New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-27

Brooks and L. P. Jacks. In Serb
ner's" Alexander Dana Noyes con-
tinues his financial papers on the war,
with an examination of the facts which
have proved untrue the prediction
made last year that economic exhaus-
tion of the belligerents would come
before the end of the present one. Z.
Alexander Powell describes with strik-
ing effect the armies Of France az the
front, and c. L. Preston reviews Aus
tria's strongholds in the mountains on
the Italian frontier.
The Monroe Doctrine.
Herbert Krauss, a German authority
and the author of book on the sub
ject, writes of "The Monroe Doctrine
as Germans See It" in The Atlantic
Monthly" Whatever may be the case
of other great nations, he begins by
pointing out, the international policy
of the United States has from the
very first Of its existence been con-
trolled by three unvarying principles:
the principle of recognizing only such
states and governments as are found
ed by the will of the people; the ten
dency to shun alliances; and the Mon
roe Doctrine. The first of these has, of
necessity. undergone the greatest
change, but it has come TO the fore
again in the case of Mexico; Herr
Kraus hopes, in our own interest, that
"the veil which just now seems 70
cloud the historical memory" of our
leading statesmen concerning the Sec
ond principle will be thrown aside, and
then proceeds to his consideration of
the Monroe Doctrine, the secret of
whose practical efficiency and beneficial
effect upon our policies he sees in the
fact that to the rest of the world it
is a ''will-o'- the-wisp." England, of
course, cannot favor it, since (acccord-
ing to Herr Kraus) she has not yet
given up the struggle for supremacy
on this continent; Germany, on the
other hand, scquiesces in it, and. on
the whole, "even now the sentiment of
Europe is far more favorable 20 1t
than is that of the states of Central and
South America" Thus our German
authority approaches the merging of
the doctrine with that of Pan-Ameri
canism. 1t is this war, he holds, which
will put the Monroe Doctrine to the
supreme test.-An informing article
on THE Inevitable Trend in Mexico"
by David Lawrence, will be found in the
Century" together with a readable
paper on "the" profession, "The Diplo-
matte Point of View" by Maurice Fran
CTS Egan.
Fiction and Verse.
Rudyard Kipling heads the list with
his second war story, in the Century"
It is a grim episode Of implacsble ha-
tired, this story of MARY Apologize"
Of the death of the young English
aviator, her charge in childhood, Of the
killing of a child by a German air.
bomb, and of the slow agony, under
her watchful stare, of the airman who
threw it-Mr. Howells contributes to
"Harper's" a vignette Of New York
life, Somebody's Mother" as incon-
elusive as one of Tchekhov's own
stories.-In The Atlantic" II. G.
Dwight publishes another one of his
sketches Of Constantinople; Edward {.
Venable, in "Scribner's," transports the
war TO an American household whose
Canadian butler, German chauffeur and
Belgian maid leave on the same day, TO
return later in tragic circumstances.
George Bronson Howard has an
other of his Villon tales in the Cen
tury."-In this magazine there Is,
also, a noteworthy poem, The Night
Court" by Ruth Comfort Mitchell.
Sarah n. Cleghorn has a sonnet, John
Masefield," in "Harper's"; there are
some verses by Edith Wharton, Battle
Sleep" in the Century" The English
poet-laureate contributes to Serb
ner's" some stanzas, "The Philosopher
and His Mistress"