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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH ,7, 1920 (WERDICT OF THE WORLD MUST BE MET, DECLARES DR. W. B. HINSON J Two-Fold Requisite of Christian Minister Is Discussed by Pastor Opinion Created by Work Would Be Helpful to Many, Is Declaration. there is not a straight thing- about the letter S. But those two men who i -.-.1 '.- . i It Is a very small thinR that I a Judped of you or of mfen'a judgment, vi I iudEP not mine own self, but hr thai I wcre thus spoken of were unaware judseth me I th- I-ord. 1 Corinthians ( f ha ( thjg woHd jn which they are iv:3' living, the world of their intimate as- I'R. WALTER REN WELL HINSON. sociates. was watching them; weigh Pastnr the East Side Haptist Church. ; jn aj tne evidence concerning them, 'and slowly but surely coming to a THAT text is in a most interesting d(H.igion, and having reached it they setting. In the first verse of the : pronounced a verdict, "straight as chanter Paul toll rf th Ian. ! w " "prAokert as K." I wonder what fold requisite of a Christian your world thinks or you. 1 wonaer what my world thinks of me. min ister. He says he should be a min ister of Christ, and a steward of the mysteries of God. There came a man j to a church in this town sometime j apro. and it was said of him, and ho I aid of himself two thinps; that he surrounds us as individuals really was a good mixer, and a treat louce thinks about us. Do you not believe Opinion Would Be Helpful. Do you know that it would be help ful to us in some instances to know what the world that most closely man. Stand the two over against the I that sometimes the verdict of this dual qualification that Paul mentions; world of ours would run diverse and ' : be a contrast to the verdict we have a minister of Jesus Christ and a stew- I pronounced upon ourselves. Do you ard of the mysteries of, God! Put them I recall how Burns said: in apposition, a good mixer and min- j Would some power ths Blftie (tie us, ister of Jesus Christ: a great lodge i To ourselves as others see us. fc . . , . . . , . It would from many an evil free us. man and steward of the mysteries of And foolish notion. tod. Man's judgment, even the verdict of And then in the second chapter he ' the world in which we live. I take tells of the essential mmlifiratinn of shame to myself that I nave paid too .a Christian minister. It is demanded ;'f a steward that he be found faith . ,ful. AVhat a comedown. Did you not -xpect to hear that he be a success; ; hat he be spectacular; that he be kin to the skyrocket that goes spit-":-ng its way up into the sky. No. it is i jemanoea or a Christian minister. little regard to that verdict of the world. 1 see my error now. I have always gone through life unfearing and uncareful of very many things. If men praised, well and good. If they blamed, little recked I. I hope I have tried to be faithful to my charge and do mv duty: but I have cared too little, and I have seen it for years ..says Paul, that he be faithful. And ! for the opinion of my fellows. And then Paul takes my text, and he con- ! if I had to live my life over again I structs a ladder, and the four rungs ' would pay more attention to what 01 me laaaer each bear the same name, "judgment." And he says. Down there is a man's judgment: and then you rise and there is the judgment of people sav about me. I think my good old mother first led me astray in this. When I started preaching she said. "Pay little attention to what the Corinthian church: and still as-I vour friends say about you. but pay cendlng. there Is Paul's own judg-I strict attention to what your enemies ment; and then on the top there the judgment of God. Now whether we wish it or not, and whether we are conscious of it or not, the world in which we live is judging us. I laughed last week to hear two say about you." If I had done that I would have been dead 30 years ago. 1 started doing it and weighed 110 pounds and was as tall as I am now. And one day I said. "My foes, let them sav what they will. My friends, I expressions applied as you will eas-I will bear in mind their verdict. And ily see to two different men. Of one I weigh more than 110 pounds tonight. it was said. "He is as straight as H Now in its fundamental primitive form the letter H is nothing but three straight lines. "Straight as the let?r H." And of the other it was id, "He is as crooked as the letter And in its essential simplicity Tet it is a helpful thing I still insist that we know what the world about us thinks of us; because very often the world's sharp eye sees an incon sistency in the character where you fail to perceive it yourself. And it listens to your honeyed accent and catches underneath the snap and hiss of the serpent; and so it were well for us to pay some attention to the judgment of man. And yet Paul says alongside higher and more important things, it is a very little thing that I be judged of man. And in the second place. It Is a little thing that I be judged by you. Now they were the members of a church down in Corinth. I do really believe one reason why so many young men desirous of doing good In the world are kept away from the public ministry of the gospel, is right alongside that judgment of the churches on preachers. It really is enough to make an angel laugh, that a man should go through college and seminary and train and equip himself and pray and study and strive, and then, forsooth, he has to leave a church because , Deacon Robinson's little girl does not like the preacher. It is not much wonder that a young man, self respecting and independent as a young man should be, when he sees the sort of environment into which he must pass if he becomes a preacher, turns -aside.- And this apostle, a great man and independent as the north wind, had heard of. the criticism of this church In Corinth. A pack of old women, gossipers of both sexes, they were. Experience Is Discussed. And he mentioned one thing they said, "his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible." I met one of those members of. the church of Corinth one day. He was a deacon, and he was talking about his pastor, and he told me with en thusiastic relish that the last Sunday night the pastor had made a gram matical error, but the funny thing was this, that while the deacon told me of the one mistake the pastor made, he made two mistakes telling of the one. So evidently he hailed from Corinth. But Paul looks at those small folk and he says, "It is a very small matter that I should be judged of you." But where a man has not got the dignity and self respect and the in dependence of a great man like Paul, that sort of thing does become a sting and an irritation, and some of the good men who have left the pul pit, I doubt not. have left on -that very account and for that very rea son. And I who have had on my heart as a burden for a number of years the diminishing number of young m,en looking to the ministry, think it about time you church mem bers should be careful lest uncon sciously and unwittingly, you by , your wrong Judgment of these minis ters or cnrist and stewards or the mysteries of God, inadvertently place stones of stumbling in the way of the men whom God needs, and whom the church needs most signally today. And yet I see another side of that, though I am illy qualified to speak about it now. There is a judgment that the church pronounces that is worthy of study. I know of few things short of the direct interposi tion of God himself, calculated to do a minister more good than to know just how he is held by the people of the church who know God and fear Christ and are spirit-filled people. The cantankerous should never move a mn from his position, but -when the spiritually minded people who walk with, God have a judgment to give, it should be listened to care fully and it should be heeded. I take that judgment to myself. But now what about you. Tou are a member of this church; but what does the church think of you as a member of the body of Jesus Christ? Home Also Discussed. Let us begin where most of us will wince. What about the home? Would your daughter enjoy sitting in your Sunday school class, woman? Would she be at all likely to accept God's word the more certainly and lovingly because you expounded) it? Does your son think the diaconate an elevated, dignified and almost supreme posi tion because of the way you behave in his presence? What is his judg ment? I wonder if your employer, or your employe, or your chum, or the one you work with in the office. or your husband, or your wife, your son. your daughter, your brother, or sister. I wonder if you would like to stand by the judgment they give con cerning your religion. Serious? Ex ceptionally so! Serious to solemnity. The judgment of the people who know us best. But Paul says, and I dare not fail to point it out to you. that also is a small thing compared with something yet to come. And then in the third place he says, there is my judgment of myself." I instanced- in a recent speech a brave deed that came to my notice. A young an took a sheet of paper on his birthday, and in double column form wrote down on one side what he thought were his excellencies, and then on the other what he thought were his .defects, and the flaws in his character. And then he summed them up according to failure and success, vice and virtue. I believe that would be a healthy exercise for any one of us. For by so doing we should ar rive at some knowledge we have never yet possessed, namely, knowl edge of ourselves. If God's recording angel now told you just the number of minutes you spent last week in prayer, you would be a very much astonished man. For. you think you prayed last week more than you did. And if that Bible suddenly took unto itself a voice and told you of the entire number of books you have not read, and that you do not know are there, it would be a grave ac cusation that would sink into your heart. And if sometimes you paused long enough to analyze the motive prompting an act, and the intention with which you pursued a certain course of right conduct, you would cry out as a man of old did, "God be merciful to me a sinner. I will be confidential a moment to night, and say for over 30 years 1 have prayed God to keep my inten tion clean in preaching. For a man can hold a special meeting and try to get people converted and into the church for an improper motive, even to swell the number of members re ceived and publish abroad his own seeming success. And if one can in advertently become false to his God and to his own better self along such a line as preaching the gospel to save people, what about the rest of you? Vnlue of Judgment Cited. How much more menacing is the work in which you are engaged. And we need each one of us to judge self. You know they say there are ten wise utterances that have come down the centuries. And one consists of two words, "Know thyself." And as you listen to other people you find out how very little they know about themselves, but my friend, did it ever occur to you that you know very little concerning yourself?. I remem ber a man I tried hard and unsuccess fully to reclaim once, and when the odor of dead whisky was enough to make me sick, he solemnly assured me he had not touched whisky for months. How little he knew himself, or he never would have played fast and loose, and become such a consum mate hypocrite. I wonder and psy chologists have never explained it why a liar ever talks about his truth fulness; and) a hypocrite uses more religious phraseology than any preacher In his town.. So there la the judgment of one'a self. And occasion ally it is well to sit in that Judgment seat, and call up witnesses for and against; and carefully weigh all the evidence; and solemnly as In the sight of God come to a decision and render a verdict. But Paul says that is not the cmer thing. Then what in the name of the Lord ia first? Why the Lord. It Is God who judgeth. Oh I think there are some of you who know the ex hilaration of turning away from the judgment of the world to the Judg ment of God. 1 tnink mere are sumc of vou who know what It is to appeal from the Philip drunk of your fel lows, to the Philip sober of the great day. I think some of you have re joiced in the consciousness that when you made your appeal from the lower courts to the supreme court you were sure of the right verdict. The Lord judgeth. Opinion of Self Viewed. Did you ever turn away from even your Judgment of yourself to your God's judgment of you? I remember seeing a man do that once in a most remarkable way. Suffering from dis couragement he called himself names I knew were not appropriate, and when he got through I said, "My brother, that is what you think of yourself?" "Tes." "I will open my Bible to the 6th Psalm and I will tell you what he thinks of you." And I read: "Gather my saints together unto me." And then I said: "Have you any right to villify your father's child as youhave?" The Lord's Judgment! What about it, my brother, my sister? What would bethe Lord's Judgment of you, of me, tonight? You know I have been thinking about that judg ment of the Lord for the last five hours. I had to go out to Gladstone, as I told you, to preach at that Chautauqua. And I told them Jesus Christ is the only Saviour, and that nobody will go to heaven except through Jesus Christ. And there were all sorts of people there. But as I "aid when I was through, when a friend lovingly criticized me. Well. I shall never speak to those people again In time, but In eternity I thank God that I shall be able to look at them and say, "If you went wrong after that aermon I. preached to you in Gladstone Park, it was your fault and not mine." And you know aa I heard that criticism that was so kindly affectioned, I turned away from it and asked the man for whom, I worked, "What have you not to say about that?" O, It Is a great thing to appeal to the Judg ment of God. t But how dare a sinner make that appeal? Hog aignificant that in the garden of Eden when our first par ents had ainned they went and hid themselves. From whom? God! That Is Instinctive with the aoul, to hid from God. Do you know they are saying over in Russia. "We shall have no peace till we get rid of God." And that is the truth. The sort of peace they want, they will never get until they get rid of Hod: and real peace they will never obtain until they find God. Dare I appeal to the Judgment of God? There is only one place In the world where I dare make that appeal. The Pharisee never stood there; that man that went up to the temple whom aometlmes I think the Lord satirized, and who stood there, and you remember he said, "God. look my way." He was a little kaiser be fore the kaiser's time. For ha laid. "I pray lengthily, and I fast, and give tithes, and am respectable, and I am not like that poor derelict of a rubli can over there." Christ's Remark Ponder. And Jesus Christ's remark about that man I' have pondered often. He said. "He prayed alone." He prayed with himself. God paid no attention to him. Heaven had no Interest in him. I have never thought of that but I have said. "God grant I may not pray alone." Ah, you cannot look with calmness and poise on the Judg ment of God while you stand there. But take the other man. the publican, and say. "God be merciful to me a sinner." And go -to Calvary's cross and pray that prayer, and then make your appeal in aa serenity to me judgment of God. For the greatest thing Paul ever wrote is this simple sentence. "That ho might be Just" that is God and Justify everyone who believes in Jesus Christ." I very often say to myself I have not had my sins smoothed over, I have had them settled. And I have got the receipted bill for the debt I owed. And It is receipted In the heart's blood of Jesus Christ. And I can say saved to the uttermost, because Christ my Redeemer paid the sufficient price for my redemption. And now God can retain every bit of hi justice and still justly justify ma when I take the guilty sinner's name and the guilty sinner's Saviour claim. Do you sea how essential a thing It is that you get where you with this apostle can say "Ha Judges me"? And In presence of that fact there Is no other thing that weighs very much. And with no Impertinence, but with a sincere desire to do you good, I ask you, my brother, my sister, what do you think Is God's Judgment of you? Sit back In your pew and commune with your own heart and life. What do you think would he God's Judg ment If In flaming fire he rame now and you mood before him? Won't you make-whatever decision you do make tonight In view of that fact, the Judg ment of the Lord? Are you going out from this 'house steeled aaalnst Ihr truth: making your heart and life like the rocky side of some mountain when the rain beats upon It? fir will you. along with me. In contrition of soul, say. "Lord, too much I have dis obeyed thee, but henceforth I will have my eye fixed on the Lords Judgment. Did I ever tell you of a Illtle child to whom John Wesley said. "My doar. If you saw God. what would you do?" And the llltle child said. "1 would run right up Into his arm." Would you? I would not except to the God re vested to me by Jesus Christ. But I think I really do If Jesus Christ were to come to Portland, I would gn to him and say, "I am not worthy that thou should'' come under my roof or accept my friendship, my service or my life, but be Christ to me, be God to me. be Saviour to me. he Lord to me." Would you do that? Then do you know, I think he must have laid hold of us If we feel that way tn--ards him. It may he Just like a lit tle gold thread that has come down from heaven and touched you: but If you cherish and heed It. It will becom mightier than any cable that ever enabled any ship to withstand the tempestuousness of the mighty ocean, and It will bind you to the heart of God. -I of ' t 4 Thr Crimson Tide, by Robert W Chambers. L. Appleton & Co.. New York city. Mr. Chambers, novelist, in his writ ing is noted for his dash and enter prise. A friend who knows him says that if Mr. Chambers ever went fish ing he assuredly vould "get there" first with a combination of fisher man's luck, the best fishing equip ment and early arrival at the fishing stream. In "The Crimson Tide" Mr. Cham bers is enterprising enough to pic ture lurid conditions at present ex isting among the bolsheviki in Rus sia. He also depicts the activities of J'ussian "reds" to foster anarchy in New York City. The novel has swift changes of action, lots of color and compelling realism. At the same time, it is not for young readers. It visions now and then forbidden love, and a heroine. Miss Palla Dumont. who at first believes in living with a male affinity, without the safeguard marriage. The novel starts in the Russia of today, with bolshevism in power and working among blood and social ruin to achieve Its ruthless ends. Miss Palla Dumont is travelin an auto in Russia to reach her friend, Marie, third daughter of Nicholas Komanoff, ex-czar. AlisA Dumont's driver is an American. John Henry Kstridge. She joins the Romanoff fam ily and Is an unwilling witness to their murder by the bolsheviki. Palla makes one devoted friend. Miss Use Westgard, a Swedish girl, and a sol dier in the famous Russian regiment. the battalion of death. Arrived in New York, by the death of an aunt Palla inherits a small fortune, and seeks a house from James Shotwell Jr.. a recently turned veteran soldier from France, and now engaged in the real estate business. Palla buys the house and keeps it in style. She entertains lav ishly and she and Shotwell fall in love. She proposes a contract mar riage, and he refuses. Bolshevism In New York is fea tared. Palla'f love affair grows in fury and sensationalism. Angelo Puma, moving-picture magnate, is a boldly sketched chTracter. J --"f Basil Evermsn. by Elsie Ping-master. f ; Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston. V"sv Miss Singmaster already has done Aiimirable work in "Katty Gaumer,1 ' m Jettrsburg" and other novels. ln "Basil Kverman" she presents an American novel that Is quite a bit of classic in fine character creation especially in its word pictures of edu cated men and women in a little col lege town just north of the Mason and Dixon line. . The hero. Basil Everman. does not appear as a living entity in the re cital of the novel. We know him as a brilliant American author who had been so superior in literary creation that he "was worth a dozen Long fellows. Bryants and Whittiers" (p. 113). He had been at the time dis cussed dead about 20 years. Verily. .Everman's works followed him. He ruled by his spirit. . s Old Junk, by H. M. Tomlinson. Alfred A. Knapp, New York City. Twenty-one short sketches, written with that polished, natural ease sug gestive of the method of the experi enced literary worker. Mr. Tomlin- son's stories these are mostly of scenes in England, and not all con nected with the late war are 'really worth while. He is a London news paper man. and in the late unpleas antness with Germany, was a war correspondent. This book deserves a better title. j S'atuntl Food and Care for Child and Mother, by Susan Harding Rummler. Ph. B. Rand. McNally & Co., Chicago. Baby-life will be helped and little lives saved by a careful reading of and obedience to lessons in this help ful book of 29$ pages. Questions and answers for the aid of mothers and curses before and after babies' births are furnished. The author is post-graduate In neurology, psychol ogy and philosophy. University of Chicago, and the mother of four children Snake Bite and Other Stories, by Robert Hichens. George H. Dormn Co., New York city. Mr. Hichens pf "The Garden of Al lah" fame has done good work In fashioning these - six short stories. They are spread over a large canvas and the pictures are created there through bold, sweeping strokes. nkA n-, r, -, lnl.rc.rinn .In.,- U jf ytandy desert, in this collection, is "Snake Bite." Its scenes are set j among the sands of the Algerian in the American revolution. Civil war desert, and English, American and Arabs are the types used. Horace Plerpont. rich and American, loves Mrs. Mortimer, wife of Dr. Alan Mor timer, and his love is returned. Pler pont determines on a diabolical plot to accomplish Dr. Mortimer's death. Dr. Mortimer has come to the desert for his health and Is a sort of weakling. Big and strong. Pierpont proposes a long journey over the desert sands by caravan from Ben Mara to Tamhouc ton. and he asks. Dr. and Mrs. Morti mer to join the party. They accept. The Saharan sirocco or sand storm covers all living in its fiery breath, and Dr. Mortimer grows worse. From overhearing what the Arabs said, Dr. Mortimer discovers that his young wife and Pierpont love each other. On being appealed to, Pierpont ad mits the fact. Just then a venomous reptile of the cerastes cornutus variety p. 72) bites Pierpont. Dr. Mortimer alone has the medicine to cure the snake bite. But ought he to save the man who loves Mrs. Mortimer? Shall he save his rival's life? The physician is confused by a terrible temptation. The outcome is sensational. "The Lost Faith" is a rare story, and splendidly written. It depicts Miss Olivia Traill, an American faith healer, who is called on to cure For nal West, whose head has been hurt i ' '''' :'' ' 0m '-' ? 4 x Robert W. Chambers, author of "The Crimson Tide.'' a novel of Russia and Anerlca. by a fall from a horse. West loves the girl, but finds she loves Sir Hector Bumington. For revenge, Fernal, who is slightly insane places a cul ture of typhoid baccilus in wine which Sir Hector drinks. Sir Hector becomes sick, and Miss Fraill is also called on to cure him. The outcome is well handled. The Nomad" is another desert story.- "The Hindu" has power and thrill in it. It features a shadowy Hindu who nearly kills John Lati mer, newspaper owner, with worry. Yes, these tales are unusual and about unusual topics. Leonard Wood: Consevator of , American ism, by l.ieutenant-Colonel Eric Fisher Wood. Illustrated. George H. Doran Co., New York cltv. Curiously enough, our author's name is oou, although he and Major-General Leonard Wood are not connected by blood ties. In a sense, this book is quite an important American biography. It Is intensely and graphically written, and Its array of facts and modesty of tone In descriptive work are commendable. The volume of 351 pages, including index, also Is important in the sense that it is a word-portrait of a doughty native American who probably will occupy much public attention in our political history of the next few months in the contest for' the presi dency of the United States. Who can tell? Major-General Wood was born Oc tober 9, 1890, at Winchester. N. H., and was the son of a country physi cian. In December, 1620, two of Leonard Wood's ancestors Stephen Hopkins and Richard Warren landed from the historic Mayflower, under command of Captain Miles Standish, and fought the Indians two weeks before the Pilgrims landed at Ply mouth Rock. The Wood family fought and other celebrated encounters, and it is calculated that the personal his tories of more than 400 of the same Wood family have been traced and spread upon public records. Much of the first 19 years of Leon ard Wood's life were passed in the bleak Cape Cod country, Massachu setts. Leonard Wood decided to study medicine and planned first to go through Harvard college, but in 18S0 his father died, and shortage of funds sent him directly to Harvard medical school. During his four-year course at this school, it is related that Leon ard Wood supported himself, and upon graduation won a competitive appointment as Interne in Boston city hospital, third among more than a score of contestants. In 1885, Leonard Wood took a step which shaped his entire career, when he passed the examination for the position of assistant surgeon in the United States army. He volunteered for army service in the far west, and was ordered to proceed to Fort Huachuca. Arizona. Ger-nimo. the noted Apache Indian chief, again was on the warpath, and Wood volun teered to join Captain Lawton's force as surgeon the force that chased the Apache chief. Geronimo's record was that he had personally killed 99 white people, and it was known that the Apaches tortured their prisoners be fore they killed them. Leonard Wood had no previous ex perience In horsemanship, yet he mounted a vicious, unbroken broncho ! that everyone else had "passed up." ' He conquered and rode the animal. The chase after Geronimo lasted 21 months, and so much endurance- was possessed both by Lawton and Wood that they were the only two officers who started in the chase and finished It, when Geronimo surrendered. Leonard Wood's services in ' the Spanish-American war, his appoint ments as governor of Santiago, gov ernor of Cuba, governor of Moro prov ince, as military administrator, com mander of military departments In this country, chief of staff of the United States army, his work as in spiring genius at the Plattsburg training camp, etc. are all described. These activities are well known. The author maintains a discreet silence as to Major-General Wood's political aspirations if he has any. Major-General Wood's pleasant family life is mentioned. It is stated also that he is an Episcopalian (p. 45). takes charge. Dale puts the girls on horses and by making a wide de tour on horseback he and his party dodge Beasley, who finds tlat his ambuscade has failed. Dale loves Helen, but is too proud to tell her so, thinking that he is not good enough for her. He goes to his hut in the dense woods and, with his tame lion, Tom. his tame bear cub, deer, etc., he passes the winter. Auchinloss dies, and Beasley form ally notifies Helen that because he Is strong and might is right he and she ought to get married, as he is the real owner of the ranch property. Helen refuses. Beasley's outlaws carry off Miss Bo, thinking it was her sister. Helen sends word to Dale to come and help her. With the aid of his tame lion Dale manages to track and rescue Bo. He proposes to look for Beasley and shoot him, in the approved proce dure of the wild southwest of those days, but Helen, as a young woman of religious convictions, will not con sent to what she classes as murder. The Beasley-Dale-Carmichael feud is on. What Dale and Carmichael, the lovers, do to the enemy, to win out, makes an exciting recital. THEr LITERARY PERISCOPE Al- Devliverance, by E. L. Grant Watson, fred A. Knapp. New York City. Here we have a delicately fashioned i BIIU 1UUIIUCU IIUTC1 VI CI" ,1 I lish country life, describing people worth knowing. The heroine, Susan, is too nervous and finely attuned for this workaday world. She works out her own salvation, alone; with some j irouDie. The American Credo, by George Jean Na than and H. L. Mencken. Alfred A. Knopf. New York city. A series of essays on current Amer ican topics essays which will be greeted with mingled assent and dis sent mostly .dissent. The Man of the Forest, by Xane sGrey. Hamper &. Brothers, New York city. Arizona, its wild woods, cougars. Apaches, ranches, cowboys and out laws, in the old daya when federal law practically was unknown all these elements and more form the subject of this picturesque, powerfully-constructed novel of the south west. The story has such compelling in terest that it makes the reader, If he be a red-blooded, virile man, sit up o' nights to finish it. It also is a pretty love story, about four young people two young men and two young women and has charming word-pictures of wild scenery. Only weaklings won't like It. ' Al Auchinloss, elderly and crabbed, is the owner of a ranch of more than 2000 acres in Arizona. He sends word to his favorite niece. Miss Helen Rayner, 20 years old, then living in Missouri, to come and live with him, as he wants her to fall heiress to his property when he dies an event which seems not to be far distant. Beasley, a semi-outlaw, and who had been befriended by Auchinloss years previously, has the mistaken idea that he is the old rancher's part ner, and the latter's sole heir. He determines to kidnap Miss Rayner, on the way from the nearest rail road station, and confides this plan to certain fellow-outlaws. In a hunt er's cabin in the wilderness. Un known to Beasley and his wild allies, one Milt Dale, forest-bred and pro fessional hunter, had previously taken shelter, to sleep in the upstairs portion of the hut, and to his amaze ment is an unwilling hearer of the unfolding of the plot to ruin the young woman. Dale goes away and calls into coun cil four young men Mormon friends and ranchersJohn, Roy, Joe and Hal Beeman--and they join him in his plan to defeat Beasley and the latter's allies. The Mormons and Dale are natural horsemen, used to living in the open, and are dead shots. - ' Miss Rayner and her 16-year-old sister, Bo, arrive at the railroad sta tion and And to their alarm that they have had as a fellow-traveler Harve Riggs, boaster and bully and in love with Helen to the latter's great dis- gUBt. Dale, also, is at the station, and bo is a dashing cowboy Las Vegas Tom Carmichael. The latter falls in love with Miss Bo Rayner, a born flirt. Riggs attempts to boss Helen and her sister, but succumbs to the determined Dale, who immediately l'ire of Youth, by Henry James Forman. Little. Brown & Co., Boston. Quite a readable, entertaining present-day novel about love and the search for a ruby pendant, that was a family jewel. The Strange Case of MortimerFenley, by Louis Tracy. Edward J. Clyde, New York City. A puzzling, well-told mystery novel, depicting the cause of a banker's murder, near London, England. A "Scotland-Yard" detective case. There and Here, by Allen Tucker. Duf field & Co., New York City. Twenty-two sterling, pulsing poems, reflecting the beauties of nature and also war-scenes in France. SUBWAY NEED' FORESEEN Magnate Predicts Huge Gains in London Traffic in Few Years. LONDON. Prediction that a rap Idly increasing number of under ground railways would have to be built in London to take care of the growing traffic was made by Lord Ashfield of Southwa.l (Sir Albert Stanley), the Anglo-American rail way magnate, in an address before the American Luncheon club. "London today is not only the greatest aggregation of people," he said, "but ' it is also the greatest traveling city of the worldV. People who live in London have really lost all desire to walk any considerable distance. Within the next 10 years I judge that London's traveling pop ulation will have, increased at least 6.000,000. I. TREE ANESTHETICS-URGED Indian Scientist Says Treatment Helps in. Transplanting. LONDON. The theory that trees should be treated with anesthetics to enable them to withstand the shock of transplantation has been advanced here by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist. Sir Jagadish showed' photographs of large trees which he had success fully transplanted in Calcutta in spite of their age. Realizing, he explained, that the difficulty of successful trans plantation lay in the shock of removal and that nerve effects in plants and animals were on similar lines, he treated these trees with anesthetics and they bore the uprooting and re moval well. Timber Sale Is Xoted. CRANBROOK. B. C. The Crows' Nest Pass Lumber company has se cured J5,000 acres or land and timber, and it is reported that the transfer will result in. the establishment of a new industry with. $1,000,000 capital. ETHEL R. SAWYER, Director of Trading Class Library Aeso ciation, Portland, Oregon. SIR ERNEST HOLDER WILLIAMS, president of the London firm of Hodder & Stoughton, and vice- president of George H. Doran com pany, arrived in this country recent ly full of optimism regarding the 1920 book trade. He says the war has multiplied readers in England by at least five times. Many people ac quired the reading habit in the dark days of the war, as it was about all there was left them to do. Soldiers and sailors brought back the habit from, the trenches and billets. In addition a whole new reading public has arisen largely among those whom war industries made prosperous. These working men and women, curiously enough to many, have stimulated th sale of the classics in cheap editions as well as of certain kinds of two shilling popular novels typified by Berta. Ruck and Ethel Dell. A pro letariat conversant with the classics really does sound dangerous. What is the censor thinking about? The dominating figures in the Eng lish literary field at present, accord ing to the more conservative critics, are' Frank Swinnerton and J. C. Squires. All of the contemporary English novelists, except possibly Mr. Wells, he says, have larger sales and a greater prestige in the United States than in England. O. Henry, for instance, though a bit stiff for the British public to "get" at first, is being quoted all over England now. Sir Ernest was struck with the dif ference between our railway book stands, which are largely purveyors of periodicals, and the English stands which are' usually as completely stocked with books as the best Amer ican book shops. The general scarcity and inaccessibility of book stores in this country made him wonder that books sell as widely as they do. - Oliver Herford has dedicated his latest book, "This Giddy Globe," to President Wilson in these words: "With all his faults he quotes me still." It is said that Mr. Herford has never before conferred this honor upon any other president of the United States. Josephine Preston Peabody is pre paring to play a little literary game with the reading public. Mrs. Marks has published nothing new since her collections of lyrics, "Harvest Moon," the war having been, as she inti mates, too much for her to allow of poetic creation. She is at present, however, "writing a play with each hand." These plays are to be pub lished under a nom de plume and Mrs. Marks looks forward to watching the public reaction to her orphaned worka What ho! the critics and the seasoned literature tasters! Close up ranks now and double the guard and let us not permit this spy from the authors' camp to get behind our defenses. Someone might ignorantly speak lightly of one who "has arrived," mistaking her for a negligible new comer if the real name is not to ap pear as sponsor for the work. This Dalsy-Ashford game of hide and seek for authors puts the critics and read ers on their mettle to prove that they really know literature and no mere ly famous names in literature. David Morton's book, "Ships in Har bor, and Other Poems," was. awarded a price of $500 by the Lyric society of New, York. Three prizes were of fered, the others being won by Ed ward Arlington Robinson for his "Launcelot," and by Clement Wood for his book entitled "Jihovas." This is the second prize within six months awarded to Mr. Morton. The annual prize of the Poetry society of Amer ica went to his poem, "Wooden Ships." Irving Bacheller, in discussing his new novel. "A Man For the Ages, said that he had chosen Lincoln for the hero of his story because he felt that Lincoln and the things he stood for needed especial emphasizing at this time .of great social and Indus trial unrest all over the world. A liberal dose of Lincoln, his principles and his -spirit, all through our Amer ican life is the best cure for bolshev ism. It Is Interesting In this connec tion, to read in the autobiographical "Education of Henry Adams" how na tional and political expediency de manded trfat in his day this great American of whom the world Is now so proud, should be furnished with horns, hoof and tail so that he ap peared to even perfectly honest and right minded folk like W. M. Thack eray as a worthy son of the father of evil himself. Edward O'Brien's annual compila tion of "Best Short Stories of 1919" lists as the finest short story which appeared in American periodicals from November. 1918, to September, 1919. "The Fat of the Land," by An- zia Yezierska. . Two weeks ago we quoted from the report of the Interchurch World movement of North America concern ing the great popularity among the Jauanese of certain translations of English and American fiction. Now we learn from the same source that in China also English literature is taking hold. The favorite reading of the stately Chinese mandarin as he rides in his sedan chair through the streets of Pekin or Shanghai is, we gather, that Sunday school library favorite of a generation ago, "The Wide, Wide World." For me the glory of the mandarin has steadily faded since reading these words. 1 didn't expect him to know English necessarily, but I did attribute to him a knowledge of literature and or life. But it Just occurs to me per haps that Is the explanation his In terest in literature and life. For instance, if you really wanted to learn about China and the Chinese and if in the United States there was a body of Chinese Buddhists and Tao-ists and whatever other vareties of religion flourish in China, and if these peo ple were conducting Chinese schools for Americans and teaching and preaching with the backing of their co-religionists in China, what more natural than that you should go to them for books representative of the literature of their country. And sup pose you were given translations of juvenile Sunday school books or a veneration ago or allowing for dif ferences in racial speed standards, of ten generations ago, at least certainly antedating the development of the young China movement. If you were In earnest you would doubtless read but doubtless also you would think strange thoughts of an incompre hensible people! Moreover your ef forts to square present living with such past unrealities would produce a hopeless tangle of mtsjuugments. Chinese readers are reported to have a marked partiality for Ameri can girls' books dealing with boarding school life. Chinese women are pa thetically eager for books of travel and those portraying woman's life and customs in other lands. Familiar and human natural demands! Here is an opportunity for some real work to be done in furthering international concord and understanding but it can be done only by giving the fori eigner of the best of our national product the honest, earnest effort ot our real writers, not outgrown ex periments in the history of our book writing. If "East is east and west Is west," then surely "never the twain shall meet" in anything but discord over the literary board where any but the finest products of our fin est minds are served. Good Intentions and a high moral aim will not hit the bu'.lseye If the gun is wobbly and the powder is largely chalk dust. The report also mentions that a commis sion of prominent American women, headed by Mrs. Edgar Grell of Phila delphia, is on its way to the orient to spend six months in studying fur ther means of popularizing American literature. It is encouraging to read six months Instead of six weeks or six days. As a reminder of what has been done to disseminate a real knowledge of a people's literature and nationa', culture among a foreign race, atten tion should be called to that monu mental work of the Loeb classical collection, of which 100 volumea have now been published. This work was planned seven years ago by Mr. Loeb who chose as his staff of editors Pro fessors E. Capps, T. E. Page and W. H. D. Rouse. 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