Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-22

.F.e in.a box with Among English
! Hedgerows."
"A Fun Official History of the War
| Win smIn" by Murat Halstead has
JUST been published and is me best book
ln the subject that has been presented
tuf Gun nutice. The volume o.. as the
| name lmubC8. "a FUN official history
Ipr It embJdles the official reports Of
officers DO command lo their superiors
lud ,' Che War department at Washing
ipi-siatemputs written on the spot
ana without embellishments. Such
matter 1s this is history and the author
deserves the gratitude OF his country
men f0r the labor Of compiling AN this
interesting data and these reports must
| nave been tremendous. only mind
such as Mr. Halstead's. trained By long
ana IuloUJus journalism, could have
been capable Of the task
Americas Economic Supremacy is
thc titIg of very timely book by Mr.
Brooks Adams 10 deals with "a series
oi problems which since the panic ui
lNs3. have steadily grown TO absorb
more and more OF public attention.
These problems relate 90 that economic
competition among nations which de-
iormlnes the seat of empire and rogu.
.1tes The distribution of wealth. Amer
leans have NO length begun tD recognize
.hat Che world is now passing through
a period OF revolution The cause of
mat revolution Is the shock 90 the social
equilibrium uccusiOucl by the relative
decline uf Europe and rise of America.
Great Britain is rapidly losing her
economic supremacy, and the prohabili-
iy now is that that supremacy must Doe
transferred 90 the United states. No
movement of equal Importance has
taken place. certainly since the French
revolution and 10 may Doe that no
changes So mOmentous have ever 0C-
CURED In history II involves the sole
Fenoy ana domestic organization of
every people on the globe. The disturb
ange began with the IAN of France in
1910. ana from that event has followed
DO regular order the panic OF 1893. the
spanish war; the B1er war, the out
break In China, ana the difficulties
which beset the financcrs Of England.
Germany and Russia. at the present
time. These political and social
changes are connected with AN alterna-
ton On the character OF the population
of The leading nations. and this change
can Doe traced in literature as we'll as In
the composition Of the army. or uthe
Held of commerce or politics.
The Border of Argyle Place" by
George Toiie ie q curious love story. iu
which deal OF Eighty and good nae
turel badinage ends is on unexpected
wedding Argyle Place Is q cluster OF
half % dozen comfortable family dwell
ings IN a New Jersey village. the occu-
pants of which are claunlsh, neighbor-
ly ana severely respectable. Into one
uI the families a bOarier BIS taken whose
recommendations seem 90 Dee saUsfac-
tory to the little community and who
infuses into IL a wholesome and invigor-
ating spirit of social activity lie is
a bright young man of 90 or Pa COLI
lege graduate of industry and solid eX-
neutrality-suspicious. aulacious and
glibly learned. but with an assumed air
of dltldence. attractive and becoming.
The most of the chapters Of the story
are given TO his odd social experiences
in the neighborh0od, In which he soon
becomes a fayoritc. ana Co colloquy
marked by frequent displays of wit and
heWildering sophistries OF this there
is perhaps "a little too much. but ON
the whole the story is entertaining, with
70 conclusion mildly and agreoably dra-
matte New York r.. +. Fenno & Coz