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Y. turner) - J.ttni s 1620 FOR CHESTNUT IBOOKS REET UY A BOOK A WEEK" : 1 p Iff ElBKasS ft? vasaa KXaaA5JLI ifsLnj; sP r1 mmiWh I yt i . i il 7 j fKtvV -ww AAMA I W "IA.I.UD9 rw I The Untrammeled Delight of a Mind That Is Wholly Free TIIH caie of Geerge Santajana la the best of us must admit in the deep Interesting from many points of silences of our hearts thcre is a gro gre view, lie Is n Spaniard, born of Span- teqiicness about what we really arc ish parents, In Madrid, In 1S03. He I Mu graduated from Harvard l nlver- I sity in l.svil at the age of twenty-three je.ir After .1 peiied of tud.v in licr- I lin he beame a teacher of philosophy in Harvard, in lMI, and remained there i until 1!)11, when he retired. He has Mnee spent his time In England and 1'rance. New, thin Spaniard has acquired a farility in the writing of English which i unrivaled by that of any native Eng lishman or American. He thinks in English His vocabulary is English. His sentenres are idiomatic without the slightest foreign trme And the sub jects nbiiut which he writes are sub jects in whli'l' t he l'tighsh--'pejking race i iiite'i'l interetvcl When I think of these things the im portance of riirml distinctions, sinks into in'igmP.cnncc. Santayanu Is a h'. man being, n member of the human f.imil te which I ii!e belong. He i an inhabitant of that intellectual world in which there is neither race nor , reed but in which all men are brother". H. is net the only example of this knd Carl Schura. born and educated 1.1 r.ermany. became as geed an Amer- , 1 in as the best ,.f us He wrote better , Em; ish than hundreds of professieu.il , wri.i'rs te whom the language is their 1 n itiM tungu" tie was also a citizen ft that intellectual eosmepolls which j knew s neither Greek nor Jew, Scythian I barbaruu. ir?ien this intellectual Xinthip of iliftmnt ram descends te the affairs nr iiiartical life, lacial hatred uhtch h r,d nar. will become !ci acute and d 11 11 i of utturna ;irarc 11 ill I' 01 te uttjuie the horizon vith , ' militating beams e' a new light n',t iet seen en ra or land. 1 tl the appearance of a nw book by M- Snntnnna. It Is called "Solilo "Selilo "Solile 1 11 "? in England" iC'harles Scribner's Sin-1 The bonk is n enllcrtlnn of es--i'- ur'fn between the years 1D14 1 I V'21 There nre flftv-five of them 'i .1 wide anety of subjects. Rut tV nre all written with an honesty 1 nd i sineprit whbh command re tpect Mr. Santavann insists from fir" te last en the Importance of in- tellertual honesty, en the necessity of fin lng wl.m .ipprnr te be the facts, and ' i 1 opting tentatively tLe conclusions winch fallible human reason draws from t! ose facts 1 A ";eng fb" earlier essays U eiip en PieUpis which interprets th'if nevelit 1" a row light, the light, really, of Mr. , pTiMvana's own philosophy. He sav hit it is remarkable hew insensible I'lrkens vns te the greater themes of tlii human imagination religion, sol sel sol enco, pelit.es, art And h" centinues: ' II' was n waif bimse'f and utterlv flisinlierited. I'er exnmple. the terrible hn lt.ige of contentious religions which fills the world seems net te cxint for 1 him. In this matter he was like n sensitive child, with a most religious disposition, but no religious ideHS. I'crlnps, properly speaking, he had no Hots en any subject; what he had was a ast sympathetic participation in the 1 dnilv life of mnnkind." 1 Mr. Snntayana tells us that Dickens Md th" counige te describe what he nv Perhaps leurnge is net the light w.inl. as it was net se much braer that led him te de it as an unconscious it-'inrt whlih ret call d te him the truth 1 nd impelled him te write it down. We nie told that his characters arc net car eat'ires rf men and women as thev Inve frerjuently been called, but the real men and women as they are when the are thmclves. He was tender fiergh, savs Mr Santayann. but he 'V n.l txx U.AjactikU n rtrtmtrt ennltia t h n t 1 u'l "" nn" -"him u I'jititi ,,'-. ,..i It r.,1rwl l.tm liitTvtn,! rlie er,ntl linmrtr win. h most Englishmen pos.sess te the lbs. 'nt.- grotese,ie realitv " 'I li. re U n penetrating quality of renwnt in that phrase "grotesque re- nl.tv which cannot be escaped. A gt.'.ter thnn Dickens reminded us thnt n'en and women nre merely piejers. a- 1 we all knew that it is true. And High fOnAKi:Sl'nARE'fl UAMLRT." by 0, flunon-llreck IK. P. Duttan . c. i i- k.,T, nnihsis nt the nlav I ., ., I a Uu u an. I sis et JMM . "" ' sVrS-H Hamlet's My,. J "ry ing cnugiu in tne tens f fn. inpii-u- . ""'s" -"-"- . ' wU ,. nnu ni Mr ' mil""- lirech s thesis Is cirnestb promulgated and d fended with enthusiasm and lore, Skill and grace marK a werK inni, i disMnet contribution te bhokespenrean sr'clurship, and what is mera te be il- aerated, a novel exposition ei nn ordinal view in u Held vvnere te uiutii is ImcUnejed. m rn,i,,l 'The Third THE re-publlcatien of . ,, T-V-.I.J TnnJ Dedd, Mead & Ce ) will - I irein nmu.1, ........ vv - "" gi e the admirers of tne later worn ei it rtrir nr I'rnnU Norris en op- r- l u .:.' pertuiiity te study bis rranx j.ur... fit mnnn It is nn.'nni'nna , --l . . 1 " - Volume ui (iiieri riuu-, whl.h were tirst cel- looted m 1000 from the periodicals ln u ,,,, 1, they appeared. It has len5 been Thev have been called by Will Irwin, who write tbe introduction, "artist'H " . .... n.,ni n tmu nm nc niinir ! ,i T si ni., ,hnt Ilemlet W an in- ' author. It is patent Mi;1-"?.!" "" T. ''.. " . .v,t,..,ii. nn,i incnii. takes her Heroine nncl ner viowpeii c- hkptcjup." preliminary te a greater jf hiiii mum uuu "- ---work. That herdlj di cs justice te them. 1 before Samuel Smiles died some be- Thov nre oemn e e in l lemseivcn, i-ui'ii viith n motive unci each a study of some " " j .. ..,. curlui s and inleix sting phase et life lighted by an imagination which gees beneath the seeming of ihingH. TF 1 g KLLDX CARSTAIRS had been piven a few heartv maternal spnnk- lilts T.hen she vns ln pinafores liar court. Ilrncs & Ce. prebablv never would have had te publish "The Camomile" for Catherine Carsvvell. Fer Ellen, the hereinn of A Herein Who Need Spanking "The Cumomlle," Is plainly one of these prleglsh, self-opinionated young women with n career standing ahead of them, who can de se much te iniike themsclveH and every one else unhappy and glory in be doing, musical career. The letters give the The title, It may tp explained, E:'&a EVBOTNCPTUBEIO OFFERINGS OF that we strive te conceal. "Grotesque ! rciut.v it i a great pnrnsc. net ter indeed, than "plastic grandlle nuenee, which lie applies te the nr-, ihitecture of later Heme. ' Hut it ! the willlngneis of Dickens' that men and women should live their own Jives in their own wnj which im presses suutujann This is became he insists en the inalienable right of men te de this as iccll as en thcxr meial duty net te neglect tt. HE SETS forth his creed in an essay en "My Eriendly Critics," in which he writes with tolerance of thorn 1 and of their misconceptions of him. He says: "I can nlvves Fays te mself that my atheism, like that of Spineza, is true piety toward the universe and denies only gods fashioned h men in their own image, te be servants of their human interests; and that own in this denial 1 am no rude ieoneclast. but 1 full of secret sympathy with the im 1 pulses of the idolaters. M detachment ! from thinffs nnd nepsnns is also ntTec- tinnate. and simply what the ancients cMeA philosephy: I consent that a flowing river should flew I renounce 1 at wnich bPtrny,, nm clinK te that wi,,ch ntisties, and I relish the irony 0 truti, " Again in another plnce: "Argument Is net persuasive te madmen : but they can be wen ever bv gentler ceures te a gradual docility te the truth. ("Do cility V the truth" Is net that fine?) One of these gentler courses is this: te remember that madness is humnn, that dreams have their springs in the depths of human nature and of humnn experi ence , and that the illusion they cause may be kindh nnd even gloriously dis pelled b showing what the solid truth was which they oppressed allegerlcally. Vh shniild one be nngr with dreams, ! with mjth. with madness'' AVe must net "kill the mind, as, some rationalists de, in tning te cure it. The life of 'reason, as I cow cue it. is simply the dreaming mind beremmg coherent, de vising symbols and methods, such ns langunges. bv winch it may fitly survey , its nwn career." I Once mere. "I think sometimes I am the only philosopher living: 1 em 'resigned te being a mind." Still again- " I have no wish te propagate nnv particular character, least of all mv own : mv conceit does net take that form. I wish individuals, and races and nations te be themcelves, and te multiply the forms of perfec tion and happiness as nature prompts them. The only thing which,, I think might be propagated without Injustice te tpes therein huppres-cd is harmony, enough harmony te preent the inter ference of one tpe with another, nnd te nllew the perfect development of each type " New, one final quotation, the parsnge with which he conclude! this esta : ' Ah, I knew wb m critics murmur and are dissatisfied. I de net endeavor te deceive myself, nor te deceive them, nor te aid in deceiving them. They will never prevail en me te de that. I am a disciple of Secrates " The epen-mindedness for which this man contends In nothing mere than in tellectual freedom. It is an Insistence that man shall net gp through life with blinders en. seeing only these things which some ene with the reins is willing ..llhth. ..inc.1. O'lllmi, Ihnt he should see. but that all blindeiH Mieu'd be discarded, all walls razed, all shackles removed, se that the mind may range ever the whole of the uni verse nnd contemplate It as a legitimate subje( t for new thought regardless of whatever any one else may have thought about it in the past. It is enlv in this way that humanity can arrive at any approximation of the . i trlltu nuOUt ltSClt When Snnt.ivnna was teaching In Harvard he delighted every open-minded I student in his clnssen. Thcre is an I Increasing number of men who never 1 heard him lecture who are beginning te share this delight through his published doebs. 1 OnORCK W. DOUGLAS. Points of Seme New !faster It grows " That is the wny Ellen ' ('"' " fT ,,"' "Tlle'n ' IsVe'r" i letters te n girl hum l.licn Is cer- ,, th (1hflnfM, t be a great nu- .aeatirefte -. , JSL& "? tt" ' :;" ""'"""', .". V, " " ' , ,,i. tltw iivps. lain inmr in,- .,. ...v rln,,u. , "-- j yrATiTARINn XHIVLIS ULRT S ' XV latest newl has the piquant ana . , ,,. mie 0f "Q" (Houghten-Mifflin Company). This is nn An Unusual unusual western ijievy westerner lrBn,1)ns Iren m Its mi.., --" nv tlie liuiuur "i "- ' unleueneiB consist in the tact innc , 'd of an KaBtern here going West te wln maid and fortune, n typical - ... "--"" ---.,' PActern Cltv , puncner ceincn i a -,.i--tv ":"; -.amstMui inmnM tii n mim-im uiinni , te shed te shed his illiteracy and crudeness in -I.i.. . .i-ir, n Minhlstlcateil heiress. order te a - The Bterr in lively in Incident ami dun U1UL1 IU ... - ". "- , , , c . ...II ..l.nu'n Ml II met IT. CHIieClUliy mnuv ni-m iV Tl, the line girl who eventunlly wins O.iUc ,tyle is of distinction with, many happy uet j Tf'c.tlnS xvill-wrftn fiction. . PIIl.J,a.Ml, iinr ln metemnBycnesiB wuum ..v..- - - .. ietrmtcd te say that be ei -. vas the reincarnation alimentary of thc m(m wne mte Thinking pintltudea for the In struction of ambitious veuth. In "Seme Things Thnt Mat ter" ((Jeorge II. Dornn Company) Lord Rlddell has collected a series of articles that he wrete for Jehn O Lon Len Lon eon's Weekly 1m which he has told In simple language hew te get en In the world. He has get en himself and, there fore, Is supposed te be qualified te give instruction te the rest of us. The titles of some of his chapters will Indicate what he has dene. He writes en "Hew te Cenccntrnte." "Hew te Observe," "The Art of Public Speaking," "How "Hew "How te Think." "Hew te Find Things Out," "The Meral Duty of Relief," and en many ether kindred subjects. . Hardly any one else will. The I-ngllsh Hue sucu iub, iui tDBDOBBr-iPHIIiABBLPHIA, TUESDAY, THE EARLY PhtlUa Bettem vdie In "The King- flslier" has written sociological Neiel THE KINGFISHER" Miss Bottome's Latest Nevel Cemes Near Being a Great Werk ef.Art Phjllis Bottome has begun te Inter est herself in sociology. The resnlt of her study of the subject Is given te the public In "The Kingfisher" (Geerge H. Deran Company), which might be called a novel of democracy. Miss Rot Ret tome, or Mrs. Ernan Terbes. Dennis, as ihc new is, has written of the conflict of interest between the employing and the employer class in I'nglanil nnd of the gulf of misunderstanding that sep arates them. If she had nllewed her theme te develop 11 little mere before writing the book she would have made n great novel. As It stands It is un satisfying for the reason that the so cial reformer seems te obtrude where the literary artist should lme held the reins. The first part of the book, which de scribes the jeuth of Jim Hniten, the here, is splendid. It is artistic real ism, that is, realism which sees'beneath the surface of things and seizes held of the heart of them The boy Is the son of a drunken father and one day when the father comes home and beats the boy's mother, the boy rushes te the de fense of his mother and without know ing what he is doing he kills his father. He is sent te prison instead of being hanged, as he Is under the age at which they hang people in England. When he gets out of prison he Is employed en a river barge through the kindly intervention of a clergyman. The sjinpathetlc understanding with which JIi-s Hotteme clescrihes the life et tne boy en the hare. a boy who had al ways been surrounded with people in town from the time of his birth, but hnd nt last get into the open and the slleiue of the ilvcr, is marvelous for Its- pertiy and for its insight. If she could Inve kept at, this level through the whole book she 'would have written a novel that would net have suffered bj comparison with the best. She 1ms the be get an education and become n preacher in the slums of Londen. She has him become a sort of adviser of the laborers in the great deck trike of a few years age and meet the daughter of one of the big gest employers of the deck workers The two fall in love and the book ends with their detei munitien te marrj ' Hhe socks te make this marilage teem Pe-'blebj "ak ng . in, the he e into a ' '"" """ '" r"'"V "- himself and intolerant or shams nncl pietences. while the girl who has uvea among shams and lias been hampered In her liberties by a cunningly designing mother, is attracted te something which is radically different from nnvthing she lms ever known. Theoretically this is nil right Bur the transformation of the girl from nn Indifferent and Irre sponsible butterfly Inte a serious minded woman icady te marry a radical pieacher and live with him ln the slums comes about tee suddenly te be convincing. There Is much pungent satire in the book, nnd much exposure of the shams of n complacent seclctv which refuses te face the fnets of life; and withal there is a romantic story which perhaps Is sufficient justification for the novel land moving enough te make the reader mcusb some of its defects. J Beeks pnrentlv think that the Amerlcnns like them nbe He is net far wrong, for the Smiles lioeks were popular in their dny anil they may still be selling In large cninntities. As books en elementary aiithmejlc have their uses, bookie like this en elementary thinking nre net without their proper place. They are net for theso who have had the ad vantages of education, but for the am bitious youth seeking te learn the A B G's of the intellectual life. BEOINNURS in rudie will be Inter ested te knew thnt the first use of ether waves for the transmission of the huniun olce w a Radie for rnnde in, Xarherth, the Amateur just euteide of I'bila I delphla, in 1809, by A. Ficderlck Cellins. Old-timers will remember the unsuccessful attempt te flnnnce the stock of the Cellins Wire les Telephone Company and the sta tion which, If memory serves, was perched ntep nn ofhee building nt llread nn1 Chestnut streets Mr. Col Cel lins new appears as the author of "The Radie Amateur's Handbook" (Themas Y. Crew ell Company). It is a reume of the conventional mnterlal that is being gathered, de signed te catch the present, widespread interest in rnule. out It suffers con siderably fiem a Jack of smoothness and is net bumcieritly simple te meet tne tiemanu et inu man wtie knows nothing about the science. THH populerity of novels about fron tier life seems te be without limit. The author who can write them Is sure of finding a nubllshrr be Leve In the because the publisher Western knows that the public Wilde wl" buy them ln large quantities. Henry Oypn Is one of the authors who have succeeded in producing books of this kind which please a large following. "Tarrant of Tin Hpeut (Ocorge n. Deran Company) Is his latest. It In the story of n soft-elced, drnwling young Westerner whose np- caraiicc) belied tils nullities, women V-jj ' V aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaVZm sT ffsKH SMSMSMKi ,Aj3SmSM9mSL C SMSMMk2iSM levcci turn nun men ii iH'itrvuu tuiu stupid fell into the traps which he laid for them. The uuther hnH Introduced a girl into the talc who insuu that she hates Tarrant. Hut the experienced novel render knows that this hate Is merely preliminary te love and that et lm nrwl r9 n ihttinnHft nml riirhul?nt courting the book will ies wlthitne levsra ln each ether's arms, i BOOK SEASON" BISHOP CARROLL Times of Patriot and Priest Who Wa First Bishop and Archbishop in U. S. "The Life and Times of .Tehn Car roll" (Encjclepcdla Press New Yerk) Is a monumental work In mere ways than one. It nearly one thousand pages contain net merely the details of the notable career which it ceicDraics uui nlse n foreview of the Catholic Church in the United States nnd a compact his tory of Its most significant peiled. the formation of the htcrnciiy. at n umu th when 'the essential democratic (ectrlnwlmn ,,Mnnnei wlth babyish, petulant vcr of Americnnlbin were Impressed en the relation between Church nnd State. It also contains a definite interpretation of Catholic Ideals as related te a re public under which the thurch In the ,fv ,imgcif ja ending his own Hfe re united States has waxed and prospered. mninrt ns nn unexplalnable trend of the The author Is Peter Utilldny. prefes-1 K()tun(1 Ul0Ugnt, ser of history in the Catholic Lnl- 1 th(J book 1(, a plca ter pncflsm its vcrsity of America and n dectcur of, wgDt c, i08t ln tne flowery flights of sciences, merales ct hlsteriques 01 tiie.fnncy whch rtttcrnpt te smethcr reall Unlwrslty of Leuvaln. Dr. Gullday isltl(,R ln sweet-Accnted verbiage. If it Is a historical specialist of the new school ft n(irieai blew at the overly Idealistic and there Is nothing old-fashioned about ncuretlc, thcnt.lt falls by Its lack of this Important work en his specialty te brutality, which he lias devoted a lifetime of re- - search nnd also a life s devotion nnu there Is nothing cither bigoted or re-, llgleusly partisan about it. I Dr. Carrell, of the eminent Maryland family, which contributed Charles Car- , roll, the last of the signers of the, Declaration and Daniel Carrell, one of the founders of the Constitution, him self was nle a Revolutionary patriot. , He Is reputed te have been called "the rebel blsben" by King Geerge III, some! yearn after the revolution nnd hK great Influence In uniting American Catholics, beck of Washington denounced in tne same quarter. With. Dr. Franklin, Dr. Carrell wasj one or tne commissioners appointed uy the Continental Congress te treat with Canada tewnrd participation in the Revolution, n move which fniled owing te quite ether circumstances. Dr. Carrell conceived the ecclesiasti cal policy which has since guided his followers and planned the development of Catholicism in the new nation nleng lines which still survive. His policy has (-determined the relations between Cath elics and their fellow citizens, estab lished n new order in relations between -civil and ecclesiastical authorities upon bis own well-kmwn democratic prin ciples frustrated many attempts. Eng lish, Oermnn and Irish, te inject feieign domination upon the eung American Church and kept Catholics free of for eign entanglements, following Wash ington's farewell behest blazing the path afterward followed by James Car dinal Gibbens and Archbishop Jehn Ireland in fighting1 Onhenljism. His work was fundamental in nccusteming tuiuuucu 10 mu umui'i.t 111 .icumi wmi the constitution, Institutions nnd spiilt of Ameiican life. All these things nnd many ethers Dr. Guilday bets forth, well documented and In fascinating stjlc.llls book, though its access te numerous letteis and docu ments, in England, France, Reme and the United States, hitherto little used or undrnwn upon, Is an Important con tribution net only te Catholic history but also te Ameiicnn hlsterj. It is of special inteiest te Phlladcl- pblans since many odd pages nnd some chapters arc devoted te the history of the Catholic Chuich and the establish ment of Its hierarchy in Philadelphia. ROSTAND, FILS "Crystal Coffin" Is Autobio graphic Nevel by Poet Peet Playwright's Sen The luster of a great name Is blind ing In Its effulgence especially if the son attempts te fellow ln the footsteps of the father. Probably no one will ad mit this sooner than Maurice Rostand, son of the great Edmoud nnd the tal ented Rosemonde Gerard. That jeune Ilestnnd's first book. "The Crystal Coffin" (McIIrlde), is, scrutinized In Its resemblance te the j Ideas and Ideals of the father is te be expected. And for beautv of lyrical expression nnd Imnginntive flights of fancy the younger suffers littlu ln the, comparison that is, when the Imma- I BOOK EXCHANGE I ?VVVWvVfcSVMVVVVVVs; Beeks Wanted nUT-Or-PtllKT HOOKS JTUKNlamBD. " OUIesuaa lamed. H. It. Ilobtnaen. 411 Rlvr St.. Trey. hw fork. l F " 1 . ---- TSni CC tftrv rCtvn -Z Frem a lttar written by a bit business man te the publishers. The Vehement Flame By Margaret Deland Is Ihc Beat Selling and Most Talked of Nevel of the Season The letter quoted above gees en te say: "It ts amazlngr hew excited people get ever the way In which Mrs Deland has solved her problem In permitting Maurice te marry the Elrl he loves rather than the mother et his child. Some condemn It as Immoral, ethers say the book ought te be put Inte the hands of overy young man befera he nees te college." Harper & Brethers BRETT YOUNG presents his new novel He is rated by Jehn Masefield, Archibald Marshall, Hugh Walpole, and ethers of the foremost writers of the day, both English and American, as being in their judgment the most hopeful coming writer of England. His new novel is astonishing as still another instance of his extraordinary versatility. It is a superb romance in which its young ideal istic here finds himself forced te betray either the great leader who has captured his mind or the woman who holds his heart. Every character is real and clear cut, the atmosphere intensely vivid, and even Brett Yeung has never created a mere subtle or finely drawn here than this Rebert Bryden in THE RED KNIGHT BRKTT YOUSO has arrived anil Ms novels merely await that wider nopuler recognition which is certain te fellow tuch continuous poed uieifc as "The Crescent Moen," "The Youna Physician," "Vmlergrawth," "The Tranle Urldt" and "The Jilack Diamond," ebtainabls thtiujh any bookstore. Price Si.00 0 n m invnn&t t jija. nu, imuim. nn .,........ tat ar. uuiiui at tUi ""?, m ww.wbw VA AUGUST 0L5, 1923 turity of the author Is considered. In ether n8p?cts It is tee early te attempt a Judgment, en Rostand, flla. That will come latec. "The Oystal Coffin" Is a 'passionate plea for pacifism, written In autobio graphical erm. Whether young Ros tand is attempting a written picture of his mentnl battles or merely Is Indulg ing In n tsanslatlen of the present-day tjpc of young decadent, the Biipcr esthete of neurotic tendencies, Is for the reader 10 Judge. Certain It Is that the father of the central character Is a nonc-teo-thinly dlsgulced study of Rostand, pae, The mentnl conflict et the elder and his son the latter su perbly egotistical in his childish vanity, seeking te put tue world into its nor- bal slapjH-tWs Is the motif. 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