Evening star., 1920-01-18

SSHNLMN. by ItuSn WdlpOle, dutHor
of 1.-The Secret City" etc. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
ECEMBER 8, 1882. On that
morning Jeremy Cole woke
i up to the fact that, for the
first time in his life, he was
eight years old. And this is the
story Of the eight-year-oid adven-
turings of Jeremy Cole. From that
birthday breakfast-with sausages-
10 the day, almost year later, when
Jeremy went away to school, the
dolngs of Jeremy Cole and his dog,
damlet, take possession of the warm
corners of the readers heart. The
understanding that lies here between
: hugh Walpole and Jeremy Cole is
a delight. And Walpole's respect for
tne exclusive rights of Jeremy S
elght-year-old domain is perfect.
therefore, there is here none of the
exploitation of juvenile traits and
pehaVlors that so often caricature
chlldren at the hands of exuberant
cnroniclers. Jeremy is just a boy.
one OF the finer stripe, with certain
SOW klndlings and an obstinate
planting of his square little body, and
Wlth many childish reticences. And
w aipole knows to a minute when
ne has come to a stopping place with
lhe boy. This writer may have done
more generally considerable thingss
than Jeremy" He may have. But.
not yet. has he done a more perfect
Ihins than in this story of Jeremy
Cole. plus his dog Hamlet with the
Two set in a home circle of English
ne. The immediate surroundings of
the pair is a delightfully."- human fam
n.y. touched off in Individual strokes
or lndnlgent humor. The larger cir
cie includes the English town topped
on by the cathedral about which the
color painting of Walpole circles in
endless sketches of rare beauty. Re-
stralnt is the dominating note in
thls recreation of old treasures at
the hands of a true artist
THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEMO-
cHATIC DOGMA. By Henry
Adams. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Company.
Henry Adams calls this little vol
ume letter to American teachers
or history. Its effect is that of d
bomb. If history is a science-rather
anders and Napoleons, of princes and
potentates and conquerors-then it
must take into active account the
already highly developed sciences
which stand as the foundations of
human history. What the biologist
to their latest findings, what the as
tronomer. the chemist. the physicist
have reached in their latest conclu-
sions-these must come in as the
warp and woof of all considerations
of history. What effect has this new
founding of historical outlook upon
the theological notion of the uni
verse. upon the evolutionary doctrine
Iof human perfectibility. upon any
detached doctrine that touches his
tory at one or another point of in
consequent consideration? In a high
ly specialized consideration that de-
.aands careful study on the part of
the student Mr.. Adams leads one, re-
lentlessly, to the new lessons in his
tory that his researches and appli-
cations set for ones somewhat dis
mayed entertainment. One is not
able to get away from Henry Adams.
He has tried it before. But this is a
profoundly convincing one. So, pro-
testing, he comes out at the spot, in
vulnerably set. in both physical and
mental science, where man is ire
coverably on a descent and where the
ideals of democracy are but the her
Brooks Adams. introduces this study
by parallel consideration of grand
father and grandson-John Quincy
Adams and Henry Adams-in proof
that the latter is, in mental outlook,
in philosophic tendency, true son
Adams here is highly valuable ap--
probation of the two distinguished
men with whom it deals.
THE VITAL MESSAGE. BY Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle. author of THE
New Revelation" etc. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is becoming
an evangelist to the doctrine of spir-
itualism. After thirty years of per-
sonal investigation, to which he has
added the researches of hundreds of
distinguished thinkers. Conan Doyle
is completely convinced of the con-
yond death. Therefore this message
is. to him. truly vital one. And. if
this conclusion be the true one. the
message is vital to the world as well.
This little book makes positive aftir-
nation of the dawning of the new
orally receptive attitude toward it.
Essentials to this receptivity are a
recognition of the new spiritual
forces that are rising to the surface
of modern life, more persistent
dwelling upon the life of Christ, an
vengeance and punishment reflected
so lately in the cities of France and
Belgium. So, spiritualized. the world
will be open to the influences of the
spirit world-co-operating with it, SO
to speak. helping it and being helped
by it in turn. The physical basis of
the psychic belief is that the soul is a
complete duplicate of the body, but
infinitely more tenuous in substance.
In life the two are combined. At
death they separate, the soul body
moving into the spirit world. where
- - .t-
powers through activities similar to
those of this world, though of more
etheric means and instrumentalities.
In an appendix the writer describes
special manifestations and evidences,
accounting here for the phenomenon
Of spiritual photography. Buttress-
ing his own experiences and claims
with distinguished and unimpeach-
able authority. the author, by argu-
ment and an appeal to the open mind
of readers, delivers to the public the
vital message Of his own complete
conviction.
ADVENTURES IN INTERVIEWING.
BY Isaac F. Marcosson, author of
The Business Of War;" etc. Illus
trated from photographs. New
York: John Lane Company.
Mr.. Marcosson is not the only one
who has adventures in this case. The
reader also comes In for fine Sc
ries of them. Here is an astonishing
ly crowded assemblage Of notables-
presidents and premiers, statesmen,
military leaders, financial potentates
and philanthropists, writers and ac-
tors and managers. A very COM
plete. body OF cotemporaneous human
rth-whileness. about whose indi-
vidual units readers have no end of
legitimate curiosity. GNo one will
read this discriminating and clever
book in the order of it's presentment
Rather will he run dawn the list for