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BOOKS India in Transition Reconstructing India, by Edward Thompson. New York: The Dial Press. $4.00. MR. THOMPSON in the present volume offers no new element of surprise. He employs his...
...His rhymed introduction is little short of silly, and he writes with a sugary and feminine touch...
...The house in Camden was familiar to many, and has been often described...
...Roadside Meetings is an urban and mannerly book...
...No evidence is brought forth of the higher psychic processes which are characteristic of man alone...
...Side-glances into the German political situation of 1890 furnish support to the theory that, despite all the merits of Bismarck, the kaiser was right in discharging a chancellor whose stubborn opposition to social reforms brought Germany near to riots and bloodshed...
...As for the men whom he merely met—well, what can any of us say about men whom we have merely met...
...Speaking of him in prison, Mr...
...Some Aspects of the Biology of Human Populations, by Raymond Pearl...
...In Mental Evolution in the Primates, R. M. Yerkes gives an analysis of his own findings and those of Kohler and others in their studies of the behavior of members of the Primate group...
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...Studied, not as a heroine, but as a personality, she might enlist our sympathies and understanding...
...Robert von Keller...
...The biography commences in medias res with a discussion of Madame Roland's marriage to the elderly inspector of manufactures, and thence pursues a tortuous backward path, clutOctober 22, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 649 tered with names and events that often seem irrelevant, through the girlhood and education of the clever and ambitious young bourgeoise, Jeanne-Marie Phlipon, and her long and relentless pursuit of this mediocre but useful husband...
...The experienced oriental traveler will be amazed by this picture of an Orient not yet industrialized and not yet exploited by tourists' agencies...
...Ales Hrdlicka gives a very satisfying treatment of Human Races, based on first-hand knowledge of peoples throughout the world...
...The devout female sex" of the olden time is exemplified very strikingly in our American republic in the twentieth century...
...This absorbing chapter is a model of scientific exposition, in which established facts and legitimate interference are carefully distinguished from speculation...
...The Mingling of Races, by C. B. Davenport...
...The comic opera paints him as the charmful lion of international society, adorning ballrooms and boudoirs with his seductive smile...
...When he was a young man he wrote to Walt Whitman, addressing him deferentially as "revered friend...
...Catalog free...
...Gandhi's "thinking" may still prove as constructive as that of Mr...
...So far from monasticism being a thing of the past, it has never attracted so many enthusiastic souls to it as in our time...
...and secondly, for mature readers occupied in science and business and interested in the deeper truths of science...
...Here "the forces of order—the government and the October 22, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 645 princes—will meet the forces of hope and aspiration...
...Agnes Repplier...
...While most anthropologists accept evolution, the view here presented is far from receiving general acceptance...
...The Relation of Science to Industry, by R. A. Millikan...
...The paper by W. B. Cannon on The Integrative Action of the Vascular System is rather technical but well worth the extra attention its reading demands...
...MADAME ROLAND'S fame may be said to rest, in the popular mind, on that much-quoted speech from the scaffold, "Oh, Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name...
...It is a balancing of facts here and of facts there: a taking comfort in the thought of what nations, other than Great Britain, might have done under similar circumstances...
...There are many and useful illustrations...
...322 LmncsCOQ St New York Bronx East Orange, N. J. Brooklyn 275 North Avenue, New RochelU, N. Y. Briefer Mention Gentlemen All, by William Fitzgerald, Jr...
...His own warm heart and friendly disposition did the rest...
...Part IV deals with the effects of environment and is made up of chapters on: The Effect of Climate and Weather, by Ellsworth Huntington...
...Gandhi undone...
...Frederic Thompson...
...This is to be expected in a work of this kind...
...Here is tragedy, not melodramatic nor stark, but real and poignant...
...Nightmare Visions The World in 2030, by the Earl of Birkenhead...
...Man in His World Human Biology and Racial Welfare, by various authors...
...No trouble then to smile...
...It was William Dean Howells who gave Mr...
...Jacquemaire's handling of her material seems neither scholarly nor discerning and her almost unqualified admiration for the subject compromises her efforts of delineation of character...
...Adjustment to Infectious Disease, by Hans Zinsser...
...Notwithstanding occasional admissions such as this, and some fine things said about the frail, ascetic, loin-cloth-clad man, Mr...
...Nevertheless, Madame Roland was a remarkable woman, and one could wish for a more critical and coherent synthesis of her spectacular life...
...We can assure you comfort In shoes of latest style...
...He has held some highly responsible positions in German foreign politics and was Foreign Minister of the Reich for some months, shortly before Stresemann brought historical fame to this office...
...TWENTY-EIGHT specialists in the various groups of science affecting man, have collaborated in the production of this large volume...
...This is what time will make manifest...
...It is true that the theme—Petra and the desert country of the Edomites— has served many a writer well since Burckhardt first discovered these ruins of an ancient civilization...
...Fitzgerald should find it easy to outgrow...
...Gandhi's reluctant refusal to participate and his stand for independence...
...W. M. Wheeler treats of Societal Evolution...
...He seems unaware that science is anthropomorphic: all its premises, units of measure, detecting instruments and, ultimately, its definitions and applications, are human engendered...
...He says, further, in the future it will be "impossible to keep salt and opium as financial sources...
...The final section, Part V, takes a glance at the future on the basis of facts now known...
...It contains chapters on: The Inheritance of Disease, by Paul A. Lewis...
...Rosen by his more scholarly publications, and the educated everyday reader, will be happy to be carried by the book, for leisurely hours, into a charmful atmosphere bound to disappear very soon...
...His dream of the future is a mechanistic nightmare...
...But his present book, written in masterful and pleasing English, does not pretend to be more than a colorful account of his various travels during the last century through Palestine, Syria, and Persia, where his knowledge of oriental languages and literature helped him to come into closer contact, than any of his colleagues, with the population...
...Possibly the next era may be a chemical, rather than mechanical one, and an undreamed of ease and quiet given the world...
...Certainly all the ideas between the author's first sentence and the last, bear out his supposition...
...This is an error...
...He indulges in wishes excusable only in a child...
...Rare, Old and Curious Books...
...But a few pages on we read: "If the Round Table Conference is to be another solemn exhibition of how officialdom can waste...
...Since writing The Other Side of the Medal, however, Mr...
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...According to our author, reconstruction means dominion status, the gift of the Round Table Conference...
...Fitzgerald achieves in Colfax Pendleton...
...The increasing suicide rates in most mechanized countries, and falling birth rate, might well be taken as signs of dissatisfaction with the noise, hurry, monotony and complications of this age...
...A good many, who think they have a right to an opinion on the subject, are quite sure that monasticism is a thing of the past that went out at the end of the middle ages, though certain remnants may still linger on with some sparks of that living fire that characterized it in the older time...
...Garland invaluable advice as a writer of fiction...
...Forty-two years later, having apparently made no inquiries in the meantime, he repeats his sentiments of grief and indignation of the shameful neglect in which the writer of Leaves of Grass was permitted to live and die...
...Stick to the West," said Mr...
...What Willa Cather achieved in the heroine of A Lost Lady, Mr...
...It may be that the cordial friendship between English and German diplomatists at this time was due only to a kind of racial solidarity in the midst of a different civilization, or to the fact that German interests before 1900 did not mean any real danger to Albion's power in the East...
...This volume is a contribution to sociology and to psychology as well as to history...
...Thompson himself who gives the word explaining Mr...
...The book, which summarizes the studies of thirty years, i3 worth any scholar's while...
...The following section, Part III, is devoted to man as a physiological unit...
...Gandhi is so effectually "damned by faint praise" that his figure passes us by as insignificant on the political horizon of India...
...Fine Sets, Choice Bindings, First Editions...
...A still more popular conception sees in him the treasurer of innumerable secrets, pulling the hidden wires of shadowy connections among the upper classes and in the underworld...
...From the jails of India are they to come...
...and with the beloved figures of Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley, for both of whom Mr...
...The success of this attempt is open to question, for Mme...
...His "confessions," however, still lack the essential element for forgiveness—sincere contrition...
...He confuses science with God...
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...When the author leaves the field of social animals and turns to societies of man, the analogies are admittedly very hypothetical...
...Gandhi ever thinks at all"—as though all this while India's "spinner" might be sitting with blank mind in the Yerwada jail...
...Dehey's book make it very clear that they are living in some of the most beautiful buildings amid the most beautiful scenes to be found anywhere in this country...
...Try a pair from PEDIFORME...
...Thus he tells us he wishes Indians would "look back and laugh" over Jallienwalabagh and over Miss Mayo's book, whose "particularly maddening tone" he admits...
...New York: The Macmillan Company...
...Hammond, Indiana: W. B. Conkey...
...In the account of her more important activities, when, later, with Roland as an instrument, she was attaining to that pinnacle of influence which she briefly held during the earlier part of the Revolution, one is forced to believe that this woman, earnest and courageous, no doubt, was more truly actuated by love of self and glory than any love or understanding of the republic and its needs...
...The story is not bare of political interest...
...The Influence of Urban and Rural Environment, by H. Emerson and E. B. Phelps...
...Thompson seems never to see the difference between the position of England in India and that of European rulers in their own lands...
...Reasonable Prices...
...If he wanted to live messily, that was his affair...
...The old-fashioned expression, "as happy as a nun," continues to be applicable to them...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...Rosen's description of diplomatic life in the Orient, it is a call for closer cooperation between England and Germany...
...The pictures of many of their houses in Mrs...
...with Stephen Crane, underrated while he lived, and absurdly overrated since...
...At times it is so obvious as to border on the pathological...
...the irritation of many minor defects, Mr...
...But our author, though permitting excursions into varied fields of interest, concerns himself primarily with the religious history of the region...
...This is quite natural for Mr...
...time, Indians may well distrust it...
...As a matter of fact, science is a brilliant synthesis created by man's imagination, and far from arriving at absolutes, it is constantly changing...
...How simple it all suddenly seems...
...His early book reviews for the Boston Transcript (which could not then afford to pay for them) appear to have been so gratifying to authors that they served as a first step to social intercourse...
...The opening chapter, constituting Part I of the work, on Life in Space and Time, by H. N. Russell, is designed to give a proper perspective before considering man and his little world...
...If there is not much work to do, he has plenty of time to devote himself entirely to his historical, ethnological or other studies, and when the casualties of a virement draw him from surroundings in which he has acquired intellectual citizenship, he emerges with a knowledge that might overthrow the conclusions of a learned professional traveler...
...and the rather journalese article, The Intentional Shaping of Human Opinion, by H. A. Overstreet, which ends the volume...
...Both counsels were good, and both were conscientiously followed...
...He is really a scholar and, having specialized in a certain country or continent, he is employed more or less constantly at posts familiar to him...
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...He wishes Mr, Ghandi "had not let himself be carried away at this last Lahore Congress," had not joined the Khilaphat in 1920 and had not launched non-cooperation in 1921...
...Thus, in speaking of "violent nationalism coming to Bengal," he calls up the idea of a "reign of terror Louis XIV might have set up," forgetting, when it is question of resentment in India that the whole point is, not the act of compulsion per se, but acts good or bad of an alien ruler trampling on national sensibilities...
...New York: Brewer and Warren, Incorporated...
...Garland's ready sympathy has led him somewhat astray...
...Colfax, heir to all the traditions of old Virginia, is caught between two periods...
...He must approve therefore the civil disobedience campaign...
...Dehey's story of the religious orders of women in the United States is an imposing volume of some nine hundred pages which furnishes an excellent idea of the immense number of women in our country who have devoted themselves to the various duties undertaken by religious communities...
...The author postulates a very simple form of primordial life, the "prototype...
...ROBINSON has partly written, partly edited, one of the most extraordinary volumes of archaeological speculation to have appeared in a long while...
...The Sarcophagus of an Ancient Civilization, by George L. Robinson...
...The Evolution of the Brain, by George H. Parker, is a very readable account of the structure and development of the brain of invertebrates and vertebrates, including man...
...and the Influence of Education, by John Dewey...
...as it is, however, one closes this long tale of her activities with the feeling that she herself, not least of the apostles of liberty, had offended in its name...
...To the extent that some of the chapters are too speculative, their value will be less permanent...
...These are faults, however, which Mr...
...After reading the account of the various religious communities of women and the lives of their foundresses, with the enormous growth of these communities in recent years, it becomes easy to understand what a supremely living force the Church exerts over the minds of its members...
...Or again, the medical student, after reading What Medicine Has Done and is Doing for the Race, might be stimulated to more intensive study were he told on the authority of a physician of national repute, that on the average not more than 60 percent of medical cases are even diagnosed correctly...
...The scientist who already knows Mr...
...Further, the earl of Birkenhead seems to confuse science with mechanical engineering...
...The editor tells us in the preface that the work is intended for two classes of readers: first, for students who are about to specialize in science...
...Moreover, the somewhat overoptimistic strain in which the value of science is sometimes discussed might have been tempered with some acknowledgment of the problems its application has brought in its train, such as the maladjustment of labor due to scientific discoveries and inventions...
...Daughters of the Church Religious Orders of Women in the United States, by Elinor Tong Dehey...
...THIS revised edition of Mrs...
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...But he does not begin to achieve Miss Cather's brilliance of style...
...Thompson says: "He is a poor man, the Viceroy of India today," and one almost hears the sob...
...So it is Mr...
...Thus, plainly, he supposes scientific research is going to make things unpleasant...
...The truth, in most cases, is less romantic, and hard-working austerity is often the rule among the members of the profession...
...Germany and the East Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist, by Friedrich Rosen...
...but Walt, who never met trouble halfway, laughed at his visitors' alarm...
...Consideration of the ever-widening horizons of space and the lengthening stretch of time which physicists and astronomers revealed to the general public in book, press and radio during recent years, is here subordinated to the interesting problem as to when life originated and the possibility of its existence in other worlds...
...The book endeavors to give the actual state of knowledge regarding man's past and present and even to give a forecast of his future condition...
...In its tendency to bring the nations back to their former understanding, the book fulfills a task of highest value in a world where the smell of explosives and poisonous gases has not quite evaporated...
...By instinct and ambition he seeks freedom from the idea of a landed gentry...
...This is a remarkably shallow assumption...
...Thompson's desire to be just...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...Were these same chapters written by other and equally distinguished men, the results might be quite different...
...He has read more widely and has penetrated more deeply into causes touching present discontent...
...Thompson says casually: "If Mr...
...This does not mean in proportion to the population but in actual numbers...
...His classification of races is now widely accepted and the reader will be grateful for this clear-cut presentation...
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...Nervous Integrations in Man is written by J. F. Fulton and the well-known English neurologist, Sir Charles S. Sherrington, while The Integrations of the Sexes— Marriage, is by Clark Wissler...
...After all the one serious criticism that can be made about the book is that it lacks unity of concept and that its separate statements can no more be made to hang together than the separate possessors of the viceregal dignity in India can be made into an imperial dynasty...
...The liberal quotations from her memoirs and letters, which form the nucleus of the book, fail, in their inordinate egoism, to enlist the reader's sympathies for this self-willed and overconfident young woman...
...James J. Walsh...
...Garland writes pleasantly about the men whom he knew...
...Thompson goes on...
...No one will deny Mr...
...Americana and Autographs...
...He seems to think of it as a body of absolutes outside of man's devising, which absolutes man is slowly discovering...
...E. V. Cowdry treats of The Vital Units Called Cells...
...his exposition of "the naked truth" of English misdeeds in India is less shocking and his resentment against American sympathizers with India is more discreetly veiled...
...In passivity and silence she achieves her end, wins for herself all that she wishes of life, realizes her ambitions for her three daughters and, taking all from her husband, remains aloof through the process of his disintegration...
...And if there is any political theory involved in Mr...
...New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Incorporated...
...Clemenceau-Jacquemaire's biography takes the form of a eulogistic attempt to substantiate this heroine's other claims to greatness by a detailed resume of her life...
...It will be interesting to see his next novel...
...edited by Edmund V. Cowdry...
...The Reaction to Food, by E. V. McCollum...
...But if he reads with discrimination, he will find the work stimulating and a mine of valuable information...
...W. K. Gregory devotes a chapter to the Animal Ancestry of Man, a paper bearing the marks of previous controversies...
...They did not talk about their generosity, and they did not expect him to illustrate it...
...The Victim of Liberty The Life of Madame Roland, by Madeleine ClemenceauJacquemaire...
...It fatigues the public, but it is a source of pride and pleasure to the practitioner who, after all, has the first right to be pleased...
...Antisocial Behavior: Delinquency and Crime, by William Healy...
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...In one instance only Mr...
...This was populated by the children of Esau, and its history runs like a thread through all scriptural history...
...The best, indeed almost the only, story in the book is told of Eugene Field, who having been entrusted by his wife (who should have known better) with $80 to pay for a rug, came home in triumph, bearing a beautiful collection of lunar moths, which he had purchased as a bargain with the money...
...Gandhi once for all...
...Stick to the East," said Byron, who knew the literary market, to Moore...
...The Purposive Improvement of the Human Race, by E. G. Conklin...
...As a rule their parents are quite willing to see them go, because they know that they will find their happiness in this mode of life...
...A close and conscious adherence to any school is a cramping thing...
...translated by Laurence Vail...
...THE title of Mr...
...There will undoubtedly be many men and women born who, with some regard for creature comfort, not to speak of decency and nobility, will exert a benign and humane influence on the life of their day...
...No one" he ventures to say, "has revealed that room as I saw it...
...Stay out in the sunshine Shorter days come soon, Walking is the best way Well-fitting shoes a boon...
...He employs his favorite psychoanalysis method to clear up the confusion of British minds regarding India and to set his country "right" before India and the world...
...Howells to the author of MainTraveled Roads...
...Thompson has progressed...
...Wonderful thought...
...Naturally the Camden menage was a surprise to him, and he leaped to the unjustifiable conclusion that so much dirt and disorder stood for extreme penury...
...William Fitzgerald, jr., has lifted his novel above the average by his brilliant portrayal of his hero, Colfax Pendleton...
...Who knows...
...There is nothing stable about it, from the supposedly fundamental law of gravity to the idea that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points...
...Rosen does not represent this type in its purest form...
...We do not believe the author wishes to imply that in this simple fashion the origin of life is explained...
...New York: Longmans, Green and Company...
...His subsidiary characters, too, come from the matrix employed by countless other writers who have taken the romantic old South for their theme...
...She has the strength of the reed which bows before the winds but never breaks...
...Whitman was undoubtedly poor, but he was not in need, and he was not neglected...
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...A. K. Parker...
...Garland wrote carefully and well of the things he knew...
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...Such a comprehensive survey of the sciences relating to man, by specialists most of whom have a world-wide reputation, is obviously of great value...
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...It is to be regretted that the author did not give a more objective account and at least state the different views held by several outstanding comparative anatomists and anthropologists regarding man's position from a structural standpoint, in the order of Primates...
...a securely established goal set forth after unhurried discussion and the most patriotic, self-forgetting work of all parties, will see India on her way to a peaceful future...
...THERE is scarcely a profession about which opinion differs as much as about the diplomatist's...
...Get out in the open Step out with a will...
...If he liked to have old newspapers billowing around his arm-chair, he was at liberty to indulge this singular taste...
...The little group of Philadelphians who secured him an income left him free to spend it as he chose...
...The jumble of contradictions in the earl's book is a prima facie case for this lack of any absolute quality in science...
...Many people will enjoy this book...
...He has set them down in order (all at least who were sufficiently distinguished to deserve notice) from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to George Bernard Shaw...
...But there is little doubt he was tired of the world when he wrote this book...
...Alexis Carrell gives an illuminating article on The Relation of Cells to One Another, based largely on his own work on tissue culture...
...Thompson's essential viewpoint is that of an Englishman...
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...Thompson says he could not wish any other act of Mr...
...But what of "reconstruction"—the object for which the book has been written...
...Having received an amiable answer to this letter, he went to see the poet in the autumn of 1888...
...He might have done better still if he could have occasionally forgotten that it was his mission in life to be a veritist...
...He tells us the salt tax, "the result of Lord Reading's mediaeval action in certifying over the Legislative Assembly's refusal," has been "definitely smashed by Mr...
...This primal organism was produced by a synthesis of many compounds, consisting of many amino-acid links, some of which approached the composition of proteins...
...He tells us that he is "determined to keep sane over this Indian businesss...
...THE results of scientific research control the wealth of nations and the belief of their peoples," says the first sentence in the late earl of Birkenhead's book about the future, and the last sentence declares: "As I look forward toward the world in which my great-grandchildren may live, and in which I hope they will distinguish themselves, I find a certain > solace in reflecting that my own birthday occurred toward the latter end of the nineteenth century...
...Cornelius J. Connolly...
...Mme...
...Personifying this type is the woman he marries...
...It would be difficult to interpret the processes here described by this distingushed investigator otherwise than in a teleological way...
...Literally thousands of young women in this country every year leave their homes and all that they hold dearest to devote themselves to the teaching of children and young women or to the care of the ailing in the hospitals...
...Elizabeth S. Kite...
...Open until 10 p. m. FOR FEET THAT KNOW NO PAIN Autumn days are pending, Winds o'er dale and hill...
...What Medicine Has Done and Is Doing for the Race, by Sir Humphry Rolleston...
...Not until the seven years are up, and we have been permitted to poke the fire, have we reached the mind and heart of a friend...
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...Ethel Taylor Pendleton, too, is finely wrought...
...But there is still another type, and perhaps the most sympathetic one—the explorer-diplomat...
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...These syntheses would take place countless millions of millions of times until eventually there would be formed a protein complex endowed with the properties of an ultramicroscopic organism...
...Some anxiety was felt from time to time lest a match, carelessly dropped, should set the room in flames...
...A Literary Pilgrim Roadside Meetings, by Hamlin Garland...
...This volume demonstrates that very probably there are more members of religious communities at the present time in the world than there have ever been before...
...The most interesting chapters in Roadside Meetings deal with the lesser lights of literature...
...Here and there throughout the volume, the reader will meet with statements and implications which he will be unable to accept...
...Garland's book, so pleasantly suggestive of vagabondage and chance encounters, stands in reality for the friends and acquaintances he has made during a long life of letters...
...We know only that we live in infinitude, and that history—in other words, change—has been continuous and full of surprises...
...But the following chapter on Evolution Traced Biochemically, by A. B. Macallum, a pioneer biochemist, is highly speculative...
...Garland has a somewhat indiscriminate admiration...
...by birth and training he is bound to a land whose people refuse to admit that even the Civil War had changed their customs...
...It may even be that we have seen the peak of the mechanistic age...
...with that swaggering poseur, Joaquin Miller...
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