The sun., 1919-01-12
A World Magician.

some wears ago dressed in knickcrbockcrS with Il
Slnfower in his coat but Lord DUNsANY comes 10
lis in khaki, his brain bullying with luminous I'M
mensities and ApOcalyptic images, with full
blown rose in his coat plucked from the grave of
WILLIAM BLAKE, who lies beautifully unburicd on
1.-The broad Disk Of Urizen ulheav d across the
Void many mile
Let this magc-soldicr tell us nothing Of the
Marine, or the Disc or Yprcs: we want to hear him
tell us of the Gods of Pegana of his days on the
Yann the thieves of Ithara ard the golden stars
of Bahbulknd.
THE GREAT PEACE"
THERE is something that transcendS all our
L ideas of human vanity in the idea of man
sitting down in cold blood and writing book de
voted to showing how The Great Peace shall be
brought about and doing il with such cocksurnc>S
as H. III. POWERS reveals in his Volume with that eX
allied title. (The Macmillan Company, $22J.) DR..
POWERS is a lecturer and ne brings TO the pages Of
this volume much of the dogmatiSm that must be an
essential quality of the popular lecturer and all Of
his ability TO string commonplaces togethcrfn such
a way as to make his auditors intellectually torpid,
1t is not easy to cadNvh patience such afir
nation as is to be found on Page of the writer's
introduction reading, ''Preparaion for has
left us no time to prepare for peace-nay, more.
it has been bar to any such preparation. Any
one with any prctensionS to scholarship or with
any such interest Dr. POWERS would seem ("
have in America $ part in the should be full,
informed as to the long and serious preparation for
peace discussions made by the large group of spr
cialists under the general direction of Coo1lcI
HOUSE, a group of men who from the very begin
min NJ tlkiu in ha war
night and day TO gather materials for th" Amer
.an delegates 10 the Peace Conference.
Vast Question.
1t is a question if any body of peace dele.
gates ever went TO d Congress of this kind armed
with such of pertinent material as j. NOW
at the disposal OF the American delegates 10 N"
conference to be held at Versailles 1t is naturally
disturbing to one of the writer S fitness I"
discuss SO vast question is covered by his title
when one finds him so Uniformed in matter that
every American scholar and student of intcrna-
tiona affairs should know and be proud Of
Dr. PowrRs divides his text into two paris jhc
first consisting Of eight chapters analyzing nation
ality in its various phases, the final one devoted 10
Diplomacy end Treaties, while in the second part
he discusses The Nations involved in the peace set
Element beginning with Germany and ending with
America Although the writer, for one, is utterly
opposed to any policy of lrnirncy or softheartcd-
ness toward the German nation " he thinks ''there
is but one practicable way of settling bankrupt ac-
counts that is to let the past be past, TO
cancel the hopeless debt, and let the bankrupt start
again in life under such restrictions az may be re-
qlircd for the safety of his fellows" Nothing very
original in that. fancy reader saying Well
we warned him here there WAS little but common
places. And in italics, he further states "Gcrman
authority every race people other than their
own must cease Does any one imagine the Allies
hold any other though? But will quote no
more; or we will submcrgc readers i'll the very
sea of banaiticS from which we have just emerged.
We are not convinced but that The delegates to
the coming Peace Conference know great deal
more about the task before their hands than DR..
POWERS and are better fitted for the job Of settling
it than he does thus vicariously and TO so little
profit.