The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-06

old English country house kept as II
should be, with a beautiful garden
and pleasant walks; a quiet village
with It's unobtrusive inhabitants near
by; a likelicr scene to the twentieth
century imagination for u~nconNen-
tional philosophic walks and talks
than the groves of Academe. The
interior of the mansion Is fitted up
according to the authors taste, the
single instance of setting up anything
like an aesthetic standard. rather
Tayne's educational scheme. which
the author probably make more
formal than he intends to. because ne
wishes to he brief. seems something
like the glorified dream of a profess
sional tutor. vino wishes TO continue
his VOC after college days are owe
and the work of life has begun. These
are merely s~ignposts. however. to set
the reader on the road. The esseSce ot
the book IS in the conversations when
the younger ina reports. There are
something like seventy of these on n
great variety Of subjects: marriage,
fear. humility. honor. discipline. criti-
cism. biography. writing. work. educa-
IlOH, loi. IitN'Is "''FiiPs wv
science. loving God. Bright. sensible
talks. with examples that are often
humorous and that show a wide ac-
quaintance with real literature.
Both participants in the
tions are in the habit of ATTENDING
church. and both seem to Gold TO the
| agnostic idea Of God which believes
strongly in some form OF immortality
while abandoning the personal charac'
teristics which all the churches EN-
| phasize. Seine extracts may illustrate
Father paSne's views: 1T Is supersti'
tious-it is almost debasing to think
of God demanding praise as "A duty IN
cumbent upon us. To thee all angel.
| CRY aloud confess ! doIT like The
!dea VI heaven as a place Of cheerful
noise-,ha, isn't attractive" "Ant
also I think that the attention de
manded in our service is a mistake
it's a mixture of w ideas: the liturSi
cal ceremony which touches the eye
and the emotion, rather than the rea
! son: and the sermon and the prayer
in which the reason is supposed to III
conc erned. I think the Catholic idei
il a better one a solemni,y performed
in which YOU don take part but re
eeive impressions" He goes 10 churCl
to mediate. Further: IL dont min,
anything that is huinan-what ! can'
tolerate is anything inhumsn or unin
telligible. No one can m~isgnderstan'
the Beatitudes: very few people cal
follow the arguments Of ST. Paul
1t is TO he expected that Fa'he
| Ipuxnn hoe "a pnpr ,niptnp nf lusGfpn
pers. "The human being in the news
papers seems to me an utterly unrea
person. picturesque. theatrical. fdtu
Gus. soldering. absurd. Does not tn
newspaper convention misrepresent VI
as much as the book convention mis-
represents u.s." But when asked HOY
he would make up a newspaper h
says:
We. - goa, deaf % mo news mos
worth te..ing can he told hes: in pictures
I believe very much in illustrated paper
Tho really help the Imagination Thai
:ne worst OF word "a dozen scratches %
a bit OF pape- do .nre TO maze one realiz
u scene ;han columns Of description
would do a lot with p,:u-,s and a BIT q
print below to %, peup'p MIA 20 motto.
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facts ami nct:,es-Wtather. business. redo
lav-,he sor' ~ thing nat poop 'pt
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clean sweep Of fashion. ami q sensations
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