Shaw, George Bernard. On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.” 75c. J. W. Luce.
Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism and make a man content with something less than the best work of which he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its brimstone-flavored hot gospel.
Shaw, L. H. De Visme. Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.
This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N. Y. Times.
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[*] “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that, while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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Shearer, J. B. Modern mysticism. [*]75c. Presbyterian com.
A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.
Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine. Glenanaar. [†]$1.50. Longmans.