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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/New Books (2)

NEW BOOKS
The Battle of the Somme. By JOHN BUCHAN. Geo. H. Doran Co., New York.
John Buchan has been known to hundreds of thousands as a novelist; here he appears in the role of a strategist. The battle of the Somme, the bloodiest struggle so far in all history, has in him an excellent chronicler. He brings to the description of the minute and highly technical details of the long drawn-out contest his skill of an accomplished master of English and the professional knowledge of a staff officer. The book is copiously illustrated by photographs and maps.
It will interest every one who is interested in the outcome of the great war. The story is an eloquent testimonial to the gigantic energy of the British general staff.
The Land of Deepening Shadow. By D. THOMAS CURTIN. Geo. H. Doran Co., New York.
Experiences of an American reporter in Germany from 1915 to end of 1916. An extremely fascinating book describing the gradual exhaustion of Germany under the strain of war. A reader who has lived in Germany and Austria and knows the working of the two governments feels convinced that Mr. Curtin has indeed caught the very spirit of the Teutonic regime. To readers of Bohemian descent the most interesting chapter will be the one on Police Rule in Bohemia, which is reprinted in this issue of the Review by permission of the publishers. But the whole book is based on first hand information and reveals the growing weakness of German militarism.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/New English pamphlets

NEW ENGLISH PAMPHLETS.
The Bohemian National Alliance| has just received from England a number of copies of the following pamphlets:
Lewis B. Namier: The Czecho-Slovaks, An Oppressed Nationality.
Douglas W. Johnson: Plain Words From America. A Letter to a German Professor.
T. W. Rolleston: Ireland and Poland. A comparison.
Sir Julian Corbett: The League of Peace and a Free Sea.
The New German Empire. A Study of German War Aims from German Sources.
You can obtain copies of any of the above pamphlets by writing to the Bohemian National Alliance, 3639 W. 26th St., Chicago, 111 . Please send two cents postage for each pamphlet.
The Bohemian Review, 10 cents a copy, one dollar a year.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/New Books

NEW BOOKS.
Leadership of the New America, Racial and Religious By ARCHIBALD MCCLURE. Geo H. Doran Co. $1.25.
This book is a study of some sixteen racial groups of immigrants, giving an account in broad terms of their organization, leadership and the prevailing movements of the day. The author is a young minister who spent a year after graduating from the seminary in a study of the newer immigration in various sections of the United States. He gathered a tremendous amount of fresh material and shows unusual insight into the inner life of so many races differing from each other in language, degree of education, religion, mental and moral characteristics. Perhaps the chief reason for Mr. McClure’s success in describing the varied currents of life among the immigrants is his sympathetic treatment of them, lacking altogether the calm assumption of superiority exhibited by the average American toward the “Hunkies” and “Ginnies”. He does not hide the immigrant’s faults and vices, but gives him also credit for his good qualities; he emphasizes the undoubted fact that immigrants appreciate better than the native born the ideals and principles of America.
The chapter on Bohemians, the first race treated in this book, gives a very careful account of the location of Czech immigrants in the United States, their religious divisions, their fraternal and athletic organizations, the Bohemian press and the powerful movement organized since the outbreak of the war for the attainment of independence for Bohemia. The chapter dealing with the Slovaks is also written in a sympathetic spirit and with great accuracy as to facts and figures. Here and there one finds little errors of geography and history; Bukovina is not a Hungarian province, Slovakland does not border on Bohemia, for the whole width of Moravia separates them; Bohemia has been under the Hapsburgs since 1526 and not since 1630, although the real loss of its independence is dated 1620, when Czechs were defeated in the battle of White Mountain.
Mr. McClure’s book is to be commended to all Americans who want to know something of the special interests and the separate, racial sentiments of the thirteen million immigrants in the United States.
# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Naturalization during the war

NATURALIZATION DURING THE WAR
The naturalization law, as it now stands, forbids the conferring of citizenship upon alien enemies. Different courts have interpreted differently this provision. All apply it to German subjects, some few apply it also to subjects of Germany’s allies with whom we are still nominally at peace. Thus in Chicago Bohemian applicants for citizenship who made their application in the state courts were naturalized, if otherwise qualified, while those who happened to file their application in the federal court were held to be alien enemies and their cases were continued until the end of the war.
War upon Germany’s allies cannot be delayed much longer, and then all the Bohemian applicants, as well as many Poles, Italians, Roumanians and other races of immigrants hostile to the German cause and anxious to assume the duties and burdens, as well as the privileges, of American citizenship, will be ineligible for it during the war. Now it is true that naturalization should not be conferred lightly, particularly in time of war, and that the government examiner, as well as the judge, should have clear proof of the candidate's loyalty to the United States, before conferring upon him the rights of a citizen and exempting him from the restrictions placed upon aliens, especially enemy aliens. But former political subjection is not a fair test of a resident alien’s attitude toward America’s political institutions and ideals, and it is no test at all of his sympathies in this war. A French Alsatian or a Pole from Prussia is probably far more determined on complete defeat of Germany than the average native-born American. And of immigrants from Austria-Hungary by far the larger part hate the Germans and are thoroughly loyal in their sentiments to this country.
Repeal the provision prohibiting the naturalization of alien enemies and give every alien, eager to become an American, a chance to prove that his heart is with this country. Should war be declared on Austria, as seems most likely at the time of this writing, a provision of this sort will be necessary in order to make hundreds of thousands of Austrian and Hungarian subjects available for service in the field. There are many thousands of Bohemian, Polish, Slovak and other soldiers in the first select army who will be placed by the declaration of war upon Austria in the category of alien enemies without an opportunity to become citizens. Do not take away from them their chance to become American citizens.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/New Books (3)

NEW BOOKS.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., New York.
The subtitle of this book of 309 pages is: A Fresh Consideration of the Case between Germany and Ourselves. It is perhaps impossible that during the war an Englishman could write impartially of the deadly differences between his own country and Germany. But this author certainly writes without passion of the hate of Germany for England of the various currents of opinion with reference to the war aims of Germany, of their relative weight and of the hope of reconciliation after the war. But though most moderate in tone and temperate in judgment, the author concludes that no lasting peace is possible, until Germany is completely defeated.
FUNK & WAGNALLS CO., New York.
A simple but stirring account of the wonderful relief work by which millions of the Belgian people are kept from starving. The author is the wife of the American manager of the Brussels office of the Relief Commission and spent a few months with him.
Most of the books on Belgium, published in this country, deal with the German atrocities. Here there is no direct mention of German cruelty, although the whole book is overshadowed by German bayonets. The emphasis here is on the fine points of human nature which calamity called out both from the Belgian people and the charitable souls from all over the world. The burden of the book is an appeal to America to keep up the work of Belgian relief.
The introduction to the book is written by Herbert Hoover, formerly in charge of the Belgian relief, now United States food administrator.
FREE ENGLISH PAMPHLETS
Copies of the following pamphlets may be obtained free from the Bohemian National Alliance, 3639 West 26th St., Chicago, Ill.
Lewis B. Namier: The Case of Bohemia.
Lewis B. Namier: The Czecho-Slovaks.
J. W. Mackail: Russia’s Gift to the World.
T. G. Masaryk: The Voice of an Oppressed People.
When you write, please send two cents postage for each pamphlet.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Miscellaneous (8)

​Reviews published in England cannot generally be noticed here. But the September “Nineteenth Century” gives the place of honor to such a powerful arraignment of Austria by Canon William Barry that some, at least, of the epigrammatic hits in the article “Break Austria” should be quoted. Here are a few of them: “On the disappearance of the Austrian Empire as it now exists the peaceful future of mankind depends.” . . . “Austria forms the solid keystone of the mighty Pan-German arch, striding across Europe and planted firmly in Asia.” . . . “We in the west, in England, France, Italy, and of course in the United States, have agreed that government should exist by consent of the governed. Apply this to Austria-Hungary, and it would burst in pieces like a bombshell.” . . .
“Austria has entered into a partnership with Prussia which will endure to the end. It is her last marriage, and nothing but death will dissolve it.” . . .
“Too long have we consented in thought and policy to the delusion that Europe outside the west was the natural inheritance of three autocratic royal houses, the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, the Romanoffs. One of these lies prostrate, flung down by the people’s mere breath. It will be a happy day when the older dynasties of Austria and Brandenburg fall beside it.”
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Miscellaneous (7)

​Several regiments on the Italian front have refused to obey orders and by way of punishment have been sent to Palestine. So the Czechs that once fought to win the Holy Land from the infidels are expected to fight now to save Jerusalem for the Turks.
There is one sure way of definitely limiting the power for ill of Germany, and that is the distruction of Austria-Hungary and thereby of the Central European bloc; if we wish to strike Germany for our purposes in a vital spot, we must strike at Austria-Hungary.
A. H. E. Taylor in the Oct.
Contemporary Review
Although Kramář and his colleagues have been pardoned, they have not been forgiven. The Austrian Treasury is suing Karel Kramář and Dr. Alois Rašín for six and a half million crowns damage which, it is claimed, the state has suffered through their treasonable acts.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Miscellaneous (9)

​Will Austria-Hungary leave Germany before the end of the fight? It would be certain political and economic suicide for her to do so. Hence she cannot. Will Austria be subservient to Germany after the war? Austria-Hungary cannot help herself in the matter. Her dependence is not voluntary. . . Austria is firmly convinced that without Germany’s strong arm to support her she is doomed as a political entity.
Wolf von Schierbrand.
A limited liability war in which we fight Germany ourselves and pay money to Italy and Russia to enable them to fight Austria and Turks with whom we are at peace, savors of sharp practice and not of statesmanship. It is a good rule either to stay out of the war or to go into it, but not to try to do both these things at once.
Theo. Roosevelt.
Among the many races of Austria the best showing in education is made by the Bohemians. The Austrian “Statistisches Handbuch” of 1914 states that among people of Czech race the percentage of illiterates was 2.4, while the Germans came next with a percentage of 3.1. The other races followed far behind.
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# The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 1/Miscellaneous (6)

​Bohemian women’s societies adopted a resolution on August 5th claiming the right to be consulted during the existing crisis in the fortunes of the nation, but endorsing the radical demands made by the deputies. “”A Czechoslovak state, fully independent, is our supreme desire; to attain it we are ready to sacrifice all, believing that truth and right will prevail.”
Every issue of the Prague official organ publishes military court decisions ordering confiscation of property of Czech soldiers who deserted to the Russians.
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Voss, Johann Heinrich

Edition of 1920. See also Johann Heinrich Voss on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
VOSS, fŏs, Johann Heinrich, German poet and translator: b. Sommersdorf , near Waren, Mecklenburg, 20 Feb. 1751; d. Heidelberg, 29 March 1826. He early began to write verses and some of these contributed to the ‘Göttingen
Musenalmanach’ led to a correspondence with Boie, upon whose invitation be went in 1772 to Göttingen. Here he studied the classical and modern languages and was one of the founders of the Göttinger Dichterbund. The editorship of the ‘Musenalmanach’ was handed over to him by Boie in 1775; in 1778 he was made rector of Otterndorf in Hanover, in 1782 at Eutin. In 1781, after the publication of several treatises, he produced his German ‘Odyssey,’ a work which has rendered this grand poem national with the Germans (new ed. by Bernays, 1881). This has been called “the most perfect rendering of Homer into a modern tongue.” In 1793 appeared his translation of the ‘Iliad,’ and that of the ‘Odyssey,’ in a new form, in which, however, it did not please so much as before, the former displaying greater truth and naturalness. He published in 1795 an idyl in the epic form called ‘Luise’ printed first in 1783, but now produced with improvements. His translation of the whole of ‘Vergil’ (1799) was revised for the edition of 1821. In 1805 he went as professor to Heidelberg, where he remained till his death. Voss rendered good service to the study of classical antiquity and threw fresh light upon many subjects. As a translator he exhibited wonderful command of language and great skill in the handling of metres. Among his translations that of Homer's works is undoubtedly the greatest; we may also mention, in addition to his ‘Vergil,’ his ‘Hesiod’ (1806); ‘Horace’ (1806); ‘Theocritus, Bion and Moschus’ (1808); ‘Aristophanes’ (1821); ‘Tibullus’ (1810); ‘Propertius’ (1830) and selections from ‘Ovid’ (1798). He also undertook, with his sons, a translation of Shakespeare which was completed in nine volumes in 1829, but this translation cannot stand a comparison with Schlegel's. Consult lives by Paulus (1826); by Herbst (1872-76); Prutz, ‘Der Göttinger Dichterbund’ (1841).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wagner, Charles

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WAGNER, Charles, French Protestant leader: b. Wibersville, Alsace, 3 Jan. 1852; d. 12 May 1918. At the age of 14 he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen. He was the pastor of a small parish in the French province of Vosges until 1882, when he went to Paris, and there opened a Sunday-school and later began preaching. The publication of his book ‘Jeunesse’ (“Youth”) in 1891 marked him as a leader in the ethical movement in France and his influence continually increased. Besides serving as pastor to a large congregation, he took an active part in many philanthropic and charitable undertakings, and in this work came into cordial relations with men of all shades of religious belief. His other publications translated into English include ‘The Soul of Things’; ‘By the Fireside’; ‘The Better Way’; ‘The Simple Life’; ‘On Life's Threshold’ (1905). Of these ‘The Simple Life’ attracted particular interest in the United States and was widely commended by religious and ethical leaders. In the fall of 1904 Pastor Wagner visited the United States, where he
made numerous addresses and gained material for ‘My Impressions of America’ (1906).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Vose, George Leonard

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VOSE, George Leonard, American civil engineer: b. Augusta, Me., 19 April 1831; d. 1910. He was educated at home and at Salem, Mass., studied at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard and began his career as assistant engineer on the Kennebec and Portland Railroad. He was associate editor of the American Railway Times in Boston (1859-63}, removed to Paris, Me. (1866) where he was engaged in railroad projects, was professor of engineering in Bowdoin College (1872-81) and held a similar chair in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1881-86). He was the author of several standard works on professional subjects, notably ‘Bridge Disasters in America: The Cause and the Remedy’ (1887).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wagner, Siegfried

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WAGNER, Siegfried, German musical conductor, son of Richard Wagner (q.v.): b. Lucerne, Switzerland, 6 June 1869. He was intended for an architect, but being bent on adopting the profession of his father, he left the Polytechnic school and studied music under Kniese and Humperdinck. He became a musical conductor in 1893, traveling in this capacity on the Continent and in England and in 1896, and again in 1899, conducted the performances of ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ at Baireuth. He is the composer of the operas ‘Der Bärenhäuser’ to his own text (1899) and ‘Herzog Wildfang’ (1901), and various orchestral pieces.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wahl, William Henry

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WAHL, William Henry, American scientist: b. Philadelphia, Pa., 14 Dec. 1848. He was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1867, studied at the University of Heidelberg and subsequently made a special study of mineralogy, geology and chemistry. He was professor of physics and physical geography at the Central High School at Philadelphia in 1873-74; resident secretary at the Franklin Institute and editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute in 1870-74, and in 1876 became editor of the Philadelphia Polytechnic. He was associate editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal in 1878-80, editor of the New York Manufacturer and Builder in 1880-82 and then resumed his former post at the Franklin Institute. He published ‘Galvano-plastic Manipulations’ (1883); ‘Preparations of Metallic Alloys’ (1893); ‘Historical Sketch of the Franklin Institute’ (1894), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wadlin, Horace Greeley

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WADLIN, Horace Greeley, American statistician: b. Wakefield, Mass., 2 Oct. 1851.
He studied architecture in Salem and in Boston, Mass., and in 1875-79 was engaged in the practice of that profession in the latter city. He was appointed special agent for the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in 1879 and upon becoming its chief in 1888 abandoned his professional practice. He resigned this position in 1903 to accept the post of librarian at the Boston Public library, which he has since occupied. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1884-88, was supervisor of the United States census in 1890 and in 1900 and also of the Massachusetts census of 1895. He has published ‘Reports on Statistics of Labor of Massachusetts’ (14 vols., 1888-1901); ‘Annual Statistics of Manufactures of Massachusetts’ (16 vols., 1888-1901); ‘Decennial Census of Massachusetts’ (7 vols, 1895), etc.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wagner, Moritz

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WAGNER, väg'nĕr, Moritz, German naturalist: b. Baireuth, 3 Oct. 1813; d. Munich, 31 May 1887. He studied at Erlangen and Munich and made extensive scientific journey in 1852-55 through North and Central America and the West Indies; in 1857-60 through the Andes from Panama to Ecuador. He was made professor of geography and ethnology at Munich. Among his writings are ‘Travels in the Regency of Algiers’ (1841); ‘The Caucasus and the Land of the Cossacks’ (1847); ‘Journey to Colchis’ (1850); ‘Journey to Ararat and the Armenian Highlands’ (1848); ‘Travels in Persia and in the Land of the Kurds’ (1851); ‘Scientific Travels in Tropical America’ (1870); ‘The Darwinian Theory and the Law of Migration of Organisms’ (1868).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wagner, Rudolf

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WAGNER, Rudolf, German physiologist: b. Baireuth, Bavaria, 30 July 1805; d. Göttingen, Germany, 13 May 1864. He was educated at Erlangen Würzburg and at Paris, was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Erlangen in 1833 and in 1840 was called to that chair at the University of Göttingen, where he remained until his death. He published ‘Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie’ (2 vols., 1834-35); ‘Handwörterbuch der Physiologie’ (4 vols., 1842-43); ‘Vorstudien zu einer wissenschaftlichen Morphologie des menschlichen Gehirns als Seelenorgans’ (2 vols., 1860-62), etc.