Dante by Henry Dwight SedgwickThe Sewanee Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Jul., 1919), p. 383Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27533247 .

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Book Reviews 383

on "God and History," the paper on the "Christian Hope in

Times of War" by Professor Porter, and the paper, original and

forceful as usual in Professor Bacon's work, on "Non-Resist

ance: Christian or Pagan?" The last-named is the piece de re

sistance of the book, and is worthy reading for the sentimental

pacifist. T. P. B.

For God and Country. By Randolph H. McKim. New York: E. P.

Dutton and Company.

This is a collection of sermons and addresses delivered by Dr.

McKim before our country decided to enter the war. They are

full of a spirit of militant Christianity, and serve to "exonerate

the Church from the charge that in the greatest tragedy of human

history she was content to sit by the fire warming herself."

The Soul of Lee. By Randolph H. McKim. New York: Longmans, Green and Company.

"The purpose of this little volume is to give in brief compass an epitome of the life and campaigns of General Robert E. Lee,

with sufficient detail, however, to convey a true impression of

his genius as a soldier and his exalted character as a man." It

is written by one of Lee's soldiers.

Dante. By Henry Dwight Sedgwick. New Haven : Yale University Press.

This is "an elementary book for those who seek in the great

poet the teacher of spiritual life," a "primer which leaves learning to one side and busies itself with Dante as a poet and believer

in eternal righteousness." In spite of Mr. Sedgwick's modest

disclaimer, however, the book is learned without being either

pedantic or dull, for it is written by one who appreciates the

literary beauty and spiritual power of Dante's work and succeeds

in bringing us into intimate, vital relation with his personality and genius. "We ask," says Mr. Sedgwick, "of a great book

that it shall take us up on a tower, as it were, show us wider

regions of life than of ourselves we can perceive, and, by the

illumination of that wider knowledge, help us to choose our own

path with a truer sense of what is good in life."

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