Life — May 21, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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A RECENT PHOTOGRAVIT sense of justification. A sturdy tale with a trick of haunting the imagina- tion. Tue Insine or tHE Cup, by Winston Churchill, A fine fictional summing- up of the more or less inarticulate convictions of thousands of Americans on religious matters and methods. Joan Tuurspay, by Louis Joseph Vance. Another plain tale of the New York underworld—this time the underworld of the stage. A grim and grimy but lively and very living tale. Tue Passtonate Frienps, by H. G. Wells. A fine novel in which, back of the so human shuttlecockings of its principals hetween strength and weakness, one sees enacted a spiritual drama. Ticer, by Witter — Bynner. A tabloid “masterpiece. A “blank-verse play as lithe and lethal and lovely as its namesake. High Grade Outfitters in General Ideas Crowops, by Gerald Stanley Lee. A mustard-seed book. It has a grain of faith in human nature in it. And it has already moved a few mountains. It may move you. OF THE ATLASES Crowns Junior, by Gerald Stanle Lee. A chip off the above block, 4 sample by intention, but a substitute ata pinch. Cuntsts AND Post-I MpresstontsM, by Arthur Jerome Eddy, An intelligent layman's interesting discussion of the new art movement. Illustrated in color and monochrome. Enjoyment or Poetry, by Max Eastman. A glorious book, alive to its last letter; a-tingle with fresh per- ceptions of beauty and radiating sug- gestions. Tue Interpretation of Dreams, by Professor Sigmund Freud. Difficult reading yet a work of uncanny interest for those who care to see the hidden workings of their secret minds, Japanese Frower Agraxcratent, by Mary Averill. Hints to beginners in an ancient and exquisite art. A fine hook to practice with the next few months. Tue Patuos or Distance, by James Huneker. Essays on art and artists; fine in form and fully in touch with the critical literature of France and Germany. A Prerace to Potttics, by Walter Lippmann. In which we see real red blood circulating in the veins of that 917 deadliest of pseudo-sciences—political economy. Sex-Oricix — Derermination, — by Thomas E. Reed, M.D. A picturesque theory as to the origin of sex and an allegedly proved method of pre-deter- mining and controlling it. Sociat. Forces 1x AND AND Aseica, by H. G. Wells. A series of essays (1909 and later) which give a most stimulating commentative review of Wells's attitude toward our civili- zation. Tix Unconscious, hy Morton Prince, Lectures for graspable and intensely interes position of the human personality" as this authority on abnormal psychology sees them, Wuat Men Live By, by Richard C. Cabot, M.D. An uplift hook with a lift in it, Papers by a delightful writer of ripened outlook dealing with the functions of Work, Play, Love and Worship in our daily lives. Stunts— Vaudeville and Select Cabaret SIONS OF AN TNCONSTANT Max. Anonymous. Butterfly botaniz- ings in Lov arden, A clever bit of self-revealment ; true enough to he ter- rible, yet naughty enough to be nice. Tur Cox Tue Gaxoex Wituour Wats, by Coningsby Dawson, A pagan but polished tale. The amusing history of a semi-Puritan’s hesitant approaches to love. Maaic, hy G.K. Chesterton.“ Fatty’s 4 as Shaw has christened it. An insolently clever hit which, while it is making faces at the matter-of-fact, lets the Eternal Riddle steal up and touch us on the shoulder. Here Ant Lavirs, by James Steph- ens, A_book of short Stories which figures in the present list because it contains “Tue Tueee-Pexxy Pisce”, a delicious mixture of colossal blas- phemy and sly Hibernianism. STRANGE Stories From TIE Lopcr oF SURES, translated from the Chinese by George Soulié. Ghost stories which have a_ wonderfully naive appearance, but which leave exotic suggestions of uncanniness behind them. Vain Ostations, by Katharine Ful- lerton Gerould. Stories that frankly threaten to raise gooseflesh on the backs of our imaginations and thew make good, comichooks.