Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-11
BOOK REVIEWS.

BOOK REVIEWS.
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRAL LAW
AND PROCEDURE. BY Jackson II.
Ralston. author Of Venezuelan Ar
bitrations Of 19O3." etc. Published
for the International School OF
Peace. Boston: CHM & Co.
~HE direct claim for this volume
is that 1t offers sin concise
complete. handy form other
wise bulky. fragmentary or in
accessible matter. With arbi-
tration BY commission the uppermost in
strument Of present internationalism. this
Inclusive. authoritative, convenient study
Of arbitral law and procedure takes on
incalculable value to the legal practi-
TONER, to diplomatic representatives of
nations and to the student OF world pol
iucs and law. The volume contains hun
Greds OF classified decisions on arbitra-
ton cases, covering the century history
of rise and growth Of this institution.
II includes moreover, a weighty body of
opinions on International law from the
viewpoint Of the arbitrator. invaluable,
by way of precedent, as a basis for the
further development Of this subject.
Agent OF the United States at the first
Hague tribunal, umpire OF commission
Of settlement between Italy and Nenezu-
ella. author in high repute Of international
law treatises Mr.. Ralston brings to this
production profound knowledge, worked
into high efficiency through broad prac-
teal experience in this phase of inter-
nationalism.
WAR, And Its Alleged Benefits. BY !.
Novicow. vice president of the In
ternational Institute OF Sociology.
Translated by Thomas Settler. New
York: Henry Holt 4 Co.
WAR is a case Of pure atavism. sur
vival." Tradition and routine are its sole
dynamics today. Upon these grounds the
author stands to point the PLAIN common
sense of throwing out upon the worlds
ashheap thing so patiently outwora and
useless. There is neither abstract dogma
nor empty sentimentaiism in this square
little book. Every page of it is con-
crete witness. teStifying in terms that
carry straight to the common mind,
ton. The writer shows that out of all
history only four motives for war ap-
PEA AMI .oaiism. spoi.ation. intoisral-e
despotism. But We no longer desire 10
accounting of time proves, not only that
war does not enrich the victors but also
that neither piety nor patriotism can be
injected at the point of the bayonet.
These underpinnings having settled COM
pletely away from the suDerstructure, the
sophists appear to bolster it up with piati-
tudes. giorffying war as an end in itself.
something that ''regenerates corrupted
peoples, awakens dormant nations, that
hardening process which necessarily stirs
all the highest faculties anu briggs the
highest motives into play Here the
writer takes up one by one, the alleged
lectuai. moral and physical advantages
traditioned as the effects of mii.tancy.
These he topples over with no other
weapons than recorded history and the
plainest OF reasoning. The whole is
matter-of-Iact argument for transactlng
the business of civilized, seif-respecting
world. according to methods of CORE
Spending progress, in place of the left
over tool OF baroarous time.
UNIV ERSAL PEACE-WAR IS MES
MEXlSM. BY Arthur Edward Still
Well. author Of Confidence or Ma
tional Suicide" New York: The
Bankers Publishing Company.
This. Mr.. Stilwells second book. is even
more remarkable than his Confidence or
National Suicide" 'Strikingly original,
but bizarre, theatric." Some such verdict
chapters here, where the author stands
sQuai ely before the three great war lords
OF the world. addressing them by name
and title, and puts them through the
eatechism of Christian faith, questioning
why. then, they continue In the militant
ways Of Moses. instead Of pursuing tine
peaceful paths OF their confessed leader.
One soon realizes, however, that this in
tense individua.ism of thought and man
Her does not spent itself on denunciations
Of war lords and their vocation. Rather
10 1t consecrated to constructive plans for
universal amity. The author proposes
secretaries of peace to supplant those Of
war. lie organizes one great host of
allies in place of armies of combatantS
He works out a definite scheme OF grad
ual disarmament, save reserve for po-
lice duty and the enforcement of peace
alone. In dong this, he knocks over the
Monroe doctrine. that national fetish
since II permits neither our nation nor
any other to bring and impose good gov
eminent upon the turbulent Central and
South American states. He proposes a
partnership between the United States
and Mexico. looking toward progress for
all Of tropical America. Here he pays
high and beautiful tribute to President
Diaz, one Of the greatest men who ever
lived" Successful business man, he
lines in sharply the political, economic
and otherwise human advantages accru-
ing from a determined resistance to the
nesmeric influence OF war. These are
but few Of the features Of this amazing
book. II brins with world wisdom, and
with other-world wisdom. Under this
ndmftlerinS speech, a great constructive
imagination Is working, the sort of Wis
tontng power that James ]. Hill has, that
Cecil Rhodes had in the highest degree
THE CONFLICT OF COLOUR. The
Threatened Cpheaval Through Out
the World. Ry +. l.. Putnam Weale
author of "Manchu and Muscovite"
etc. New York: The Macmillan Com
Dany. Washington: Brentano's.
No paciflst this. or il he had been one
il is on the Rooseveitian order-guns
pointed. pro1ectiles ready. Mr.. Weale.
long resident Of China, thoughtful stu
dent Of" eastern concerns. brilliant and
authentic writer on its Affairs, sees trou-
BILE ahead. The author Is reading back
ward into history. Through the unwieldy.
unarticulated. complex movements of the
world he sees the age-o!d race conflict
brewing-the yellow and brown and blaci,
man against the white man forever
Because Of geographic neighborhood this
conflict Will focus again, as Ii has al
ready successfully done in the long past,
on Europe and Asia As attendant and
convergent circumstances the author
notes the vast preponderance of num-
beers among the non-white Aslatics, a
rapidly acceleratiny condition, and cou-
pies this with the increase and spread OF
real knowledge throughout the world.
The kind OF knowledge this moreover,
that fosters individualism and in time
gives birth to national selfhood. refusing
-peaceably. maybe-imposed white SOW
eret2nty The rise for the ffrst time in