The Human Way

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 25, 1910

"The Human Way." By Louise Collier Willcox. Cloth-bound. Price, $1.25 net. Harper & Brothers, New York and London.

This is a series of well-written essays on the human phases of life. There are ten of them: The Service of Books, Out-of-Doors, The Children, Friendship, Human Relations, the Area of the Personality, The Hidden Life, Solitude, Memorat Memoria, Detachment. These delightful productions flow smoothly and invitingly on, their chief aim to help us to see the helpfulness of all things which come to us in life. We read that "no brave man accepts failure as an ultimate solution;" "pain is the slow process of the enlarging of the consciousness;" "it is the men who have seen deepest into the misery of human things who have consoled and fortified us." The book abounds in such thoughts. We are warned that books should be a stimulus to action, not an opiate; the beauty of life is that "its meanings lie deep—deep." The wind voices, the bird songs, the flowers, the trees, the purling brooks, the mountains, all pay tribute to the easy pen of the author. The fruitlessness of revenge, the beauty of "the velvet soul," the true meaning of "career," are mere glints of a thousand flashes of light. It is not a religious nor a Christian book; nor will one always agree with its suggested theology; but its beautiful sentiments are noble and uplifting.