i&fiVBm "?& -r U EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1019 w ts k r 1 f 11 i6r- "N, in Si. ' I Ef L ' !. I if J THE CRITIC TALKS TO MUSIC LOVERS Weekly Comment on Things Musical in Discriminating Philadelphia I rplIH most Impoiliuit iiiiiiical ciciil of ; tlie week, anil fur Mint ninth1!' tin most fnr-roncliliiR mtisit-iil nt In .fears in l'liiliidclpliia. n tin- urtn jilction nf tin' I'liilowiiK'iit f ii lid of the l'lillnilrltililn Orrlir-tni. which whs nu nnunrril lit tin' dinner lit the Ititz Cnrllon nn Mondaj rvrnliii;. Its 1111 imrlmici' lies In tin- fiirt Hint tin- i-xist-ence of tlie Onlii'stra on its pi-eii'tit lilsli lilnnr. wltli nil its ioi'is for Rood, both artistic iind inntoriiil, is now ns Riiri'd. Willi tin' linrdi'ii of tiiinnrial dolii its porinnnrnlly ri'inovi'd. tin' future of tin1 Orclii'stin Is iniini'isinnl)l. In isliti'iird mill with it us n nintti'i ot nuir-i' ro 1 1 i entiro ninsicnl intrusts of tin- iit., for 1 1 1 1 , nil dcoi'iid to 11 ii'ituin cxti'iil upon t lie wll-Indus of tin- li-ailing milsirnl oi'Kiini.iitlon. Tlii'n'fori- (lie siilti'vs of tin- rnilnwiiii'iit fund i n innttiT of I'linxi'iitii'iitliiii not nnl.i to tin ofllcpi'M and iliiiTlors of tin- OicIiiMiii ilii'lf. hut to it. oiii' who is inter cMctl in I'lillaili'lphln's niu-ifiil iiffairs, dircctl or indiri'i'tl.v. To tlio-p wlio ntti'iid tin' nrrlii'stinl coni'Pits, tlir I'oiii'i'i'tiiin of tin- hinds tni'iins imii'li. for Micj will b" rnntlniip l lii'iii tlie viinif lii'ili ible to mini ixl of roiipprts at n iniee wliicli it would lini' Iipimi inipossililp to niiiiutain without tin' fund Kuril ticket old for the orclicstrn. as Mr. I'.ol, annoiuni'd lit one of tlie S.itnrdaj pveniiiK con icrts. pnjs onh ubont one half of what It costs the Oicliestia Association : tlie lest will now conic out of tlie endow ment fund wlieic lieietofo.e it inis been ninile up fioin iiidivldual ontrlbiitions. rpill iissuninci' of the ici uiaueii nf a- the Orchestra will be aood news to II I'hilndetplua. for it is a civic and finiineiil us uoll us nn ailistic nMt mid this fact is beginning to be appre ciated h.v the business men of the oil) . It was a particulail.v hapnv thought on the part of some one at the Monda.v oveninc dinner to maUe a pint of the fund there raised, a memorial to Alex ander llll l!eilss(.1P .S J ; Raid in uiinoiinciiiR this memorinl. .Mr. Van Keusselnoi has for jears ulen his time. Ills thought and lis .substitute to the Orchestra and main times bis ncr- sevcruiiic anil ron-nge have tided the i orpn tiizo t ion over daup'ioiis shoals. In i II wav ho needs 110 s.,il mcmoiiul. for the Orchestra itself and its con- tinned existence until the dav when1 the endow men! fund guaranteed its! permanenc) is bis leal niemorial. bot it I must have boon a soitrte of grntilieii tion to him that his long and unM'llish jerviees for Philadelphia music was thus formally and ileservpillj lecognued. Ami net fn Mr. Van Kensselaer the credit for the hapn.v position in which the Philadelphia Orchestra finds itself todnv most go to Mr. I!ok. who gnvi Kenerouslj of lijs time and menus as chairman of tlie endowment fund com jnittep. and to his onoigotic associates nn that committor. An'Kll inan.v orplie.sti-nl couieits tluis far this season, the opening conceit of thp Chamber Music Association nt the Jiellovuo-Strntford last Sunday after noon came as a delightful contrast The orchestra is the music of grandeur, but the string iinart'et is the no plus ultra of refinement in music. Cjeloponn food is gooil and nicessnry to our existence, nut one does not want it exclusivel.v cither in musical or phjsicul diet. The I.itz Qunitet, which gave the first concert, is an excellent organisa tion, but Mr I.elz bus denarted from thp Kneisel school of quintet work, not creased 111 sie ciiiisnleiabl) unci 111 lech only in style of playing, bur also in Hie niuiie iinnieasiirablv . What Mozart .manner of seating the quartet, as he' would have done with n modem on-Iies-hag adopted the plan of sitting made trn at his lomiuaiiil 1 an si nicely be ion -Tiopulnr by rhe Klonaley Quartet. Mr. jeetmed. Kneisel tried out this way of sitting1 Tll(. siting iiuartot. howovei . bus siis some, years ago but went back to the t j , M1.,, .iiango. as the instru class.c way. as dnl navlil and .loachim ,s nimlr,e it ,.,, the same tod.i) many years befprp linn Mr. Let, how- 'p pvn ,)(lfon. ji,,,.,,,. The ever. 11 me writer s inemoi) selves mm , correctly, was not a nieinber of Hi Kneisel Quaitet at the time of this experiment Tlie I.etz Quartet i stiongl.v to be commended for the piognun which it presented. The Moart uunrlet iu 1' ' is one of the si. dedicated to the then king nf Prussia and is one of the great quartet compositions of all time. The' ruler, it appeals, wus a great admirer of the epllo and somethin.1; of a player himself (as kings go. so it is to be pio Kttmpcl). and the quartet in V lias the weakness, if it can be called sueh. of all six of the composition's, in liming an unduly piominent cello part. Nev ertheless, it is a wonderful composilion and one too iniely heard rpilK second woik which Mr l.otz and - his associates presented was the quartet in I' minor of 1'eothoveti. the second of the three dedicated to Count ISasoumnffsky, These three qunrtets aie equal in musical content, woikinnnship and fii flint m.ittot nrnri- ,-itlmt mil. ideal quality to anv of the Iteetlioven 1 symphonies The one chosen by the I.etz Quartet is probably the most difficult of the three in its ensemble, though all arc of cuormnus technical difficulty Some Important The neries of concert by the Philadelphia Orchfstra at the Atudem "ill lp inter rupted nest week by the tlrst toui of t li organization Appearances will te made In Baltimore Washinsrton. Pittsburgh Th trnit and rolurnliun Mme Ma -pa ret lint rnauer will b th soloist in atl tj rltles except folumhus where Mme OIsh Samaroff has been engaged Th V.tiiran Clioira will alve a faie- well concert at the Metropolitan Opera ITousa f n this city on Wednesday e eniUK November 2)1 The return engagement will present the (holrs in an entirely different program of tnjlc. including the famous Miserere of Allegrt The next concei t to be aien hv th New York SjmDhon Orchestra under Walter Pamrosch a direction at the Am demy of Music on December IS will nroe of ennedal interest because the first prothiction In Phila delphia of Vincent d'lndy'p ne.v War Svni phony will take place rrlu Krelsler will play tlie. Hcethoven t'oncrto The foui soloists from the Sistlnn Chapel Thotr will make their first apnea ranc In Philadelphia Tuesday evening, December '-, t tlie Academy of Muilr The members are Alexander (iabr.'lll, noprano I.ulal Ontltll, contralto, Izlo Cacchlnl tenor, and Dos Santon basso Th programs ofrereil are not wholly religious A variety of duets, trios and quartets as well as solo numbers Will display their ersatillt Owing to the illness of Walter Pontius, who- was to appear with the I'niverslty Kx tension Symphony Orchestra at its concert Ht the Academy of Musli pext Thurnday eve ning the tenor solo numbers v ill be sung by Nicholas Doutv, who with Marie Hun delius, soprano of the Metropolitan Opra Company, will take sn active part In the community singing, which la to he a promi nent feature of the program Nina Tara so va the Hussian singer who has scored such a auccee in New York, will apiiear at the Metroiolltan Opera House next Wednesday evening In a characteristic program of Husslan folk soncs Hhe will Ing three groupn. the first. "My rountn. ' "Sadness, Ie Silent." "1 Am Planting Gai dsna and Iet Me Ioe." Tha second is "Song of the Volga. ' "Ity Child." Vasl llok" and "Lullaby." and the third. "Jle brsw Jlelody," "At the Well," "Yon Ask M fop Songs" and "Mother-ln-Ijaw." Hh will be assisted by Max Uegna, the cellist The Mat.nee Muilcal Club will give a pro gram by club members at the Jfeilevue next Tuesday afternoon at -':3o o'clock Thost who will participate are Maude Hanson Pet tit. Klurem Haenle Mubcl lun-ar Kerrix. Mgbelln Cochran Addison. Kdna Jloppe Jlosciithal, Dorothy Johnstn IJaseler. harp. Iter t rand Austin cello. Mrs, Edward P, lnch. organ Thp club chorus, under the leadership of Helen Pulaski Innes, will also rin, The first fifjtf rcrlUU by Dp'd riisph&m fn anrtouut'od to be gtvep nt the Musical Art ('tub cnfloiurpjjj- November i'O, nt 3 p. m, The point, limrcr. is Mint the l.elz (,'iiiiilet hud the cood sense to select oiks ot nilmltteil musical vnlne to pef foriu at ii i uncoil when its l'hiliulel phln tepiitatioii wai In be mane, for It wns tin', Ili-Ht time that thp quintet had ever pin j od here, n far as this rocs. theic has been a tendency on the pint of the lcfiillnj: chamber music orsaiil.i tinns In the dlieclion of a return to the I'lnssli-s. and It has bcioine more 110 ticeab'e in tlie lust (luee or four jeai. It was not o loiij,' ami Hint all oicanl millions of Ibis Mud wen. mi a contatil se.licb for "new" material. Its merit didn't vecin to be mi much considered as did the fact that it bud not been puu lich pel formed before. It inn) be that the wat. nun the con--eiiieiit illflicultv of get tin:; bold of now music, has bud .iitiicthhiir to do with this ihaiiRe of heart but whntever the rniM. the pntiotn of c'laiiib."' unicerls linw reason to be grit-fill Mol of the model n chnnitier music does not ran pair for a inoinenl in meiil oil her with clnswle chamber i"in'o or wlr'i modern oieht'Mrnl riiniiinsllioiis, IV baps tlie "inlchl) Ihnin'bls" of the iniidein com posers c.innot be nieiii:iti' oxnressed with fewer lliaii 1011 men. Inil Whatever 'lie loiisoii, the pi act lie of ri litis cham ber music seems to have gone biri;clj out of fashion. r; IS true that 111:111) of the modern nninnsc's have ' til ten a 011.1t tot or two in their earlv dins and hence most of tlieni woie immntuie works, but when once the virus of oiihcstiul coiiuiositiou got into their blood there was 110 mole 'lininlier inusie. Tim" Di'lm-s has niib'lsbed only uue piece of cbaniber mime, a strlii!: iinnlct. 00 1(1: Sun Inne none at all. Saint-Saens onh about half a doen clrunber wioU. in spite of his great number nt published uorKs; t'esiir I'leiick nbruil as unin ; I'liul a pontile of ipinitols, uiul so the list o's. When those mntiiinscrs begun Hiiting for the nichestra thev stoppul 1 blunder 1 ompnsitiou. Vow pomiiare this 1 id for a mo ment with Itoethovon. who began his iiireer with thro" piano trios, and aflei v. li'ing nine of the finest s.unphonios the win Id bus ever known leturnod to 1 liambcr 1 nm'iosition. Of the twelve works published after the ninth svin i.lionv. si (ire sti nig 1 1 mi t tots, nnothei' a htung ipiiu'i't anil another a pin 110 ar r,'W'!:em.'nl . ' 11 ipinitot inovemout. t onl) liei ailso most of the model 11 works in chamber foi 111 nie of exceed iuglv ilubiniis musical value, but also because there is lelativelv little fioin wliicli to ilioose, the iuccsnnl pursuit of soinethinir "new" seems sonrcolv wurinnteil. 'I'liere is an ineiedibl.v ileli lii'ltl of liambcr music 111 the classics, umch ot which is almost unknown to concert iiudieiii os because we hear so few com cits of this nature, The Mo.utt iiuaitet. wiiiih the l.etz Oiuirtct pbncil Inst Suiulnv. was a iov- elation to niniiv to wb t was not known There i 'illle doubt that Hie suing ipiartcts of Mo.ait nie mole sig nificant to the modern loniortgoer than his sjmphiinios. This is due. peibnps, not so much to the musical thoughts loiilniued in the works .is to the fait H1.1t the orcbestin bus oiidernone vast ' plijslral changes since Moait's da.v, wbi'e the quartet lias in this lespecl le maiued unchaiigod. Tlieiefiue, an 01 cliestral coiiiiiositiou iiinnot sound to a UHilern aiidienie as it soundeil to one in the last half of the eigliteinlb 1 cu ll, i). MANY of the a the orchestra actual instruments of have undergone nn- poitnut changes since Mo.ait's da) Among lliiye ale the riencli I111111. now one of the finest solo voices of the 01 - I ilicslra. while in the time of Jlo.art it could onl.v pla.v a certain set ies of notes mil those mil) in shaiplv limileil Ue.vs Alan) other iiistruuients giving in creased souoiil) of the oicliestinl tone avo been uiiiieii, anil ine oicuesiia 111- . ., .. ..., ,. i. :..., ...:,,, ft. 1 1111 1 . in' iiiMit m .. ..s p --.... sumo I'ttect now as iney were men. ror tin-- reason his quintets are more signifi iiint to us today than the s.wiiphonios. They lack something of the intensity of licithoven and some of bis great sue ccssni'h, but iu workmanship, skill uiul iii pure musical beauty they ale second to none that have over been composed A't'.vf Week's Musical Events Tuesday, Nov. IS Matinee Musical Club. 'llelleviie-Stratfoid. 'J "() p. 111. Wetliiesdtiv. Nov. Ill Nina Tara win, Itiissiuu folk song 1 ital. Metropolitan Opera House. S.l," p 111. Thursday, uv. "II Oigau recital. Charles M Cnuiboiu. AViinainaker store. 8:1." p. 111. I'liiversity Kxteiisioii Oiches- tiu. Academy of Music. .S:l."i p. 111. Soloists, Muile Sunilelius and Nicholas Douty . Musical Events give a letitfltion to music by Arensky en titled ""lo Davs Gone Us Some of the advmut d nuplla of hlan'ev Muichdmp and T. ion Westernhagen w HI i gie a studio ret Ital at "203 Spruce street next Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o tock mong ihoit taldntf pji t ire Mint1 s Don tViir 1-ithif HI iili a 'I Dllnu rirnra 1 Degener. Umil ' Mlne, AdMlna Pattl Noar, Prances W Walking nd t l n Homanelll i horua ot the ocal pupils also will slug. Thu free Hundav afteinnon conctit it th Acadeinv uT th Fine Arts will b re sumed on No' ember 23 at 3 o'clock The i Halm String Quartet will nlav ii quartet of liaytin and h trio or y.ecuwer rsteiie Hughes, soprano who receded the tokuw I sUl medal will sing ' The first regular monthly pupils' iei ital of tli Settlement Murlo iSchool will be gien Sunday afternoon. November id, at 3 30 o lock The nub He 1 invited. Toscha &eidl will make his onh apnea r- Mi4i:t in mo i"-nsuii m iiiu Ainunuv u( .uimic on Wednesday evening. December 3 'I he concert ii under the auspice of th Penn sylvania League of Women Workers' I'lubs At the half hour of music which will open the regular etenlnir service tomorrow eve ning at Bt. P-iitTi Church, Overbrook. Anton Horner, solo French horn of the Philadel phia Orchestra and John Fischer flutist, will assist Thev will plav an aria bv Halevv for flute and horn and the famous "Serenade of Titl for th s?me instru ments For the offertorium Mr Horner will pla a solo by llelsslger John MfCormaik famous tenor will ulve i a rental at tne .Metropolitan, Operj Houne I on the evening of December 'J Jle will fhava with him as asnlitant artist a young I violinist Winston Wilkinson Oia e Small wood l.onaid assisted- by David Hatln-kv, iollnist. will give a piano recital on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the auditorium of the Combs Conservatory. OPERA SOON TO BEGIN "Aida" Will Be Given at the First Performance of the Season The Metropolitan Opera Company will open Its season on Tuesday eveuinfr. November 'Jo, with 'erdi'H "Aida." The cast Is ns follows: Emma Dmtlnova , Aida flabrlrlla Iltannianl (new) Amn.rli Adtlln Voiarl Inew) , rlrit.s niovannt Martlnelll Hadam.a niovannLiJlirllno (nr). ,,.,,.. IMmnj I'anlik XR&nlaa .'. ..Aflnr ntro XiSMu ,,. 4 .. A mtniipiet li HiinrnrnwHOH WAR REACTIONS STILL JOHN DRWKWATER IS A REAL POET I I is I'erse Reveals n Content- plative Mind Expressing Itself in Rhythm It Is nlwn.vs full'e and fooliib to at tempt to trace the gonenlog.v of one pool buck' to iinotber of tlie same race and coiintr.v : it leaves the tusk half done. .lohn Drinkvvater Inn boon likened to Wonlsvvoith ami doiililless nine one has said that if there hud been no Words worth theic would have been no ltiink vvaler. 'I'be Irulli of the matter is that if tlii'i had been 110 Kuglanil. no Anglo-Suxoii tradition, no t'hri-tinn philosophy theic vuuihl have boon neither 11 Driukvviiter mil a Words win Hi. Much mini is a natural and legitliuptc 111 mini I of I'.nglntid I'.ieh is 1 onlciiuilnlive, with n fondues for the hums, forests, downs, stieauis, men tlovvs, tiecs noil Illinois of his native land. It is home ami he sings of it with affection and 1 union! Tlie men and women of similar mood in (ileal I'.rilaiti 1111M timl the new volume of poems bj III inkvvnler ory piocious. Tliose of us outside of England will like the poems, not because of (hell reflection of tlie peaceful llrltlsh InniNinpe, but because Ihov nit in musical form the thoughts which lime passed thiougli our own minds, thoughts about the illimitable lienveiis. Hid tiansitorlni'ss of life, the constant succession of generation after generation of men and women moved by love anil hate, each living its life as host it nun anil passing on to make loom fur olheis. And each oY us, too. has fell that immutability which pcisists thiougli all the seeming change, the ininuilabilitv which is beautifully imlicnloil in the tin 00 stanzas of "Sym bols." in the volume ill question. They 11111 this wa) : I saw btstoiv In a poets song. In a river leacli, anil n gullous-'nlll, Iu a bridal bed, unit a secret wrong. In 11 crown of thorns: In a daffodil I lnuff ncil measureless time In a dav, And starry space In a waRoii-roau, And the treating of all nooil harvests In the singl" seed tins sower sowed. M H.irilcu-w1!!!! had driven and baened again All ships that eer bad gone to sea: And I snvv the glor.v of all dead men In the shallow that went lijj the side of me This poem has all the loininonl rhvines wliicli .vm i.oweu mi; un new M'l-se writers eeit themselves to avoid, but Diinkvvater was trying to put over a thought instead of a now form of oiso in winds that had not hitheito bein used. He succeeded in wiiting something that iu a Milume of Hie oiilinurv free verse would be as welcome as nn oasis in 11 deseit of bar lonnoss. POKMH H I0I111 lulnkwater Hnsloili lIuUKhton Mllflihi i'n ''-' A LEISURELY NOVEL 'Deadhani Hard" Very Char acteristic of Lucas Male! i,...,. vi.,i IMt. Si l.eer lint1-! iImiii and the dnii'-htei- of riinrle Kiiigsievi lin" wiitten n .omewli.it lei-iirelv imi-eil anil even, oivisiimnlly iln't noe' in "Oendhnm Ilnnl." Mi'M Iln-rinn iinnllv tnke- vonie whnl nun bid themes for fietiomil de- veVipment. nnd "Deadlmni Man i", no en.eption. However, tin' ninrhnlit here i pevi'liolocidil nnil Mieinl and not.. n other of her wmUs. pliM-it al. for ex ninnte "Sir Uiehinl Cnlinnilv. in wliieh the protagonist was n ninn born with no legs below the l.nee. Un iiwakeuInB to life and bne. despite this Immlienp. wnx liairated in rircmnstaii-1 t in I detail. . t , The same detail anil I'licinnstnnee .ne ntiiieil In reconl the arising and fruition of love in the reiiti-al fiBUi'e of the new Malet novel, whose bnndieap hi the iiiino ing presenee of nn illeKitimati brother, the scion nf n below stairs U.iNon of ber brilliant and somewhat I s.orehed father with tlie mistress of a "nub." The Kirl IS n I'liiuiiiuiu. n... sible. wholesome speeimen of J.iisn-H , Miiiiiii womanhood, whose life is. lio i.ver. overshadowed bv the past of her ioiipIsIi paient anil the distmbin? pies enee of her ill-spnwned brother I lie vouiiK man differs eonsulernbh froni hp i not n villain, n plotter for the- fiimilv fortune nor a uiwumvu ui-h. , i.' r :i ..ot,,.. On the I'nntrniv.. Id lilt' lulling ""-.,',, , ' he is a POrsonable. likable cha,.. tmp rums Korjm "i ; ;.;j , , il... nU.,ninn til l'll1f!l 11 tn lini! menis 10 nie mil """ -v " , A " " l"i i placed her form tne uoi j m u.r ....... . She is exceedingly wen "'" nnd the other iigures nn- made verv leal individuals through the authors lit erary tdiill. UrADHASI HAUD , By T.ucan Mjlel Now York DodrtJleadro. The Mihd of a Soldier If anv one is curious about what the American xoldicr in France was like he cannot do better than read Hem v Svil nor Harrison's "When I Come Hack. It is the story of the experiences of n typical American who wiluntecred when the war begun and did his duty modest ly, uncomplainingly and efficiently. The man was a lawyer, not very robust physically, but with n sense of duty. The drill in camp in America gave him the strength which he long bail desired, so that .when he got across be was ready to hold his own with the best. lie wrote home frequently, but Ins let teis nre notable for what they do not say. One lias to read between the lines to discover the beioism which they conceal, a heroism shaied by nnd mani fested by all the men who fought. One of the compensations of the war lies in the fact that it has disclosed the exist ence of men like this. WHEN I COMB IlAl'IC ny Henry ' Sydnor Harrison lloaton Houghton Mifflin Co II. . . I America Revealed l'rof. lMwnrd Hllswoith Itoss. of the Universitv of Wisconsin, bus written n book in an attempt to answer the question. "What is America" He i confident that between the fewindiffer ent to the suffering and injustice and the few who bold certain individuals responsible for this suffering and would wreck society in order to punish them there nre steady-going millions who, without losing their tempers, ore seek ing remedies. They exhibit, be says, that "firm adherence to justice, modera tion, temperance, frugnlity nnd virtue, without which, according to the Vir ginia bill of lights of 1770, no free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people." The book is divided into ten chapters, in which are discussed the make-up of the people, marriage nnd the family, gov ernment, education, rural nnil urban America, business, labor and similar topics. The book is illustrated with twenty-two wans nnil diagrams which show graphically the progress that is making toward better things. The pes simist nnil the discouraged should read it if they want to have their faitb. in America strengthened. WHAT IS AUKK1CAT Br Xdirard Aljworlh s iJMf.XorklCtn Ceati7C SUtt ffr s "' 'Wb 1 WlbUAM MIMJCAN SI.OANK Author of a niilnble liouli on the problems nf mndrrii ilynocracy POWERS AND AIMS OF WESTERN DEMOCRACY Professor Sloanp's Exhaustive Study of a Vital Contem porary Question Is iiimli' in demon .icy a success or a failure? This is- the question which Professor William Milligan Sloane, Seth T.ow professor of history in Columbia lTnlcrsity. has attempted to answer in "The l'liucis and Aims of Western Democrat." In the attempt ho has written one of Hie most exhaustive, oninstnkiiig ami illuminating studies in democrnev that has been produced in nny country in leceut years. His vision Hinges our the whole sweep of human history, am' from what men have done he forms his nnswcis to the questions: What is a dciiiociiic V AVhnt is a na tion? and What are the chances of nn enduring pence under the democratic system? The last question indicates the point nf lc of the whole discus sion. The author regards the world. as in it transition stage. The war lias ended one cm and we nie nt the dawn of another. Therefore it is suitable to take nccount of stock. lie begins with an nttempt to find out what democrat' is and snvs thnt neither etvinnjogy nor history helps bim. The word is (ireek anil was understood by the ("Jrecks as meaning the opposite of "iiolitica," or polic. wliicli described government '' tlie majority for the benefit of all. whereas, "democrntia." ,. ,(.li.inri.rn..v" mnntll tilt ntmt'CS.sion of the inlnoiiU bv the liinioritv. He assumes thnt in its modern use the wortl means government bv the whole people for the benefit of all : but be confesses thnt "no sane man believes Hint we have secured even n near appioatli to it." He continues': "Indeed, it seems to many thoughtful men as if the so-called dem ocracy of today weie an oligarchy, the oppression of tlie ninny by the few 'politoerats' ns thev have been called, tlie professional advisers of the ignorant voteis." The book is diidetl into llnee parts, one devoted to a study of the tleielop nient of dcmoeincy in thought nnd ac tion. second to a stiulv of the evolu tion of the modern nation and a third lo a discussion of tlie stiugglc for pent e The latter is devoted io a consideration of the issues thnt produced the war anil to those which the war has not settled. The two preceding sec tions nf the book lay the foundation for the thin!. It is worth noting thnt this man with a wide knowledge of his ton and philosophy and economics i not pessimistic and thnt he believes that the unrest that pievails nt present is no deeper than that which chaiacter ized other important transition periods, run ptnounn Avn aims op vr.sTr:it- m:.M()C'RAt-'y By Wltllim llll.aan sinKiif I.. 11. I . 1.I..D N'ew Vorlt 'linrles Scrlbner'H Hunt 13 .".n Holland of Today The well-known book on Holland. ; published by fleorge Wharton Kiln arils. ten years ago, pas been issued for the holiday season in a revised and enlarged edition with many illustrations not in the originnl edition. Mr. Kdwnrtis has written a new introduction in which lie sets forth many interesting facts about the relations of the Netherlands to the war. Among other things, he says thnt there is n powerful society known ns the Jolmnlters to which most of the nobility and many reigning sov ereigns belong. It dates from the Cru sades. The order enforces the ow of implicit obedience on its members and each member takes an oath to re spect the vow. The order is especiall interested in the enforcement of the right of snnctunry for each member. Count von Tlcntlnck, who is a member, was, according to an Amsterdam news paper, "commanded by high authority to prepare for the reception, entertain ment und shelter of William Holien zollern at bis castle of Amerongen near I'trecht, a commnnd which could not be evaded," Mr. Edwards has intituled among the new illustrations a colored pastel draw ing of Amerongen castle, which shows It to be a larger nnd more dignified structure than that which has appeared in tlie few photographs of it that have nppeared since the former kaiser be came an inmate of it. r.OI,I,AND or TODAY. Dy fleoreo Wharton Kdwardn Philadelphia . The Penn Pub l!."hlnr Co. 10. Church Unity The Itov. Dr. Newman 'Smyth and Prof 'Villi8ton Walker have nre- I in red n upeful volume on "Approaehes ! Toward Church Unity," which will be I of grent Interest to many persona in these days when a eonre'rted effort is inaUInr; to brine the Protestant churches Inln nlnuip liapinnnv Till firl rlianfa ...... . i..v. ..M.a...'..,' . ... ...... .i.lcl is a discussion by Professor Walker of the earlv develonment of church offi cers. This is followed bv a chapter on the vital principles of church develop ment by Doctor Smyth. There is a chapter on the historical method of ap proach to the problem nnd another on the place of the creed in the life of Ihe church, followed by a statement by Itihhop Ilrent on unity. The volume concludes with a summary of historical material of current vnlue, including n summary of tho proceedings of the con ference between Roman Catholics and Protestants in the seventeenth century. an account of the Protestant conference i j nt Thorn in 10-15, tho proposals of Mo Innus and the correspondence between'" Molnnus, Leibnitz nnd Bossuet from 1002 to 1701, Some historical precedents anil opinions concerning ordination by bishops nnd sacraments and orders are cited. The appendix contains some of the comparatively recent propositions for church union. APrilOACHKS TOWARD CHURCH tljtlTT. hj ewma.BO)vuBAtvviuiioa walker, . XsKjuaaLX ojia niiiBraur.i'rAfta ii." I'jHKJu.is, AFFECT THE AUTHORS WAR SPIRITUALISM IN HICHENS'S NOVEL "1r.s. Mardcn," a Study of the. Psychic Wave Which Sivepl Britain Mrs, .Martini was the most superficial of women. She was clever, yet her mind was a shallows. She had n soul, of course, but it was not an insistent soul. Tt never questioned her. And ns to her heart, well It bad room for only one love, her love for her son. To Mrs. Mnrden this son was everything. Ml the frivolity of Sirs. Marten's life. so crowded with woridlincss, she shnrcd with this boy. There came the war. The boy went away. And then, "one day, returning from a function where she had hob nobbed gnyly with a princess of the blood, Mrs. Mnrden was met with the news thnt her son had died on the field of battle. She received the news curiously. "She was not bowed down with mis ery. She wondered nt herself. Would the acute anguish ever come to her? Would the tears never gather In her eyes, the sobs never rise in ber throat?" What sort of woman was this, what manner of mother could she have been, this Indy of Mayfalr, whoe life is sketched briefly by Hubert Hlchcns in the most icccnt of his novels, "Mrs. Mnrden"? The basis of this work by the versa tile Mr. Hicheiis is the wave of psychic manifestations which broke with n suck ing rush over London when the war was at its worst, when mothers and fathers and sisters nnd sweethearts, their hearts wracked by the deaths of men in the service, sought through me diums to reach those they loved. I'oignnnt griuf overtook Mrs. Mnr den. It came slowly, perhaps, but when it enme it was bitter. She had no fnitb in the chinch. She had sought tonsobition there in vain. And ns for spiritualism, she scoffed nt it, Ilitlic ulons! Nevertheless, she went to a me dium. She came away astounded, but unconvinced. Again she went, and ngnin and ngnin. And finally she be lieved. Her son had sunken tt) her : it was bis voice. AVhy, she had even seen him. Hut Sirs. Mnrden attained lier first positive conviction, her first actual be lief in anything not solid and tangible and of this world, onl.v to see it swept away as a delusion nnd a thing of vain imaginings. The substance she had built up swned and crashed. There followed utter blackness and tle'olntinn. which, though Mrs. Mnrden did not know it, were so developing her spiritually that when a tragedy of the body shadowed down upon her, she had found at last a firm nnd sound belief and the way to thnt beloved son. MRS MU1SDII.V l!v P.obert lllcliens Nw Doron Co. I1.7B, yoik llforare II Richard Harding Davis on Thin Paper A flexible leather thin paper library edition of tlie Novels and Stories by Hichnrd Harding Davis has been pub lished by Charles Scribner's Sons. The six volumes nre linndsomely printed in a large clear type and nre bound in a rich deep blue leather with a gold mon ogram stamped on the sides. The Vol umes in the series nre "Soldiers of Fortune." "Onlleghcr and Other Sto ries." "Captain Mncklin." "Rani-on's Folly." "Tift- White Mice" nnd "Tlie Red Cross Oirl." 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