Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1929, Winnipeg, Manitoba My my the design of this Section is to j j Ujj tvs accurate literary information. J Fig make criticism the Aid o writing. Of encourage Canadian literature i of cultivate a taste for Reading and i 1 books. J published on the first monday in every month of some books Are to be tasted i others swallowed and some few to i be chewed and j i g when i get a Itolle Money i buy books and if any is left i buy food i and edited b7 Thomas b. Winnipeg monday August Thorne which is the latest addition t in his preface to surveys the chaos of a modern society in s trials by Geoffrey Bles London Walter Lippmann 111 Nib Eric ice cow presents the record of a criminal trial which seems far More per to the Reader who has time and Opportunity to read the out of this land of confusions Unity to this general chaos or Only is not new but in a sense it which the old moral certitude have dissolved. Narrative and he evidence at Leisure than it did to the jury a preface to morals. By Nio a Steno to the testimony As it was produced in court. The Walter Lippmann. Macmu ans in Reader May be inclined to remain in a state of doubt As to what tie True of the Case were. The jury Hung Trio inc after a in of Twenty eight minutes which suggests that after Strain of a five clays trial involving the f examination of sonic forty witnesses several of whom were experts in pathology were so Clear As to the facts and so con Vinced As to their truth that they were Able to decide in less than half an hour not Only that Thorne was guilty but that a group of medical specialists were wrong. A Vilss Helena Norm an ton who edits inc volume. Herself to make the following comment on this perform Amby Ilia jury juries arc to believe representing and being composed of the reasonable Man 1 she says so Lone As to limit Penn Toni fiction the reasonable haunts our courts of Justice so Long will English criminal courts take in their stride All the of cases of this character. Tho reasonable Man it often seems to to leaps lightly from the Peak of one piece of proof across a Long Gap to the top at the next Peak. Tho Man in the Dock is not markedly benefited by that process As a Rule. The collective mind however will comfortably close All crevices. Come let u3 assume that the state is infallible. It will never do to come to the conclusion that the Crown of England hanged Norman Thorno for being fool and losing his head enough to dismember his sweetheart will it that would be much Loo awkward a conclusion so let us hasten to agree fitful the jury and let the question there rest and bewilderment or. Lippi Nann Canada this is the kind of Book. Meads not obliquely into the Iran term j agent heaven of some new cult not into the jaded hell of some new despair but straight of steadfastly through the distresses and afflictions of this present world. The problem becomes How to achieve that maturity and that Dis that makes one wish epoch making had not fallen into Des etude through stale Aud Indis Criminate . For it interprets an epoch it represents an epoch. It surveys in a very thorough Way the chaos of a modern society in which the old in Oral certitude have been dissolved and nothing Lias come to take their place. It examines the. Confusion of tin modern thinker for whom the old fictions of popular religion have fallen away leaving the need that created those fictions still unsatisfied. The Book not Only analyses that chaos and that need but it makes a very definite and sincere attempt to come to terms with them. It is candid and searching just Aud comprehensive disarming and profound. It interprets an Cocu. Just As every movement of thought or Drift of has some dominant i personality identified with it so j there is usually an interpreter j for that movement. Or. Lipp Titis is a pretty explicit declaration on the merits of i Lic verdict Matin is an interpreter of this age tip it. Thorne was Cuilty certainly of of confusion Wells he holds and for mat. At least he paid the penalty of murder which is of Ilta the urae covers it course the extreme ;