Hutchinson's Important New Books
My Life and Some Letters
By MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL
(Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West)In one large volume, cloth gilt, with numerous illustrations, 24s. net.
This important book is expected to create something of a literary and social sensation. It is a frank and open autobiography, which contains intimate personal recollections and stories of her own life and of many famous people in Society, Art, Literature and the Stage. Included are a number of intimate letters by George Bernard Shaw.
Madame de Staël: Her Trials and Triumphs
Author of "Sidelights on the Court of France," "Two Great Rivals," etc.
In cloth gilt, 16s. net.
A new and fascinating book about a very remarkable woman who combined great literary gifts with a passion for political intrigue, and an almost boundless capacity for love. It is written in Colonel Haggard's usual bright and entertaining style, and is undoubtedly a very readable book
Facing Reality
By ESME WINGFIELD-STRATFORD, D.Sc.,
Author of "The Reconstruction of a Mind," etc.
In cloth gilt, 8s. 6d. net.
The author voices the feelings, the convictions, of many thinking citizens to-day. He considers civilisation in danger of perishing owing to its neglect of reality. The problem is out of religion, but religion itself is, more than any other activity, infected by slovenly methods of thought. The tendency of men for some years past has been to "think in a passion" and to repress the unpleasant from their consciousness, instead of facing the real and boldly pursuing the truth. Many instances are given: the life of villadom aims at "gentility," a false goal; the object of intensive journalism is to distort the mind rather than to present the truth; the clergy are many of them insincere and cling desperately to old forms, now bereft of meaning; the official religion is dying of inanition. Artists are in contact with reality, but art itself is in danger of becoming commercialised. Modern war is acute suicidal mania—the remedy is for man to realise that God is not external, but within them, and that they are comrades in a struggle compared to which the greatest wars in history are the "bickerings of children."
The book is written with a sincerity which is almost fierce, and most of its pleas against prejudice carry conviction.
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