Evening star., 1917-09-30

English admiralty. These are all true
stories, told in bare nakedness OF
stances of the sinking Of the doomed
ship. and then the facts of the open
boat. 1t is a little book of less than
a hundred pages-a book for every
body's reading Just now.
JAPAN IN WORLD POLITICS. BY X.
K. Kawakami. author of Asia at
the Door," etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
Mr.. Kawakami, Japanese by birth
and American by choice, here analyses
in its essential details the groundwork
of a constructive alliance between the
United States and Japan-an alliance
based on mutual friendship and mu-
tua1 national advantage. The history
of Japan since its emergence from Sc
clusion at the solicitation OF this coun-
try through Commodore Perry forms,
on the one hand. the material of this
investigation, and, on the other, the
national psychology of the japanese Is
used to inform and illuminate this his
toric survey. The bulk of the study is
concerned with patient review of the
various problems existing between the
two countries in the present, with a
discussion of the nature of these prob
lens for the sake of making clear their
possible solutions. 1t is complete
and comprehensive survey. dealing in
the main with essentials only, and pre-
senting in a most readable manner the
view Of Japan itself in it's highest de-
sires for a stable friendship with
America
OUR HIDDEN FORCES. By Emile
Boirac, rector of the academy at
Diton Translated and edited by W.
de Kerlor. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
This is, fundamentally. a general eS-
position of those hidden forces. those
latent powers. of magnetic attraction.
which, unknown to himself every hu
man being possesses. This discussion
brings forward the varied aspects of
this power that, from time to time. have
risen to the surface OF consciousness,
as the power of animal or personal mag
netism, hypnotism, spiritism. 1t is. in q
word, an investigation of the nature
and potentialities of that self that lies
below the surface OF consciousness
the subliminal self. Beyond analyzing
these various hidden forces, and dem
onstrating their existence by concrete
example and experiment, the writer or
ganizes them into a co-ordinated whole.
Indicating each in the sequence of it's
origin, and in the order of it's develop
ment from the purely material plane to-
ward the higher plane of spirit itself.
This organization of the subject Is of
the greatest use to the student. as it
study and points out the order in which
it must be pursued The whole is
psychological study of great import
one that the writer has rendered as
concrete as the nature OF the subject
permits.
THE IDEA OF GOD IN THE LIGHT OF
RECENT PHILOSOPHY: By A.
Seth Pringle-Pattison, Ii. D.. pro-
fessor of logic and metaphysics in
the University of Edinburgh. New
York: Oxford University Press.
This volume embodies the Clifford lee
lures delivered by the author in the
year 1918 at the University Of Aber-
deem. In substance their purpose is to
summarize the essentials of recent
philosophy-a philosophy that has been
liberated and, in a measure. REDEEMED
by the development of modern science
as an expression Of natural laws.
Against this reorganized body of phil
osophic thought the writer projects the
moral ideals of a reconstructed world
whose crowning glory Is the humanized
conception of God himself. The thor