THE DNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 
Social Duties from the Christian Point of View. ee Charles 
Rachrnond Henderson. 
330 pages, 12mo, cloth; net $1.25, postpaid $1.37 
Few students of human life in all its phases have so iiead and 
practical a view-point as the author of Industrial Insurance in 
the United States. Professor Henderson believes the church has 
a social duty to perform, and states his convictions clearly and 
forcibly in his discussions of social duties relating to the family, 
neglected children, workingmen, the business class, the leisure 
class, urban and rural communities, the state, the nation, and 
international relations. The treatment is comprehensive; for 
example, under “ Marriage and Divorce” he treats of the defini- 
tion of marriage, its economic effects, effects on health, social 
needs, social action, the birth of children, the attitude of the 
church toward divorce, and the duty of ‘kindness. Although 
intended for advanced Sunday-school classes the book makes a 
wide and general appeal. 
Service. Every phase of the subject, from courtship to international rela- 
tions, is taken up in order with such directness and vigor as to delight 
any reader. 
Christian Advocate. Mr. Henderson’s conception of a church, informed, 
intelligent, and determined in its efforts to bring about social perfection, 
is an inspiring one. 
The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry. By Myra Reynolds. 
410 pages, 8vo, cloth; net $2.50, postpaid $2.70 
No phenomenon in the history of English literature is more 
interesting than the growth of the appreciation of nature by the 
poets. Professor Reynolds has traced this development from 
the times of Dryden and Pope, through a legion of major and 
minor poets, to Thomson, Goldsmith, and Gray, with the pains- 
taking care that distinguished her work in The Poems of Anne, 
Countess of Winchilsea. Extremely original and valuable are her 
investigations into the arts parallel to poetry. She then treats 
of fiction from Richardson to Mrs. Radcliffe, nature in garden- 
ing, the appreciation for nature manifested in published travels, 
and the attitude of painters toward landscape painting. An 
important chapter discusses the influence of nature as a back- 
ground for portraiture in the work of such painters as Sir Joshua 
Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Wilson. The book is illustrated 
with rare prints of the time. 
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