The Washington herald., 1913-07-20
ATTEST BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY TABLE

for Right Living and Rest" He starts
| on a lively "vy'ge." The tide has been
going out in his pocketbook; and he was
''bluer than a spoiled mackerel" and felt
like an old hulk Just ready to be towed
| in and broke up for junk but Sophronia
Gott with whom he boards and who as
"furs jokes was concerned was an IRON
| clad old frigate," sets his course by OBJ
servation of the grounds in teacup,
and strangely enough he follows It. A
| thin man with thick hair and thick
man with thin hair Eureka Sparrow and
Lord James Hopper; DR.. Wool, inventor
of "wool's Willow Wine for the Weak"
|, and known as Lysander the Great, and
the patients and others at the Sea Breeze
Bluff Saritarium all have apart IN the un-
usual entertainment that everyone now
expec.s from the pen Of the former Cape
Cod Dweller.
Mr.. Lincoln lives in New Jersey now
(the name Hackensack probably appeals
to him), near to New York, and this
probably accounts for his frequent ref
erences in his later books to stocks, bonds
and Wall Street; but these are wholly
casual in his stories, which are still de-
voted chiefly to good old Cape Cod folks,
who, as Mr.. Lincoln pictures them, tell
very interesting tales Of their experiences.
Mr.. Pratt tells one himself in the fine
old salty fashion that gives his stories
a distinct flavor all their own.
THE INNER GARDEN: A BOOK OF VERSE:
BY Horace HALEY. Boston-Sherman, French
Co. Price, 81.
This volume suggests a reply to that
question every new book of verse should
raise: What particular value has poetry
for modern life?" The collection il divid-
ed into several parts, presupposing evo-
t,,ts L. 81 vr-hf fnh IA
author has tried, by this means, to indi-
cate. Certain recurring ideas and CEN
ters of feeling discover themselves. each
time expressed with added breadth OF
conception. until the ultimate express
sion for the mood is found when a new
series of feeling Is entered upon. Each
center groups about itself a cycle of
poems each one Of which. while COM
plete in itself. contributes a special
value to the others. The real merit OF
the volume consists in this evolution
from one center of experience to an
other, which raises poetry far above
technical trickery, the sterile art-for
arts sake aestheticism, whose influence
in the immediate past is chiefly respon-
sible for the apparent insignifcance of
poetry in the modern world.
The value of poetry to life is dependent
upon the depth of the poets under
StdnOlng OF lie. IL Is tne Tedlty Oh tnc
poetic element in the readers life which
makes any poets work responsible
spiritual currency. At the present time.
when society dulls the creative egotism
in all men and women. partly by con-
vention, partly by pressure tending to
make for concentration upon mere
events at the expense of the inner life.
welcome should be given a collection of
poems in which the poets intensity is
combined with the power of evolution.
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ANGLO
SAXON RACE: BY Rev. NJ. V. B. Knox. Bos-
ton-Sherman, French Co. Price. s.
1t is the purpose of this work to trace
the forces of the religious life that have
aided the English-speaking race to be-
come so successful. 1t shows how in va
rious fields of its civilization these forces
have been present and active. Many
means besides the distinctly church be-
liefs and practices have helped to that
elevation.
The book is not another church his
tory. The denominations share in it only
as they have shown the religious life or
have neglected it. Wide search in numer-
Gus fields of racial life have been made in
order to trace as mucn possible the
active principles leading upward. ever
present and forcefui The authorities
IOllOWeO nave DttH the OlQ CHTODlCltS anu
historians of the passing centuries in
avenues political and social. as well as in
those ecclesiastical and constitutional.
The author, in the course of a busy life,
wrote several books. This. his latest, in
volved an immense amount of study and
research, and DIR. Knox was more than
ten years in gathering his material and
putting II into the interesting form in
which it is presented. The work has
been most carefully done, and the vol
ume is a reliable. unprejudicial narration.
valuable to students. both of religion and
of history.
AN UNKNOWN LOVER: By Mrs Georye De
Horne vaizey. New York-G. p. Putnam's Sons
AS truly as IL from personal expert
ence. the author here lays bare the feel
ings between relatives in cases where
family duty and responsibility run coun-
ter to personal inclination and sex at