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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Jul 1933, p. 26

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jIying New from a ten. da3y vis.it ini Mr. and Mrs. Williami :Xashville, Tîn iIarrive August 2,' o visit the E. of *1529 Forest avenue. Gillespie of WVednesçlay, A., Robsoîîs :Mrs. James' A. Burrili, 812 Green- wood avenue. is entertaining lier card club 'at a. dessert. luncheon today. 1 O0 VOLUMES .In beaufifuli De Luxe bind- Ings (originelly peiced et »2S). 'WodId famous asthors.. STE VENSON HAWTHORNE KIPLING HUGO Set o! Fountain Square Evansfon sion of experts only, wnîcn neeas popular dissem~ination. Profits can be made from such interpretations for the public, and the airn is a wortby one, for the spreading of information by the ligbtning processes of the rinting press can be aspo rfla agent, ,for.advancement -wben ,con- strnctively utilized as for destruction wben subject matter and motives are spuriaus. Sir James Jeans ranks 'among 'the most able writers striving.to keep men: and women abreastof the twentieth' century, and his "The Mysterions Uni- verse,"' "The Stairs in Their Courses" and five other books are now. follow ed by "The New, Background of -Sci- ence." If. besitation about accepting bis version of the Einstein 'tbeory, and physical, metapbysical and pblosophic material arises in tbe mi, it can be said lie wears after bis name the graduate degrees of M. A., D. Sc. D., LL. D. and F. R. S. At the same time 'he possesses a vocabulary éntirely within the grasp of a bigli scbool graduate and ascends no biglier in the intellectual plane than an assumption of a few of the simplest fundamentals in algebra. But progressive as the author is. about science, it is amfusing to see he stili clings to tbe old-fashioned "e"_ spelling of the word "sbew." Terrific strides bave beén nmade in the scientific world as recently as the past ten- to thirty years, and there is no more reason for continuing to live with the concepts of the age of Isaac Nevertheless it actually happens that the Cut.of onle's mind is far more out-' of-date than bis overecoat, automnobile or ice-box.: Sir James Jeans, howeVver,. wi1l'retail, your ideas on the Approacli to the External World, the Methods of Science, the Framework of. the Ex-, tet-nal' World-Space and Time, Xlechanismn, the Texture of the Ex- ternal N\orld-M\atter anîd Radiation, and Wave-Mechanics (some of the ; a matter that requires a simple tquestion and answer only.. But the tbing is called courtship and, sad or not, bas a way of being cbarming. 0f thèse two loyers, Johin Torr is decid- edly uneconomical with bis vocab- ulary; the giirl, Maria 'Jackson, al tbat sbe sbould be, and patient. Tbey are Victorian, but the business pro- ceeds quite as systematically as- in earlier days or 'as ýat present; the terminology. only is encased, in. the years 1838-43.: The. couple. were cousins, John three years. older than Maria; they married wben the. former was twenty- five, after nearly ten years of court- ship;. shortly after their. third anni- versary-Maria died, leaving two chul- dren. In the letters are revealed a charming girl and flot inexpert letter writer, and the usual boy, rather un- wortby 'of her in ways not common-q place., The oùtside world is delicately thongh slightly reflected; the 'inner world apparent, but -chastened by a wardrobe of verbiage, ini ber case at least quite prètty. The drama lies in the indirectness of tbe exchange. They do not love-that is reserved for the ý-future-but they talk about love and about themselves; they botb read Byron and Bulwer; the girl is Tory and Churcli of England, the 'boy Liberal and Unitarian; lie wrote to her "That yon personally received any pleasure from anotber's kisses I neyer, even before receiving your assurance- to the contr.ýry, for a moment thonglit." One c onstantly pities theim. Thougli they are not suffering, tliey are not enjoying, and tume passes and demands the pity. Wbat will possibly justify these long years of superficial test and explana- tion? Wben the moment of justifi-. cation cornes, what will be their pr ivate and unsbarable thoughts? it, %vill take years of dornestic and in- timate commonplaceto give- it lal significance, and in three years, Maria is dead.1 Chooses English Beach for Setting of Nove ig thie occasion otf is furst visit rC rnis country in 1909l, when he delivered at Yale a series of lectures on "The Liberty of Propbesying." Through- out the intervening years a growing esteem for bis keen mmnd and well- balanced judgment has. :made any- thing lie bas written eagerly read. Sa bis lit'tie"brocbure, wbich consis .ts of. Iast year's "Visitation Charge," ac- quires an importance out of aIl pro- portion ta its modest size and original purpose. In sPite -of -its, brevity, it covers. tbe essentials of tbe wbole subject- witb unusual tborougbness, afid presenits to the reader the mature coinclusions of «,one of, England's ablest bisbops witb convi.ncing clarity and semni-official atoiy Bishop Henson, being an 70xford FeIlow, seems ta resent the facitbat a. religions movement. so char acter- istically Amnerican, sectarian, and antiý-intelIectual,, should be trying ta palm itself off as a child of Oxford University.' Wben 'the narne "Buch- manism" fits so perfectly its origin and leadership it is difficuit to under- stand wby it is so violently repudi- ated by the group. Out of deference to this feeling lie refrains from usingy it,, but. he cannot bring bimself to associate tbhe word Oxford, with its titie. go he refers to it as "Group- ism" or "Tbe Groupists." Witb bis masterly-commnand of his- torical knowledge he marshals, in startling array aIl similar religions movements which have appeared' throngh the centuries and recouinting their fate, Iays bare. the .three major defects in the religious nature of this movenient. And then he announces this conclusion: "I do flot think the Groupist movement can be brought into working harmony with the Churcli of Englanid." But he does not leavet the subject at this point. With chaateristic frankness and, fair- mindedness lie makes this confession.:, "Three things are, as I.,see the sit- nation,' gravely lacking in u s, a nd the-se the Groupists, are in their own, way providing. If we are humble enough, and penitent enougb. and wise enougli to learn from them. the'y inay assist us to gain these very th;inffy Viking's first juvenile list, just sued, contaîns twelve books, by su well known 'authors and illustrat( as Mand and Miska Petersbam,1 gri and .Edgar d'Aulaire, Boris Art2 basheif, Rhea Wells, Elizabeth Mz Kinstry, Marjorie Flack and Ki Weise. ac- .rt An IF. S aore acgrunci. i wuî old Lverage reader's attention, as a er." Evan EËvans is a pen name., DRAMA Introduction to Tudor Dra ma. BIOGRAPHY Tbe Far Horizon. H. W, ECONOMICS Tripoly or Class. War? IR Laier. R. Segal :1 S Omo

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