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"The Twilight of the "White Races."
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THE EAST AND THE WEST.
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From an early period long be- fore the Book of Danial there have been prophets who have foretold dark things, the letting loose of Sutan, the return of some tyrant, the cataclysmic end of all things.
This book might almost ba ranked with books of this sort. When I had finished it, almost in- stinctively I took down from the shelf Charles H. Pearson's "Na- it tional Life, and Character." is another book of a, similar kind,
PRIME.
Clear open fields with silver
stacks; Sardonyx
tracta, Reaped of the goodly harvest
yield.
pumpkins, earthly
Under the sun's emblazoned
Khield:
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Buddy maple and rugged oak-- Heraldie foliage in jewelled cloak, Bowering the lane, bounding the
lake..
Shimmering rippled reflections
wake
-LUCILE BARRETT, in Harper's Magazine."
but much cleverer, written about shirty years ago. Bolshevism, the Great War, and the Chinese Peril had not then hovered in sight, but otherwise many of the features are similar.
What is M, Muret's thesis? Practically, this. The Great War has let the Yellow, Black, and Coloured Races see the seamy side of our White civilisation, it has let the other great religions see that Christianity is as im- potent as any other creed when men's passions are roused, and leaves a larger rift between preaching and practice than any
White Man's religion came the eclipse of the White Man's civil isation. But Christianity never really had any deep hold on the Yellow, Black or Brown peoples, The very fact that bellefin its tenets is petering out at its very source takes the driving force out of missionary effort. The Chris tianity of Archdeacon Paley (and of the only forms this is one suitable for missionary" propa- ganda) is now almost a dead letter with many in the higher ranks of the Church.
eyes as he comes across a non- cxistent word or curious phrase indicating that the English Jan gunge was not the translator's mative medium: These will doubt. less be rectified when a second edition is called for.
["The Twilight of the White T. Races" by Maurice Muret. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London.].
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"The Studio" for November, a
received
"
One dignitary re- peats this tenet, another, that Practically every article of the copy of which the "China Mulk haa from- the London Apostles Creed has been so watered down or explained away publishers, fully maintains the high as to mean anything or nothing standard set by this well-known Heaven and Hell have gone into magazine of fine and applied art, being profuse in illustratione the limbo of psychological mental states: the Virgin birth has be covering almost every aspect of come a form of parthenogenesis, modern art from the classically or has faded to a mere misinter-simple to the bizarre and the pretation; while the resurrection
A translation by Mr.... has been made so figurative that grotesque.
Herbert B. Grimsditch p M. even the clergy can say with the Valotairy's article on Alexander poet...
Lavovieff, whose work reveals power and a strange, seductive per- sonality. is given pride of place, Messrs. followed by articles on Stark Bros.' distinctive furniture, the charming book illustrations of Pjerre Brissaad, the paintings of Mr. T. C. Dugdale, the beautiful
Now he is dead, far hence he
lies
In the lorn Syrian town; And on his grave with shining
eyes
The Syrian stars look down. When auch is the state of belief or unbelief at the fountain head.
This historic old coach in whic gathered much of the a about England, and in which he h Charles Dickens rode material for the Plckwick papers.
of them! that the economic sys.how can anybody, suppose that tem is little more than a class the pagan races believed? They tyranny to be swept from the earth.
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In appearance there is some- thing to be said for these indict- ments. Many thinkers have made them-we have been on the brink of the crater many times.
didn't.
In other respects the book seerns, no less illogical. You can- not eat your cake and have it. If the Japanese have reached their position in Asia by adopting Western civilisation we cannot In general outline we think all,
assume that they will retain the such writers fail to appreciate to mastery of Asia by kicking down the full some fundamental biolo- the ladder by which they climbed. gical principles. Was it not If they reach a nobler and higher Herbert Spencer who suggested type of civilisation than that half jokingly that the biological which they learned from the West process seemed to be drifting to all power to them. But one of wards universal parasitism--the the signs of this will be the eman- whcle organic community keeping cipation of the East not the exter- itself alive by taking in its neigh.mination of the West. bours' washing. But there are:
The book has. some shrewd really no biological reasons for judgments in it as well as some supposing that the fitter biological mistaken ones. We do not think types have been or will be sub-that any idealist principles of merged by the mass reproduction Anglo-Saxondom ought to have of the less thoughtful and the favoured Japanese expansion in less organised. It does, however, China (p. 260). appear to be quite true that high- ly organised types specialised for specific conditions often seem to die out when those conditions die appear, their place being taken by other highly organised types.
In actual detail and in the logic of his conclusions we do not think M. Muret very convincing. He has, of course, headed every chapter with a Jeremiad from some neurotic Russian or alienist. But one cannot help feeling that his arguments are pressed home from what are slender premises which might with equal truth be reversed and read the other way.
M. Muret supposes that Chris tianity and its pacifist tenets had taken a great hold on the black races and non-Christian peoples; and that the war undermined this. With the bankruptcy of the
I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT DINTY
pottery of Sophie Verryn Stuart, the sculpture of Ernst Barlach, Mr. A. B. Web's colour woodcuts and the usual Notes from the principal art centres. Not the least striking features of an excellent, issue are three etchings by Allan McNab.
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CLIMBING.
His first surprise was, to And the skies, not as he expected, within his reach, but still as far off as before: hia amazement increased when he raw a wide extended region lying on the opposite side of the mountain; but it rose to astonishment, when he beheld a 'country at a distance, more beautiful and alluring than even that he had just left behind.- GOLDSMITH in "The Citizen-cf the World."
SOCRATES' ELOQUENCE.
On the other hand the author's rémarks on the Americans in China are worthy of "note. "Americans, who are, in spite of their good intentions, notably ung pagb observant and imprudent when
When we hear any other speaker, do not in the least understand the even a very good one, bo produces Asiatics, produce the worst re- absolutely no effect upon us, or not suits. As they are young and much, whereas, the mere fragments optimistic, their naive and crude of you and your words, even at faith in democracy and science second-hand, and however imper- makes them unsuitable teachers fertly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and And again, "A Far Eastern child who comes within hearing of My heart leaps people, old and complex, and with them.
me ·and
my eyes as subtle a. genius as China, re-within
'observe that mains a sealed book for the rain tears when I hear them. -many Americans of average culture who And I
others are affected in the same in "The have flocked to that country."
The book has no index and is manner-ALCIBIADES,
(Jowett's Transla- poorly documented. The English Symposium." reader now and then rubs his tion.)
for China."
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