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Miscellaneous Books

The Blue Grass Cook Book, Minnie 9.
Fox, comp.
collection of famous old Southern
recipes, many contributed by South
ern women noted for their fine hospi-
tally and skilled cookery"
Life in America One Hundred Years
Ago, Gaillard Hunt.
"This book was written at the re
quest of the Committee of One nun
dred to celebrate one hundred years
of peace between Great Britain and |
the United States at the city of Wash |
ington, and is a contribution to that |
celebration. 1t is a sketch, drawn IN |
outline, of life and manners IN the |
United States in that year when peace |
was made with Great Britain, and this |
country started upon a career OF sep |
arate, independent national develop
ment. | have suggested some OF the
causes of development and have por-
trayed the character of the people IN a
general way. | hope | am able to com
municate some of the atmosphere of the
time to my narrative. 1t was an IN
| vigorating atmosphere, full of life and
inspiration to those who breathed 1t.
We must believe that it was, for if it
had not been we should not now rank
Iamong the great nations. The treaty
of peace of 1915 had a far-reacn1ng
consequence in that simple agreement
made on April %, 1917, by Richard
Rush, acting for the American gov
eminent, and Charles Bagot, acting
for Great Britain, which recites that
each government may have only one
! small vessel, with one small cannon
/ upon it, on each lake, and that "All
) other armed vessels on these lakes
} shall be forthwith dismantled, ana no
: other vessel of war shall be there built
2 or armed From the Preface.)
Japan to America, \. Masaoka, Editor.
A series Of papers by japanese lead
ers on the relations of Japan with the
United States,-It is what they wish
us to believe rather than what they
can prove as true.
q (Author of Pan-Germauism.)
The author forecasts the inevitable
Q clash between the United States and
Europe's victor in the Great War-be
it England or be it Germany-in the
struggle for commercial supremacy in
/ Latin America. Prof. Usher has used
. past history and diplomacy, with
| / 4
! ed essential to present factors in theiI
historic relationship; but the larger
part of the book deals with the pres
e ent conditions Of the United State;
e and Latin America The Boston Tran
script says of it: sit is the most can
:. | did and revolutionary study of our day;
!. no American who has at heart the in
terests of his country can afford t
g neglect it.
The Valor of Ignorance, Homer Lea.
Homer Lea was an American soldie
of fortune who undertook the relief O.
Kwang Hsu, Emperor of China, il
i 1900-1901 and who raised and com
Q manded the Second Army Division il
e 1904, holding the rank of Lieutenant
S General.
. His book is divided into two part
. the first entitled The decline of mil
# itancv and the control of the West
l. ern Hemisphere. The second, The de
y cline of militancy and the control o
I the Pacific.
! The first part of the book is an in
j. quiry into the rise of nations. Lea
d idea being that nations advance i
d direct ratio to their military efficiency
1 thus he leads up to his one concern
: the unpreparedness of the Unite
States for war. He says we are a
unmilitary nation, rich and arrogant
but wealth viii not safeguard US fror
a well-organized and determined 70
1t and arbitration is an illusion. In tn
n second, Mr.. Lea discusses a plan b
IS which the Japanese might seize an
Is hold the Philippines, Hawaii, Alask;
..e Washington, Oregon and Californi
thus gaining the mastery of the Pi
cific.
Sanpriel; the Promised Land, Avid
= Prydz.
r. A translation from the Norwegia
by Hester Coddington. A very unu