The Washington herald., 1913-03-02

our financial markets. he adds, have CO.
operated with the trusts-through their
| banking interests-in selling these Sc
curities by taking them as collaterals
for loans until they are loaned down
| with them to the extent of some $780,
| 900 600
So heavily are the banks involved. the
| author tries to impress upon his read
| ers. that they are practically in partner
ship with the promoters of the man.
| moth corporate combinations In protect
ing the artificial values. and he deduces
therefrom that no political party can sue
| cessfully reduce the tariff without af-
| fecting these joint interests controlling
| the existing political or financial condi-
| tions. What party, Mr.. Daniel asks, would
| have the courage to face a panic with
lits-resultant effects by forcing things in
| the face of such control.
The reviewer of literary merit or de-
| merit really has nothing to commend or
| find fault with in work of the kind
published by Mr.. Daniel. Its questions
and problems are altogether of po-
litical nature and removed from the field
| of literature as the art OF the bellies
lettres."
Hence IL the author dives deep into
our financial conditions and seeks to
1 connect them with the high cost of
living. there Is but one of two things to
do: either to commend his views or to
criticse and oppose them. 1t is not quite
clear why panics should make rich men
richer and the poor poorer. despite the
authors argument. But it is COM
mendable to read his prophecy that
panics can and will be prevented. Mr..
Daniel argues that he has proved this.
but this is open to question.
,, But he says one thing to which / alb
solutely subscribe. namely. that 1t is the
duty of every American citizen to do
his share in trying to reduce the cost
of living Yet to ameliorate our national
financial shortcomings seems to be only
one of many means to achieve his point.
CHRIST. THE MAsTER-KEY: By William
Thomas Goldsmith. NJ D. Cwashinstoo. d. c.
Published by the author. Price. s..
DR.. Goldsmith is a physician who has
evidently studied the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments with care and
has evolved from his studies a poetical
Interpretation and synthesis. In a sense
he might say OF his book, as was said
BY one of the poets of his work: II have
gathered posies from other mems gar
dens, and nothing but the cord that
binds them is my own"
Yet the author has produced in SIX
parts a rather remarkable combination
Of testimony-witnesses from the Scrip
lures with free use OF very modern
translations which he regards as more
literal than the authorized versions; wit
nesses from the world of nature ~
viewed through the eyes OF scientists
and philosophers. ancient and modern,
and the witness OF his own experience
as physician and student. His original
verses in his introduction, God the Clti-
mate" have little of the Walt Whit
man swing. but without the Whitman
simplicity To the lay reader II would
sound like Mary Baker Eddy and her
Key to the Scriptures" st. Paul. John
Burroughs Hsrnack. Spinoza, Haeckel.
and other notables OF the ages are freely
quoted and labeled atheist" ''agnostic.
and the like, at the authors pleasure.
their testimony being adduced always
to prove the thesis that Christ Is the
Door" and that Christ Is the Way"
The chapter on God Speaks Through
His Prophets is an ingenious and COM
prehensive collection of the Old and New
Testament quotations relating to the
Messiah while chapter five. on the "On
gin OF Life" after running the gamut
of scientific inquiry in all ages, especially
in the last thirty years. predicates the
immortal life in this wise:
ITO believe the Gospels to be true
narratives, which affirmation agnostics
and atheists thus confirm. is to estab-
lish not only the veracity of Christ. but
that Of the Gospel writers: and this high
character given them. makes II truthful
and logical to say that Moses and Elias
are immortal entities. and that they
talked with Christ in person on the
Mount of Transfguration: that the de-
parted spirits of the daughter of Jairus.
Of the son of the widow Of Main. and of
Lazarus. We're each recalled to earth as
living. undying spirits when their bodies
were raised from the dead: that
Christ foretold His death and resurrec-
ton. which occurred as He predicted:
that the institution of the supper was
given as a memorial and a prophecy, by
Jesus. of His future life, and of all
those who believe in Him, and the OBJ
servance of which was a memorial to
exist until He would return to earth the
second time
Some typogra phical errors in spelling
of proper names mar the impression the
book might make on the cultured mind
On the whole. the author has presented
his Interpretation with directness and in
good form.
DEMOCRACY AND THE CHURCH: By Samuel
George Smith. IL D.. Department Of Sociology
University Of Minnesota. New York-D. Appleton
Co Price. $50.
The author, well known student OF
social science, presents Jesus as the
author Of the ideals OF Democracy and
the church as the historic institution to
secure their realization. He tells of the
great epochs of church history In a
series of discussions. united by the theory
that evolution is seen no less among
men than among other forms Of life.
The book appears to have been writ
ten in the interest of no creed, to pro-
mote no theory Of church order, and
therefore furnishes a powerful argument