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conceptions, its phrasaeology, its fragile

. struggle, the old struggle between the

| walks/ by herself at night and being

/ plete.

/

- style or treatment _of-plot-and character

‘existence :compatatively* untouched. But
. Dunsany in this, hislatest book, having

_ St¢phen comes’ back. There we have the



Book Reviews. .
The Bisidag of ‘Pan—by Lord Ditisaay, FE
~~ "(Putnaim). -

The Blessing of Pan is wide pro-
foundly” demoralizing ; all the more so
because there is enotigh beauty in its

and fairy-like setting to make the im-
pression seem important. ,We ape used
to having the faults of our civilization,
from the farm to the factory, held up
to ridicule. We admit, or deny, the
picture, and continue our light-hearted

‘contrived to build up in his readers a
fierce loyalty for much that is =v in
man’s life, as typified by the sensitive
and mild-mannered ‘vicar, overturns that
edifice of faith on almost the last page
with a blow as shattering as it is un-
expected. 4 He tells the stoty of a mighty

‘civilized and ‘the natural elements in
man. The little English village of Wold-
ing hears the call of Pan, the voice of
primitive . nature,
ing from man the dues of kinship; the
vicar alone, in the name of affection,
of habit, of Christianity, stands out,
agaiftst this unseen power, while all his
flock return to the ancient rites; and it
is the vicar on whom all our sympathy is
relentlessly centered. Learning, sanity
and common sense ‘fail him, and yet he
holds to what he knows to be the truth—
up to the moment of his last, incompre-
hensible surrender. That he should be
defeated by a force older and it may be
deeper than his own, is perhaps ingvitable:
But that he should go back on all that)
he has stood for, to join in pagan wor-
ship with his parishioners, is a going
over to the enemy that cannot be for-
given. We close the book feeling be-
trayed. «The vicar, says Dunsany with |:
something “like a sneer, has~ found~an
iliusion. But we, with” poor Perkin, have
lost ours, and have nowhere to turn.

Could we take it as a fairy tale, for its
charm and its ‘mystery, we could read
and be’ delighted; and so we did, till the
treacherous defection of the vicar spoiled
the pleasant taste of what had gone be-
fore, and at the same time made us
realize the intensity of our interest. That
interest betrayed, our enthusiasm was
dead, The-last chapter describes with all
the author’s. gift. of suggestive descrip-
tion the return of the wild to the village
which -has itself returned to savagery]
“Birches slipped every year trom the’
edges of woods and began to grow, at
first like fairy children that you barely
saw, unless you were looking for _magic.
Then a few years went by, and there they
were, standing at the end of a field with
2 silvery light on their leaves enchanting
the green, and holding that part of the
field for what: was there before plough-
shares.” It is a lovely. and delicate
counterpart of the return of the jungle
te. Mowgli’s village, yet somehow even
more sinister, Like the. Ulford Hunt, we

“feel that, Wolding is a place to keep }/

away~-from..Hurry,_little. -birches, and,
hide, with those silvery leaves of yours,
the village that Went back on its feltows.
Be Bd.
’ /

Not. Magnolia, Edith Everett Taylor.
E. P. Dutton & Co.

Not Magnolia has been compared to
Dusty Answer as the pioneer jn. the field
of exploiting the. American girls-in-
school problem. Moreover, yt a differ-
ent reviewer, its author ts been com-
pared to James Branch/ Cabell, Ellen,
Glasgow, and Frances Newman. With
such affiliations and background, it is
sad’ that the book shot come to such
a bad end. “

Certainly it exploits the girls-in-school,
but there is. little problem of any kind.
What’ there is is /solved by a reference
to the answer ho or ‘perhaps on
scratch paper—cértainly not anywhere in
the book. sie the heroine, has grown
up in the belief that she loved and was
going to marry Stephen, her cousin,
While he is’ at Medical School and she
is in colle in Florida, he has a nervous
breakdow and becomes: temporarily
quite ins For several months Leigh
goes in/ for heavy tragedy—heavy for
the reader as well as for her—taking

anit indifferent. Rather abruptly she
gets/over this and falls in love\with a
brilliant young novelist. Then, of course,

pyoblem—it is almost like Enoch Arden.
wo or three minor plots and a bookful
f incredible and not particularly inter-
esting characters make the thing com-'

There is-nothing in the book either in

at all: comparable to Cabell, Glasgow, or

~Newman. Far from achieving sophisti-|.

‘earth herself claim- |

.

a

cation, the novel | is naive:in its attempts
to reach that goal of young writers, We
rpresent samples wliich quite irresistibly

‘| reminded us of Dorothy Dainty, a child-"

hood heroine—

“Oh, Auntie,” breathed Leigh, “that
girl is adorable. She says this place. is
exactly like,,the movies.”
and on the same page, speaking of the
family tree of the man she finally de-
cides to love, she says—. ~ eos

’

“Why che hasn’t one, not a twig.. And
isn’t it adorable~of-him;—Auntie,-not—to+
make. one up?”
ment of the book. is badly
worked” out, Nand as badly presented.
Let us hope thatthe fact of the author’s
not yet having graduated from’ college
may not, be considered an excuse for the
general dullness and stupidity of the
book.




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itual.life. We must build with security,
otherwise the temple of society will fall.
The rock on-which we must: build is the
New Testament. It deals with man’s
relationship to himself; his fellows, and
his God;. it points out a. way, and its
principles are nowhere more clearly de-
fined than in the Sermon on the, Mount.
We Are Spiritually Primitive.

In the past, however, men have paid
little attention ‘to this cee because
thev say.it is not practical. The savages
of the New Hebridies chew sugar-cane
for water, and ridiculed the idea of dig-
ging wells. Water,/they say, comes
down. from the sky,/never up from the

earth. \We are neatly as primitive, spir-
itually. \Yet Mr./George Bernard Shaw,
cynical, &eptical, and rebellious as he

is, said in\ thé preface to one of his
plays: “Dear/Reader, I am no more af
a Christian /than you; but after. sixty
years of contemplation I see nd way out
of trouble but that way which /Jesus

would have pointéd out-if He had un-|

dertaken the work of a practical states-
man.” Mr. Dwight \Arndld- during his
mission to Mexico won thé trust and
good ‘will of a proud and sénsitive people
because he said; “If. have taken
wrongly, I> restore,” ahd so kept the
peace in: the spirit of the Gospels.

Our thodern life Js governed by. the
dea. of individual ‘tights, as capital and
labor, society. and -the criminals - ‘these
rights are always in conflict. . We need
laws to establish them, and justice to
enforce them. The New ‘Testament,
howevet, 2niphasizes common rights, the
rights which lie at the foundation of
human society. Jesus realized this, and
in the july case where He was ‘asked
to. decide a question of individual rights,
He /said: ‘Beware of covetousness.”
Thyte was a higher right than property
-involved—that of fellowship and broth-
erhood. It-was the common interest op-
posed to the individual, going the second
mile; forgiving—to-seventy times seven.

“This is the meaning of the, Sermon
on the Mount—the statement of the
principle of common rights. It is not
a set of rules or a code of conduct,
a dramatization of the principles of so-
ciety.” ‘Jesus gave expression to the
ideals of older heroes and leaders. We
fgrd several examples of this in the Old
Testament. 4
Forebearance Is Extolled.

Abraham and Lot lived in Canaan,
but the land was too small to contain
the growing flocks of each. Abraham,
the more priviledged and the more. pow-
erful, said to Lot: “Let there be no
strife ’twix thee and me, for we are
brethren.” He gave Lot the choice of
any lands he desired for his flocks, and
said he would take what remained¥ Lot
chose the well-watered Jordan Valley,
leaving Abraham the dry plains. Yet
we remember Abrahani for his good-
ness.

“Again, Isaac went to a strange coun-
try and dug a well. The inhabitants
claimed it. Isaac dug another, and they
claimed that too. For Christ’s sake he
would not dispute, so went away and
dug a_third which he named Rehoboth,
or ‘Room enough for all’ That night
God appeared to him and blessed him for
his forbearance.’ The principles of Jesus
were applied to life before He came; we
should learn. to live them, for they are
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Much “as. woman’s position .
economic world has changed,. there is
still one field that remains the monopoly
of men: there is not. much opportunity
for women in the pulpit. One cannot.
dispute the fect that women preachers
are not wanted. : In the field of éxperi-
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closed td all but the clergy; now it has
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. No More Pedants in’ Pulpit.

Clergymen “nowadays are less trained
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graces,
pulpit. Likewise there is the more need
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opportunity to use a training in theology
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No oné can contest the fact that wom-
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to Bryn New graduates, This field of
study } open at many universities.

A knowledge of religion is essential to
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of/ scholars are more important than a
Jearned ministry to help counteract sénti-
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