Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-09

each to the value Of its discoverable ma
ture and relationships he discusses hui
nan consciousness in this life. The ma.
ture Of this consciousness, its rootage, its
projections, the standpoint of the pres
ent in relation to the past and the fu-
ture, the bearing of the human soul upon
the tover-souLthese are the themes that
come out In the serious philosophy of
this writer. Much of the work here is
fronted upon the great war, with its
unnumbered dead in their new place in
the universe. There are beautiful trib-
utes here to the heroisms Of the soldiers.
to the greater courage of their survivors
at the homes and in. the quiet places.
The whole is pure piece of the Maeter-
lnck philosophy seeking adjustment and
Interpretation through the universal
tragedy Of the present.
MAN Is A SPIRIT. By ]. Arthur Hill,
author Of "Psychical Investiga-
tions." etc. New York: George II.
Doran Company.
Mr.. Hill is one Of the well known
leaders In the Investigations Of the
Society for Psychical Research This
book is collection Of cases that, in
the judgment Of the writer, add ap-
probably to the open and tentatf-s
arguments that are being put forth
in support of the theory Of con-
tinued personal existence after death.
The immediate occasion of this print
ing is the quickened interest in the
subject that the war has naturally
brought. AS an Introduction to the
evidence itself, the writer discusses
the scientific meaning OF evidence
that is, those things that the man of
trained mind and scientific spirit ac-
cepts as evidence in any field. This
10 q anaofa11v hpnad and a T..
ment. From this point the writer
presents the cases whose content in
dicates an existence beyond this life.
as well as the power, under certain
conditions. to communicate with this
world. Dream. vision. ecstasy. the
other familiar avenues find place here.
There does not claim to be anything
of new or startling nature in this
exposition. It is merely more evil
dence. or tentative evidence, that the
writer judges to be worth a place in
used to advance still further the in
vestigations Of serious and OPEN
minded students of the subject in
hand.
HOPE TRUEBL00D. BY Patience
Worth. Communicated through
Mrs. John H Curran. Edited by
Casper 8. Yost. New York: Henry
Holt 4 Company.
For persistence and enterprise-as well
as for mystery-Padence Worth Is a
phenomenon. You remember that. hav-
ing in the course Of events lost her own
body, this not-to-be-denied personality
moved into Mrs. John H. Curran Of St.
Louis. Once settled, she began to
show" the Missourian, as well as the
rest Of the world, that the new domicile
was quite up to her needs and desires
Impressing Mrs. Curran into service, she
commenced to make literature-two
books Of archaic cast. but each a well
organized story OF more than passing
interest. And now Patience Worth-by
way Of Mrs Curran-is out with a mod
ern story-the autobiography Of Hope
Trueblood, an invention that for atmos-
phere and its personal stamp Of inven-
ton suggests Hawthorne and 1.-The
Scarlet Letter." Purely characteristic
of the period which 1t projects, that Of
the middle Of the last century. it pro-
crosses through the interests Of an Eng