The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
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young couple go to Lone Tree, N. J..
| there early to meet the migratory spring
burglar"
"One Hundred in the Dark" contains
the gem of the authors novel, The
Sfxty-First Second but with none of the
banalities of solution. and leaving the
problem even more confused than at the
start, as one of the characters remarks.
| game of golf the adventure of po-
| lice inspector, a baseball players ro-
nance, and the surprises of a French lot
| terry are other of the plots narrated by
| the popular author.
| CROWDS; A MOVING PICTURE IN DEMOC-
| RACY: By Gerald Stanley Lee New York
Doubleday. Page & Co.
The idea of "Sartor Resartus" (the
word seen as clothes) is hardly a more
spectacular and spacious vehicle for the
| Interpretation OF the imagination of the
universe than the idea of the world seer
as crowds. The typical modern man, the
author says, has a crowd soul" We
cannot think without a chairman. Lit
| erature is a Llub. Philosophy Is a So
! ciet-. Our culture is a summer school.
Charity is an organization. Newspapers
are crowd thinkers, and heroes are crowd
| spyglasses.
This entertaining yet disorderly work Is
divided into five books-"Crowds and Ma
! chimes" Letting the Crowd Be Good"
Letting the Crowd Be Beautiful"
Crowds and Heroes" Good News and
Hard Work.
Some of the chapter headings are Ma
chimes, Crowds and Artists Mr.. Car
negie Tries to Make People Read THE
Crowd and Pierpont Morgan" The
Crowd and the Hero 1.-The Technique of
Courage" Men Who Want Things"
Men Who Get Things" Goodness as a
Crowd Process" New Kinds and New
Sizes of Men,
The author discusses concerning THE
Crowd Same THE Imagination of
Crowds" "The Strike" An Invention
for Making Crowds Think, and The
Crowd Man. An Invention for Making
Crowds See"
He inquiries again and again where
we are going. Anu what do we want?
Then he attempts to clear the way for a
real program of Observation-Disclosures as
one advertisement says. that a business
man can sea program for the only
kind of idealism that is broad enough to
be efficient" And if he does not get to
where you had possibly hoped that he
might, remembering that some prophets
fall short in that. At least, he gives you
puzzling expressions for your money
ID. D., President Of ObeTiin College. The Mac
milan Company, New York.
President King has proven himself here,
as in his Ethics of. Jesus and in his
Moral and Religious Challenge of the
Times, fascinating and effective inter-
prefer Of the Gospels, especially of the
Synoptsts, Mark, Luke. and Matthew.
His work is more than that OF a scholar
or theological specialist in this field His
studies have grown out OF the experience
of the teacher in the class room, and
the educator of thousands of young men
and women who are thinking deeply ON
social and religious problems, and of the
preacher Of righteousness who unites
culture and common sense IN an uncom- |
mon tdegree.
His presentation OF religion as life |
seeks to establish the truth of the |
mediocrity Of compromise in the face of |
the possible choice of the larger life, |
which he says, has its ultimate fruitase /
in a civilization of brotherly men" The |
method Of life recommended IL an honest |
to the highest realities and per-
sonalities of life. In pressing our way /
to the most significant of these person
alities. we have found ourselves again
and again impelled to give the supreme