LOVE, THE ETERNAL LIFE

worthy of our most ludd thought, our frankest utterance, our most gallant championship, our most abandoned surrender, and most devoted service. The subject looms large in the pages of Carpenter's writing, and his treatment of it bas not been surpassed, and rarely equalled, for enthusiasm, simplidty, directness, and sheer purity of feeling and expression.

Our exposition f ails naturally into two divisions according as Love is regarded in its individual, or in its social, aspect. Of the former, the more intimate way of loving. Carpenter writes invariably with freshness, delicacy, and understanding. He believes that Love has been deeply wronged in modem society by conventional poses, artificial decencies, and the prohibitions of respectabiUty which tend to drive and keep it underground. He believes that not a few of the evils from which modem society suffers are due to this cause more than to any other. His method is far removed from the somewhat terrifying manner of the " Children of Adam/' and he deserves highest rank among the emancipators of the world if only for the way in which he places Love in its natural setting of broad spaces and fresh open air and sweet reveahng Ught. Garmented in simplidty and naturalness, it is the most beautiful and the most sacred thing in the whole round of life. Its natural issue in the mutual attraction and union of two, in fatherhood and motherhood, in friendship and sodal service, is the stream of life