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Ee 4 } - - . Fo December 26, 1925 WINNETKA TALK 23 FRE Foo fru] A LIVELY CHASE "TOLERANCE" By Hendrik Willem VanLoon Boni & Liveright Mr. VanLoon has turned from the broader aspects of history to take up the cudgel for that virtue much prized by those who have it, little prized by those who haven't. It is Tolerance. With his extraordinarily agile mind Mr. VanLoon has pursued his sub- ject as a dog pursues a squirrel. And as' we pursue him we are led through many yards and over many fences which we have not scaled before. Some- times we nearly lose sight of him in the underbrush of names but he emerges again and on we go. We start in the first yard in which the squirrel ever made his appearance --that of the Greeks. Among this race of wise men a certain balance of the elements of civilization was struck, a balance so finely made and maintained that no one of its parts tried to exer- cise undue control over the others. This was tolerance. When a few years later the political element began to dominate the country pressure from one side was brought to bear, and Socrates was asked to drink of hem- lock. A few centuries later the early Christian lived in a spirit of humility and tolerance until they began to build up a great world power in their church. Then it was necessary to as- sert their authority, to burn and chop off heads and generally show their in- tolerance for anything which was not of themselves. Mr. VanLoon has made the subject interesting. His point of view is or- iginal, he brings things into the ver- nacular in a way guaranteed to keep you if not actually gasping, certainly awake. In speaking of the relation of man to his environment, for instance, he says, "Rembrandt would not have painted pictures, Bach would not have composed fugues, Praxiteles would not have made statues if they had been born in an ingloo near Upernivik and Lad been obliged to spend most of their waking hours watching a seal- hole in an ice-field." The picture of any one of these gentlemen watching a seal-hole in an ice-field is edifying. The book ends on a note of high hope which is the voice of Mr. Van THE TALE OF GENJI Lady Murasaki The 900 year old classic of Japan beautifully translated by ARTHUR WALEY $3.00 Houghton Mifflin Co. 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