The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-28

have wanted to get the inside of the crooked spellbinder with the silver tongue and the brass voice and whining insin- cerfty. but have never had the data Mr Samuel l.. Blythe has
 The author of ..The Price of Place. of fhe Old Game and editor-author of Who's Who and Why department in the Saturday Evening Post Mir. Blythe's humorous stories and remarkable inside political articles etc. are more read than almost any other mans writings today THE POLITICS AND ECONOMIC DOCTRINES OF JOHN MARSHALL" By John Edward Oster A NJ IL. B.: the Neale Publishing company. publish CTS, New York.
 There are many new features in this book that have never before been brought 1 out-such as the hitherto unpublished let
 ters of the great chief justice. his speeches
 and the cream of his great decisions. One oi these decisions. perhaps his great given in full, shows his method and his deep insight into even the smallest de-
 tails of the law. The letters-in the gath ering of whfcha the author was enga ged Tor years, and which put him to great eSpense-show the workings of Marshails S
 mind perhaps even better than do the
 decisions. They show his preiudices, his
 pride. his strength his weakness and
 reveal Marshall as he has never been
 kr own before to any body
 Heretofore there has been very little
 knowr about the greatest of all the jus
 tlces of the Anglo-Saxon peoples His
 letters. which have never before been
 printed show his secretiveness During
 his lifetime he did not wish any of his
 letters to be published, and went to great
 lff of tef ft-
 respondents that under no consideration
 was the press to get hold of any of them.
 Marshall. says Dr. Oster was even a
 greater genius than is generally SUD-
 posed He is regarded as being shrewd' alone. This, says os. Oster. is e,.opeors,
 Tor he was merely more diplomatic and suave than he was supposed by his con
 temporaries to have been and it seems
 that the only impressions of him that are extant now are those that existed
 when he lived. The lives of him that
 nave appeared were written by men that
 lived at the time that he did-with the exception of Thayer's book which is sim ply an enlargement of an address. or of
 several speeches.
 This compilation clears away bota inc obsc,rities of his decisions that are ob- setre and the obscurties of the man. The reader of this volume will discover here Tor the first time that the great chief justice in addition to being seer of the law was very human creature with rare tiits tbat nave not been credited to hIe, either by the living or the dead.. The poitie eal and the economic doctrines Of Marshall for the first time may be fully understood for now for the first time the n.aster builder of the American political stFCctuNe is made known. iatfiiv.to under I stahd his decisions. one must understand the man. Undoubtedly nans of Mar shalfs decision s. however sound and great. were influenced by Marshalls rresudices and passions.
 No lawyer. and no student of law or of law or of political science. can afford 10 be without this most valuable work. which IS one Of the greatest recent contribu- tons to the literature of iurisprudence and political science.
 'GERMANY'S FIGHTING. MACHINE" By Ernest F. Henderson. Illustrated with
 lOo official pictures. The Bobbs-Merrill
 Co.,, Publishers, Ipdianapolis
 Had Emperor William known that on a certain Hamburg liner that left Ger many only a few days before the decla- fallon or war in Europe there was d cer- 1 tain American who possessed full. &C., curate and detailed information and pie | lures regarding every branch of his mill i ,"iA serNice, IL IS doubtfu whether the heavy foe which ended the pursuit of the | vessel would have been allowed to prevail. | But tn" fog and good fortune worked to- | gethef and Ernest F. Henderson finally | reached American shores with his prize | and was enabled to prepare his signifi- ! cant volume called .Germany's Fighting | Machine
 MT Henderson is known for his previous | authoritative histories of the fatherland | and his bipPIaph% of fI1a Field Marshal Bleucher. He has spent | most of the last 30 years in Gerfnany. and during the last year there was work ing on new history of the country. His | position permitted him to mingle in of | hela' circles and he has had access to 1