The Washington herald., 1913-08-31

place to the personality of Jesus" de-
clares the author. AT the center of that
most universal of the vital religious docu-
ments OF the race, the Lords Prayer,
Jesus places the petition Thy will be
done 1t is the very heart of religion.
the heart of ethics, the center of hu-
manity's highest aspiration" Its logical
end in life ID shown by President King
| to be not submission, but assertion Of
the highest self within us; its ultimate
| goal the sharing of the life OF God Him
self
The book 10 admirable in its appeal
| to youth. 1t will buttress many a wav-
ering faith by its clear, practical note
| of reality and by its rc-entihr landing
of the teachings of the Gospels, which
have so often suffered in TIE eyes Of
college men at the hands of superficial
| teachers, who knew little or nothing of
what Jesus really said and did. accord
ing to the four-fold gospel records.
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF MR.. ALFRED BUR-
TON: By E. Phillips oppenheim. Boston-Lit-
tie Brown 4 Co.
The imaginative quality Of Mr.. Open
helms literary talent and his versatility
comes out with force in his THE Double
| Life of Mr.. Alfred Burton" In an ex-
planatory note the author states that this
| amusing tale was begun as a shcrt story
CT middle-class life in a semi-humoroua
, vein, and that 1t grew into a full-length
novel
Alfred Burton is an ructioneer's CLERK,
working for Mr.. Waddington. One day,
sent by his employer, he goes with rich
American &c show him Lady Idleway's
vacant house. One room las been occu-
pied by ar Oriental scholar anG was kept
locked. On the floor were some papers
in a str:nge Il ne uagr, of which the fol-
lowing words had been Translated into
English.
It: is finished. The nineteenth genera
ticn has triumphed. He who shall eat of
the brown fru-- of this tree shall see the
things OF Life and Death as they are"
A small tree stood near OIL which was
hung a cluster Of lrown beans. Burton,
whose eloquence with regard to the at
fractions of Lady Idlcmays house, had
persuaded the Anne. lean to take It,
Eluclled bean and ate 1t AS an expert
rlent. At once a curious change came
over him. He found it impossible to lie,
and as Mr.. Lynn wished to lease the
house, he advised him not to make 1t, as
there was something wrong with the
drainage and there had keen some deaths
from typhoid fever. OF coui Sc Burton'S
employer IesGnis the incident Still more
anghy is he whCr. during the next public
SAFE. Burton warns E:Icrasers of the
spur1ou5 Equai:tyl CT the ar uque furni-
ture. Finally he is dismissed.
The effcrt uf the hean docs not stop
at this. II makes him bath all sham.
his tawdry wife and his ill-kept little
boy get on his nerves and his desire to
uplift them creates a serious breech. The
complications brought irio his life by
his new love Of truth are very trying. |
all the muEe so, htCaIse Errton, having
told Mr.. Waddington Of the singular phe- |
nomenon, the latter goes to the empty |
house and himself gives away the plant |
to a child. Only after this it Is discovered |
that the effects of the beans are transit /,
tory unless one leaf of the tree is eaten |
with it. The result is fiuctuation in |
both mems moral nature, and the most |
contretempts follow.
Mr.. Oppenheim having envolved the |
fantastic plot develops 1t with his usual |
ease, and his facile pen makes of it an
tale, but one pointing to \
more than one moral withal
LADDIE-A TRUE BLUE STORY: By Gene
stratton-Porter. Doubleday, Page & Co, New
York.
"a True Blue Story" is the best de- !
scrfption Of Mrs, Stratton- Porter's new
book. The simplicity of the style 10 sub