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THE 
NINETEENTH CENTURY 
AND AFTER 
AUGUST. 
At War with th3 German Ptcple. Hy Brigadicr-OenCTal F. G. STONE, C.M.G. 
The Imperial C::n:ti:ution: tha New Phase. Dy SIDNEY LOW. 
Canditlons of a Naval Oflonsiv:. By GDllAllD FIKNNE^. 
MiBsnotamia; 
(1) The Recent Military policy of tha Government of Iriitia. 
Bv Major-Gcneral F. C. BEATSON, C.B 
(2) The Tragedy of an Impossible System. By EVEHAIU) O0TE8. 
Cabinot and Ccnvmtlon. By D. C. LATHBUEY. 
The Real Ba3ls ofSemscraoy, 
By EDMOND HOLMES {late Chief Inspector oi Elementary Schools for 
England). 
Christianity and History: a Critical Colloquy. By W. S. LILLY. 
Convocation versus (he Church and the Biilc. By JIAItOLD F. VVYATT. 
The Power of '.hj Puree. By J. A. K. MAKIIIOTT. MP. 
A Pica for Readjustment in the Art- World. By ROBEliT. C. WITT. 
Impreuicns of the Interned in Sv»it2eriand: and of the Vser Front. 
By tlie Iticllt l;.v. liisliop I'.iir.v (Bishop for North and Central Europe). 
Education in Ccp:nhagen: a Ccmmcn Sense Syotcm. By EDITH SELLERS. 
Sketches in England and Gcrmsny— 1914 (conaludsd). 
By the Hon. Mrs WALTER JY)RBES. 
Reconstruction and Reaction. By OKDliGE A. B. DEW.\R. 
The Problems of War Control: after Three Years' Experience. 
By A. CARSON ROBERTS. 
London: SpottiawooUe, Ballantjne & Co., LI<1., 1, New Street Sqiiare. 
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ments to this couatry are as lavish as in an after-dinner toast. 
Of the main part of the book I will only say that Mrs. Hum- 
phrey Ward has brought to her accounts of visits to the front 
that power of observation and of visualising a scene that one 
expects, but does not always get, from a successful novelist. 
Two pictures in the book stand out most vividly in my 
recollection of it. One describes Miss Polk, an American 
woman, engaged in a humane work of rebuilding the ruined 
village of Vitrimont. The other gives an account of an inter- 
view with Sister Julie, the heroic nursing sister of Gerbeviller. 
This is a worthy sequel to England's Effort, no mean service 
in kind rendered by an author of distinction to her country. 
* » ♦ ♦ * 
The war appears to have brought into well-deserved popu- 
larity two little pre-war books which I have before me in 
cheapened editions. Wayside Lamps and Wayside Neigh- 
bours (Longmans, Green and Co., is. net each) are collections 
of tales and sketches, evidently founded on fact, by an 
officer's wife, who went through many sad experiences in the ■ 
South African War, where she did much to alleviate suffering 
and with great tenderness brought words of love and hope 
to the sufferers. Mrs. "Atkins " loves the Army and its best 
traditions, and her tales are chiefly of courage and endurance, 
qualities which she says in her Preface " have become almost 
universal." These tales will bring to many readers a help 
which I should not like to lessen by finding faults, for they 
have a very genuine ring about them and reflect the great 
and simple faith of the teller. 
***** 
The message of the author of Wayside Lamps and its 
Sequel has the merit of wholesomeness — a merit which 
I fancy Dr. Charles Mercier is right in denying to the 
spirituaHsm of Sir Oliver Lodge. The grave danger that the 
mind unnerved by sorrow is likely to be permanently injured 
by the growing habit of having recourse to mediums and the 
other witches and spook-mongers of the modern world is 
the initial justification of Dr. Mercier's book. In 
Spiritualism and Sir Oliver Lodge (The Mental Culture Enter- 
prise, 4s. 6d. net). Dr. Mercier subjects " The Survival of 
Man " to a searching logical analysis. He exposes once 
again the solemn frivohty of the usual " manifestation," 
questions with considerable force the, good faith of the so- 
called scientific attitude of some of the modern professors of 
spiritualism, and makes a challenge which, if not answered, 
must be regarded as unanswerable. At any rate, I recom- 
mend those who have been led by " Raymond " and " The 
Survival of Man " to dabble in the black art, to listen to 
Dr. Mercier before they proceed any further. 
***** 
Of the school of Crashaw and Blake, Lord Braye bewilders 
one's critical judgment by the very simplicity of his Muse, 
whether she is speaking English or Latin. We do not often 
in Lines in Verse and Fable (Longmans, Green and Co) get 
knock-out blows like 
- . . the caterpillar on the leaf 
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief ; 
Lord Braye's attitude of mind is partly explained by his 
being out of sympathy with his country : 
Once an isle of faith 
But for three centuries of pride and power 
The Grand Insulter of the Sovereign See. 
He denounces the prevaiUng spirit of Europe in lines which 
occasionally reach a high level of eloquence : 
Air Europe shuns the things which are God's own ; 
They rush to suicide — crims ultimate, 
Strangers to grace and foreigners to prayer. 
And aliens to the Kingdom of the Lord. 
He particularly laments the destructive use to which the dis- 
covery of flying has been put by mankind, and his feeling is 
intensified by having witnessed the death of the first " victor 
in the Empire-air " : 
Poor Pilcher, when unconscious thou didst lie. 
Breathing last sighs within these very walls, 
No prophet, save his soul had been aflame 
With song tumultuous such as came of old 
From dread Ezekiel, could have then devised 
Such fell employment for thy wondrous wings. 
On the presentation of the Freedom of the City of Belfast to 
Sir Edward Carson, an interesting interlude took place. It was 
suggested that the Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen belonging 
to the Lord Mayor, and which was used by Sir Edward to sign 
the Roll, should be auctioned for the benefit of the Ulster 
Volunteer Hospital. This was readily agreed to by the Lord 
Mayor, and Mr. Thomas E. M'Connell, J. P., promptly mounted 
his seat and offered the pen for sale. Spirited bidding took 
place, the hammer eventually falling in favour of Mr. Robert 
Bamett of Belfast, at a bid of /200. 
