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human nature. Love is the terrible problem that he presents universe and "areation's final | a obazactar who seems more arj law."

less his mouthpiece turns over Chu Hsi's doctrines have been remedy after remedy in his mind, denounced by superficial students but cannot find one that will be Some Notable Books of the as materialistic and atheistic scceptable. They are not all too Dr. Brace candidly confesses that easy to help, even in the rare. he himself shared that view until cases where there is a genuine f De. J. Persy Bruce, MA. D. he began to study the writings of desire to help them, these men of Lit.. has produced a notable the school at first-hand, when he the lost generation that comes volume on Chu Hsi and His was gradually convinced of his between safe and established Mastars" (Probsthain and Coferror.

middle-age and lighthearted class 24-1 The volume contains A

that was "100 young for the sympathetic acesans of the fire

war" They are shown in this philosophers belonging to the

quietly-written remarkable book, Sung school, as well as a masterly

in their stage of piteous de discusion of the system as it final-

moralisation, always

on - the ly emerged from the hands of

verge of the underworld, but Chu Hsi.

managing. by who knows what shifts, to keep a footing in their own. All cases are naturally not so difficult as the case of the author's Kenneth who, after all,; was more or less impossible to look after effectively. His bitter and dramatic outburst on page

It was

FOR THE NATURALIST.

Mr. A. Thorburn, F.ZS, has written and illustrated a book on Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Britain and Ireland "(Longmans. Grean and Co... · £5,5s). The not until a thousand author needs to introduction Sears after the introduction of among sportsmen-in that field Buddhism that the scattered he stands alone. But perhaps thoughts of successive ages began Mr. Thorburn as

artist may

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to crystallise into a great world-exceed a little in his passion philosophy which was destined to for fidelity. He dominate the Chinese mind down to show us how the so-called old to the present day. The first im- English pheasant differs from the 201 draws all the reader's sym- pulse came from Chou Tun-1 (A.D. too dominant Chinese, he is so in-pathy to him, "a faished, future- 1017-1073), a high-minded scholar sistent on marking the variations less man, still some years under and otheial, who penned a short in the grouse's plumages, he is so thirty, with twenty friends but pregnant treatise on the fun-anxious we should not miss the among the dead for one there, damental thesis on "the twofold green line over the teal's eye, that was to help him now. And it assertion of the unity of the Great perhaps here and there he crosses might have been that after all he Source from which 221 things pro-from-art into the territory of wasn't worth helping. Perhaps be¦ ceed and the essentially ethicaifcoloured photography. At day was essentially unbelpable. Per- character of that source." Three rate, one must confess that the haps he ought to have been swept later philosophers developed the charge is arguable.

out, with the rest of the debris of germs of thought in the writings But the naturalist is disposed his time. But one thing he did. of Chon Tun-i, and Enally the to maintain that even if he does. He existed. He was to be whole system was summed up the trespass is half a virtue, A reckoned with... and re-stated in the crowning the worst the bird lives; and

The book is not all painful or work of Chu H4 (1130-1200). if you watch game birds care all propaganda. It is love story

The conception of the universetull

their repose you too, and à living one, and it has in the old Canon of Changes was will again and again experi- drama in it. The old lady, peer- entirely dualistict all things took¦ence the sensation of looking ata ing in at her familiar room, their rise from the interplay of painted thing. A mallard with his associated with a lifetime, and two independent principles, the head under his wing. & green fading it turned into s dancing- one negative and the other plover on the plough of a curlew club, is a poignant touch. Still. positive, called the Fin and the standing on the looking-glass of a ¦ what burns in the memory is the Yung. In the Sung philosophy | we:tlut – they keep so said that all book's grea; question. these are regarded not as two you notice is the colour of their substances, but as two modes of feathers and the contour of the the one substance, rhli, or ether. term Then, they are alert or up which is the basis not only of alifund away, the change is complete: that we call matter, but of every (they seem now just patterned forma of existence, material or movement. Mr. Thorburn catches | spiritual. The universe, how-both aspects; and never bas ne ever, still remains in some sense been better served by the art of| a dualism. the two terms of colour reproduction tan in this. which are translated "Law" latest and most gorgeous book. by Dr. Bruze), and ch'i. But, al-Ibe gradations of brown on a sit- though these two are co-existent nag woodcock are saliently faith. and inseparable, Chu Hsi insists al beyond any coloured print: on the essential subordination of a memory. The Breat geese chi to Lit_indeed, the latter and common partidge and plover. turas out to be nothing less than fail consort with their environ- the "Supreme Ultimate" of Choument charmingly and after the Tun-i, considered as a regulativ gatest canols af art. But their correct order. Can you re- principle whien imparts to every | adelity is the master attitude of place them as follows: mova twoj event and thing its own rule of tue pictures. Muas sportemen will boçks at a time. to another existence. Thus, Chinese daslism or tempted to sever them from position in the may be said to resolve itself ulti-the book to hang them round the books hoved nuust be side by side. mately into Monisa

gunerom as a triumphant gallery Then, again. move two books that of the game birds of Britain. are together; and follow with an- Nothing good exists. The other more of two books. The Just 站 valuable third move of this sort should

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It is important to note that Letterpress is is primarily an ethical principle epitome Rak the amassed bring the six volumes in their the Moral Order or standard to knowledge of the various birds--correct order. which all things conform in vary-just that and no inore: tu: aise ing degrees according to their less. As a reference, the individual capacity. It is 4-summaries would settle 235 solutely pure and perfectly good point in dispute, just The and, when analysed, it is seen paintings would serve as absolute consist of four components: Love. evidence 00 LAY question of Righteousness, Revertuce. coloration, Wisdom. For the Unimese phito- sopher, then, the antithesis is not

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A DISTINGUISHED NOVEL, so much one betßeen matter and Chapman and Hall publish at mind, matter and force, or matter) 7,6 4. new work by Oliver and the principle which gives it unions—" l'eace in Our Time." form between the material and the moral, the popsical and the ethical. As Dr. Brace puts in the material universe which we see around us bus an ethical basis consisting of those same ethical principles which we find embed- ded in our own hearts.

Of the four ethical principles. or cardinal virtues, as we MAY call thera, Love is preminent as the source and sum of the rest. The Chinese worn is jem, the writ ten character for which is com- posed of "man" and "wo," in- dicating the right relationship of man to his fellows. It has been variously translated "humanity," "benevolence," "charity," and so on, but on the wacle the best rendering is simply Love, which! Dr. Bruce has wisely adopted. According to Chu Hai, Lore is the all-inclusive attribute of Mind. It is the "vital impulse" or principle of life, such as exists in the seeds) of flowers and the kernels of stone fruit, though to all appearance! they are dead. Strictly speaking. jen is the principle from which the feeling of love proceeds. It may be obscured by selfish desires as a mirror by dust; but if the dust be wiped away it will he found still present in the mind. Hence it is distinguished from "altruism" on the one hand, which prepares the way for love, and "affection" or the other, which are If- spectively its outflow and its application to the object loved. But it is impossible beze to pursue the niceties of Chu Hai's terminology, or even tol ouch upon a host of other in- teresting topics, such as his solution of the problem of evil. Sufice it to say that the keywords | to the understanding of his philosophy ste Law and Love Not intellect nor will, but Love, is the fundamental element in

After much of day's diction. thoughtful, sincere. distingushed work by a writer like Mr. "Oliver Unions, comes as a tonic and a refreshment. At the same time. ais book is of profound sadness. H& Cannet offer a folution to the increasingly

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