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SAVIOURS OF SOCIETY. By Stephen McKenna. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $2.50.

All of the characters in "Saviours of Society" are strictly imaginary, we are told in a carefully worded introduction. Mr. McKenna is particularly anxious not to tread on any one's toes in the matter of Ambrose Sheridan, the great newspaper owner, but as Ambrose resembles a composite picture of Norman Trevor, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, William R. Hearst, and Oom the Omnipotent, combining and retaining the best features of each, it would seem that he concerns himself unduly.

Ambrose Sheridan is such a powerful figure in politics and journalism that his enemies in the Government have put him on a commission to investigate conditions in India and to solve the unemployment problem at the same time. Ah, but the great man has his tender side too, and Evelyn, his secretary, and Auriol, a beautiful young society girl, are both madly in love with him. The story unwinds, accompanied by much furious telephoning on the part of Cabinet Ministers; King's messengers rushing in all directions; eager young men announcing that "the East End is wavering, but the North Counties, thank God, are firm as a rock;" while the beautiful Auriol's heart is leaping for joy that Ambrose has taken the proper stand on the inheritance tax.

It is one of the penalties of present-day politics that its leaders are deprived in the popular mind from a right to those tender emotions which are held so highly in other fields of endeavor. We can readily believe in the importance of Ambrose Sheridan, his dominant personality, the affection of his subordinates, but when the fascinating Auriol falls in love with him we begin to lose interest. Such a state of affairs is possible, of course-it is quite possible that there are débutantes in Washington tonight tossing upon hot pillows with a secret passion for Senator William E. Borah -but it just doesn't seem likely.

ENGLAND.

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By William Ralph Inge. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $3.

This is by the Dean of St. Paul's-the adjective which is always used to describe him need not be repeated. If you do not know it, you will after you read this book. He surveys his Empire, and gives a low moan. Everything is going to the dogs. When he ceases from scolding his countrymen, it is only to take breath to raise his voice against some other land-America, for instance, which he sees as Shylock, ruthlessly collecting debts and greedily yearning for Canada.

Dean Inge belongs to a small class of Englishmen; men of one of the great schools and one of the high Tory colleges. Their peculiar class privileges and their high position have been impaired in recent years. They are men of culture and courage, but also, unfortunately, men thickly incrusted with prejudice, and nearly immune to ideas from without. Intellectually they have been inbred for centuries. Whatever annoys them as members of a class seems to them an indication of worldwide tragedy. Only they believe that the British Empire is in such a parlous state. Only they are capable of making such reckless and unsubstantiated statements as Dean Inge utters more than once in this book. Why is he so sure that Americans long to annex Canada? Is it not because he likes to picture Uncle Sam as a rapa

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It will be strange if this distorted picture is not seriously questioned. As the volume on England in "The Modern World Series," it will certainly be distasteful to many Englishmen.

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Three more volumes of these remarkable and interesting picture-books. The one devoted to architecture is notable. Why do not the publishers give captions with the pictures? There are two or three pictures on every page, and the lack of descriptive captions is sometimes confusing.

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Poetry

COLLECTED PARODIES. By Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $2.75. Mr. Untermeyer has parodied nearly all the poets, living and dead, and done it remarkably well. Here are his parodies in verse and in prose.

Biography

CAUSES AND THEIR CHAMPIONS. By M. A. De Wolfe Howe. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $4.

Here are eight biographical sketches of leaders in American reform movements. Three are of women-Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, and Frances E. Willard; five of men-Phillips Brooks, Samuel Gompers, Booker T. Washington, and Woodrow Wilson, with the two Rockefellers, because of the identity of their public work virtually counted as one. The social application of private wealth, the cause in which the Rockefellers have distinguished themselves, may seem at first view widely remote from the class of reforms here considered, but it is an innovation that has appreciably affected American life and carries vast potentialities for good. The sketches are quite as much history as biography, for in each the progress of the movement is woven into the life story of the champion. Five of these leaders lived long enough to see their causes wax mighty, and one among them-Miss Anthony-who at one time had been pelted with rotten eggs, lived to experience a bombardment of roses. What measure of success has attended Phillips Brooks's advocacy of toleration is a matter of dispute; and, despite the League of Nations and the Locarno treaties, there is still a divided opinion in the case of Woodrow Wilson's advocacy of world peace. The sketches are the result of careful study and are gracefully written. "THE GREAT AMERICAN ASS." An Autobiography. Anonymous. Brentano's, New York. $3.50.

The price and size of the book suggest biography. The contents suggest that it would not necessarily be incorrect to list it as fiction. It purports to be the autobiography of "Roy Bradley," of Massachusetts ancestry. He tells of his life in Kansas and elsewhere. It is hard to say whether the book was written by Abie or by his Irish Rose, but its object seems to be to publish three hundred pages of bitterness about the Puritans, New England, and Harvard. A novel idea that to show up the Puritans! It is very, very bitter, and should be welcome to all who believe that clear thinking and the sour stomach are inseparable. Perhaps these books are the result of the Polyannas. If it comes to a

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Philosophy

THE ESCAPE FROM THE PRIMITIVE. By Horace Carncross, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2.50. Small comfort is offered to the lazy, the egotistic, and the tender-minded by Dr. Carncross. Here is the way to escape from the primitive, to put childish things behind you, but you won't find it easy, he says in effect. He does not permit you to surrender responsibility by sinking back on either the mechanistic principle or the teleological, or directly purposeful, idea of the order of the universe. Fatalism is no better than day-dreaming. "Upon whether or not a man is absorbing into and retaining in his own ego the force that nature meant to flow through him for constructive purpose, depends his ability to grow up." The book has a larger ethical content than would be expected in one applying psychoanalysis to sociology, and its clear style and well-ordered presentation also contrast pleasantly with much recent "humanized" science and philosophy.

Travel and Description

HAWAII TO-DAY. By Lieutenant R. C. Wriston, A. S., U. S. A. With Illustrations and a Map. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York. $5.

It is hard not to believe that Lieutenant Wriston is intentionally guilty of a demure double entendre when he speaks in the preface of his ability "to present a new point of view, offering my readers a picture of Hawaii in its broader aspects." The point of view-ten thousand feet in the air -is certainly novel, and the aspects of Hawaii as shown by the views caught by his aerial camera are broader than we care to measure. Lieutenant Wriston made the first flight to Kilauea Volcano, the first flight by airplane to the islands of Kahoolawe, Lanai, Niihau, and Kaula Rock, and still holds the record as the only man to have visited all the islands of the group by airplane. He has evidently taken much pains with his text-as much, it sometimes seems, as a schoolboy laboring over a composition. The information is undeniably useful, but the extraordinary illustrations remain the notable feature of his book. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN MANY LANDS. By Cecil Gosling. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $3.50.

Mr. Gosling identifies himself as "a minor official" of the English Foreign Office, which gave him the opportunity of making journeys to the many lands he describes in reciting his adventures. There is a vivid account of the Kaffir King Lobengula's last stand. Mr. Gosling's experiences were often exciting, but he came through them all with true British calm.

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ARBITRATION AND BUSINESS ETHICS. By Clarence F. Birdseye. Foreword by Charles L. Bernheimer. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2.50.

This is a study of the progress of commercial arbitration and its relation to the ethics of business. Negotiations between employers and wage-earners are, in the main, excluded from treatment, on the ground that they are properly to be considered as instances of collective bargaining. The three forms of arbitration considered are: first, that which is made possible through the machinery provided by an organized trade association; second, that which is conducted under the common law; and, third, that which is conducted under statutes. The first form is held to be passing because of the development of

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Religion

RELIGION IN THE MAKING. By Alfred North Whitehead. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50.

Many serious readers have been suspecting that Professor Whitehead's "Science and the Modern World" of a year or so ago marked the beginning of the retreat of much of scientific thought from the prestige it has enjoyed now for some generations and a successful rationalistic attack that will soon put religion back in its old power over the intellect. These and other readers will turn eagerly to the same author's King's Chapel Lectures of last winter, here published as "Religion in the Making," and will find in them the same nervous, sure analysis that marked the earlier volume. The four chapters, "Religion in History," "Religion and Dogma,' "Body and Spirit," "Truth and Criticism," give a course of dialectic leading through to the presentation of God as the binding power of the universe; the background on which alone all moral and æsthetic values are possible, through which alone they arrive at attainment. The metaphysics is not always easy. The book is concise. But he who follows to the end receives a confirmation of his feeling from Professor Whitehead's earlier volume that religion has ended its defense against materialistic philosophy by a sharp attack all along the line.

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In the forties Herman Melville argued that the modern run bigger than the early whales which are found fossilized in various parts of the earth. Owing to steam and explosives, the accurate accounts in dramatic "Moby Dick" are now outdated; it is the pleasant task of a veteran whaleman, J. S. Hodgson, and a skilled photographer, F. V. Morley, to tell us how in this day whales are hunted, slain, flayed, and their very flesh and bones forced to yield the precious oil where our grandfathers never suspected it. Not so moving a talefor it lacks the struggle of oars and harpoons and lances against the baited monsters close at hand-but the photographs add not a little value. The sperm whale or cachalot, which carries a tank of spermaceti in its head, appears a mystery still.

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ALOFT IN THE SHENANDOAH. By Lewis E. Theiss. The W. A. Wilde Company, Boston. $1.75.

Mr. Theiss here combines story with actual observation. He spent three weeks at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, working with the Shenandoah's crew and examining the plant and the ship in detail; two weeks after he left the Shenandoah was wrecked. Mr. Theiss had a despatch from Commander Klein of the station saying: "Tell the world that we are not done. If Congress will only back us, we'll prove to the world the value of lighter-than-air navigation." The story gets a little ahead of Congress. The imaginary part of the tale is well done, but boy readers must be careful to keep actuality and fiction separated in mind.

THIS SINGING WORLD. For Younger Children. Modern Poems Selected by Louis Untermeyer. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $2.50. Nothing could be more fun than for a father and mother to read from this fine anthology to their children before the children went to bed. And if the children went to sleep, as children will, even to the sound of the best poetry, the parents could keep right on, and have just as good a time. (The book was first published three years ago.)

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VOLTAIRE'S THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV. Translated by Martyn P. Pollack. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 80c.

MEMOIRS OF SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, BART. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 80c. PEAKS, PASSES AND GLACIERS. Selected and Annotated by E. H. Blakeney. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. 80c.

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