The Winning of the Far East

SIDNEY L. GULICK: '83. George H. Doran Co. New York.

This book is the report submitted by the author who was sent on a mission of goodwill to the churches in the Orient. He made two trips east, one in 1915 and the other in 1923. The author, Sidney L. Gulick, is secretary of the Commission on International Justice and Goodwill, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and also secretary on Oriental Relations of the American Council of the World Alliance for International Fellow- ship through the Churches. These bodies felt the call to supplement the regular missionary work in the East by sending out a special messenger and a special message to the churches.

The title of the book would therefore have been nearer the truth had it been called a report instead of the somewhat misleading one used. It is a report including ordinary diary traveling records, names of persons met and interviewed, conversations, personal experiences, letters received and impressions and convictions gained during the trip. To this has been added an altogether unnecessary chapter on the Japanese Earthquake, written in New York, from newspaper reports, after his return from the East. The outstanding note in the report is the faithfulness with which the MESSAGE was delivered and how it was received. Had this title been used the reader would doubtless have escaped the impression that the book is propaganda of a political character as well as religious.

Read as a report of an interested observer and one well qualified to gather valuable impressions the book yields interesting observations. It is also a significant thing that a special messenger bearing a special message should have gone to these churches. International goodwill and friendship cannot be too much emphasized these days. 'The Federal Council of Churches made an excellent choice in Dr. Gulick.

We would recommend the book to those who are interested in learning about how present conditions in these countries impressed the author.

The American Food Journal for February, 1924, contains an article by Mr. Arthur D. Holmes 'O6 entitled "Preserving Vitamine Potency of Cod Liver Oil."

Silver Burdett and Company of Boston, New York and Chicago, have just issued books two and three of the "Progressive Music Series for Basal Use in Primary, Intermediate and Grammar Grades." Philippine edition. This work is compiled by the Hon. Xorberto Romualdez and Charles Griffith, Jr 'IS.

John Rudin and Company of Chicago have recently published "A Book of Life" in 8 volumes. The editors of this book are Professors Irving Francis Wood and Rev. Newton Marshall Hall, D.D. '88. The first volume of this series is called Bible Treasures. The second volume deals with Bible heroes, the third with Kings and parts of the Bible Narratives, the fourth with Bible Prophets and Statesmen, the fifth with poetry of the Bible, the sixth with the story of Christ, the seventh with the life of St. Paul. The eighth volume is intended primarily for Bible teaching.

A new edition of "Birds in Their Relation to Man" by Clarence M. Weed and Ned Dearborn '91, has recently been published.

George H. Doran & Company have just published "The South American Tour, A Descriptive Guide" by Annie S. Peck. This volume contains an introduction by Hon. John Barrett '89.

Recent publications by Walter B. Wolfe '21 include "Invocation" a sonnet, in the March number of Pearson's Magazine; "Rhythms" in the February issue of Parnassus; "Three Poems in the Modern Manner" in the March issue of The Eliot; and with Dr. Ralph Kinsella "Hypertension and Nephritis" and "Die Brightsche Nieren Krankheit" published in Medical Clinics of North America for March, 1924.

"Undergraduates: by One of Them" by Richard M. Morin '24 appears in the issue of the Survey for March IS.