Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-25
BOOK REVIEWS.
THE TRADE. OF THE WORLD. By
James Davenport Whelpley New
York: The Century Company.

York: The Century Company.
~HIRTY -FIyE billion dollars
measures the foreign trade of
the world for 1912. This year it
viii be even more. And the
greatest international game
now being played has as its stake
the largest possible share OF this enor-
nous bulk of traffic. Mr.. whelpley's book
is an extraordinary summary of trade
conditions, policies and prospects in all
tho considerable commercial countries of
the world. The plain purpose of the
study is To give both special students and
general readers better appreciation of
the knowledge and sagacity. the common
sense. diplomacy, strategy even. required
to make Roadway iii this tremendous In
ternational contest. An amazing body of
facts bearing upon the subject is gathered
here to meet this purpose. average
discussions of trade matters, one has
learned to expect unreadable statistical
lists, bare expositions, the dry bones of
facial useful. ALL also. unconquerably
Gull. Mr.. Whelpleyis book is, on the con-
trary, an absorbingly interesting one, a
pre-eminently informing and useful one.
This comes about, in part, because this
author knows how to write wildly, with
face-to-face personality. In other part,
it,comes from the fact that MIR. Whelpley
looks upon the trade of country as
thing whose general Observation-Disclosures
kind and treatment and expansive power
are rooted in the soil of that country
aud in the acquired habits of its people.
exactly as its laws and letters and arts
are so rooted. FROM this standpoint,
trade becomes an expression of a nations
way of thinking, its way of looking
around and beyond itself. This point of
view interprets in Il balanced and accept
able way the logic of German advance in
trade of English strength, of France not
making Roadway, OF Belgium as the bal
anee-wheel of trade Italy's economic
outlook. of the crisis in Japan, of the
probabilities in China, of the swift march
OF Argentina, and so on around the world
of foreign commerce, back to the United
States. One comes out from this circuit
ot the globe possessed of new trade hori-
IONS. Upon these the efforts of iHdivid-
ual Americans loom as big as the best,
whereas the foreign trade policy and
progress of the United States itself APP
pears academic in outlook. amateurish in
performance. \ student of economics.
trade and finance, a traveller of concrete
aim. writer of picturesque vigor. Mr..
Whelpley has produced for the business
map, the Legislator, the diplomat and the
general reader surprisingly well or
dered, dependable and instructive COM
parative studs of the trade of the world.
EARLY MEMORIES. BY Henry Cabot
Lodge. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward
x Lothrop.
Il do it because it gives me pleasure"
Mr.. Lodge gives this as the reason for,
writing out these memories of his youth
and early manhood. And no other than
this best Of reasons would allow the read
to partake in such satisfying measure
of the writer's own quiet enjoyment, as
he comes. leisureiike. a second time aIons
his way, cleaning now the full SAVIOR of
feelings, experiences and events that the
haste. of the first gathering robbed, to
some extent. of their distinctive qualities
1T is hard to think of Mr.. Lodge apart
from political and legislative offices. Not
easy, at first. to realize him in any but