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chapter (The Opportunitv of the Modern Church) the author's concern is almost exclusively with his own country, but the other five chapters have a more general reference. Without being pro- found or exhaustive, these deal with living issues in a direct and concrete fashion, and many appo- site quotations from modern writers add to the value of the book. The author has the gift of being able to express himself clearly on important issues, but more than once he delays too long before coming to the main theme of his chapter. Chapter V (The World's Debt to Jesus) is a good example of the strength of the book in the former respect and of its weakness in the latter. G.A.E. ADVENTURE By Canon Streeter and others London: Macmillan & Co Pp. i-x, 1-247. 7s. 6d. nett Twelve months ago Canon Streeter published his stimulating book, "Reality", and that is now followed by another one which owes a great deal to him. In one sense the new volume, "Adven- ture", may be regarded as a sequel to the earlier one, which was described in its sub-title as "a new correlation of science and religion", and "Adventure" in its sub-title is expanded into "The Faith of Science and the Science of Faith". Dr. Streeter is himself responsible for two essays (Moral Adventure, Finality in Religion) which occupy just over half the volume: two others are contributed by Mr. John Macmurray (Beyond Knowledge, Objectivity in Religion) and Dr. Alexander Russell writes the first essay (The Dynamic of Science), and the closing essay (Myth and Reality) is the work of Miss Catherine Chilcott. Canon Streeter's qualities as a writer and thinker are already sufficiently well known, and among the new writers represented in this book a special word of praise is due to Mr. Mac- murray for two remarkably valuable contributions. It may be said without any reservation that this is an excellent book: it covers a vast field, it deals frankly with real problems, and the knowledge which forms its background is thor- oughly up-to-date. Unity is given to its great variety of themes by continually stressing the element of adventure, of search, of experiment, of the absence of finality in the theoretical and practical quests of the human spirit. In this re- gard neither religion nor morality is an excep- tion. The ideal lies between Dogmatism on the one hand and Agnosticism on the other (p. 41), and for the purposes of a real religion no other hypothesis fulfils the conditions so well as that of the incarnation of God in Christ (p. 215), but at no point are we offered a final solution at every point a call and a hope (p. 243). A re- viewer, if only to keep his end up, must draw attention to the weaknesses of a book, if they exist Here they are reduced to a minimum: a single misprint on p. 186 (A. F. Whitehead for A. N. Whitehead), occasionally failure to make the meaning sufficiently clear, and once or twice a sentence which could be interpreted as a re- fusal to give knowledge its real place in thought and life. That, however, is far from the intention of the writers of this volume, which is undoubt- edly one of surpassing value. G.A.E. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR REVIEW Allen & Unwin September, 1927 Not the least important of the activities of the League of Nations are those which are carried on by the International Labour Office, and it is a pity that they are not better known. Among its varied enterprises is the publication of this review. It is an interesting number that lies before us notwithstanding its dull and unattractive cover. Is it intended to suggest by the format of official publications that truth is a colourless affair, and therefore dull? The present number consists of special articles on The International Economic Conference, The Evolution of a Wage-Adjust- ment System and the Christian Trade Union Movement; of Reports and Enquiries on Mem- bership of Trade Unions during 1921-1926, Child Labour in the Colorado Beet Fields, Col- lective Labour Disputes in Rumania in 1926, The Education of the Children of Agricultural Workers in England and Wales and of Statis- tics and Bibliography. The variety of its con- tents helps us to realize how much humanitarian work is being carried on unknown to most of us. The most interesting article is that which gives an account of the International Economic Con- ference, one of the outstanding events of the present year. An understanding of the economic situation in its international aspects may help to create that international mind upon which ulti- mately the success of the League of Nations depends. H.M. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHICS Allen & Unwin, for Chicago University Press October, 1927 This journal has 37 complete volumes to its credit, and the present number is the first quar- terly instalment of the 38th volume. It is pub- lished by the University of Chicago Press, and its editors-in-chief are Americans, though it has an editorial board which contains a strong con- tingent of English scholars. The present number