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Show BISHOP ADDRESSES SUM NIGHT CLUB Bishop Spalding of Salt Lake ad dressed the Sunday Night club In the Guild hall of the Church of the Good Shepherd last night on the subject of "The Educational Value of the Novel and the Drama." Ab a representative repre-sentative Illustration of the subject he gave a review of Winston Churchill's Church-ill's book. "The Inside of the Cup." The novel is of a religious nature and was used In oonnection with the drama to show the relative merits of the two as educational factors. The drama, he contended, was not nearly a6 important a factor In education as the novel for the reason that it was not taken seriously enough by the people who ar able to aid the work of reform. In this respect, the drama "Within the Law," was referred to, the speaker saying that, while it taught a great lesson, it was considered consid-ered more as a thing to entertain than as a tool to be used for a good purpose. Though not as great In Its educational possibilities as the novel, the drama still plays a large part in the work. After contrasting the drama and the novel as to relative merits, Bishop Spalding took up the question of the novel. He made a strong plea for the reading of the better class of novels nov-els and quoted from the statistics of the Carnegie library to show what local lo-cal people were reading. There were 5887 books loaned during the month of December, of which 70 were on religion and the Bible. 70 per cent of the books were fiction. He then took up the review of the book, "The Inside of the Cup." as a fine illustration of the best class of novel that Is being read by the present pres-ent generation He said that In writing the book, the author had a powerful sermon to preach and. knowing know-ing that he would not be heard from the platform, he wove a story about it that would appeal to the people The speaker confined most of the review to a delineation of the character char-acter of Eldon Perr, the capitalist, which, he said, in his estimation, was the strongest. Speaking of the book itself, he said, after reading It, that he did not think Winston Churchill understood the problems of sociology i that he attempted to explain. He asked many questions, but failed to answer any and the book ended before be-fore unraveling any of the complications complica-tions that the actions of the varlou3 characters had produced. Its weakest weak-est point, he said in conclusion, was that Churchill apparently knew noth lng about the condition he aimed to portray. |