Evening star., 1935-04-20
THE LIBRARY TABLE
BY SARAH G. BOKERMAN
THE RIDIscovERY or JOHN
WESLEY. BY George Croft Cell.

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THE RIDIsCovERY or JOHN
WESLEY. BY George Croft Cell.
New York: Henry Holt Il Co.
John wesley's Journals show him
TO have been q very human person,
with many interests outside his chief
one OF preaching the gospel Of Meth
ooism, but all correlated With 1t. DR..
Cell, professor Of historical theology
In Boston University, Ii concerned
with Wcsley's contribution to religious
theory. Of which he has made q study
Tor 70 years. His conclusions reverse
many OF the usual opinions about
Wesley's theology: for example. that
ne was . mystic, inclined to high
church traditions, the destroyer Of
Calvinism. DR.. Cell shows that he
was In opposition 10 mysticism. .
prasmatist or practitioner of the
practical In church organization. the
nrst who introduced the experimental
method Of reasoning into religion,
and at heart . CAlvinist, who, like
Luther, held the doctrine Of salvation
BY faith. DR.. Cell appends to his
work q complete List Of Wesleys pub
llsned sermons, whose titles in them.
selves reveal something Of his doc
Urine There are Is on the Sermon on
the Mount.
THE CHALLENGE OF LEISURE. BY
Arthur Newton Pack. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
Leisure confronts the Nation" says
Mr.. Pack. president of the American
Nature Association and of the Charles
Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation.
Leisure Is a good or an evil accord.
ing to circumstances. II 1t Is enforced,
because Of inability to work or the
absence Of . Job. 1t may be q catas-
trophe; II 1t ID the residue after q
reasonable proportion Of time devoted
to useful and interesting work, then
1t may be delightful thing to enjoy
casually or to plan for and apportion.
Leisure, Mr.. Pack says, 10 the last
outpost of free and unregimented &C.
tivity in our modern life. But we fear
that 1t will not long remain unregi-
mented, with all the movements afoot
Tor organized recreation and adult
education, and Mr.. Pack himself pro-
ceeds to offer suggestions for regula-
tion. Leisure is not merely an in
dividual perquisite: 1t Is also q social
force. Leisure Is an indispensable
part both Of economics and of social
existence-it is the greatest OF all the
challenges to the leaders Of civiliza-
tion." With his prevailing interest in
forestry, 1t Is natural that Mr.. Pack
Ehould suggest many dispositions of
leisure In connection with forests
and the soil, both productive and in
the nature Of hobbies. He quotes an
insurance expert rs saying that a man
with . hobby Is an unusully good risk.
Art, music, literature, education and
human relationships are all discussed
as outlets for leisure time which are
capable Of producing the utmost
/ satisfaction.
FAREWELL TO FIFTH AVENUE. BY
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
This farewell Of Mr.. Vanderbilt IA
not to be taken IS q personal fare
well. . break on his part with his
class. Millionaires have been play
boy radicals before and have pointed
out and made fun Of the faults of
their class, but few of them have
actually dropped out of 1t. Tolstoi
disapproved so strongly Of the privi-
leges and wealth of the landed aris-
tocraey that he tried to get rid OF his
share Of them, but his family raised
difficulties. Mr.. Vanderbilt has not
gone TO such extremes, but he has
since his school days wanted to know
how the other fellow lives and why
things are as they are. He has been
newspaper writer and owner and Is the
author Of nine books. Now. in his
thirties, he thinks that Fifth Avenue
and Newport and oil they symbolze
Of fashion, Snobbery and arrogant
wealth are extinct and he pronounces
clever obituary. The interest of the
book lies In Its "reminiscences of that
dead past, not In the social theories
OF the author, which are much like
those Of many other people. He has
something 10 say about the Million
aires, Melons. Cafnegies, Morgans,
Astors, vanderbilts: about newspaper
men, including Hearst and Munsey:
about foreign dictators. Hitler and
Mussolini: about Presidents, from
Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin
Roosevelt, Of whom he Is Q great ad.
mirer and whose campaign he assisted.
Mr.. Vanderbilt writes both flippantly,
at times, and seriously. He sees q new
era arriving in this country, already
begun with the New Deal.
ELINOR wYLIE. The Portrait of an
Unknown Lady. BY Nancy Hoyt.
indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill
Co.
Writing Of her sister, poet and nov.
elist. Nancy Hoyt gives Z portrait and
tribute rather than . critical esti-
mate or full length biography. She
captures the personality Of the bril-
liant woman whose literary work was
cut short by early death, that person.
atty Of great charm and filled with
zest for life. Some Of the material
could have been supplied by no one
who knew Elinor Wylie less well. On
the other hand, Nancy Hoyt includes
nothing which she does not know
through her own association with her
sister. Many literary celebrities ap-
pear In the pages, Stephen and VIII
liam Rose Benet, Sinclair Lewis,
Christopher Morley, Carl van Doren,
Ford MADDOX Ford, Eva LIE oallienne
and many others. This portrait Of
an unknown lady, belongs with other
intimate memoirs which are valuable
Tor their very poisnancy. Fourteen
illustrations from photographs show
Elinor Wylie from babyhood to q time
shortly before her death.
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NOW WE SET OUT. BY Susan Erts.
New York: D. Appleton Century
Co.
Here the husband is the shrew and
II tanned, or defeated, In the first six
months Of marriage. He is frightfully
1ealOlts and his wife IL reso,,rcef,,l q M