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New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

fichest industrial regions, she was in
capable of playing more than very
secondary role in the later stages Of
the conflict.
This helplessness Of Russia, despite
her enormous wealth of human mate
rial, lends great deal of weight to Mr..
McPherson's contention that the Allies
made grave mistake in neglecting the
Eastern theater of war and max
ing so many futile efforts to break
through on the .mpregnable Western
front. The Dardanelles might have
oeen forced with more resolute ef
fort; and such victory would have
opened up an adequate means of COM
municaton between the Western Allies
and Russia through the Black Sea ports.
The author also criticises the German
General Staff severely for devoting too
much attention to the Western front
and overlooking the possibility Of thof-
oughly subjugating the western Rus
sian provinces and drawing on them for
recruits.
The author is convinced that the
Allies we're guilty Of many serious
plumbers in the prosecution Of the war
The supreme error, to which nearly all
the minor catastrophes of the conflict
can be traced. was the stubborn opposi-
ton to unified command, which broke
down only when disaster started the
Allies in the face at the time of Ludpn-
dortf first great drive in 1918. Among
the lesser mistakes which delayed the
successful termination Of the war the
author mentions the neglect of the
Eastern front, political and military
muddling in the Balkans and Jofre's
faulty strategy in ignoring the menace
OF a German invasion through Belgium
and concentrating his forces too heavily
on the French eastern frontier.
On the other hand, the Germans made
several even graver blunders. which
finally cost them the war despite their
superior preparedness and other initial
advantages. Their crowning folly, Of
course, was the deliberate provocation
OF clash with the United States
through the unrestricted subma rine
warfare Then the German generals.
with the exception of Hindenburg,
underrated the French powers of re-
slstance and wasted hundreds of thou
sands of lives in futile attempts to
take Paris. This mistaken policy came
to its logical climax last year, when
Ludendortf's clumsy, ponderous often
slves we're suddenly turned by foch into
an rretrievable rout, which terminated
only with the surrender last No
vember. And these mistakes, as the
author points out, proceeded from the
besetting German sin OF overveening
arrogance, of that boundless confidence
OF victory which was in itself the most
certain cause and omen of Germany's
final decisive defeat.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

ciation Is directed against Professor
lhorstein Veblen, one of the leading
economic authorities Of our radical "in-
telligentsia." After describing various
physical ailments which assailed him
IN the course of reading the professors
ponderous works, he offers the follow
ing observations upon Vehlen's fearful
and wonderful style:
Though born. believe. in these
States. and resident here all his life.
Professor Veblcn achieves the effect,
perhaps without employing the means,
or thinking in some unearthly foreign
,anguage-say Swahili, Sumerian or
O'd Bulgarian-and then painfully
clawing his thoughts into copious but
uncertain and book~learned English.
me result is style that affects the
higher cerebral centers like a constant
ron OF subway expresses. The second
result is bewildering numbness the
senses, as before some fabulous and
Inearthly marvel. And the third re-
suit. if l make no mistake, is the
celebrity of the professor as a Great
Thinker. In brief, he states his hollow
nothings in such high, astounding
terms that they must inevitably arrest
end blister the right-thinking mind,
lie makes them mysterious. He makes
them shocking. He makes them por-
tertous. And so, finging them at naive
and believing minds. he makes them
stick and burn"
The whole essay suggests nothing so
much as the woung Nietzsche's classical
annihiation of David Strauss Not the
least effective touch comes at the close,
when the author casually remarks that
Veblen. de pite his manifold faults, is
by no means one of the worst products
of present-day American culture.
The author also makes spirited at
tacks upon William Dean Howells and
H. G: Wells. holding up Joan and
Peter" as peculiarly horrible example
Of the English novelist's literary de-
cline. Mr.. Mencken practices refine
ment of cruelty upon Irwin Cobb
when he lays his humor upon the dis
secting table and subjects it to merci-
less probing. The best joke in the
world is apt to grow pale and sickly if
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
ne Strategy of the Great War
,.1 nurlo Analysis of Allied and German
''''''ary 70 ficy by William l.. Mcpherson
THE STRATEGY ON r,

lfiE STRATEGY or TT ~
mans % soas New n "saP'ts " ~ son. e. p. "HH rut:
Mr.: McPherson's 10, y.
popular military i IS soT;as OK is model n, 'or r
and accurate with 0y 'o.ats ha;s IT Is full
informative wit no NJ I,nH ou'i' IT Is
9eenn'ca!. raat a. dfts lied historv % oFouy of thy
ureat war won Id make manv v",,, 81 ,,,ll', .ne
anu ta wouid leav Q the AVERAGE eu'uHrS ou,;';
rs m WIEN I'Ir ho as p dzzled when he finished
son nons ne gan. But Mr.. Mcphnrl
out ana Is~;f the faculty of pickine
imnort.,n+ 'Iy4 t4 g stress upon the most
he mers,v Ties and campaigns. while
minor on dictates the trend of tho
readar ea;g upe .tions. AS a result ths
standing a vivid picture of the out
ress Of sa ents which marked the prog
fused hv1 conflict without being con
imnort..E E mass of comparatively un-
It details. I'LL"
a;ct me = Great War, more than anv con-
met ra y history, may be said ts To- bavo eoma
tHu' 4;'' m itself The mechanical invans
hr 's OF the preceding fifty wears
W W ." ght about conditions Of war are
y en- we're very imperfectly antici
: q Ted even by the most far-siphted
general staffs. The superiority Of
! nodern artillery over modern forti6-
caticns,. the amazing efficiency of the
[ submarine, the development Of trench
nghtlEg on an enormous scale-all
these new i; 'ors confounded previous
( military theories and compelled the
commanders of the opposing armies to
improvise their strategy, in LARGE meas
ure, as they went along
Perhaps it was due chiefly TO the
handlcaps imposed by this improvised
strategy that so many operations un-
dertaken by both sides ended in costly
failures Foch's victory offensive"
was the only strategic operation on q
big scale which may De considered an
unqualified success. The German cam
palgn against Russia in 1915, imposing
IN the amount of territory gained and
the number of prisoners taken, was too
much a victory Of cannon over men to
be considered major achievement IN
the field of military art.
Mr.. McPherson strips away manv of
the illusions that confused the minds
of laymen in America and the other
belligerent countries Perhnps the
most persistent and the most fallacious
of these illusions was the conviction
that the Allies were certain to win in
the end through their superiority in
man power, superiority based upon
the Russian census figures AS the
author very clearly points out, the
greater part of Russia's millions were
totally useless TO the Allied cause on
account of their defective training and
organization. In fact, after the over
whelmng defeat of 1918, when R .ssia
lost many of her best troops and her
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

If any Of Mr. Mencken's victims
should be inclined to glance through
the pages Of his book In a vindctive
spirit they would have no difficulty in
discovering several prejudices quite
as Vulnerable as any the author at
Jacks. FOR instance. he Is firmly con-
vinced OF England's overwhelming in
tellectual superiority to America,
CONVICTION that might be challenged
from several angles. Then, at times
he displays dQgmatic horror Of dog
matlsm. SO he instantly condemns
any literary work that is wholly or.
partially inspired by social or politi-
cal~struggles. Now, to mention only
one instance, the literature Of the
Russian revolutionary movement is n
proof that political movement can
produce some very passable artistic
by-products.
1t would also be possible to pick a
rather too fond of using 'pishposh"
and kindred words of his own inven-
tion, and he practices few tricks of
verbal pyrotchnics which, while clever
at '1rst reading, become n trihe tire
times.
But it Is ungracious to find fHlt
with one Of the few men who redeem
American criticism from the charge of
hopeless mediocrity. Despite it's oc-
casional lapses into "pishposhery" Mr..
Mencken's style is an unspeakable re-
lief after the dull, academic rehash of
mid-Victorian platitudes that makes up
so much of our critical fare to-day.
And the author possesses in eminent
measure certain qualities which are.
always valuable, and never more vain.
able than in America at the present
time; keen and biting satire. an in.
stinct to challenge and upset pompou (
self constituted authority, rema
able faculty for exposing and hole r..
IN to ridicule all sorts Of humbur ~
false sentiment. "Prejudices" an,
tremendously successful experir lnt 10 :,
the revaluation of American tr;t;co III ~
values. w ET'tIca
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
".Alice In Wonderland"

At the matinee to be given by the Ma
tional kindergarten Association in the
Hotel Plaza this morning, Lewis Car
n 's heau+ifu' story "a ice in Won
derland" Will be shown. Because Lewis
jarroll was professor at Oxford and
+ o~'te Of Queen Nictoria's the
committee in charge has extended an
invitation TO the prince to see this ar
tistic reproduction Of the charming story
which Queen Victoria enjoyed SO heart
lily. The Queen wrote asking the author
to send her some Of his other books.
Her surprise may be imagined when she
a To-. is "E.en entary Treatise on
Determinants, and other books on
mathematics.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
India S Futu,g.2
Lajpat Raj Ples{ IS for
Extension of Az .onomv

T1E = Es55a5 F25sTFfAh rs Fy' E Ssnp OF sNp1A.
York. W. Huebsch. New
The collapse of tlolchak,s forces in
" western Siberia S,d the occupation Of
Iurkestan, in.Cf e.tral Asia bv ths Ro1-
snevik' i,.'ii nave op .Tned up disquieting pos
slo'''''es TOT Se British government in
l"o'a IL Is comparatively short jour
"ey from l virkestan into Afghanistan
ana ihola' Nld Lenine and Trotzky have
repeaeediJ' threatened to stimulate q
f1'noo ayrising if England does not
come D terms with them.
'pf.e this prospect of outside as
s''' Ance' Mr. Raj has apparently given
~ nope or desire for the absolute in
Iepep dence of his native country. His
pres' Mt book is much more moderate
ana restrained in tone than his two
previous works, young India" and
f-ngiand's Debt to India" Taking the
CAUTIOUSLY liberal Montagu- Che ms ford
report on Indian affairs IS basis of
ulScussion, he pleads for LARGER meas
ure OF autonomy than the authors Of
the report are willing to grant He
Urges the appointment Of more Indians
IN ne civil service and in the higher
Ta1ks OF the army; he contends that
lhola should be granted the right to
settle its own financial problems. and
lhat more genuine power should be
vested in the Legislative bodies pro
Vldec for in the report.
Even when he is most severe in his
denunciation of certain phases of Brit
lsh policy. Mr.. Raj never demands the
withdrawal of the English from Il. ia
tie takes the attitude of John Redmond.
rather than that of Eamonn de Valera.
tie demands h me rue not indepen-
dence. Perhaps Mr.. Mai, like other Hindu
revo utionists, has come to the conclu-
sion That India is better off under Eng
land than under some other foreign
conqueror. Perhaps he is convinced
thIt the program of reforms which he
sets forth represents the maximum Of
possible present-day achievement. In
any event he seems to feel that Indian
government can be bettcr gained
THROUGH concilation and peaceful means
iran through violent upheava's.
The excellence of the book is
vouched for in advance by the authors
extensive knowledge of Oriental affairs
and by his close connection with the
Indian nationalist novement. His
ana'y 'ysis Of the Montagu- Chelmsford re-
port reveals intimate acquaintance with
the workings Of the British administra-
tive machinery in India.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
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A Walt Whitman Memorial

Word comes from Philadelphia that
the Franklin Inn Club Of that city will
issue early next month q notably fine
bronze medal of Walt Whitman in
celebration Of the Whitman centenary
year. The medal, which is five inches
in diameter is the work Of r. TAFT
Mckenzie, the Philade iDhia sculptor
1t shows Walt wearing the familiar
soft felt hat, his head aslant, his
patrarchal beard blowing in the wind,
his eyes gazing far off as though to
the. open spaces where time began
facsimile OF the poets sigma ture,
with his dates, 1S1e-l919, skirts the
margin. The sketch for the whole de-
sign was blocked out by the clubs
memorial committee, composed Of A.
Edward Newton, John Bach McMaster.
Il. Ialt Mckenzie, Christopher Morley
and Charles c. Shoemaker.
, 70 carry on its work in honor Of
Whitman the Franklin Inn Club has
formed an honorary committee, which
includes among its English members
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Sir Sidney Col
YIN, Lord Dunsany, Clement K. Shorter,
H. W. Massingham, Sir Byron Edward
walker, Hugh Walpole, Sir Johnston
toroes Robertson, and among the
Americans Amy Lowell Brander Mat
' thews, Agnes Repplier, Ellery sedg
wick, Owen Wister, DR.. Felix E
Schelling. DR.. Horace Howard Furness,
Joseph Hergesheimer. Professor Will
lam Lyon Phelps, Professor Tinker,
Professor Spaeth and others.
The new medals are now being cast.
They may be obtained at cost of
$3.50. Orders should be addressed to
the Franklin Inn Club, Carmac and St.
James Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Any
surplus funds there may be after all
tne medals have been given out will
be applied to the erection Of ner-
manent Whitman memorial bv the
Franklin Inn Club.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Mrs. worse and the Steel Strike

Mery Heaton Worse. whose book
"The Ptcstons." has just been pub
lisl ed by Boni & Liveri"ht is invos-
tigating conditions in the steel manu-
featuring center in the capacity of a
rerorter for magazine publication
Mrs. Worse who has published several
prior novels, is also d newspaper wo-
man and contributor to periodicals.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Old Shons for New Rooi u

A picturesque "street Of ole. shops
for the exhibition Of books, m igazines
rare prints, engravings, manuso ripts and
other objects of literary and artistic
interest has been established at 119 East
~o+eenth Street. A rece Dtion, st
which many we'll known aut hors and
artists will be present. will Pike place
there on the evening Of Nov .mbAr 26,
or *he iNinr au pices of the National
Arts Club. the Authors League of Amer
ica, the MacDowell Club of lew York
City, the Poetry Society of Al aerica, the
Authors Club and the Pen md Brush
Club.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
The Bulliit Testimony

The first edition Of "The Bullitc Mis-
sion to Russia" just published in paper
cove " B. ". Huebsch was practically
exhausted in advance OF publication.
The book is made up of MIR. Bullitt's
testimony before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, ard inc udes
Lenine's peace proposal, Bul'itt's re-
port on Russia, Lincoln Steffens's re-
port on Russia. and the discussions Of
the peace conference about the adop-
tion OF q Russian policy.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
konrad Ber!sovici

Konrad Berkovici, author OF .sDust Of
New York" just published by Boni &
Liveright, has had q varied career, foe-
ing at different times newspaper nIan.
novelist. farmer, musician, sailor, b ack-
smith, teacher and tramp. He has lived
in Rumania (where he was born thirty
seven years ago., In Be'giumr Paris,
Berlin Constantinople, Tirnes, Greece.
Montreal, Toronto, New york and
finally Morristown. n. j., W here he
farms With his family and writes
RtN ri..a
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Blasco lbanez at Garden Citv

Spanish novelist now , yisitins sdtinsu'5ris tnis
country, journeyed to the Country
Llfe Press at Garden City, Long Is
land. the other day to study Are rican
printing and publishing methods. He
was the guest of Herbert S. Houston.
e-president of Doubleday, Page g.
20. and editor of the Spanish "World's
Work" With him as guests at the
luncheon of honor Mr.. Houston gave
at the Countr. Life Press were Jose
Camprubi, publisher of Ia Frensa"
OF Buenos Ayres; FREDERICK de Onis
professor of Spanish at Columbia
University; Miguel Zarraza, editor Of
the Spanish "World's Work." and mem
bers Of the Doubleday, Page &, Co.
Senor Blasco lbanez planted a tree
IN the Doubleday. Page memorial gar
den, as John Muir, John Burroughs and
otner ce ebrated visitors to the Coun-
try Life Press have before him. Later
he evlnced the keenest interest in the
machines with which an American pub
lishng establishment turns out it's
thousands of novels ea"h day.
Il have my own publishing house at
nome IN Valencia, you know" he said.
put IN my country we have never
dreamed of anything like this"
The Spanish author examined everv-
thing Ininutely and declared that he
hoped to introduce some Of the Ameri-
can methods into his own plant on his
return to Spain.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
DOdd Mead New Ediainns

Dodd. Mead & Co. arnounc. the
fourth printing Of sherry" by George
Barr McCutcheon, published by them
IN September. and also report that
they nave gone TO press with new
prlrtlngS OF al the Archibald Marshall
novels.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Essays by Randolph Bourne

.Untimely Papers a collection Of
political essays by the late Randolph
Bourne, will be published at once by
B. W FIuebsct The vo umo nc 1,sos
the paper on The War and the Intel
lectuals," and fragment from al un-
finished work on the state.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
-Eduard "A. Steiner

E With realism that recalls Zcla; with passion for
u human freedom and righteousness; with background
Of intimate knowledge Of European and American cond
TONS Dr. Steiner here presents highly dramatic form the
of the title are three old men of the little town in what IS
Czecho SLOW aa-a Roman Catholic priest Calvin
istc landowner and Jew dster of plum ndy-t,rce
friends who have combated the religious racial and
national prejudces wh ch kept the Sovaks oppressed This
story born of its authors strangely ROMANTIC and
evenu life Living close the heart of the world Doc
tor Steiner has written novel of extraordinary power and
insight.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Appleton New Editions

e. Temple Thurston's novel. "The
World OF Wonderful Reality and
Josephine DasHam Bacon's Square
Peggy, have gone into new editions. *
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
New Volume of Mr.. simonds's History

Doubleday, Page & Co. announce that
the publication date Of the fourth
volume OF Frank H Simonds's His
tory of the World War" is November
y. In this volume Mr. Simonds takes
the story OF the world conflict uD to
the time Of the armistice, with detailed
consideration of americas s entry and
Russia's withdrawal, the real causes
underlying each and the bearing Of
each on the final outcome.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
CCmm;s ;ssicn Government

CITY MANAGER IN DAYTON Bv c. F..
Eiehtor The Macmillan Company. New
York
Ever since 1913 Dayton, Ohio, pros
porous industrial city of more than
100000 inhabitants. has been governed
under the commissioner-manager svs-
tem, which provides for the admins
tration of municipal affairs by city
manager. chosen by five commissioners
who are elected on nonpartisan
ticket: Without discussing the theo
retical merits of this scheme Mr..
Rightor describes its actual workings
in Dayton. contrasting the data for the
years 191A-19l7 with that for the years
l910-1913
ONE OF THE z d. Fly Slater Wash, .
burn. Published by HoueNton Militia
Company. New York and Boston
The story Of the Yankee division in
France by a man who started as a cor
poral and rose to the rank Of lieuten-
ant at the end Of the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Clarence Darrow's 'srarmington''

y. w. Huebsch is bringing out g new
.dtion Of Clarence Darrow's Farming
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22
Tales From the New ReDuhIic

JOfiN STUYVEsANT. ANCESTOR. By
Alvin Johnson. Published b. Harcourt,
Brace & Howe
This is q collection Of sketches BY
an editor of The New Republic" As
stories the pieces are pallid; as charac-
terizations, they show p easantly
calm. ana ytical facility. The book has
about it that we'll bred, liberal air
Tat so certainly makes for color'ess-
ness. Its tales are typically New Re-
public--fair, judicious, fa.lntlv-ve Y
family ironical. and eminently pro-
fessional. Mr.. Johnson never insults
his readers inte !lgencs; but then,
neither does he stimulate it.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

MODERN POLITICAL TENDENCIES. r,
Theodore f. Burton. Published by
Princeton University Press. Princeton.
A consideration of some phases Of
our modern political life by the presi-
dent Of the Merchants National Bank,
New York, and former Senator from
Ohio.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-22

CITY MANAGER IN DAYTON. Bv c. =.
Eightor The Macmillan Company. New
York
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-02-03
COST OF LIVING

The present high cost 81 IiFi"G M"
,,a,, ,ffordcd considerable newspaper
nntor;e,y and various causes have boon
:, .sie-,,.d 70 ;hc prevalence Of The pres
ent high prices. but the fact remains
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,,ur,ion desired. as close buying. and
OF that thrift which finally
has piled UP supplies so that the nome
markets arc uvcrstockcd.
rric,s have not begun to-fal! because
the demand is less for the world is's''l'
shor, Of the good things Of life Tho
d.,n,n,, IS rot absolutely Jess. but 1t is
LOGS in rronnrtion 20 the supplies WHICH
will b. t;,i;cu At the 7TohioHlFH price
i,v., There is not too much food. but
,bere is more than will b. bought At the
,erc, prevailing before last week. AMI
holders arr seeking buyers.
The chief cause is the aTn'Stice' -
has no, produced food for the destitute,
buzz il has altered the conditions under
which they have been fed by charity.
Last year We exported two billion dol
lars worth Of food. four times tn" pre-
war average. and double any war year.
It vas not possible to take such Gu;tn'
titles out Of our supplies without reduc-
ING them The atmistice operated to re-
lease foreign boards. released shipping
FOR carrying surplus supplies to points
whore deficiencies existed. ADD lessened
the demands fer the support OF oU
armies in proportion.
The cost of living will fall further
thought it Ia months yet. ere the new
haryes,s will bc garnercd. for the world
cannot support from industry the prices
caused by the recklessncss resulting
from war and famine.
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