Evening star., 1915-12-12

III. Doran Company.
a FFIRMING that "a country car
~ as little dispense with pre-
+, "A paredness in policy as III
: " 4 arms" Norman Angel SUBJ
mits this study as "a contri-
button to the problem of preparedness
on the side OF policy" That America
can 10 longer maintain even the SEM
blance of isolation and aloofness. the
present war has made most acuteiy
manifest. Equally obvious is it that in
the rcadjustments following this con-
fict Americas efficiency and useful
, ness. even her well being and security,
will depend in large measure upon the
possession OF a well defined foreign
policy, upon consistent, far dealing,
comprehensive plan of world politics.
In order to secure such plan there
must be. in a government like ours at
least. a very general understanding of
the great principles and broad issues
that underlie the problems of world
community and cooperation. The
hugser- -mugg.ar of diplomacy, the CLAN
destine quality of statecraft. are out of
place here. They stand in the way of
any adequate grasp of the factors of
-
in it's last resort is above all else the
average mans business. And so Mr..
Angel goes to the bottom of things in
quest of those essentials that marx
our fundamentally right relationship to
the rest of tie world. He talks about
the freedom of the seas, of the effects
of belligerency over these areas, of the
rights of neutrals and the real essence
of neutrality. He talks of the futility
of war. repeating here in sum what he
said in THE Great Illusion. He out
lines the PrussianiZing of the world as
a possible outcome of the present war.
Mr.. Angel is an expert dynamiter.
So one after another he eXplodes this
or that of old theory and tradition in
relation to one or another international
fetch. good Indication that h. does
really destroy them is that under their
rpecific and baleful influence wars have
multiplied, under their failacieS the
rrost stupendous of wars is now rag
ire. Then. in constructive spirit this
ter turns around to show The part
that America could and should take in
n.arshaling the military forces of
the world-fnance. commerce, COM
IT, MICA ation-and in using these. with the
-.~t of the world. as coerciye force
a~ninst any recalcitrant and aggressive
ion. This study is of the essence OF
Tive Great Illusion Those who read
that really great book learned the
quality of this writer's thought-its
originality. the clear run of its logic,
its vigor, its simplicity-the full sum
e' it's power to instruct and convince.
Trose who have not read ii should do
so. for no other recent writing ap-
proaches it in educativ.7 value on the
subject Of the futility of war. That
book, supplemented by this one, fur
nisheS a splendid body of argument
against war and for the establishment
of worldwide cooperative forces
"MADE IN GERMANY" BY Franklin
v sPrague sro A csnssis NJ a15hoP ~ Reve OF
lation.' etc. New York: The Pill
grim Press.
The purpose of Mr.. Sprague's work
here is. in part. to gather UP out of
body of evidence in support of his
claim that the present war was made
in Germany" In other part, it is
study of the fundamental nature and
meaning of neutrality. as this nature
and this meaning take shape in GER
tain rights and duties. In very par
ticular sense it is a study. also. of the
obligations that neutrality imposes
upon the United States. both in the
general policy and the specific conduct
of this government toward the bel
ligerent powers. In pursuit of the first
of these objects th.e writer reproduces
the exact words of many politically
himself down to the government-sup
ported university professor whose
business it is to fashion and direct the
opinions of those around and under
him. At this point Mr.. Sprague does
not forget to repeat some of the decla-
rations of that transplanted university
professor. Otto Munsterberg. In a
pointed discussion of German mill
taTism and German culture the writer
makes it quite clear that these aston
fshing utterances are not the explo-
sions of high emotional moments but
that they are. on the contrary, the
difpessionate disclosure of policy
that. from the kaiser down, is pressed
into the warp and woof of German life.
From IL general ANALYSIS of the iprin-
ciples that underlie the modern doc
trine Of neutrality the study passes at
once to the particular brand of neu-
traBty advanced by the United States
In the present situation. Here he says
that America is neutral. Amer leans
are not neutral" "InternationallS the
United States is out of the war;
morally its people are in it and in II
Just to the extent that they have moral
convictions" IT is of this chapter that
Theodore Roosevelt says in an intro
duction to the volume, Il wish to call
especial attention to what the book
says about the duty of the United
states. l rejoice as an American that
an American clergyman should speak
as Mr.. Sprague does at time when SO
many Of those in America who slaim to
be leaders of religious and philan-
thropic thought have occupied a posi-
lion not merely futile but funda-
meDtally immoral The book is
spirited. even fierce. aTraignment of
German aggression. 1t is. besides q
criticism of the United States for de-
claring neutrality which, in effect,
rendered null and void an earlier in
ternational contract 1t is another ray
OF illumination thrown upon q subject
every possible angle when the read
5ustments following this war will be
the exacting theme of consideration.
KINGS. QUEENS AND PAWNs: An
American Woman at the Front. BY
Mary Rinehart. author of *" etc
New York: George II. Doran Com
pany.
A triple value stamps this book
First. a woman saw and interpreted
what is set down here about the war
Again. this woman has been rigidly
trained. not only in gathering the ap-
pearances of things. but in seiziug their
implications as well And yet again,
this writer mas already won distinct
public approval for her way OF saying
what she has TO say. as more than ore
successful novel by her amply proves.
,ars. Rinehart's purpose in going TO the
front was TO see how the women there
were faring. what they were doing
how they We're doing il. All this she
did see. and all this she in sympathy
and fine discretion has made account of
mere. And, naturally. she has told
about innumerabic things besides
about soldiers under fire and the devas-