Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-28
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

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peoples in 1894, the project was dis
missed as visionary. Neither in the
United States nor in Great Britain
was their close interdependence
realized. The question has now,
| howev"". become of paramount i'm
portance.
Mr. .seerS book, "The English
Speaking Peoples" (Macmillan) is
searching analysis of this question,
in which every aspect of the matter
is shrewdly examined. The nature
, of the established International sys-
tenn is eXhaustively reviewed and
the urgent problem of securing the
future peace of the world is analys-
ed in a distinctly new spirit. In an
historical survey of the past decades
the fundamental aims of German
policy are elucidated, and the openly
expressed hostility of influential Ger
mans to the Anglo Saxon block" is
linked up with that policy.
Longmans Green and Co., an
nounce as nearly ready for publica-
ton a War Story by Guy Fleming,
author of The Diplomat, a new
story "Off With the Old Love-"
Away from Bismarck! That is the
| lesson Of this world-war for Ger
many Justice and liberty, not blood
! and iron, are the cement of modern
! fatherlands. No longer 'Deutsch-
/ land uber allies, but Germany with
and by the side of all. Democracy is
the only possible, only enduring basis
of the future peace of nations On
ward to democracy" These words,
astonishing though the fact is, are
addressed by a German to the Ger
man people. But 1t was done from
the safety of Switzerland, where the
author, Hermann Fernau, now lives.
The book from which the extract is
taken, 1.-THE Coming Democracy"
will be published in this country by
tE. p. Dutton and Co., in two or
three weeks. 1t makes a study of
what the Hohenzollern dynasty, and
the idea of submission to dynastic
dominance. have done for the Ger
Imam people, shows how the war was
the inevitable outcome of the direc-
ton in which Germany has allowed
herself to be led by that dynasty. and
pleads with the German people to
cast aside the falsehoods that have
blinded their eyes and to make Ger
many for the German people, not for
the dynasty, their aim.
THE Empty House (Macmlllan
is apparently to be one OF the mosl
discussed novels of the summer sea-
lson. The nature of its plot ana the
/, unbroken chain of incidents which
lead up to a surprising climax are
such as to recommend the story tc
those whose first demand of summer
} fiction is that it shall be exciting
one critic, in fact. pronounces The
Empty House" Sensational" There
is an argument in it, to be sure, Gen.
tering around the problem of the
modern childless woman. But II you
do not want to be bothered with
arguments, you can ignore 1t. Either
way YOU have a fascinating tale.
"Fifes and Drums" the new Wig
ilantes book, (Doran) has no inten-
ton of supplanting the good ole
songs and poems. 1t is simply an
! effort on the part of the writer and
artists of America to unite in eX-
pressing the feeling of the American
people regarding the present war
One of the interesting things in con.
nection with this lively little book
was the rapidity with which the vol
ume was gotten out. The whole thins
was accomplished in a single week
IA record in book making.
It is as the novelist of New Eng.
land that Alice Brown has won the
hearts of thousands of readers. AS
the years go by Miss Brown loses
none of her skill in her chosen field
in fact each book seems to be richer
in characterization and more absorb.
ing in theme. Bromley Neighbor.
hood" Miss Browns new move
(Macmillan) is no exception. 1t is
a story of a little community much
like the other communities which
Miss Brown has described, and of the
sorrows and joys of its people.
Prospects OF "meatless days" loon
on the horizon, and we may all have
to be vegetarians willynilly. Still
there is nothing like being satisfied
with conditions, and some of US
would like to know the real argu-
ments for a vegetarian diet. Mary
s. Brown has collected these in A
pamphlet entitled Three Reason:
For Vegetarian Diet" published by
the Four Seas Co.. together with the
opinions of many famous men or
1.-THE subject.
=. One of the most popular cults OIL
faiths in Germany to-day is Chris.
tian Science, and ii is interesting tc
read in Carl W. Ackerman's Ger.
many: the Next Republic? ?" (Doran)
that members of the Mother
Church" have apparently suffered
less from the food shortage than
many other Germans.
German Christian Scientists. says
Mr. Ackerman have organized q
semiofficial club for the purpose OF
buying all the extra food possible
Then they devise and store what
they want for the "siege'-the time
when food will be scarcer than it is
to-day. Two women practitioners
in Berlin" he writes, bought thirty
pounds of butter from an American
who had brought it from Copenhag-
en-. They canned it and planned to
make it last one year"