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The title o[ this book is unfortu- nate. It does not sound like Julian Huxley, and it. suggests a personal and impulsive 'assertion. of faith, which it is very far f rom being. It is a carefully ordered attempt to think siMultaneouslv in* ethical and biological terms., If any reader thinks sucli an attempt fo re-doomed to fail- uire, lie- had better not read, the book, since it assumes a point of view 50 far successfully eniied to ýexpertsjii science. Qta scientists, it lias beeni main- tained, tliey ican have nothinig to say on ethical and religious subj ects. True enougli; but Mr. Huxley lias formed. or lias- inherited from Thomas Hux- ley, a. view of life in whidh sucli bur- deus as lie assumes here- are bindinig. He would like to call is view lin- man; and expand it liere as',a form of "Scienitific H-umanism." Prejudice, and recent distortions of. the phrase, pre- vet'thf at and have com pelled the sub-- stitute titie. Advances in bio.logical research have brouglit that science to a point where it lias, whether wve like' it or flot, -a bearing on practically al lbu- mail problems, includinig the control Of 0 ur environ ment,, the development of individuals, the developiit of the race, and. finally, the intangibles of faith and belief. It lias these bearingsý itcannot avoid having them - and thierefore, M\r. Huxlev bas argued, it is better for those. who are conversant with the science at first hand to arti- culate it with etliical and religionis. thinking, i,îstead of leaving tlings to d(rif t as tliey *ray.. THE LIFE 0F IBSEN. By Halvdaîi Kolit. New York. The American- Scandinavian Foundation. W. \\. Norton and company. Professor Kolit's admirable, book, almost idolatrous în» its attitude, to- ward Ibsen' s genius, tells frankly and honestly the storyý of l is lif e. The ex- planiations of the orîiins and sourcesý of the plays-'are of great value. In front of the theater in Christi- ania, there are two statues of 'Nor- way's greatest mien-Ibsen and B.jortn- *A teller of tali' tales is Major C.- Court Treatt, 1Engish sportsman; ex- plorer and photographer, in his "Out of the Beaten Tra'ck." Oue tale lias to do with silvery- fish that leaped from 'an African stream over the authof s motor. boat; another tellsof a tribe of- Dinkas whose- idea of a friendly salutation 'is to squirt smnall drops of spittie, on, My chestl"; and lie "sticks to lis story"l that a witch doctor. in, order to produce rain "placed a young girl in a kneeling position facing a goat, also kneeling; and in this attitude they remnained some timfe _.,. . until eventually the girl. produced definite sounds of. bleating and the goat uttered seem- ingly humhan.-like cries.e" *Major:Treatt hunted elephants, na- tive'. fashion with long elephant spears; he followed lion trails, and can tell first hand of the customs and hiabits of this feline -monarc1i; he .'went native" for a yea r,ý living with a little known African tribe. Althougli a hunter. the Major did nmost of his. shooting with a camnera, and his book is illutsrated with f orty-six pictures~ that he himself snapped. The author writes as a sport.sm-an rather than as a journialist-vigorou:s- ly, concretely,. and to the point; andl he has the gift of telling the sort of thing his readers wanit to*know. In a reading world 'flooded with book-, illuminating Africa, "Out of the Beaten Track" will' stili stand oui forý its sincerity- and its appeal to- the adveîîture thiat is ini cach of us.--Ntary% Winner Hughies. Former Glencoe Main Is Noted Author-Poet Arcl bald MacLeish, formecrly of Gylencoe, li as an article is Iast week's issue of -The Saturday RZeview oèf .iterature"' entitled "To the,_Young Men of Wall Street,. .Mr. MacLeish, -who is at present on. the staff of "Fortune" mnagazine. is one, of the Most notable. of the y9ungcr Amnerican poets. Lie is the author of "The Pot of Earth" 'anid "iThie. Hamflet of A. MýacLeish," to Mention but two of his volumes. His n ew book "Conquistador" is shortly to be published. Bernard Fay's littie volume gives no evidence of such vast researches as lay behind "The RevolutionarySpirit in France and America" and "Ben- jamin Franklin"; but those researches have contributed largelyto his undér- standing of the eépoch in hand. More clearly .than in, any' other, study, the' figure of, Washington 'stands forth in its relation :to the European ,and American backgrounid. For the rest, Professor Fay is content' to reiy on some haî.f dozen of American re- searchers,. presenting no'notable con. 'tribution of his ::oWn. Washington.,waàs pot a democratic republican nor yet a republican aristo- crat; lie was a. simon-pure répuiblican, No better definition of the simon- pure republican is needed than Fay's own account of Washington's con- duct. In spite of repeated declarations that lie was personally "an aristocrat" and "a dictator" in war and peace. his'book show-s beyond question that lie %vas neithinEven when Congress clothed him with dictatorial powers. hie was so loath to use thern, f earin-g to alienate the people, that Congress itself rebuked him. Disentangled f rom dubious or mis- leading words, Fay's portrait is thar of the man in his habit as lie ived.* a rebuke alike to the idolators and the debunkers. American school: children ...arCe told that . lie %vas a great soldier, a great presiclent. a great -sag e. They are told that lie was' good., generouis, untiring, disiîîterested, *suiblimie. And no doubt it is righit thiey should be 'told ail this. But the chidren are not told that..* liv lis, love of the land lie directe, : thie United States to the est; that lie... had given thernia. strong cen- t ral gpvern.menýt. in order to de- stroy their tendency to quarrel. amiong tleieseives.; and that hle in- structed them to, love this country above everything else.ý The .chil- dren -are not told. that he wýa.s tlhe frst great modern. politician: who hiad a perfect instinct for public opinion... NEW HIARRINGTON BOOK Prof. Harry F. Harrington, (lean Endoried by two men of letters VACHEL LINDSAY-"Good poems and excellent crafttmanship." LEW SARETT-'Wh.1.a realIy fine first 'booki If is' markeâ by genu- ne b.auty."' CliANDLER'S Foutan Square Evaànstop VALENTII ILIIAIR NES! Pretty Ornes clever Orne$ Andc Oh, 'Such Funny Ornes! Place and Tally Cards for the Valentine Party 1724 Orrington Avene Orrlngton Hotel BIdg. Evaaistorn Eunice Tietjens,' Chicago' poet, is nowv managing editor of a new maga- .zine, The World Around, published by the Inter-Continental Publishing company, 201 Northi Wells street, Chii- cago. It is aimed 'at the general pub- lic. Miss Tietjens and lier husband,. Cloyd. Head,.'the dramaist. recently -lurned from a tripto the Southt Seas. taken uy lus iatriertI'l le I~ a, o of Norway at 'Hamsund bay, and Thoimas D. Vaughian,' Boston: Ricli- when the famous writer later wanted ard G. Badgér; Just a Letter aind a pseudonym lie took "Hamsund." A Other Poenis, by William Ambrose caréless typesetter left off the final Henderson, Boston: 'May and coni- "d." It is interesting tliat Hamsun's pany; Columibia Poetryv 1931, New- penýname first appeared over an arti York : Columbia University Precss:. cIe on'Mark Twain, who became rfa- Father: An Anthology of Verse,' by mous to- the world by lis own pen- Margerv Doud and Cleo M. Parsley, name. E. P. Dutton and company. IJR p ES