A New Volume in the Scammon Lecture Series Modern Tendencies in Sculpture By LORADO TAFT Artist, Lecturer and Sculptor Rather paradoxical is the thought of an art as enduring as sculpture being subject to fashion. However, in his new book, Modern Tendencies in Sculpture, Mr. Taft assures as that styles come and go in the sculptor's studio as in the millinery shops. The first chapter is devoted to the work of Auguste Rodin. Through the aid of numerous illustrations the great achievement of this notable man is presented in sequence, with comments which should be helpful toward a just appraisal. In the second chapter Rodin's influence is traced throughout the story of more recent products of the French school. The weakness of contemporaneous monumental art in France is discussed, but over against it is shown the admirable work of a group of younger men who express with vigor and emotional charm the feelings of a new generation. The pre-war sculpture of Germany was very remarkable and has exerted a wide influence upon the recent art of all Europe. German sculpture is the subject of one of Mr. Taft's lectures, while the varied products of other countries to the north and south give rich material for a fourth. The fifth chapter is devoted to Saint-Gaudens, America's greatest sculptor, and his noble art is treated with sympathetic appreciation. The work of certain of his younger contemporaries and successors fills the remaining pages of the handsome volume. Here as in the other chapters the author has attempted no encyclopedic history-no artist's "Who's Who-" but has selected merely those who show striking "tendencies." As he tells us, there remain many whose output is so uniformly dependable that they did not clamor for admission to this particular work. A beautiful volume containing four hundred and twenty-nine illustrations of the best of recent sculpture. Royal octavo, xx+280 pages, $5.00, postpaid $5.20. Order at once as the edition is limited. The Graphic Arts by Joseph Pennell will soon be published. The University of Chicago Press 5832 Ellis Avenue Chicago, Illinois A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea. Copyright by The Open Court Publishing Company, 1921. NO. 782 ATHENIAN RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TRAINING. (Fifth Century B. C.) BY FLETCHER H. SWIFT. II. THE PROCESS OF RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TRAINING. "Till Greece can be reproduced, fit educational environment for youth will not be complete." G. Stanley Hall. (18:II, 257.) "I maintain that our citizens and our youth ought to learn about the nature of the gods in heaven so far as to be able to offer sacrifices and pray to them in pious language." Plato, The Laws. Book VII, 821. (33:205a.) REEK education was never controlled by religion, and if by religious education we mean instruction in religion dis-associated from other studies and activities, there was little or no religious education in Athens, for of schools or classes for religious instruction the Athenians knew nothing. Viewed, however, from the larger standpoint of the unity of Greek life, and from the manner in which religious rites and moral standards and ideals were associated with all activities, both within and without the school, it may be asserted with equal truth that all activities and institutions were sources of religious and moral stimuli and consequently fundamentally educative in these two fields. Forms of worship and moral ideals were interwoven so harmoniously with all that went on in home, school or public life, that no special provision for training in either religion or morals was felt to be necessary. How important the Athenians regarded morality and mora' education is shown by provisions contained in their laws and by their appointments of various officials and teachers to supervise the morals of the children and of the youth of the city. The laws |