The Washington herald., 1913-10-19
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE: By Henly
Cabot Lodge New York-The Macmillan Com
pany.
The signifcance Of the phrase "one
Hundred Years of Peace Between Eng.
lish Nations cannot be estimated. Until
il was accomplished, there were few IN
deed who cared TO estimate the achieve
ment. It has been grave struggle' TOT
the results of the war Of the revolution
and the war of 1919 were not 10 be easily
snoothed away. There Is no surer tes'
OF this than may be found from COM
parison Of the, school histories wnlcn
have been in use in the United ststes
and in England. Young England has
heen taught that the American wars
amounted to very little, mere episooes
in the everyday life of the English
people. while in the United States TINS
war of the revolution has completely
eciipsed in the children's minds tnal
treater revolution which followed swiftly
Ilpon its heels. The close OF sucn 2
period OF peace should be celebrated In
both nations, that the memory OF ts
signfhcance may be handed down 70
posterity. Let II be borne IN the minos
Of posterity that the time mas passeo
when the English nations wouto ar. nsns
with one another For 1t must be upon
such a cordial friendIiness as this tnal
the Anglo-Saxon supremacy In the s"orio
must rest
In his brilliant, but satirical vein'
Senator Lodge Is well able to drive nome
many points in the last hundred years
of history. Two elements come especially
into prominence during this period. one
is the dfficulties and the statesmanship
which has accomplished this period OF
peace, and the other is it's bearing on the
future of the two nations In spite OF
the conflicting evidence of histories, we
know how much England depended upon
her colonies. We realize today the e1-
tent and value OF the lands which her
tactlessness forfeited. But England, with
her usual stubbornness. refused 10
recognize the fact. She ignored them.
Mistress Of the seas since the DAYS OF
the Spanish Armada. even IL she was
meeting with great losses upon the lano'
WAS IL conceivable that, in the end, she
should not conquer the Corsican upstart?
She did conquer and she did ignore her
former colonies, where in her happier
days she would have expected to draw
rich revenues. In the meantime the
Young republic suffered at the hands
Of both contestants. AS Senator Lodge
remarks: The INSCRIPTIONS dexterity
of Napoleon and the marvellous stupidity
of England resulted in our fighting Eng
land instead OF France
The story of these hundred years, with
their perils and the victories, Is one
which cannot be too faithfully borne in
the memories OF Americans. Its interest
is increased by the brilliancy Of the
authors telling; and his wit and satire
succeed in bringing these well-known
facts to us with new vitality.
TIT -~--T4 ABOUT WOMAN: By Mrs. Walter
Ganichan. New York-Dodd. Mead & Co.
The Truth About Woman is worthy
to stand with other pioneers Of woman's
rights in the most important subject be-
fore the world today. This is praise
enough. There is a fascinating discussion
of all the complex details of woman and
her relation to her environment of sex
and its origin, and the relation of male
and female through all the reaches of
known history of the absorbing topics of
marriage, divorce, and prostitution, with
their vital bearing on life today. The
author has compressed in THE Truth
About Woman" what is probably the
most comprehensive treatment presented
of the origin, the function. the peculiar
nature, the history and present problems
Of women as a factor in the life of our
race. Her book is not a new theory Of
sex origin, a novel idea Of the marriage
relation, or a single bit of biology, or
anthropology, or history, or economics,