear of the present movement in
steao of in the van, If it seems to him
disintegrate instead of united, confined
instead of free. more concerned about
God in His heaven than about man on
the earth, dull instead of comprehend
knows nothing about what is going on on
the inside. And that is true.
HUMANITY SPEAKING. BY Samuel
McChord Crothers, author of 1.-The
Gentle Reader" ETC. Boston:
Houghton Miff1in Company.
1t is most pleasant and stimulating to
hear a cultured, hopeful, common-sense
man with happy knack of saying things
tell what he has seen in long days of
travel and of how these famous objects
looked from where he stood. Better still
is it to gather up the reflections that rise
in fiocks out of these recollections and ex-
perienceS. Though the first of these re-