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NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

SEARCIL ?tt* xraetmia SraT«u«. »f jsha rrnu. Duckworth. . • Mr Fisher'i fijst novel tt-otild l#e W.ell worth rending for the sake of th# Garibaldian episodes alone. The siege of Rome by the FfeHeh, the jtefcpet&te dfefenoe and cauntet-utlftckSj the street-scenes, and this of the littlo eoiumn that marched out aftef the fall, ail these ere very good; but the scccess 6£ the bGok is cobSidefftbly tfidrti th'ati the success t>l such vivid pieces of narrative and description. It j utjtfc them, when. it might have existed fair the to. . Bferitley, fc ytnirta Oiford DifiH idliftg Vftguety ill .London, is dfawn into, the ItaliflQ bjberiitionist movement by his friendship with the Capelh fSmjlj', Sidles ifl London. M4s fespotise to the paeslonaite ideflbsm M.Ojjo is faint &M un* convinced, What supplies the fbrcs of tonvictioii arid resolves him to fight tor Liberty is hie lota for Mttrgherlta; Ho drah-ifetieee himself returning from fields ot romantic peril atid victofy to h«f arms, llirto 'unrc&l his libertarian enthusiasm is Appears Viien hi? visits his •Twjr brother, Qer« aid, and declaims it lik<d a sitage hero, tie is honest etiough to feel that Gerald's cfitieishi is Hght, that "it tffts ttat a thftttef tof political sympa' thieS: it waa .the cluoice between fettle. Loudon life and thofee visions ot marches and eamp-fires, of hot love and death," B«t he goes to Roma and then, jtist before the t6St of action begins; drinks tod htucli wiiie t fftilS dotvn soffle steps, and breaks hie leg. The ~(fdvetttui-£i «mda in irWiio futility > afld he tabes baefc .to London tio Achievement, nb' pride, but the gensfe of etriptv deteai and the news of llgo 6 denth. .

It lirid fill been —-arid onfl fcoi'i-l riot tOUgSt 016 aUfctfk <Sn the Cotßlfil—ftna defence of the VaaCello—perhaps it h4<l feWrt tfdtttt Wtiil#, 6¥« H it the Frefujh And Pio Nono wer<* bflf-k ltt Rome now. But hli B>Wji cftfitt W&ii So different. All that he has Tt>*f iS that ICHtibl# little failure *ai Itthlitt. self—-His J»e6ty dreioSS Arid hop^S: tii4 self^ rt&fldififtb "MJ gelf'eatesm, He had ,/tftta tfl tetorir Iheiii in Knljl&nd-Mri Kew 1 Verit! but U >iad be«H * hAlf-Heftfied etfefi abandoned tit .til« flflt sl*ti 6f dlmetlHJ'i N6w tie SiSr before hffa another obporfflftify, Sftd fee wak' tfcWhMfi* bacit irttti It In Ho had gone to Atoertea, and afte? an absurd, Ifeltilf-gfc experience in New York the heart ft-ent out of .him, and his niintl wtts turning id tlife e&fj safety of Bnglahd. when Alaft Biftltn proposed to, him Calif6tii!a aiid the fSoldfields: Those Were his thoughts, Thdii. he thought >t? the ojt-waggftns pushing oat towards the wflsf. and fiuddtfnly he reniefri* j ,h6W the 6f«y had gdttS forth frt>M Boms With its otie little citation fiftd its I ttralii at £Bftfe. j He had ndt gone With thrift across the C&mpagntt; but he would go tt-itfi j Sfriitli to California. PIETISM AND CAPITALISM 1&6 Protestant JSthic and tho Spirit. 6t Caijtttallim. By Wax Weber. Alldn and tfnwln, Ltd. (106 04 bet.) Mai Weber's essay, tvhieh is bete translated for thd first time by Mr Talcott Parsons,- of Havard tJniver sity, With an appreciative preface by Mr R. fit. Tawney, first appeared In ISO 4-5, and provoked 6 discussion Which has continued with undiminished vig { tiuf "oVfer since. I'll® question Which if. Attempts to anSWer is: What ttfd the psychological conditions which have made possible the development of capitalist civilisation t His Answer is that-thai civilisation is tho result of movements which had their tan the is the religious revolution of the sixteenth - century. 'With much learning, a ad quite digpas* sionately—ho Writes klw&ys an a Scholar, and not as a propagandist—-Weber traces the rise of capitalist as aa economic system to that moral justification of .worldly activity which was one «f the most, important results of , the and especially of Luthcr'e part in it. r rhe fortie which produaod his change of moral standards was the ci'cod associated with the name of Calvin: "Capitalism was tlie social cdtltl' terpart of Calviiiist theology." th 3 Calvinistic conception of "a calling,'' as opposed to that of the nwditsval theologians, imparted, tfr the purguit of riches a .new sanctity, a . tact . Which explains (says Weber) ; In various pietistic sects to-day mo9ey-maki|ig and religion eeetn to mix so Well. Having stated his problem, ha examines the part played by the ascetic branches of Protestantism—Calvini&tn, Pietism, Methodism, and the Baptist sects—ln creating conditiois?favourable to the growth of this new type of economic civilisation, which must . end, nri suggests in his concluding pages, i» ah orgy of materialism. Perhaps the problem is neither so simple * nor-to modern aa Weber believes $ but his treatment of it is able and impartial. A formidable apparatus of notes extending to over two hundred ptgea will be of Value & students, to whom the bOOK may be warmly commended. ; - , THE ASfiES. ; ■ : " ; ;- Si# right for tha Ashes in - iein«j» Oritteal Accoaat et the In «fgl*.na. By P. r. Wftrn«r. Qtors* O. H*rr»p fttad 00., Xtd» (111 nuti) • - , 1 Mr Warner's bbok'^oat : from which the victorious Australians have only just come home is to be described, rather than judged. It is, as he claims, ' 'a# •unbiased and accurate account" of the tour matcli by match, and the comment ia as useful and interesting as it IS fair.> TJ»e- Introdue* tion reviews the Australian- team and the English players against tvhom they were pitted. The iwltj ®a -tke last match are followec! by. "Reflections on the Test Matches," and they by ft chapter ' on • "Some Personalities of the England Eleven.'* The statistics of the tour, occupying over 20 pages, could not be m6re complete. The Australian scorer, Mr W. Ferguson, "whose score-book is a thing of wonder,'' supplied some figures; and. the averages, etc., were worked out by Mr F. S. Ashley-Cooper, "the Herodotus of Cricket." The photographs and diagrams are extremely good. Nothing* for instance, could be better (or more amusing) in its way than the picture of A'Beckett, with, his boots' in the air, catching Hobbs in the_ third Test. Among points of special interest these may be noted. Mr Warner has .no doubt at all that the better team won the Ashes—and won as a better team, against individual players "probably . .. . as fine." He unlocks Bradman's secret: No batsman that I have ever «e«n ha# thd ball aow carefully. He Beamed to follow it right on to his bati with his noes ■well over the ball on every occasion. I we* reminded of what Tom Emmett used fo Say: "Smell her. air, smell her/-' He thinks Grimmett was CO per odnt. better than, in 1926—though it would be interesting to knV)w how ihe cricket waiters apply these measure# to form and deadliness. He speaks severely against over-prepared wicket*, on which the Australians easily applied the .lessons they had learned. Tate and Garwood they "knew by heart'' —Larwood, since Brisbane,; has takenonly 14 Australian wickets in Tests, at a cost of nearly 70 runs each. England was short of leg-break bowlers and needed a loft-hander and an "all-rounder like - Rhodes." The remarks on the

Ift fcfitfiaM >i Mpkitie? tit tk« fifth Test and 6& the aeatravetay about i«. are Arm mad *lmj ma Woodfall's <iaptain<;y and Woodfulli himself lit* fcMiWt in tams which, from the vet' e|,^ a BiijHsh eaptaia, tntigt be highly valued by the Australia*, asdare peasant reading. JOfifc AK3D SAM. & fS* &g* ""bT^'% BejhWiaa. Jdhfi Use, »iSsaiey mVa. .Mr SJrskine takes "the eaitadn figure 6if tfncie Saint," t» many people "ql< ntost the portrait of & personality wa iifive mti t » ima" fills It eat iutj} a jsewptete charier, endowed with as faaef as tfeil as a publls career.'' fit* novel is ih<s biography of a "national writes with a great 46fti e£ dramatic ißge-nuity and insight fthd many heat strokes of satire. Sam i* Ojjfc of a fatally, la Wliieh it will filcttia tile feeder to identify John, OrlAAdo, Antoinette, aftd i"rederiefc, and £he children, George, 'lrene, Rafael, and Gi'etehca, who eater the household of Sam and hi# wife, Priecilla. She incidents m Sato's life, fro hi childhood to maturity, ih all Of Hrhi«lt h# shows it disposition to think realistically and inaterlallyj translating ratnaneo lute practical terns and valuing tradition less than enterprise, are remarkably well invented* Mr festeifie does hot attempt td make the syitabolte cdrieespdndefifcg between national history and i personal story closer than it can he Without strain, yet he fcefepa it oloSo enough to fee full oi livoiy reflections and erdßß-Ughta. Pet haps M# Eirfckitiß believes that America should forgive Franee her debts, perhaps not; bat Sato'» letter to Antoinette at the 6Ad of the book it one of the best thifitfss ih iti *

■ Teu ttfe »o fond df 014 thing*, and I hbve Slways had sush a Wdakn£i« for n«w t I'ta ottdri Vrbhdkritl Why we fc&dUtd fae) Me dMJk t »?m----piithy. While the others hiVe'bteD lias tome to me thai psrh&os id dealing wiifi hpm&n bfiingß, the past ana the future, It 76s gft tat* bH«U(fh either way, b«eaflia th« «aw». YoU A? 6 the trtaS wordhlpjplif bi I lie fftfrtii^—*-6dt p4Hit&&& lhat'i tyA£t I fittr. Bbf I (ike* ifc£ ?oiifig Atiesiidra who a«» jiitt letting d&t. tlfin't Mtl 6*Sf ttiedllon thAt cheque agflinl. f'iii IflAd j-6tt c6uld U8& it. Whkt don't I owe yofil - Kd su&h deep syiapathy e*l«td, h«W' evef, bctweefi Sam aiid john. Mrs Ffed Seyaolds's story ia slighter and narrower It is ft' pleftflfint study 0# a representative UngHsh family, period Early and Mid-Viatdfl&n. "The i&t&mb are grouped i& a plettife, #hl6fa has variety £iid at least iidl truth 1 though some of the people are l&int and unreal, the reader ffeele that English life was like thatj hat ia dfaWing the death of StieftaM ii6#ai& and the triumph of his p&tienf» eateuiatiiig partfl*er k Mrs Reynolds has' reached beyond saperfieiftl truth. wkat makes us moral r Moril Bease. B# laues tteaur, iX.Di AiWn sad uftwia. <l2# 0a a«t.) 'this is as ihtemtina and mt&t read« ttble account of the Ht«, pfogsNts#) and decline of the 18th eontury theory. hold oatfcioularly in ■ Engl4hd ( that toarality lit ataa ia due to the £flnt>tiottlncr of a gptecific moral anftiogotia With the five bodily eetttetyElements of this theory are, of fc&UfSe, frequently found iti philoKfphy: j Its revival and restatement -by Ixd<l 1 Shaftesbury, ite uuildlng up by Hutcheson, and the aubsequont whittling , away of its foundations bir. Hutne, Atl«m Smith, and others, with its sudden death at the hands of Kant, uika (yn« of the most interesting chapters in the history of philosophy. It t?ag & cliisrming theory, as iayllie as tbs Georgles, and as natural to Shafte*bury as the dodo of A county family. Nevertheless two Seotsmen and a German found fto difficulty ip detnplishiag ■ It—a fact that is probably not without, wider significance. It' must be gratifying to philosophers that they were able to decide tha battle withiH the field of philosophy and- had no twed to o&ll in mor* impetuous allies frota mod&rn biology and psychology.

fits BOMBARDMENT Of PARIS* t%« Vsria ens. Y&« Be'mbst&M&l >et ftxta fer tba ««nua X4n&-ra&tf* Dhtoa, «*4 ttd Ohm &etmka offensives ef iota. By - Hwury IT. SOUer, ttsaMaaat-Ooleiiel W.S' Ordinance. OMrge O. fiatnp 06., ■ - The German fieldrofltetißives .of 1916. were preceded by heavy air raids on Paris; the bombardment by the new and secret long-range guns was delayed until the first offensive had begun. This was clever calculation, .though it failed of its hoped-for effect. Tjhe offensive was to be launched,. agaltist a popula* tion already tmor-atruek, m wen as against the armies In the way. Thea the effect of the military advance was to be Increased by bringing Paris uflder direct- fire.- Nobody, till then, had thought of artillery bombardment ai a longer range than perhaps twenty-five miles at the extreme. When the loajt* range began .firing, the nearest German force was seventy, miles away. At first,' of eottrfee, itwaa thought that aircraft had penetrated the defences and were bombing; bat the truth, was. soon established. Htfng lasted, with longer and shorter : itom March 23rd till early August, when the British attach on the Amiens front compelled the Germans to abandon their Beaumont gun position. From, first to last only 367 shots were, plaeed. The life, of the guns was short, and the Germans never had more than one or two in action. Colonel Miller gives kit , elaborately Retailed aeeotmt of this strange pari of. the; War in the West, including the offensive and eounter-of* ienaive which brought it to an end. The battle of intelligence and technical skill between the lYench, trying to locate and' destroy, the gu&s, ( and the Germans, trying to eoneeal and protect them, is well described. ART IN AUSTRALIA. The October-November number of in Australia," now published six times a year, instead of quarterly, shows that subscribers will get astonishingly Rood value .for the ilow much, lower price. The most interesting page&—and the saddest—are those devoted to the late George Lambert. There is an account of ttao memorial I exhibition of his work in Sydney, and : flmtrriK the plates are two tin colour) i of his portraits and jmany reproductions in black and white of p&ifetittga and drawings. The literary: contributions are father slight; but the eye _is ministered to with admirable editorial and technical skill.

ACKNOWLBftfISfIMTHL : *ke tUfPf . tflftinllli if A. A. Anfrit Mid MfiwttkMfc. Hob in (chriStfenGd ltobina), a typist in .the Buhgaloyd© Devfclobipetrt p«ny, .was discharged &&aaae ah** adorned the studio portrait trf thft office toanag&t, P. BeWlby With whiskers am Moustache* dans in BB _ pencil; but tliis eatuifoptit id" < a futtiiy book and -& hatba* •Gfidtng. . 1 • frmtonwi for K*rtfc, Viarses mostly descriptive and b«fSctfiil, which it would be difficult io praise very wnmly hxxt which there is Mb reafeoii to doplolre. Mr Sidney Lenz. one of thfi leAdinft oiperfcs in bridge, d&cribes thia iittfe oqok as culling from the standard tiwks "the important ahd essential things that evfery bridge playtr shouM know,'' to which is added *'• bit Sf scholarly advite" that will help ifa* , beginner cr average player to pferffect his Katue^ fh* Pretender. B* Clifford Kootta. - ottm o. »ad c»., sai. Mr Hbskeu writes h gited Bt«y of an altvayv agree able kibd. fatis Aero goes on a tliivalrotis eri-aad, *t- a beautiful lady's bidding, and is plilrtgod into Balkan ifltrigue a fid k lii«ttl»* for a throng. »fy*terlous Waye. B? *. 6. 'Wrta-.ltaß SCnxray. Trtiin Bobertson s«a ™awt. Captain Wren's higli talent for stofy wrltfttg is devoted in his latest novel to a man's pursuit ef his snemv Bfid of revfeHge on hint. Johfl flsSfl, w/iinh ib also the end of the ' diamond, The Unaettlng Sun, Ia » • powerful climns. A««Wiaa *tA S4rtWrWa " tinder thd auspices of ih« Highland Society, these versa»-'o£ Jatites Diack AM d*difcated wj his memory. Som6 ate ilk standard English, soma in Lowlaad ofiote> All Were written by a sitiia toko had a natural "turn" for and htlffiour and Sense to put into it.' daidtnus from tM sast» Xr mhh a* fJhesslu. mae. ey iteeißifil t. , <Mptk6 ft. Sarirap U&, ' (l^tS ■ nm<> . ' .. fv. The authii-, a- Fr«nchniftn, wafi l»rn : iti and fences the ■ ttiuiitt|i people. H«wwate t » - th& early stages of the fievojotion and V.r i> has dd6(fely stiidied Its Utto Hia wuit M n lurid Account of thiMiWien. M A political aid pbiloiophfcal' tiftod 1 " aad aA tb& iasplratloDi e| art aM 'of . s t ft sdardg of moralitywhieh mak« Hot- . ii& "the ieGdOttlast of .hato&BltyJf- W' & ' • - . - ■" w ; > A m£iß&.' ? animal life/fa lt»ow etit. The designs ftra atrikiagly g^d' ®»d well printed ia blaok « i yellow, and the snbiect«i indtide Stona and the Maon, Maui tamina tht fen. And Mrtui fisbiftft up tli6 North lalafldc T- Jt Xhe storiea are concisely told-fben&ath. L The calendar leaves ought-to be m«eh - tnore securely fastened. ; "

A Gufihfitt <so«e»pondeift 'of , "l»e#ioaifc&y». iaHUfcd Iby tfc*- Oxftt* Prs«Sj s e&llb fiujsms 6f Thmhbs Mpog> tt«i*t&ted J into Germna by Graf EUslmutfc ■- Muttke. l?or aiamplet - -V*" 'v tfhe jpurt *K»n b» my *»!*• - —--V." tfma sU.lhle Ottia soil melo dattebdtr belir#*. : *«<* , - . :. \ Su- .to! ■ Ifj ■ htrtr^Ver l , | hanffia 16 S ,ves 'on' almost foreign language, 5 as *oHow?f"W^4 mm 2 think wr ttimu wnr fining fond of each cither in fM 5«« J»y f«t« within a few »*« withuM itsvtji B*s. tin 1 -,# t imagipe-.■{roll , 1 J ,'^j "¥at ohf" tfcV *4 V' ' aware that Mr - to Wait . »'*. •*' EShHiis'BiSWS trtmslatico from .tiie,v - ThiT^prM^o# 1 fiction f" iT dlyitwd Records bis Might "miflr author a out' the whole spgctacta off lift «$j "powerful," which synonym /or contorted and distorted; is also very wary wion he to iafornted \ -novelists, he'remiads us, has aotSSc *{.¥ to shock, to startle, to depress, or *0 exhibit their own anpariotfty.V -Vj distinctive quality has bflsa'aa! to enrich life for their^i^d«^Afe^ and emotional experience as they. bat leaving them with a new tfftsSfli 5 of I ''"*,,,;' association and, wrhat is. mrfre ' impost -' t .£ ant, a sharpened facultyjpf u; : ,:j taken to represent the etas* "■ vatcd readers, has been expressing *&•'-' '-C' opinion qnite in harmony -with '■'iljK - Squire V. She remarks tMt 4 '£". *««»>, *' tional novel** was <mce* : on term. People need to »&d '• jEar^-tlUlb^'' ' odifieation or amuae^e&t —not iMadae they itanted to aalTMia shocks, '. The "Daily Express *Edch iftt- l: f" unfairly be regarded as .jtta the man in the stmt, dee&nda Itaidf - . to be a little tired of tho var'.jßrWA'-fl';; and the sex and the and the iieions ln a of coarse, theolojieal, >«Et some o«« «Lp tears the. to^theolo^thrt^^^^^^^J^