Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-14


has written what is well called an out
spoken love story. The
theme Of this powerfully
An conceived and artisti-
n,r.,ok.n cally presented novel is
-. c.. that of an English war
padre who goes among
publicans and sinners to
find God and his own soul. The ma
tcrial is simple cnough-the experiences,
reactions and mutual relations Of Peter,
an Anglican chaplain, from a fashion,
able London church, and Julie, nurse
from South Africa, beautiful. piquant.
:rresistibly human, but with q per-
vasive sense Of the divine. His motto
is service, hers sacrifice, and in the
long run, after anxious futlities. he
sees the way to service, while she, eager
for enjoyment Of love and not satiated
by what Of it has come to her; none
the less makes the sacrifice Of all that
is precious to her. Julie sacrifices vir-
rinity for the sake Of love and then for
the sake of greater love forgoes love
itself. She outlaws herself from the
moral code, casting aside the conven-
tions for which she cares little, to make
Peter the man happier, and then to
make Peter the mystic and religious
spiritually happy and more fitted to his
work Of grace and scrvicc, she rclin-
mishcs him to his mission. much rs she
loves him and because she loves him
much.
Peters growth from the conventional.
TO the truly spiritual, through the en-
yironmcrt If the war and the influence
of love. is knowingly described ana the
description carries n searching inqui-
eition into human psychology. 1t IS
profound and it is penetrating.
Peter and Julie and their problems
are all that matter in the novel, when
is singularly one of two characters ana
one theme. The fabric IS unlhed in
feeling and in movement, yet 1t Is
like life in its loose threads and un.
kempt edges. Everything is not
settled as in the "well made novel.
Nor. indeed. is everything-or anything
altogether settled in life. This quail d.
ity of ouesting. of partial achievement
with other achievement always poten-
tiol. gives the book a marvellous llfe-
likeness. Yet it is not work OF real :
ism. in the technical, or even sordid,
sense. In tone and temper simon
Called Peter" is romantic.
The author will be remembered rs g
Church of England chaplain who had
charge of a South African labor bat.
talon in France. Part of his ministry
has been spent among the Basuto anc
other African tribes. His book of wal
cypcricnccs, Carrying On" was one
of the notable pieces Of observation and
interpretation of the religious phase:
Of the war.
Ralph Connor (the Rev. DR.. Gordon
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hook, TO Him That Hath George
II. Doran co.., like
his earlier, popu a :
Wb.n works. BLACK Rock
81. Rov, and "The Sky Pilot"
M. IL. -. deals with the Canadian
'o"e 1'o"' West. The period is
the time Immediately
| following the return of the troops, anu
he catches within his chapters the very
real sense Of maladjustment and dis.
content which marked reconstruction.
In a larger way, 'TO Him THAI
Hath" deals with the big contempOrar!
problems, particularly the relations Of
| capital and labor, not on the vas
! American industrial scale, but ON I
scale sufficient to be symptomatic o
the great class conscious struggle. Com.
plicated with the industrial struggle
is social conflict.
A heroine who Is richly and pr0vOca
lively interesting and hero who EN-
bodies the largcnessS the vision, and
yes, the restlessncss of his time ant
place. tho Northwest of today, ar
enmeshed in the labor troubles of tn
lumber regions. Out of it all the
reach the haven Of love, and are bette
for the understanding that comes T.
them through trial and toll and diff
Guilty.
Mr.. Connor writes with sympath
and understanding of the viewpoints O
both sides and sets forth, implicitly q
least, Il program Of equity and justice
which would mean betterment for al
who follow II. For his Is q seriou
novel, but not preachy one, althous
written by a preacher.
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