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48 WILMETTE LIFE January 25, 1929 AVAUNT BEHAVIOURISM .Esther Gould~s Book Corner little known village in the center of France, Henri Fournier, who was to live and then to write the story of "The Wanderer." Of a sensitive and poetic nature Fournier took deeply into his consciousness the country in which he spent his childhood, particularly the country about Nancy, as he later wrote, "The country of my dreams, the country from which I am exiled." In 1905. in Paris, Fournier saw anrl exchanged a few words with a very beautiful girl who became from t...hat moment onwards, as Beatrice to Dante, the focal point, the great passion of his life. His longing for her, his search for her and his failure became both his life and his work of art. As Havelock Ellis in his introduction says, commenting on Fournier's learning of the marriage of this longed for creature. "The great adventure of Fournier's life was indeed over. But Admiral Meaulnes had set forth to seek Yvonne de Galais and a masterpiece of art was slowly growing beneath the surface." It will be useless for anyone to attempt to read this book who cannot bring to it an ear to hear spiritual overtones, a mind to comprehend complexity in the utmost simplicity of recorded fact. Anyone who canno1 find wonder in the fairytale of a child will be in this book in a world in which he is color-blind. for others it will open a world which is painfullv beautiful. ~ The War in its first few \Veeks swallowed up Four·n ier and almost as completely this book, his first novel, published just before. But the book has been rescued from oblivion and is being acclaimed in many countries as one of the "permanent possessions of mankind!' "Taking the Name of Science in Vain." By Horace ]. Bridges. The MacMillan Co. Horace ]. Bridges is a critic, an analyst, an ethical evaluator. In t~e field of real estate when property ts put on the market, a reco~nize? authority· on values, an appratser, ts usually called in to pass on the actual value of the property. This is an excellent thing, a safeguard to humanity. It is a curiou.s and sad fac.t that in the realm of sctence and ethtcs we have no such recognized body of evaluators, only those who through a disinterested love of truth, themselves undertake the thankless task. They are all that stand between the layman and the mass. of scientific and pseudoscientific material which is being placed in the intellectual market. On the qualification of the self-appointed evaluators each layman must decide ior himself. In Chicago it is not necessary to make a case for the qualifications of ~lr. Bridges, they are grounded in years of distinguished and outstanding service. In his new book, "Taking the Name of Science in Vain"· Mr. Bridges has turned the force of his critical intelligence on what seems to him the most dangerous and the most fundamental of the modern scientific fallacies, that of behaviourism. The reducing of man to a mechanism takes, as Mr. Bridges points out, all worth, all dignity from human life, would mark if it were proved true the "end of the human adventure." ·That manv people have subconsciously accepte;t it 'Mr. Bridges is convinced. Our art is impregnated with this despairing doctrine. Now Mr. Bridges appeals to these people and to others unconvinced, to realize that by denying the ,·alidity of reason the behaviourists completely destroy the validity of their own doctrine which has been arrived at by the path of this discredited reason . In other words they saw off the very branch on which they sit. Mr. Bridges' argument is brilliant and comprehensive and not too technical · to be understood by e\·eryone. ALL ABOUT BESS A. Gilman in "Practical Bee Breeding," persents theories that may revolutionize the bee industry and add considerably to its commercial importance. By long experimenting, the author ha'> wo~ked out a system of transmitting destrable qualitie-.;, such as stamina docility and the storing instinct: through the l(rone, instead of th~ queen, which-owing to the confidence in parthenogenesis - had heretofore been considered the only possible !net hod. . In stock-breeding, the sire Is recog111zed as the deci;ive factor. Why not in bee-breeding? JUST PARAGRAPHS New York ·appears much the same as usual except that over the literary part · of · it there is a pall of .depression. "The season failed to measure up to the brightest hopes. Theories as to the reason ·for this are as numerous as the individuals holding them, some blaming it on the election, some on the stock market, etc. There is a real pall of sorrow too, due to the death of Elinor Wylie whose place cannot be filled. 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