Evening star., 1918-04-07

H. 4.
Men Fight For" New York: The
Macmillan Company.
OR the purposes of this outlook
upon the past and future of the
- United States, Mr.. Powers
~ makes use Of the method COM
monty employed in the study
Of an individual. A very Illuminating
and convincing method it proves to be.
A mans character can be determined
only by the sum Of his attitudes and
actions. Rightly apprehended. however,
that character points out the mans
future behaviors through the simple
logic of his past-through the habitual
reactions Of that character upon its en-
vironment. So with the nation-the
collective individual. The striking and
important point in this study Is the
writer's summary of the future likeli-
hoods of American world policy. sum-
mary reached by way Of a keen analy-
sis of the national character as this
has developed. stage by stage. through
129 years of national history.
The work separates into two parts.
at Home" The second, America Among
the World Powers" The first serves
to wake up the average reader to a
couple of facts that certain time-hon-
ored gestures and phrases have COW
cred and denied. The United States is
clearly Of imperialistic pattern. That
Is fact one. Despite a diversity of
racial filigrees in this pattern. it is
Anglo-Saxon in it's essentials. That is
fact two. In brilliant fashion the writ
er sets out this achievement Of empire.
Most interesting, to discover that the
United States. like her imperial mother,
has attained to empire-not through ul-
terror motive and far-reaching design,
but rather by practical opportunism,
marching under many banners-indi-
vidual liberty, self-protection, trade,
philanthropy, religion. education, party
politics even-till the narrow colonial
strip shut in between the mountains
and the sea has expanded to the meas
ure of a continent and the reach Of the
Pacific ocean.
United States now is. the writer traces
the instructive condolences and alliances
that common aims, a common tempera-
ment, will set up between this country
and certain of the world powers. He
defines, also. equally instructive reticen-
cies and repulsions. There is a sugges-
tion here that the national character
should face itself openly upon these
likelihoods of the future, shaping its
attitudes and behayiors Hospitality and
PioSIASoiAJ So"dio lHOSe peoples WIFI
whom the United States desires to form
alliances, to enter into partnerships,
because Of affinities of political vision,
or because of the nearer bond Of iden-
tfty OF blood and temperament. This
book is as readable as 1t is substantial.
An eloquent and admirably organized
Interpretation of the national character
In Its fronting upon the Immediate fu-
ture of civilization as a whole.
TWO WAR YEARS IN CONsTANTI-
NOPLE. By DR.. Harry Stuermer
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
converted German is an anomalous
an arresting figure. The German blood
appears to be thicker, the German roots
of nativity to strike deeper, the Ger
man prepossessions to. be stronger thar
those of other nationalities. Thin the
German blood and It still leaps to the
hopes of the German empire. Trans.
plant the German roots and they benz
their branching shoots toward thu
fatherland. Spread new possession.
before the German mind and 1t still
holds fast to the prepoSsessions OF III
Teutonic origins. So, q converted Ger
| man. gives one pause. Indeed, the fac
| that DR.. Stuermer--a German. having
seen service in the German army, and
| at this writing, journalist on the stat
/ of an important German newspaper-
this fact. renders his Reputation Of hi
0AgmAu sileItanco o& evan more mo