assurance which at once startles and disarms. His particular purpose may be found in the assertion that 'The supreme need of the moment is a creed in harmony with modern progress; a creed which shall percolate into all sections of the community, and become a living pulsating force.' True; and the idea of Immortality may be regarded as an expression of the end to which such a creed should tend. But any fourteen thousand words can be merely the hors-d'œuvre to a feast covering worlds, for his subject really is immeasurable. We prefer the modesty of Mr G. F. Wates, who in a number of volumes has been expressing the wonder felt by a common-sense man over the mysteries of life and time. He has, in short, been working out for himself a religion of thought and heart, of insight and charity, which takes from the leading creeds such truths as are helpful; and applies them to our complex civilisation. 'All for the Golden Age' (Allen & Unwin) is the courageous and hopeful title of his latest book; and although no Pope, Archbishop, Imaum, Rabbi, or whatyou-please would accept all that he says, the book can be commended for its modesty, honesty, and real endeavour to smooth the difficult pathways for those who, observing the work of the Churches, still find it hard to believe. And with this volume might helpfully be read a small book, which easily may creep into the pocket, 'The God of Love' (Williams & Norgate), by the Rev. Ernest Walder. It analyses with imagination as well as care, and with regard also to the appreciation of their teachings to this present day, the Epistles of St John, the beloved disciple. The author has some admirable things to say of the relations with Divinity, if so it may be tersely put, of Thomas Hardy, Mr Bernard Shaw, and Mr Wells. The frank paganism of the first of these he repudiates; but of the others, interestingly and a little surprisingly he says that 'Shaw has played his part nobly, but Wells' greatest work is still to come.' Almost throughout his spirited little book, 'Laughing' (Jarrolds), Mr Martin Armstrong talks good and jolly sense; but there comes a point where he falls into the Chestertonian weakness of question-begging paradox. He refers, for instance, to William Blake, of all people, as a sense. 'profoundly normal man,' as contra-distinct from that highly abnormal creature,' the man-in-the-street, and is not able thereafter to recover his poise of pleasant common He goes on to talk of the desirableness not only of bottled laughter, but of a clause being added to the Prayer-book praying for the most sacred gift of laughter, to be followed at once by the priestly injunction to 'Let us laugh'; forgetting that whether it be 'the snirt, the snicker, the giggle, the chuckle, the chortle, the cachinnation, or the guffaw,' laughter must be spontaneous, sincere, and with good reason spent, or it is more than nothing. How displeasing is empty laughter, the mouthy noise which is the louder for the shallower mind! So that Mr Armstrong's theme tends to run away with him; but in its earlier and controlled four-fifths, it canters along gaily and does the heart good. INDEX TO THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH VOLUME OF THE [Titles of Articles are printed in heavier type. The names of authors of A. 'Action Française,' the Pope's con- Adams, Henry, extract from his book Adams, John, President of the U.S.A., Adamson, Margot Robert, 'A Nor- Advertising Association, functions Advertising in Industry, The Altmann, Prof. Wilhelm, selector of America, her passion for peace, American War of Independence, 226- America's 'Sovereignty,' 33-56. Beginnings of Television, The, Betting Houses, Act for Suppression Birkenhead, Earl of, 232. Blomfield, Sir Reginald, The Revolt Bolshevism, The Philosophy of Bolshevism, attitude of, towards Books, Some Recent, 205-214, 417- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 'The American Practical Navigator,' 419. Bradley, Henry, an Editor of 'The Oxford English Dictionary,' 239. Brittain, William J., The Begin- Buchanan, Captain Angus, 'Out of Ceretti, Cardinal, Papal Nuncio in Cezanne, introducer of plasticity into Charost, Cardinal, Primate of Brit- Chaucer, Geoffrey, on the art of Churchill, Rt Hon. Winston, World Cleveland, Grover, President of the Clifford, Sir George, extract from speech by, at the Conference of the New Zealand Jockey Clubs in Coal, Power, and Industry, 398- Coleridge, Herbert, an Editor of 'The Commonwealth, Official Year Books 'Conjunct Expeditions,' extracts Conservative Party, its connexion Corbett, Julian S., The Campaign Cory, Harper, 'The Story of Civilisa- Court, Antoine, 'Histoire des troubles Craigie, Dr. William A., an Editor Croiset, Maurice, Revue des deux Crown, the, services of, 203-204. D. D'Abernon, Viscount, President of 'Daily Express, The,' work of, for Dark, Sidney, editor of the Great Dark, Sidney, 'The Philosophy of Deakin, Alfred, on an Australian Deane, Canon Anthony, 'Thomas Depew, Chauncey, 264, 267. Dictionary, The Oxford, 238–243. Dieckmann, Prof. Max, an experi- Disraeli, Rt Hon. Benjamin, author Do-Huu-Chan, report of conversation Du Bois, James, U.S. Minister in Duncan-Jones, A. 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