Evening star., 1924-04-12
The Library Table
BY THE BOOKLOyER

and luxury, who has such distaste
for work that even his weekly serv-
ices are a burden, who is altogether
lacking in human sympathy, who is,
/ in other words, completely selfish, is
IA Cure of Souls" So artistically is
! the portrait of Clement Chamberlain
drawn. so free is it from caricature,
+, that the reader, though admitting
that he is most unfit to be a physician
of souls, cannot help having "a sneak
/ ing sympathy with him tn his snloy-
ment of the good things of life and
his avoidance of it's diacornfartz F'ror0
the moment when he aua<eEs. az not
too early morning hour. ii 70 Gswny
bed, with scents OF Lavender ana fDses
| floating in at his open wirG1o5s. .nffl
he sinks into the same soft aa4 snort
/ ly after 10 at night, Canon Chamber
lain's days are conscientisusIv de
voted to the attainment III golsfcai
and mental comfort. lie finds rcn-
scious esthetic pleasure In nls bath,
in brushing his hair with his tuo rtifr
brushes, and in the few moments at
his prize dieu, when he tries n, realize
his pleasure in the two peaches which
he eats from a tree in his sunny
| walled garden before breakfast. and
then the perfect breakfast itself, pre-
pared by his treasure Of q cook. Full
Ter. His long, tranquil mornings are
! a joy, too, when he is uninterrupted
and is able to spend them In reading
French novels either before the fire.
place in his study or stretched in Il
garden chair under a big beech tree.
"a YgfT r.T.ffa r.
a drive over the English countrywide,
tea with delicate hot crumpets. q visit
TO a charming widow-ciimax Of his
fday-one of F'ulier's dinners. II all
his days could have been like this.
full of peace and rest-an amount Of
rest entirely disproportionate to the
amount of work ever done-the rec
tor would have been happy
y
The Eden of Canon Chamberlain
had, however, its serpent, People
would not let him alone. They would
insist on expecting things Of him
duties they thought he ought to per-
form or advice they wished him to
give. The senior curate had religious
doubts with which he bothered the
rector. and the junior curate was so
energetic that il wearied the rector
merely to have him in the room, even
before ne began TO PROFOUND new
schemes for mems clubs and village
bands and extra week-night services.
Hilda Wrinch, one OF his best parish
workers. was given to calling him out
out at inconvenient timeS-once in
the middle of a rainy night-to visit
dying parishioners, who usually did
not die until 4 week or ten days
! later Even Agnes Lambert, devoted
mystic, slave TO parish work and TO
him. was nuisance, with the weekly
| reports which she insisted on making
as the price of her labors; he en-
dured her only because she sared
him an extra curate. kittye Han
cock, delightful widow, had seemed
for a time to be the Solace and slim
ulus he needed for his leisure hours
but then he had become unpleasantly
aware of her Ave noisy children and
had quietly ceased his visits before
Kitty misinterpreted them. Their
Molly Beauchamp came into his Hfe-
! the faminine counterpart Of himself
! a cushiony, eaSe-loving and ease
producing woman-and he felt thai
the gods had again been good tt
him Still there remained that de
! testabIe irreducible minimum of par.
ish work, and as long as he had thai
he could not be quite happy. Ht
loved hts comfortable rectory, his
| garden, his beautiful medieval church
but he longed for life in which ne
need only rest and dream" What
should he do?
That Queen Elizabeth, In addition
to being many other things, both po'
litical and social, was also a skillfu
phrase-maker, is shown by Frederict
Chamberlin in his book. The Sayings
Of Queen Elizabeth" In welcoming
delegation of eighteen tailors, 81
Carlyle asserts, she said: "Good
morning. gentlemen both She
| threatened Lord Burleigh thus: 81
have been strong enough to lift you
out of the dirt, and | am still ablt
to cast you down again" When the
dean OF st. Pauls wandered from ms
subject in preaching the queen once
godly digression and return TO your
text" When, early in her reign. the
commons suggested that she marry
she replied: When l received this
! ring (showing her coronation ring
4 / solemnly bound myself in marriage
to the realm, and it will be quite
sufficient for the memorial TO my
4 name and for my glory If, when
die. an inscription be engraved on
marble tomb saying. Here heth
4
died a virgin"
An earnest and powerful tract-ai-
belt more than 500 pages long-ln the
cause of eugenics, is The New Deca-
llogue of Science" by Albert Edward
wiggam. Before enunciating his ne"
commandments the author, in what
The calls an ethical challenge com
pares the new biology and the Ola
craftsmanship and gives five warn
ings. which are: That the advanced
races are going backward, that he
redity is the chief maker OF men, ina
the Golden Rule without SCIENCE VIII
wreck the race that tries IL, that Hleu,
icine, hygiene and sanitation VIII
weaken the human race ana tnat
morals. education, art ana re!isl9lI
will not improve the human race; IN
order to bring about an ethicai
transition from the "tear1ul mess %
the present to something better, the
author makes a plea for the new
Mount Sinai-the laboratory. With the
ground thus prepared he deVotes
successive chapters to his ten new
commandments of science, which are
The duty of eugenics, the duty OF sci
entific research, the duty of So
ciaIization of science, the duty or
measuring men. the duty of human
izing industry, the duty of preferen-
tial reproduction, the duty OF testing
intelligence, the duty of art. the duty
of internationalism and the duty or
philosophical reconstruction. But the
first and greatest, commandment is
the duty Of eugenics and the others
3 are Celebrations and applications of
that duty. The author adopts the
/, definition of the department of eu-
!. genics of the Carnegie Institution,
which describes eugenics as that
i science which "seeks to improve the
natural, physical, mental and temper