THE UNFINISHED TASK By Sir Frederick Whyte
It is always a delicate matter for an Englishman to speak to an American audience on the League of Nations, but Sir Frederick Whyte, whose The Unfinished Task (Houghton, Mifflin, $1.50) is -an address- given at Milton Academy last Armistice Day, handles his theme unfalteringly. The unfinished task (" Let us- strive on to finish the work that we are in ") is the duty of learning to live in harmony as nations as we have learned it as individuals, and the 'keynote of the address is an indomitable faith in the idea and the reality of progress. " Movement without a purpose," says Sir Frederick, " is as meaningless as the spinning of a squirrel in .a cage," and the immediate purpose of mankind as he sees it is to develop and perfect the art of living together. His exposition is inspiring and persuasive.
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