Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-11
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Francis Bowes Sayre, whose book,
Experiments in International Admins
tration.' has just been published by the
Harpers gives curious, If comparative
iy unimportant, instance of international
cooperation. In an agreement signed
at Tangier, May 81, 1865, between Mo-
rocco and the leading European coun
tries and the United States, it was to be
instituted at Cape Spartel, Morocco,
Under this treaty." says Mr. Sayre. "the
lighthouse and land upon which it stands
are to remain under the sovereignty of
the Sultan, whose flag alone shall be
hoisted on the lighthouse tower: but its
superior direction and administration
is turned over to the representatives of
the contracting Powers, which agree to
share equally the annual expenses for
its maintenance. The lighthouse is to be
protected by Moorish guard and all
the contracting states agree to respect
its neutrality. There is thus set up an
international establishment, supervised
by representatives of all signatory states.
These shall make regulations for the di
rection and management of the light
house which cannot be changed without
the consent of all. The international ar
rangement still remains In successful
operation"
Experiments in International Ad-
ministration" is a complete study of
previous attempts at League of Nations
in the past, what they have accomplish
ed and why they have either succeeded
or failed.
Prudence Bardish. in her recently
published book, Mother Love In
Action" is a firm believer that if
mothers would exchange stories with
their children and write them down
for future reference, they would find
themselves in possession of a most en-
tertaining collection of literature. "One
mother 1 know" she says, had a
charming little Christmas story that
her son told her when he was only
seven years old. She wrote 1t down.
Now he is leading magazine writer
and one of his best-known stories is
that Christmas story that he told his
mother when he was seven years old"
In Mother Love In Action" a Harper
book. the author has tried to solve the
manifold problems constituting the
mothers job and to encourage a deeper
sense of the importance of the task
that lies at the door of a mother who
has the responsibility of little children
on her shoulders.
American merchants who are exand-
ing or initiating business with French
Spanish and Italian speaking countries
will find an aid of incalculable value
in slender little book of forty mar
row pages which r. p. Dutton and COM
pany are publishing this week entitled
Exchange Tables for Converting Dol
lars into Francs and Francs into Dol
lars" AS the same currency prevails
in Switzerland, in Spain under the name
of Peseta and IN Italy under that of
Lire. exporters and importers doing
business or preparing to do business
with any of those countries will find
that these conversion tables will not
only save much time but will also avoid
the possibility of error. The old tables
of this sort which were in use before
the war are inadequate now as they
cover only rates of exchange from 5.15
to 5.25. These new tables cover the
conversion of francs into dollars and of
dollars into francs, at rates ranging
all the way from 500 to $50 and there
fore are useful not only now while the
rates are abnormally low but will be
equally useful during the entire transit
tory period and also after rates become
normal again. The tables have been
compiled by Ernest Levy, of Paris.