Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-14

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| this adventures: What are you doing
You are upon some business that take
YOU far, not even for ambition or for ad
venture. but only to earn. And you viii
! cross the sea and earn your money, an
you will come back and spend more thai
you have earned. But all the while you
4, life runs past you like a river, and tn
things that are Of moment to men you d
not heed at all And we have answered
as he did, II will go from this place t
| be recovered the principal joys Of tn
soul" Mr.. Belloc went. We commonl,
do not. Home in this case Is Sussex
with Its lake where the Arun rises
Picking up three chance companions
poet, a sailor, grizzlebeard-he trampe'
with them for five autumn days over AM
about this old home county. A beautiful
adventure-just walking about in tn
weather. sleeping where night fell, eat
ing what came to hand. The talks an,
silences of those days. the songs an,
stories and laughter, new joys discovers
and old ones renewed. crowd into this de
lectable chronicle of what happened t,
these four. ten years ago in Sussex. Sus
land-to us it is Cayuga county In tn,
state of New York-and the later-day ad
venturing to 1t Is universal and irresisti
BILE in it's call. So, these five happy ani
wise recreative days become ours, no
only as the usufruct of Mr.. BellOc's fnim
liable portrayal. but also as something
inexpressibly close to the very adventure
itself.
TIME AND CHANCE. By John Bur-
roughs, author Of "Signs and Sea-
sons" etc. Boston: Houghton Milf
fin Company.
At bottom, this is a travellers descrip-
ton of the geological wonders opening
along his way, and his comments upon
m N-ia NJ Pr1r he
puts out the modest hope that he has not
given his readers stone where they have
asked for bread, and that they will find
here and there above the rocks. patches
Of "soil in which some green thing of hu-
man interest and emotion may take root
and grow" Having read each amazing
chapter and passed personal Judgment
upon it-now. that THE Spell of the Yo-
semitic" Is the most beautiful. and then
setting this aside for Holidays in Ha-
wall" and so on In succession of fresh
awards-the reader gathers them all up
assured In his own mind that in Mr.
Burroughs whole distinguished literary
life he has never before been quite SO
fine and big, quite so poetic and joyous
and free, quite so inspired as he is here.
DEMOCRACY AND THE CHURCH. BY
Samuel George Smith. Phi. D., LII D.,
head of the department of sociology
and anthropology, University of
Minnesota New York: d. Appleton
& Co.
The period covered by this special study
Of history is the Christian era-from to
1912 A. d. Its purpose is to show. step
by step. what the church has done in this
time to further Christ's democratic ideal.
Its outcome is the intimation that the
present social awakening is not only
religious in essence, but that 1t is also q
coherent part Of the historic sequence
from Christ to the ultimate world de-
mocracy- embodied in His vision and
teachings. All the various influences of
gathered up in this study-prfmitive
Christianity, the papacy and the Romtsh
Church, the social revivals and upheavals
of Italy and England, Luther and his
work, the social effects of the reforma-
ton. the broadening Of education and the
pronounced social spirit Of modern
Christianity. This is an Illuminating
chapter Of history and a most opposite
one. 1t is. rich example Of modern
authoritative investigation, and an adj
mirable illustration of the genetic view
Of history; that is, history with life and
growth at its core. history whose rises
and falls are but logical parts of a uni
versal scheme Of general advance.
"REMINISCENCES OF A DIPLOMA
lists WIFE. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser,
author of "A Diplomatist's Wife in
Japan" etc. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Mrs. Fraser appears to have achieved
the difficult art Of writing pretty much as
she talks. That is to say, these remi-
niscences flow with the ease and intimacy
and personality that the fluent teller of a
thousand tales has learned to give to his
recitals. Pictures of interesting and
notable people, Of social ceremonials, of
diplomatic usages and opportunities, of
politics and governments, records . of
travel. descriptions Of manners and Gus
opinion and judgment. crowd the pages
Of this brilliant summary of social and
Official life in Europe.
MEN AND MANNERS OF MODERN
CHINA. BY ]. MACEDONIAN. Illustrat-
ed. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Washington: Brentano's.
Every phase Of Chinese life that can
claim any measure of Importance is
sketched in this big interesting volume.
1t Is, in substance. a long series Of vivid
pictures that show China in the act of
donning the new twentieth century spirit
of world Wilderness, in order that she may
hereafter go along in company with the
other nations of the earth. In present
ing the most striking and significant
features Of this country the author gives
much of its past, going back for quick
gathering up of the land, even in it's
bearing upon the race and in it's part in
shaping successive institutions This
helpful method gives a certain legitimacy
to the present. a logical heirship to the
manifold features OF modern China,