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This Believing World

A Simple Account of the
Great Religions
of Mankind

by Lewis Browne

fascinating

"Is the most fascinating outline
book ever I read, it being an out-
line of religion and a history of
worship, and held a vast amount
of information for me, and mighty
well done, too."

-F. P. A., The Conning Tower,
New York World

romantic

"Written with transparent clear-
ness and sometimes with roman.
tic eloquence. He has taken the
difficult and dubious science of
comparative religion-and
brought the entire procession of
the world's faiths upon one can-
vas, illuminated with order and
clarity."
-Will Durant,
New York Herald Tribune

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"Graphic, vivid, informed with a fine sense of drama .. This reviewer for one can testify that no recent novel has held him into the late watches of the night as has this book of Lewis Browne's." -Henry Hazlitt, New York Sun

vivid

"For all its brevity, is as accurate as it is vivid-The substance of the matter is here. We get the essential outlines of the picture." -John Haynes Holmes, New York World

authentic

"Is comprehensive, attractive and authentic. It has verve, too; its crescendo is powerful; its charm of presentation is absolute."

-Phillips E. Osgood, Saturday Review of Literature

complete

"Is nourishment for real people, both mental and spiritual. You can think of nothing to add that you really want to know. There is nothing."

-Thomas L. Masson, New York Evening Post

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ambitions with their relation to the controllable and uncontrollable issues of a restless and exciting period he has handled with much effectiveness and a faithful effort to preserve historic truth. The book deserves its honorable place among that increasing group of comparatively recent novels, none of them inspired by genius, but which are alike valuable in that their honesty of purpose and picturesque rendering of eras and episodes in our country's development are able to reach and kindle many an unimaginative mind which plain history leaves cold.

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MY HERESY.

Biography

By Bishop William Montgomery Brown. The John Day Company, New York. $2.

Bishop William Montgomery Brown-we must not omit the "Bishop," for the author very highly values his episcopal standing in the Old Catholic Church-Bishop Brown calls his autobiography "My Heresy," "the autobiography of an idea." The average reader, we prophesy, will be interested more in the autobiography of the man. The author's trial for heresy at Cleveland in 1924 and his deposition from his rank as bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1925 at New Orleans are recent enough to attract to his story many readers who enjoy religious ideas most when a strong and highly colored light plays upon them. It will appeal also to those whose sympathies are rather with the sweep of modern ideas than with the mind's mastery of them. Bishop Brown gives an eager presentation of his life up from an illiterate boy till he became Bishop of Arkansas; then of his meeting with Karl Marx and with Darwin, and his subsequent abandonment of all orthodox ideas both economic and theological. The portrait presented is vivid-of a lovable personality, stronger perhaps in good will than in wit, and with a naïve but not unforgivable liking for bothering those with whom he differed.

Essays

MORE THINGS THAT MATTER. By Lord Riddell. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $2.50.

Lord Riddell's earlier book of similar title was rather wider in its interests. It was political, historical, and literary. These papers, from "John O'London's Weekly," 1922-4, are nearly all concerned with current politics. Mr. Balfour, Winston Churchill, India, Marxian Socialism, America, Lord Haldane, Henry Ford, prohibition, General Smuts, China, business-these are some of the topics of these "leaders," as the English call them. In our tongue, editorials. A moderately interesting, not especially important book.

Poetry

A BOUQUET FROM FRANCE. One Hundred French Poems with English Translation in Verse and Brief Notes. By Wilfrid Thorley. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.23. The poems are given in the original and in the author's translation in verse. They date from the earliest times to the present. The book is highly pleasing; Mr. Thorley's English version is respectable, sometimes charming verse. Naturally, it is not poetry of the first order. The first is that Provençal poem on which Swinburne founded his haunting "In an Orchard."

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the Church and business can work together to better the life of man in industry-such capitalists as John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Samuel A. Lewisohn, Henry Dennison, Edward F. Filene; such labor leaders as William Green and Albert F. Coyle; and certain others who might be called liaison officers between opposed camps. The value of the volume, we believe, lies in its reasonableness. Included are enough sharp words to show the bitterness sometimes of the need of a better industrial order, but its general atmosphere is that of "the improvers"-of those who not only are working to make industry fairer and more humane, but are able to point to many signs of their success. Every churchman, clerical or lay, we hold, therefore, should read "Business and the Church." He will finish it, not in a mood of complacency, but of determination to give a hand in weaving still more the rules of Christianity into the game of business-best of all, of courage that it can be and is being done.

EVOLUTION AND RELIGION IN EDUCATION. By Henry Fairfield Osborn. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2.

Professor Osborn's present volume is a collection of his writings and addresses inspired by the Scopes trial, full of the sanity of a distinguished scientist who is yet a firm believer in religion and eager to share his convictions with his fellows. His attitude, for instance, is always kindly toward Mr. Bryan, who inspired him to many of the chapters. They center around Professor Osborn's belief that, as the future belongs to both science and religion, both must be taught in the public schools. There is the particularly good suggestion that an evolutionary outlook easily becomes ours if the subject is taught simply at first and without reference to its confusing Lamarckian, Darwinian, and other variants. The public schools, he is just as insistent, should teach religion constantly in such forms as the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. Fascinating lights on the evolutionary past of the race will be found by the reader, and even more the wholesome assumption that belief in their significance means no less faith in our religion.

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OUTWITTING MIDDLE AGE. By Carl Ramus, Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service. The Century Company, New York. $2.

Eat vegetables, not meat, and drink plenty of yogurt. Cut out red meats, especially. Dr. Ramus's advice is generally reasonable enough; he is only emphatic on the advantages of vegetarianism, and the charms of yogurt, if you wish to live long and happily. Whatever you do, drink yogurt. We wonder whether these drinkers of sour milk really do live very long, or, as in the case of married men, does it merely seem long?

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CAPTAIN SANDMAN. By Miriam Clark Potter. $2. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. Short stories for young children, simple yet fanciful little stories of that deceptive kind that seem as if they might have been made up offhand by anybody with a dash of imagination in response to that familiar demand of some insistent small person, "Now tell me a story about fairies," or "about a little girl just as big as me," or "about a little boy who ran away," or "about baby animals." But the very simplicity requires a special gift, to shun elaboration on one hand and flatness on the other, and especially, while making sure that all the suggestion is cheery and wholesome and occasionally even downright useful, to avoid the deadly fault of being obviously moral. These stories are just about right, and the illustrations in black and white by Sophia T. Balcom are as pleasant and whimsical as the text.

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Prohibition and the Civil Service

I. A letter from the General Counsel and Legislative Superintendent of the Anti

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Saloon League of America

EELING sure that it is your desire to give the public the facts with reference to public questions, your attention is respectfully called to a number of inaccuracies in the article recently appearing in The Outlook entitled "The Reason Why," by Imogen B. Oakley. In this article, which dealt with the provision in the Volstead Act exempting Federal prohibition agents from Civil Service, Mrs. Oakley wrote:

As first passed by Congress, the act conformed to the National Civil Service Law in providing that all offices in the new bureau should be put in the classified service. President Wilson sent the act back to Congress with his veto. The drys had a substantial majority in both houses, but it soon became evident that the two-thirds majority required to override the veto could not be furnished by the dry vote alone. Mr. Volstead therefore, to conciliate his opponents, agreed to an amendment which exempted all enforcement agents from the usual Civil Service rules and turned them over as spoils to the victors.

This statement does not accord with the facts and suggests a legal impossibility.

When a bill is vetoed by the President, so far as that particular bill is concerned, but one of two things can happen. No amendments can be offered. The bill must either be passed by a two-thirds vote over the President's veto, or, failing to secure the necessary two-thirds vote, not become a law. In the case of the National Prohibition Act, Mr. Volstead, not only did not agree to any amendment after the bill had been vetoed by President Wilson, but under the Constitution could not have done so had he desired. In the same article it is also stated:

The Anti-Saloon League has offered from time to time to support a bill to repeal the exemption clause of the Volstead Act, but always with the proviso that all agents in actual service shall be "covered in"-that is, retain their offices without examination.

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This statement is also inaccurate. 1924 the Anti-Saloon League advocated the Cramton Bill which provided for the extension of Civil Service to prohibition agents. This bill did not "cover in" the personnel in the Prohibition Enforcement Unit, but would have applied the Civil Service Act to that Unit the same as to other departments. Even before this the AntiSaloon League had gone on record in favor of Civil Service for prohibition agents.

Two years later, in the Sixty-ninth Congress, when a bill providing for Civil Service for prohibition agents was pending, the Anti-Saloon League earnestly advocated its passage. This bill would have required all employees of the Prohibition Unit to take the Civil Service examination except those already having a Civil Service status. It should also be noted that this bill related solely to Civil Service for prohibition employees and contained no other controversial subjects relating to prohibition enforcement, as did the Cramton Bill in the Sixty-eighth Congress. Notwithstanding this, and although the bill passed the House on March 29, 1926, it was prevented from coming to a vote in the Senate by Senator Bruce and other wet Senators.

On each occasion the writer either appeared personally or filed a memorandum with the committees of Congress before whom the bill was pending and urgently requested a favorable consideration and

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early passage of the measure. In December, 1922, through the courtesy of the National Civil Service Reform League, the writer was permitted to address the Annual Meeting of the League to outline the position of the Anti-Saloon League upon the question of Civil Service for prohibition agents. At that time the writer said in part:

I regret any misunderstanding concerning the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League toward a bill to put Federal prohibition agents under Civil Service. We have never been opposed to it, but have been practical enough to accept the best possible when the perfect best was unattainable. It was impossible to secure Civil Service except for the clerical force in the original bill.-(Report of the Proceedings, Forty-second Annual Meeting, National Civil Service Reform League, page 36.)

If you will publish this letter for the sake of historical accuracy, it will be appreciated. W. B. WHEELER.

Before this letter of Mr. Wheeler's was received there came to us a similar letter from Samuel Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey. In order that both sides might be authoritatively stated to our readers, we sent Mr. Wilson's letter to William Dudley Foulke, who was a member of the United States Civil Service Commission from 1901 to 1903, and has been associated with the National Civil Service Reform League, of There which he has been the President. follows Mr. Foulke's reply:

II. A letter from the former President of the National Civil Service Reform League

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RS. OAKLEY was mistaken in saying that as first passed by Congress the Volstead Act conformed to the National Civil Service Law in providing that all offices in the new bureau should be put in the classified service. The clause excepting the field service of the Enforcement Unit from the law and making these places the spoils of political plunderers was already in the bill as drafted by Mr. Volstead in co-operation with the Anti-Saloon League. When Mr. Wilson says there was no amendment after the President's veto and "no compromising in the interest of the spoils system;" he does not tell you that this compromise (or rather surrender) had already been made, that these places had already been given up to Congressional patronage, and that the Anti-Saloon League made no whimper of protest or objection, but supported the clause, taking these places out of the classified service, just as they supported all the rest of the bill. Mr. Harry W. Marsh, Secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, on behalf of that League, protested in vain to Mr. Volstead and to Mr. Wheeler against this clause. It was not until years afterwards, not until the debauchery in the Enforcement Unit became widespread and general, that the Anti-Saloon League showed any willingness to repair the evil which their own dereliction had caused and to support any measure restoring these places to the classified service, and even then the bill they favored proposed to classify all the miscreants and criminals then in the service, without any new examinations or tests of character whatever, and also proposed to except those highest in the service, where much of the greatest corruption existed! Finally, when the situation became even more desperate, the AntiSaloon League supported the Cramton Bill, which proposed to classify the whole service, but their claim that "for years" they had insistently advocated that prohibition be placed under Civil Service rules has a very tardy and incomplete foundation. WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE.

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Phonograph Records

QUARTET NO. 6 IN D MINOR-DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (Schubert). Played by the London String Quartet. In eight parts, on four records. Columbia.

As the first complete string quartet to be recorded through a microphone and presented to the American public, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" Quartet deserves applause. But even if string quartets lined our phonograph catalogues by the dozen, this particular set of records would be an outstanding achievement.

To begin with, the quartet itself (composed in Vienna a hundred years ago) is one of the very best in chamber-music literature. It is filled with Schubert's rich, ceaseless flow of melody. And it has more than merely the lyric sweetness of so many of Schubert's songs. It has biting rhythm, stimulating musical thought, skillful weaving of instrumental parts. The London Quartet gives it a bold, energetic reading-not as suave a one as might be expected from that distinguished musical foursome, but with great polish and confidence.

Its reproduction comes nearer to reality than that of any other record cr set of records I have yet heard. Before going further I must qualify this statement by explaining that the limited range of tone and dynamics of a string quartet makes it the easiest type of music to record. But after playing the records on one of the improved designs of phonographs, one finds it hard to believe that one has not heard the exact tones of the original performance.

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS-Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine (Wagner). Played by symphony orchestra conducted by Albert Coates. Victor. THE VALKYRIE-Fire Music (Wagner). Played by symphony orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates. Victor. LOHENGRIN-The Bridal Chorus; Prelude Act III (Wagner). Played by symphony orchestra with chorus, conducted by Albert Coates. Victor.

Three Wagner selections, made in England by an unnamed orchestra under the direction of Albert Coates, bring us the best orchestral recordings yet produced. This is no small praise, when such admirable discs exist as Goldmark's "In Springtime," Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre," and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," thrillingly recorded by the Chicago, Philadelphia, and London Orchestras. But listen to the pianissimo horns, trumpets, and trombones at the close of "Siegfried's Journey"-and to the echoing horn calls earlier in the

piece. Listen to the answering violins and 'cellos in the first part of this recording. Never have these instruments seemed so real, so full of beauty of tone. In the "Fire Music" and the "Lohengrin Prelude" the declaiming brass thunder forth with thrilling volume without distorting in the slightest the clarity of the rest of the orchestration. I should give "Siegfried's Journey" first place, with the "Fire Music" running a close second. There is nothing stiff or reserved in Coates's conducting, and his orchestra shows the happy effects of discipline, which are not evident in some earlier

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SONATA IN F MINOR, Opus 5, for Pianoforte (Brahms). Played by Percy Grainger. eight parts, on four records. Columbia.

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