Deep Sea Fishermen.. He was the only physician upon two thousand miles of coast. In the thirteen years, during which he has been working there so faithfully, he has established and maintained three hospitals, has acquired a staff of two resident doctors and three trained nurses, as well as a hospital ship, and has been instrumental in opening stores and in starting up numerous industries, all of which has tended to better the conditions of the people for whom he is laboring. But there is still much to be done, and for this reason the Association has been organized. Dr. Grenfell's own little book, "The Harvest of the Sea," is an eloquent plea for aid in saving and uplifting the dwellers of the Labrador; while Mr. Norman Duncan's "Dr. Luke of the Labra

land, of Toronto; her husband is Clayton Glyn, J. P., of Durrington House and Sheering Hall, Essex.

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The cover portrait this month presents Mr. Robert Hichens, whose "Garden of Allah" is one of the best of reMr. cently published novels. Hichens was born at Speld

The Author of "The Garden of Allah "'

hurst, Kent, in 1864. He is the son of a clergyman, and was educated at Clifton College. It was his intention to become a musician, and to this end he studied music in Bristol and London, but abandoned it to take up literary work. Americans first knew him through "Felix," an unpleasant study which yet showed that here was an author determined to write of things as they are rather than as they should be. "The Woman with the Fan" followed, a subtle study in feminine psychology, but here again one felt the shock of crude realism, forcefully presented. "The Garden of Allah" came like a treat in the artistic, and through it one begins to recognize in Mr. Hichens a superior worker in the novelistic field.

In connection with this latest book it is interesting to know that the author visited the Trappist Monastery in Algeria, and from there drew much of his inspiration. It provided him with that atmosphere which makes "The Garden of Allah" the remarkable work that it is.

Wonders of Life

Professor Haeckel is not only one of the first of living biologists, but he is almost the last representative of the Monistic theory, which Ernst twenty-five years ago seemed Haeckel certain to make the thought of the modern world its own. In "The Riddle of the Universe" he endeavored to show that the only explanation possible was one of continuous unconscious force. He now seeks to demonstrate that the entire framework of life can and must be traced back to physical and chemical beginnings. Experimentally this cannot be proved. Professor Haeckel frankly declares his belief that life began under physical conditions so different from those now existing that the complement of the first production of life can never be repeated.

He comes to his task with a complete and unusual knowledge. He was seventy last February. It is half a century since. he published his first paper on some fields of lower life, the protista and the radiates, etc., which he has made his own. No man has examined more material in this field, written upon it more lucidly, or more completely mastered its conditions. His works on travel combine the precision of the naturalist with the enthusiasm of the poet. Unlike many scientific men, he has a human sympathy and power of stimulating intellectual life in others, which has made him one of the best-loved teachers in modern times. He has in "Wonders of Life" (Harper's) endeavored in a single, compact, but closely written volume, to describe the problem of life, to define its manifestations, to analyze its functions and to demonstrate with an amazing and unsparing assemblage of facts and a close logical development, the successive steps by which every manifestation of human life from its germ to its highest development in intellect and in morals can be drawn step by step through all the links of physical and chemical changes.

The one loophole is that, having gone back to the original contact of atom with atom, as the basis of all life, he has both the intelligence and the candor to see that this cannot be explained without assuming that the molecule or its complement parts the atom has a vital "sensation" which implants in it a "spiritual" (the term is Haeckel's) sense and desire for the unions out of which come, first the combinations of chemistry and later the development of life. If this difficulty be admitted, and this hypothesis is needed, his whole attempt falls to the ground, for it requires the assertion and assumption. of a force independent of matter as it rests in test tube and balance. If such an assumption has to be made at all, it is all one whether it be made at the appearance of the first atom or after the spiritual life of the most highly developed man. In either case the universe has something in it more than matter, even on the admission of the "materialistic Pope of Jena." It is inevitable that a work like Professor Haeckel's should be timely only at the time it is issued. In the interval between its publication in German and its translation in this country, the entire field of radium forces has been discovered, gravely changing many statements in this very book, but, unlike most such works, particularly by men of the type of Herbert Spencer, "The Wonders of Life" rests on a minute and exhaustive knowledge, coming from close individual study of the scientific knowledge, whether one agrees or not with Haeckel, nothing that he says is borrowed.

upon the development of the Church. None more completely differences it, also, from every other creed. There are many incarnations and innumerable divine descents, but nowhere else is there a Holy Ghost. Professor Johnson, for many years one of the leading theologists of the Baptist communion, holding a chair at Crozer Theological Seminary, has addressed himself to the double task of discriminating between existing beliefs and adjusting the recent explanation of the work and working of the Third Person of the Trinity to modern Hermeneutics and current metaphysics. The task is difficult. No one is probably better aware than the author how impossible and impracticable are the minute definitions unhesitatingly attempted by men less reverent and less experienced. At more than one point,-in particular in the failure to see the necessary philosophic basis upon which rests the development of the dualism of the past as expressed in the dogma of the Third Person, rests, this work fails fully to grasp the conscious evolution of this supreme truth of the spiritual world, but it presents an intelligent exposition of its scriptural basis and a careful analysis of various attempts by logicians like Ritschl or mystics of the Keswick school to escape on one side or the other from the sanity of a doctrine less understood, much disregarded and more final and fundamental than any other in Christianity. (Griffith & Rowland Press.)

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Mr. Warwick, ex-Mavor of Philadelphia, has written one of those useful works

Mirabeau

Charles Franklin Warwick

which diffuses acquaintance with history without increasing a minute knowledge of past affairs, in a readable volume on "Mirabeau" (Lippincott's), composed with enthusiasm, a style sometimes florid, but effective and possessing perspective. It has the qualities and limitations of an effective platform speech. A quarter of A quarter of its pages drawn from familiar sources reviews the causes which preceded the French revolution, expressed in the epigrams of discoursive and concoursive fact which Taine has made familiar. Accepting the familiar view that the French revolution was solely due to the evils of the

past, instead of the saner theory that it was also the product of the advance of the present (though perhaps the best summary of all is Bismarck's, that in the French revolution the tiger ate his keeper, and found the meal did not agree with him), this volume describes, rather than narrates, Mirabeau's life, almost wholly on his public side. His prodigious lack of a moral balance which affronted a day not over-nice, and was the true cause of his failure, is scarcely touched upon. Written by a man apt in moving men by speech, the pages lay constant stress on Mirabeau as a speaker. It is his one great claim to the memory of men. The agreement by which he sold himself to the crown is somewhat slighted.

Nor is his real position made. clear. Mirabeau had the mind of a statesman, but neither the statesman's skill nor the will of a ruler of men. He was always right in his speeches. He was nearly always wrong in his acts. Applause he could command, but a majority he could not control in the assembly, and, while his advice to the King was wise, he was without that mingled power of dominance or persuasion needed if advice is not only to be given, but taken. The result is that when there was something to be said Mirabeau was always conspicuous. When there was something to be done, he was as inevitably swept aside.

Mr. Warwick's volume is full of the dramatic aspects of his life. Those who desire every detail will turn to the long series of volumes issued by Louis de Lomenie and his son Charles. Albert Stern's closely written biography, perhaps the first which gave the man as he really was, or A. Meziere's Vie de Mirabeau. No man has been more completely published than Mirabeau. Blanchard's edition of his works has ten volumes and four more are needed to give all. Lomenie's work fills five volumes (1879-91) and Stern's Leben, two volumes, 1889. E. Rousse (1891) and Mezieres (1892) have each contributed a volume. Earlier, the first full life appeared in 1824. "Mirabeau, Memoirs sur sa vie Litteraire et Privee," four volumes, and Dumont, 1832; Duval, 1832: Hugo, 1834: Schneidewin, 1831: Reynald, 1873; Plar,