New-York tribune., 1917-12-08
BOOKS: AUTHORS: PUBLISHERS

doubtedly contains much useful in
formation, but il also contains much
which the judicious will greatly doubt
and IN which it is not profitable nor
healthful 20 dabble.
The Methodist Book Concern has
published q compact, compendious and
commendable "Cyclopcdia Of Temper
ance. Prohibition and Public Morals
which presents in convenient form
pretty nearly all that the average man
wants TO know upon those topics.
The Princeton University Press is
publishing this month "The Value Of
the Classics" edited by Andrew F..
West. dean OF the Graduate School Of
Princeton University. This is a record
Of the addresses delivered at the Con-
ference on Classical Studies in Liberal
Education held at Princeton University
June 2. 1917, together with a collec-
tion Of opinions and statistics. The
purpose of the Princeton conference
was TO present the affirmative of the
case for classical studies az an essen
tial element In the best type OF liberal
education along with mathematics,
science, history, philosophy and mod
ern literature. The whole argument
was rested not on mere tradition, but
on their approved value for American
thought and life. To secure more
impartial presentation Of the case, the
testimony of the teachers and profes-
sors OF the classics was excluded The
witnesses to the value of the classics
IN the conference, and therefore in the
book, were men eminent in other fields.
The statistics in the book are based on
a oil T~,rr 90 . ffr., q -
secretary Of the College Entrance Ex-
animation Board and facts furnished
by schools and colleges.
In George Eliot and Thomas Hardy"
by Lima Wright Berle, published by
Mitchell Kennerley, the author has
written study Of women as they ap-
pear In the works Of the two writer's.
This point Of view was partly sug-
gested by DR.. W. A Nelson, president
OF Smith College, in one of his lectures
in 1912 to a Radcliffe class Of which
Miss Berle was then a member In
view of the hundredth anniversary Of
the birth of George Eliot, this volume
has timely interest
Anton Lang, the Christus Of Oberam-
r''o~~au. was CO led to war last spring
Before this there had been much
str,u.ation as 10 whether or not he
would consent to fight. One Of those
who specusted on this point was Cap
tain Edward Lyell Fox. the former war
correspondent and author Of wilhelm
Hohenzollern & Co." Captain Fox pre-
sents the result Of his speculations in
little holiday book. "The New
Gethsemane" lMcBride), in which
Anhalt, the cobbler, the prototype Of
Anton Lang. is represented as refusing
TO fight in an unjust cause.
The remarkable richness Of Swedish
lyric poetry is revealed by the
Anthology Of Swedish Lyrics" trans
lated in the original meters by
Charles Wharton Stork THE Ameri-
can-Scandinavian Foundation, Scsndi-
navian Classics. Volume TX, 1910. Mr..
Stork's collection is partly based on an
enquete instituted by the foundation
in the "Svenska Dagblad" in Stockholm
10 find which were the most popular
lyric poems in Swedish literature. The
volume includes forty-fve poets, four
teen Of whom are living.
A book that presents trustworthy in
formation regarding the great island
empire Of the east is Rising Japan."
shortly to appear under the Putnam
imprint, in which the author, the Rev.
Jabez T. Sunderland, answers the ques-
ton whether Japan is menace or a
comrade to be welcomed in the frater-
nifty Of nations For the writing of this
book DR. Sunderland has exceptional
qualifications.