Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-19

given at Princeton and other American
universities on the religious struggle in
Italy. One expects them, therefore, to
gather into a volume of exclusive and
aristocratic appeal. from which the un-
trained reader may CLEAN only scattered
crumbs of interest and available infOrma-
ton. This SuppositiOn, plausible as it is
recedes almost Immediately, however, be-
fore the ease of this authors approach
and the subsequent clear energy of his
presentment. The foundation of this
scholarly exposition is a review of the rise
of the church at Rome; of it's growth in
spiritual power; of it's ultimate assump-
ton of temporal authority. the pure logic
of the invention of papal infallibility
Upon this groundwork the author traces
the slow course of succeeding recoil from
these high claims of the church and the
protest against them. At first, and for a
long time, this revolt appears to be hardly
more than a feeble, frightened. scattered
unsuitable drift of thought. But. gaining
strength and courage. conference and di-
rection, 1t turns to an open and wide
spread rebellion that eliminates in the
reformation. This movement of protest is
the modernism of that day, a. thing no
different in essence and intent from the
modernism of this day. The echoes of
the reformation in Italy are defined in the
work of great leaders to open the gospel
to the people, to establish Protestant
churches and communities, to embark as
patriots absorbed in the vision of q. state
SET Tree from the domination OF the
Church of Rome. The last chapter, that
which all the others are designed to i'll
Illuminate and interpret. makes scrutiny of
the present modernism operating within
the ROmish Church. This, as in the past,
is a protesting movement against rigid
and static church as the spiritual refuge
and support of progressive humanity. The
author, himself outside the Church of
Rome, himself an expositor of the dis
senting community of Waldensans. has,
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outside point of view. It must be
admitted that he possesses. too. the dis
ability of a slight but clearly discernible
prejudice. The whole is, however, a bril-
liant and absorbing history of the reli-
gious development of Italy.
SOCIAL WELFARE IN NEW YEA
LAND. By Hugh III. Lusk, formerly
member of the New Zealand parlia-
ment, author of Our Foes at
Home" etc. New York. Sturgis &
Walton Company.
: Through magazine and daily press one
has come. in very general way, to look
upon New Zealand as the headquarters
of experiments in government. From
that island of the South sea come rumors
Of the government as landlord. manu-
facturer, banker. employer, pensioning
benefactor Of the aged and infirm, as
the pioneer III STATE SOCidilSI1l, WOMAN
suffrage and those legislative flights of
initiative, referendum and recall. Chi
meras in that region appear to have set
tied to actualities. Fads have solicited
into establishments. The volume in hand
is dependable and admirably organized
study of New Zealand's many-sided social
experiments. This sums the history of
twenty years of legislation pointed direct
ly and continuously toward an equality
OF social and economic opportunity. Half
a century ago the author of this study
was himself pioneer in New Zealand.
An active life in the midst of the politics
and legislation of the island gives him
conspicuous fitness to record and inter-
pref public events in that quarter. This
exceptional study sets in order what the
general reader. already knows about this
subject, and adds to this a most sub
stantial body of important and discrimi
mating information. To the social stu
dent, economist or sociologist, it consti-