Principal Jacks's Constructive Citizenship is based on a
series of lectures delivered last year to the University of Glasgow. The author quotes the inscription of an Indian artificer—" Mechanic and mathematician and Servant of the Most High God "—as a text for his always interesting thoughts on the rights and duties of citizens, on quality in work, on co-operation, and on the tensions of the present times. " The moon shines in the heavens," he says, " to warn us that our proud civilization is unddr the doom of death. Yet we may die like Captain Oates, as a gentleman should." It is impossible in a paragraph to give the quality of these inspiring addresses. Many a clergyman might base a helpful series of sermons on them and we should all be the better for reading them. Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton publish the book at 8s. 6d., which is remarkably cheap considering its size and quality. It should make an ideal gift book.
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