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New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

US and which sent US into the war Will
zeal surprising our former sloth.
is book which will greatly help Amer
leans to understand themselves ana
their own recent history.
DR.. Mclaughlin discusses relations
between America and Great Britain
partly in historical perspective, but
more pertinently in their present and
perspective aspect, and in their con,
the league of nations. He Is an
earnest admirer of President Wilson's s
policies, in support of which, even Of
his Mexican policy he presents prob
ably as good arguments as could be
made. His work consists chiefly of
addresses which were made by him
before British audiences, in which
use we can readily conceive their great
effectiveness.
Mr.. Vile, who is veteran news
paper spondent of coplous IN
formation and admirable courage, tells
in a straig ght-from- the shoulder way a
lot of facts about Great Britain past
and present which every American
should know, but which, more's the
pity, a great many have never learned
or have forgotten. The attitude of
Great Britain toward America in the
Revolution and since, and the services s
of Great Britain to America and to the
world in the present war, are tersely
and truthfully set forth in a volume
which is so brief that it can be. read
at a sitting and which is so good that
it should be remembered for life
time.
Nor is this other little book of Mr..
Towne's less to be desired. It's pri-
mary purport is to tell of the mission
Of the author and other press men to
Great Britain last summer for the pur-
pose of cultivating closer relations be-
tween the two countries 1t tul1ls
that purport, and it does more. 1t per
forms the invaluable service of point
ing out the need Of continuing to cher
ish the close relationship which we
tentatively sought amid the exigencles
of war. There could be nothing. more
true, and nothing more desirable for
remembrance and for rule OF action,
than his closing sentences:
We have beaten the Hun. Let US
not slip back to complacency and
ease, for its propaganda Will go forth
in defeat as we'll as in victory,
spreading it's lies throughout the
world. There are stern days yet to
be faced; but with an Anglo-Amerl-
can alliance an accomplished fact we
have little to fear. That alliance
must come about 1t is up to every
American and every Britisher to see
to it, to do his personal share in
bringing about closer relation be
tween England and America. we
have shaken hands cordially. Does
that mean nothing? 1t means every
thing. 1t means enduring friendship
and the safety Of the world.
There is an echo of the words of
Jefferson and Madison on the Monroe
Doctrine. 1t is good to know that the
opinions and convictions of those
statesmen hundred years ago still
abide in our own day.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The Story of Russia
From Rurik and Oleg to Le-
nine and Trotzky

RUSSIA: From the varangians to the Bolsheyiks
BY R. Beazley, n Forbes and G A. BirKstt, 1s;tl,
maps Crown svo. PIP. xiv, COL. Oxford Univer-
sity Press.
We may never be fully persuaded of
the reasonableness of the grande dame
who commanded her neighbor at din
ner to tell her the history of the
world in a hundred words. But ex-
animation of this marvellous little
volume has vastly increased our faith
in the possibilities of compression,
and that without. squeezing out the
Juice. The history of Russia is a long
one, with many varied phases. But
we should doubt if single essential
fact of it is missing from this small
hand volume, and we are quite sure
that not one is uninterestingly told.
The story comprises both domestic
and foreign affairs, both peace and
war. 1t deals with emperors and serfs,
with armies and with workshops, with
foreign conquests and with economic
development and social growth. In
style it is narrative, descriptive and
philosophical. 1t is suitable for the
average lay reader, who wishes to OBJ
tain merely q general working knowl-
edge of the history of Russia. 1t is
also invaluable to the student of his
tory, of diplomacy, of politico-sociol-
ogy, or what not, who wishes to trace
the devious and obscure influences
which have in the last year been mani
tested in one of the most extraordl-
nary revolutions the world has known.
Seldom do we meet with SO much in a
single small volume, and seldom do we
meet with a volume as timely as this.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
A General of the Gar
General Courko's Story of the
First Three Years of War

WAR AND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA: l9l4-ls17.
BY General Basil Gourko. Illustrated. Syo. pp xv.
400 The Macmillan Company.
We have had stories OF Russia IN
the war and Of the Russian revolution
from various sources, chiefly revolu-
tionary or in sympathy with the revo-
luton Here we have one written
from the imperial point of view. Its
author was one of the warmest friends
and most loyal supporters of the Gar,
and he was successfully chief of the
Imperial General Staff and commander
in chief of the Western armies We
may therefore confidently accept it as
an authentic presentation of Russian
war history from the imperial point
Of view, probably the most authentic
that we shall ever have. Thus regard
ed, we must be glad that it is so ad-
mirab]y planned and attractvely writ
ten. 1t deals with both the political
and the military aspects of the war,
avoiding tedious technicalities out Civ
ing ample information; and it does
this in a spirit Of moderation and sin
cerity for which no praise could be too
high.
General Gourko dwells upon Rus
sia's lack of artillery and of ammuni-
ton as one Of the prime causes of her
defeats, but he does not refer to the
charges, which the world fears were
we'll founded, that supplies were de-
liberately withheld from the armies
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

untary or involuntary lack of self-ap-
probation, we too often fail to realize
how much this race has contributed to
the political, social, scientific and lit
erary progress of the world. Mr..
Larned and his associate authors give
us a grateful and convincing reminder
of what English leadership has meant
and still means; worthy tribute from
Americans to Great Britain.
There has probably been a good deal
of misapprehenson, possibly some mis-
representation also, of America in
Great Britain; though we fancy that
it has been less than such misjudgment
of Great Britain here. Mr. Phayre does
not share such faults. He has discerned
and OWNED America. We should doubt
if any one, foreign or domestic, had a
clearer vision of our national DISPOSE
tion in the years before our entry into
the war than he. Nobody has given a
more satisfactory-or less unsatisfac-
tcry-explanation of our policy in
keeping out of the war as long as we
did, or of the change which came over
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
The Voice of France
Uttered by Georges Clemen-
ceau, Facing Germany

FRANCE FACING GERMANY speeches and Arti
cles by Georges Gemeneeau Translated from
the French by Ernest Hunter Wright Emo. pD.
xxx. S96. Z Z. Dutton & CO.
This is the voice of France, and
France is the voice of the world. For
credit our own land with vision and
with exalted purposes as we may. and
as we truly may, we must yet remem-
ber that France has been awake while
we slept, and has been so face to face
with Hunnish barbe erism these many
years as to have knowledge of it,
and an estimate of the manner in which
ID is to be dealt with, which we cannot
hope to rival Nor is there in France
to-day, nor has there been since Leon
Gambetta, another man who so per
fectly incArnates and renders vocal as
does Georges Clemenceau the resist
ance of the soul of France to the
bestial body of the Hun.
These speeches and articles have a
range of ten years in time and of the
entire theme of Franco German rela-
tions in scope; and they are SLED at
once with imagination and with logic,
with impassioned appeals to patriotic
sentiment and with cold practical facts
and arguments. There is an eloquence,
too, such as we too seldom meet with
in our day, though perhaps less seldom
in France than in any other land. Let
us quote single passage, en- the de-
fence of Verdun:
p Alas, no! Verdun was not "the
strongest fortress in the world" To
make up for that there was to come
into action a force of men urgently
brought thither, such as, up to that
day, had probably never been known.
1t was men, nothing but men, those
whom you passed by in the street,
yesterday, going about their affairs,
now suddenly transformed into in
,yincible heroes, because they had ST.
1ently resolved that the thing which
they were told was to be should not
come to pass. 1t was no
longer the famous "French fury" of
other days. No; nothing but the i'm
posing impassiveness, as if sculpt-
'ured, of an immovable human wall
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
American Letters
The Second of Three Volumes
of a Great History
THE cANBRlDGB HISTORY OF AMERIC4

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN
LITERATURE Edited by William Peterheld
Trent, John Erskine. Stuart p. sherman and
Carl Van Doren In three volumes. Vol II.
Royal svo pD I. Cos. e. p Putnams Sons.
The second volume of this monu-
mental work confirms the promise of
the first. 1t does more. 1t amplifies
that promise in itself and for the third
volume which is yet to come. For OBJ
viously the second was more difficult
to prepare than the first yet it is on
the whole actually better done, and the
third will be more difficult and yet, we
may now confidently anticipate, better
than the second.
The scope of the present volume is
from the golden era just before the
Civil War to the present time. There
are chapters on Thoreau, Hawtk korne,
Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Webster,
Lowell, Whitman, and Prescott and Mot
ley; besides much attention paid to
Lanicr, Joel Chandler Harris and others
as representatives. Of schools of letters,
in chapters on humorists, dialect writ
ers, historians, short story writers, and
the various other themes into which
the whole field of American literature
is naturally divided. There is a gener-
ally satisfactory balance between mar
rative and criticism, and the latter is
on the whole sane and just. Its cour-
age may be exhibited in a single ex-
ample, noteworthy at time when we
are just at the close of one of our pc
riodical fits of indiscrimlnate Poe-wor-
ship. We are reminded that he was
not the inventor of the short story,
unless of the detective story, and that
like his poems his tales are notably un-
equal, some, both Of his earlier and
his later, being rubbish:
His main limitations as writer of
the short story are to be found in the
feebleness and fimsiness of his
poorer work; in his all but complete
lack of healthy humor; in his inca
pacity to create or to depict char
acter; in his morbidness of mood and
grotesqucness of situation. He suf-
fers in comparison with other short
story writer's of America and Eng.
land in consequence of his disdain Of
in comparison with certain present
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

through treachery. He explicitly re-
pudiates the idea that Tannenberg was
lost throueha tfeachery; and he gives,
incidentally, sngularly dramatic and
touching account of General Samson
offs fate at the close Of that disastrous
battle. There is a notably interesting
account of the issuance Of the Cars
ukase for a free Poland, an instrument
which General Gourko suggested in
spirit and wrote in form. Another in
tensely interesting chapter tells of the
abdication Of the Car General Gourko
regretted that act, or the apparent ne
oessity for it. believing that the Rus
sian people were not yet ready for a
sumo, however, that he would have
been quite loyal to the new govern
ment had he been permitted to remain
in the service. But he clashed with
Mr.. Kerensky, of whom he evidently
has Il poor opinion, though he uses no
harsh language about him. The most
severe is in his relation Of an incident
of Mr. kerensky's visits as Minister
of War to the army:
Kerensky did not meet with en-
thusiasm. There were cases when
the contrary happened. A
soldier in the trenches entered into
dispute with him. Then the demo-
cratic Minister Of War shouted at
him: "Hold your tongue when the
Minister Of War is speaking to you!'
Only just before this he had told the
soldier not to call him Minister of
War, but simply "comrade."
A clash came soon after Mr.. Kerensky
had appointed his own brother-in-law
to be chief Of his military Cabinet-"a
most democratic proceeding," tartly OBJ
serves General Gourko. Later came
the generals arrest and Imprisonment
in the fortress of SITS. Peter and Paul:
size, should say of ladies' note
paper, in the personal handwriting
of Kerensky, giving orders to Lieu
tenant Kouzmin-"On receiving this
I order you to arrest General
Gourko"-and signed "A. Kerensky."
] was struck by the pin-point, quite
unmanly, writing.
After period of imprisonment Cen
eral Gourko was released and was per-
mitted to go to England, just as the
counter revolution Of the Bolsheviki
was about to plunge Russia into chaos.
There is no bitterness in the book, nor
anything which arouses feeling other
than of regret that Russia should have
been deprived of the loyal services Of
such a man as the writer. 1t is, in
deed. one of the most temperate and
judicial works on the subject that we
have seen, and one which deserves q
permanent and important place amid
the photography Of the great war.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Payne $ XiIIon

POEMS BY Francis villon. Translated with an
introduction by John Payne. 16mo, pp. 246
Boni q Liyeright.
We cannot regard Mr.. Payne as the
ideal translator of Monte -Villon,
for the translator of q poet should
himself be poet. 1t is necessary only
to compare Mr.. Payne's translations
with those which Rossetti. Swinburne
and Lang have made of few of Viii
Ions poems to perceive the sad short
comings of the former A single line, the
best known in all of Villon's writings:
"Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan ?" Mr..
Payne gives it, But what is become of
last years snow?" and Rossetti, But
where are the SHOWS of yester-year ?"
However, Mr.. Payne translated all his
works, and wrote a most excellent bio
graphical and critical introduction;
wherefore we accept his work grateful
~ and welcome this republication of it
in convenient form. Of course the col
lection is discreetly expurgated. 1t
had to be
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
United States and ngland----
American Literary History

day masters of the short story in
consequence of his lack of variety in
theme and form; and he was never
expert in the art Of dialogue.
We could not, Of course, agree with
all the critical judgments which are
expressed in the volume nor indeed in
any comprehensive volume of criticisms.
But we must recognize not only their
courage but also their intelligence and
their convincing sincerity. About a
third of the volume is filled With
and we'll arranged, which will prove in
valuable for reference
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Clemenceau Speaks for France
Gourko's Story of Russia's War
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

against which the most furious as
sault could only break itself in mad
ness. Nothing was spared
by the enemy in resources such as.
till then, had never been known, and
on our side the stoicism Of the re-
sstance was so little theatrical, so
fully free from all empty display,
that the simplicity of the noblcst
spectacle in our annals of war pre-
vents us as yet from beholding its
grandeur.
1t is an immortal contribution to the
classic literature of an epoch which
has only twice before been approx
mated in the history of mankind.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
AutObiOgraphy

THE WORLDS AND I. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Illustrated, with portraits svo. pp. *. APO.
George ii. Doran Company
The title of this book does not mere
ly allude to the various worlds on this
mundane sphere, but rather refers to
the present life and that other life
which has been, and is and will be be-
yond the veil which men call death.
The author carries her readers along
the pathway of her meteoric career in
delightful and intimate manner. II is
obvious that Mrs. Wilcox has been
strongly influenced throughout her life
by the occult forces, and to such an
extent that her profound beliefs and
experiences seem almost uncanuy to
the unbeliever. To those interested
N psychic phenomena Mrs. Wilcox re-
lates many very interesting exper-
FENCES. The accounts of her home life.
OF her travels in Europe and other
various experiences make most enter
tanning reading, Mrs. Wilcox writing
OF these things in such charming and
romantic way that the readers of the
book feel as If they had been her most
intimate friends and constant compan-
ions during her life and with her in her
both poetry and prose have been pleas
antly familiar to the American public
for many years, some of her express
sions becoming practically household
words During her literary and jour
nalistic career she has touched the
world at many points, always with keen
and sympathetic interest, and conse-
quently her relations of her obser-
vances and experiences of many people
and places will be of interest to multi
tudes of readers.
Mrs. Wilcox is a stanch believer in
spiritual communication, and in many
Of the passages and chapters of her
book, in referring to the occult, she
frequently quotes Sir Oliver Lodge
with whom she seems to be in hearty
agreement, as when he says Physical
science is of temporary Importance to
the world, but 'psychical' science-the
science proving OF -incontrovertible
facts that the soul lives ON, loves on
and remembers those on earth after i,
leaves the body-that is the science
which is eternal, indestructible and
everlasting" Adding:
Il speak of the things that / knew
to be,
For my Spirit Lover has talked with
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Where to Go to Church Tomorrow
SOCIETY OF FRIIsNDs

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.-Mestsnu
fcr worsnlp II q m. at 22l East 18th ST. Man
haitian and 10 SchermerhorI st.. Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
REFORMED
Collegiate Church Of New York

THE MIDDLE CHURCH,
Cd Ave and 7th st.
Rcv EDGAR FRANKLIN ROMIG. Minister
ii A. M.--Rev. GEO. STEININGER Will preach.
8 7. M-Rey. JOHN J. DE BOER will preach.
THE MARBLE CHURCH.
9TH Ave and Goth st.
Rev. DAVID JAS. BURRELL. d D. Minister
Rev. CHARLES CARROLL AI4BERTSON. d. D..
OF Brooklyn, will preach.
IL A. M.-"Great Men Nations Best Asset
Tribute to Theodore Roosevelt
p. MA Flashlight Picture OF Day in
Jesus Life
THE CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS.
5th Ave and 4Sth ST.
RoBERT W. '' couRTSEY Minister'S
II A M.-Dr. Macleod Theodore Roosevelt"
s +. M-Rev. r. W. COURTNEY on Our Great
Americana
THE WEST END CHURCH.
West End Ave. and nth St.
Rev HENRY EvERTSON COBB, y. D.. Minister.
II A. MRev. EDGAR FRANKLIN ROAfIG
will preach.
4:30 P. M-Rev. Thomas Mcbride Nichols will
preach. Special Musc-Cantata, Tho Woman Of
Samaria," by w. Sterndale Bennett.
THE FORT WASHINGTON CHURCH,
Fort Washington Ave and 1slst st.
Rev. IRVING II. BERG. D. D.. Minister.
will preach.
II A. M.-"Rooscvelt the Man and His Message"
8 p. M.-"What Shall We Do With tho Boysf''
Sunday School 9:55 A. NJ
All Seats Free
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THEODORE ROOsEvELT-AMERICA
Address BY HON FRANK MOSS.
Sunday, F. NJ
HARLEM Y. NJ. C. A. West l25th St
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

DR.: KARI. IRELAND, Sum- Feb. eth $3.50 . ra
Bronx Union Y. NJ. c. A. 470 East l6lst st.
Reconstruction" -" Public invited
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

Memorial Service for Theodore Roosevelt
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW (Orator)
Sd st. Y. NJ. c. A., Sun. :45 (Ladtes Invited.)
New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

y. NJ. c. A.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Address by DR. J. F. Carson
18TH REGIMENT ARTILLERY BAND
Bedford Br Y NJ. c. A. ll2l Bedford Ay Bkyn
Sunday. 800 p NJ Men Only Free
Greatest Mems Meeting IN Greater New York
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THE WORLDS AND I. By Ella Wheeler Wilco
Illustrated with portraits. Svo pp. * 42C
George II Doran Company.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-15

Although the two great Firestone plants at Akron
are turning out daily $4,000 tires and $4,000 tubes,
the demand from passenger car owners and truck
operators continues to outstrip production
Additional equipment already ordered for Plant
No, 2, which is devoted exclusively to the manu-
acture of 3 inch tires and tubes will increase the
output of this manufacturing unit to 10000 tires
day; while in the parent plant increased equipment
for the manufacture of Cords is steadily building the
output to it's capacity of 10000 tires daily which
will give a total capacity of $4,000 tires day.
These equipment requirements and the need of
steel plant that will double the output of Firestone
Rims, are being met by an issue of $1O,OOO0OO
10 Preferred Stock the entire amount being taken
by The National City Company, the worlds largest
distributors of high grade securities
On the financial page of this paper you will find an
advertisement signed by The National City Company
which gives interesting facts about the financial
strength of the Firestone Company-----a strength
that is founded twenty years of sound business
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-15

policy and is index Of the character of the Com
panys products.
The National City Company is in the business of
buying and distributing through its many correspon
dent offices the securities of corporations that so
we'll managed, so conservatively financed and whose
products fill such public need, that they
up to its exacting standards of what should
stitute prime investment
It is high tribute to the quality of Firestone prod
ucts and to the great dealer organization through
which they distributed that the demand for them
should increase require this additional capital
to meet it. And tribute to the character of the
Flrestone institution that the distribution of this
entire $lO,OOOOOO Preferred Stock issue should be
undertaken by The National City Company.
See that you get the values in mileage and service
that responsible for this demand for Firestone
Tires and this standing of the Company Whatever
type of tire you use there is Frestone to suit your
needs----of quality that assures you the economy
of MOST MILES PER DOLLAR Ask your
dealer for F1restones. Have them put on every
wheel of your car or truck :"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-15

Festone production increasing rapidly under demand
from 42 600 dealers that this additional capital required
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-28
REVISED COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS BEFORE PEACE HEADS TODAY
Surplus Wheat
U.S.. Salvation
Of Europe

Psri;. Apr.l 2.-In the harvest year
from August. 1918, to Augusta. 1919. Eu.
rope must inpcr. 5000, COO tons of food
stunts from overseas. To meet this
there is available total of abcut o.N0.-
t0l tons. Herbert c. Hoover. perm nent
C rm.n Of the food sect on of tn.
su. RENE economic com il. ii tod ~
in reviewing the Ir- sent world fool
itl; t tn. TIE available supply Is suf
fici Mt to meet the needs OF Europe
bit shipping condi ions are no. s1t;s-
t r. on &C cunt OF strikes in many
counties and. as a result. there is no
cues ion That e emile Anne an sur
Illus will lie absorbed. In f.ct, Mr.
Ho Yer said, the American rplIs had
iiovel to be the salvation OF Europe.
We 4 e now in the worst phase of
El7oreln fam ne that was newt
lie TER world var" Mr.. Hoover
q e with some 10000 COO men in Ed
rec cut o production and turned 70
" r. o. des ruct on. ttere could be no
or e endin-. We have opened up all
mat enormous food vacuum which was
cfa ed by German domination AMI
which with the close OF the war wa:
added to the great demands on the Al
lie. We have had time to investie ate
an determine fairly closely what "a
neecei. not to re~tore the normal, but
to keep boiy and soul together until
next harvest"