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New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Governments and the War

NATIONAL. GOVERNMENTS AND THE WORLD
Essd MAH sES by m5eds5c S Ga a. oEs s Md Gha5es
paily.
We have had various excellent treat
ises on the governments of the world;
by James Bryce on the American, by
President Lowell on the British and
by Professor Ogg on those Of the chief
European states. Here we have one on
the governments Of this country and
the other important belligerents, con-
sidered especially in relation to the
Great War. Obviously it is calculated
to serve triple purpose: To indicate
the responsibility or non-responsibility
of each nation for the war and the
circumstances of its entering it; to
describe the political circumstances
and conditions of its waging the war;
and to forecast the ways and means
of the national and international re-
organization which will therein be in
volved. 1t is throughout book which
cannot be read without profit, and
which, If properly read and studied will
be simply or inc estimable benefit to every
citizen who takes practical interest
in national and international affairs.
The chapter which will probably
command most current interest and
will provoke most controversy is the
last, which deals with the problem Of
international government and with the
proposed entry of the United States
into league of nations having an
inter or super or extra national Ad-
ministration and Executive empowered
to coerce recalcitrant states with force
and arms. The authors regard that
proposal with favor, though their treat
n,ent of the subject is eXpOsitOry
rather than propagandist.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Why Others Failed
How the New League of Nations
May Hope to Succeed

lSTRATION BY Francis Bowes Sayre 12mo
pp, x. 20l. Harper & Bros. -o
Now and then there comes to us a
book which is so pertinent, so apt and
SO valuable that we are moved to won
der why it was not written before. or
rather, perhaps, why dozen men had
not undertaken simultaneously to write
the same thing. 1t is quite obvious
that such book as this is Just about
the most timely and useful that could
possibly be put forth, now that the
question Of league of nations to en-
force peace is the dominant question
in the mind of the world For so com
pactly and yet comprehensively sup
plying the need we owe great thanks
to Mr.. Sayre.
Reminding us, with all necessary in
formative detail5 that such leagues were
formed before, in 1913, in 1918 and in
1915, the author analyses the causes
and circumstances of their failure.
They failed for two reasons. One was
that they were founded on injustice,
chiefly unjust disregard for the SOW
ereign rights of nationalities; which
is an error which we may pretty con-
fdently expect the proposed league, if
it is formed to avoid. The other was
that they did not provide for any in
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25

ors We're persistently devised and
practised; with an innumerable multi
tude of both aliens and natives, some
evil but pretending to be good and
some good but temporarily seduced in
to evil used as their plant tools.
Happily, too, there was another and
greater multitude Of loyal Americans,
native and naturalized, who took up the
battle and fought it to a finish.
We have seen no better picturings Of
the great wheat ranches than these
vivid pages bear, nor any more dra-
matte narratives Of elemental strife,
both physical and spiritual; no ac-
count Of |. W. w. infanies more scath-
ing, and none more sympathetic and
generous toward men who had been
driven to"despair by actual grievances;
and no truer analysis of the workings
of Hunnish poison in our body polite
and economic. In these respects DR..
Grey's romance is one of the really
great romances of American life in
some of it's least hackneyed but by no
means least important phases. If only
the author could make his characters
as real es the scenes amid which they
move, and could make them talk to
each other as we'll as he talks about
them! Still, even with its imperfec-
tions of characterization and of col
loquy, it is q fascinating, an impress
SlVe, q great book
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
In the Ring
MIKE D0NovAN-The Making Of Man. BY
Moffat. Yard & Co.

NINE DONOVAN-The Making OF Man Nv
Marsllall Stillman. l2no., pp. 29l. Illustrated
Moffat, Yard & Co.
All those men who like to put on the
gloves for exercise will be interested in
this book, and yet there is grave ques-
ton whether 1t would better not have
been written, or, if it must needs have
been given to the public, whether some
other medium or method would not
have been better. The author con-
stantly tells US what wonderful per
son Mike Donovan was. The pictures
show rather stern but pleasant look
ing old man, and certainly the testi-
monials from the great and the near
great which adorn the latter pages of
the book cannot be lightly overlooked.
One is forced to acknowledge that Mike
Donovan must have had sportsmanlike
qualities and that he certainly pos
sessed the virtue of loyalty, and vet
without real knowledge of the man
the admission is unwillingly wrung
from the disinterested reader. The
situation is curious one psychologi
cally. The conclusion is that the au-
thor has not legal turn of mind
though why one should bring a LEGAL
tur'. of mind to writing a book about a
knight Of the ring is not just clear
and does not understand the laws of
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
The Editor and the Hyphen
1he Romance of Gallant Fight
for True Americanism

COMMON CAUSE By Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Company.
Mr.. Adams has made so many and
so gallant fights for honesty in journal
ism and in business that it must have
been peculiarly congenial task for
hlm to write this novel, dealing with
mighty battle between clean and
patriotic American editor and the
hyphenated propagandists who strove
to prostitute him and his paper to an
alien cause. 1t was also comparative-
ly easy task, because of the ample
equipment which the authors former
researches and work had given him for
precisely this sort of writing.
1t is story of one of our central
states at the outbreak Of the war, when
German propaganda had not yet been
unmasked in all it's hideous vileness.
and when many Americans we're not
yet awake to the issues which con-
1ronted them. The political intrigues,
the. journalistic manipulations, the
business operations, are all set forth
with a master hand. The strain of
love sentiment which runs through it
IS not dominant, nor even conspicuous
yet it sufficiently plays it's part. and
enhances the "human interest" of the
tale. Though, indeed, without that feat
ure the work would still abound in
such interest.
The author has admirably exempli
fled in this book his often proclaimed
principles of honesty in business, for
ne has made it from first to last one
OF the most honest and truthful pieces
OF notion that we have read in manv q
day. Motives, words and acts are all
true TO life. There is no scene or
act which the reader will say, "That
could not have BEEN; nor any speech
of which he will say, Nobody would
have said that" There is no cXaggera-
tion of the easy-going Americanism
or Of the insidious and unscrupulous
German propaganda; and though we
are now seemingly past the time-we
say seemingly past-when it is neces-
sary to arouse the one and to defeat
the other, the book is still nightly
interesting Just as story of love
politics and business, without the SER
wing of any such purpose. But unless
Philpot Curran was quite wrong in his
immortal epigram, and unless the signs
or these present times are misleading
to every man of vision and discretion
that necessity is as great now as ever
1t was; and for serving it this book
OF Mr. Adams's deserves a place in the
Golden Index
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
From League to Nation
Madison's Notes of the Trans.
actions of 1887

TE FEbGkAE SoSSnSIroS SES 81 q @tbAxEs is AlS d
SOCIETY OF NAr1oNs a BY B5o'.M James sA1s Brown own
xviii. l4s. Oxford University Press. '''' n.y.
This book contains not the text of
Madlson's famous and priceless notes,
which will presently appear in another
volume, but scholarly and thoughtful
critical essay thereon by constitu-
tional and international lawyer of
eminent authority. 1t is peculiarly
pertinent to the present time and it's
needs, since DR.. Scott holds that the
socalled Constitutional Convention of
1887 Was in fact an international con-
ference, and that the result was the
formation of a league of nations. In
that view the example of that achieve
ment may we'll be studied carefully by
those who are to-day advocating an
other league of nations which shall
comprise some of the chief powers of
all parts of the world, if not indeed
all civilized states. A society of ma
tions, DR.. Scott thinks, was formed
twenty years ago at The Hague, cor
responding in some degree with our
own organization under the old con-
federation; and it now rests with its
members to determine whether they
will form more perfect union," cor
AcSPolluluS win OURS uHueT lue COu-
stitution.
The book will afford material for
argument as we'll as for thought to
both those who favor and those who
oppose the league of nations. 1t must
be obvious that the analogy between
cur more perfect union" and the pro-
posed league cf nations will fall far
from completion if, as we were in
formed the other day, the league is to
involve no supernatural force; force
to which this country certainly could
not submit without abrogaton or very
material modification of it's Constitu-
ton Yet without such force, what
power would the league have to en-
force peace? We are entirely at one
with DR.. Scott in thinking that the
Hague conventions did in both form
and fact create society of nations
and that that society might be formed
into 81 more perfect union" by some
increase and confirmation of its objects.
That it can be made to approximate to
the unity of our states we must be
permitted to doubt.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
\ Congress of Intrigue
Alexander, Metiernich and
Talleyrand al Vienna

4 rYACE CONGRESS- OF INTRIGUE: VIENNA.
lslI Complied by Frederick Freska. Translated
Tsnseu Syo. PIP xxi. 4iS. The Century Com
pay
Lest we forget" might we'll have
been the legend of this timely, enter
tn;ning and instructive volume There
WAS probably no danger that the pres
snt peace congress would degenerate
into such thing as that of 1915. and
mere would not have been without
the unfulhlled and unhllable demand
for town meeting diplomacy. Yet it is
nightly instructive and admonitory to
recsll the wild welter of follies and
crimes which marked that international
conclave of century ago, which was,
down to that time, the greatest that
the world had ever known and which
has since been surpassed by only this
of our own day. The contrast between
the two is worldwide. as it should be.
That of 1915 was meant to make the
world safe for autocracy; that of 1919
to make it safe for democracy. The
one came at time of despotic reac-
tion against liberalism and the rights
of man; the other comes at the time of
the triumph OF liberalism and the
rights of men and states over the last
remnants of worse than medieval des-
potism.
Il is we'll to study the contrast, and
to read in these fascinating pages of
the intrigues and the dances, the in
trigues and the banquets. the intrigues
and the revels, the intrigues and the
persiaage which composed the Con-
rress Of Vienna. The volume is made
up of annotated transcriptions from
the diaries and letters of actual par
ticipants or intimate onlookers, from
HUMBOLDT, Talleyrand and Stein to
Countess Bernstorf and Countess Lulu
Thuerheim. 1t gives an unsurpassed
account of the fippancy and cynicism
with which in the days of secret di-
plomacy the rights of states and of
men we're sacrificed to the ambitions
and avarice of sordid schemers.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Southern Neighbors
Helps Toward a Better Under
standing of Them
GETTING TOGETHER WITH LATIN AMERICA
BY A. Hyatt Verrill. 12mo. PIP. I. 221. E. z

GETTING TOGETHER WITH LATIN AMERICA
By A Hyatt Verriu. 12mo. pp I. 22l. E. p.
uNDERsrHNb1NG SOUTH AMERICA. BY Clay
ton ton. sedgwlck Cooper. Illustrated. l2mo. pp
426. The George H. Doran Company.
you think Anglo-Saxon and you
speak English. We think Latin and we
speak Spanish" Thus South Ameri
can statesman epigrammaticaliy ex-
planned to Il North American visitor
the reason for the lack of intimate
understanding and sympathy between
the peoples of the two continents. He
was quite right in his statement Of
premises. 1t rests with the people, and
particularly with those of the United
States, to determine what the conclu
sion shall be. We shall never wholly
change the mode of thought of either
continent, and we cannot hope to have
each universally understand the lam
guage of the other. But there is
ground for challenging the notion that
differences OF thought and language
must necessarily keep peoples estranged
or even unsympathetic toward each
other.
We therefore welcome such books as
these, which are directly calculated to
inform the people of this country con-
corning their Southern neighbors, his
torically, statistically, economically,
socially, in all respects. Of course, if
we are to understand them effectively
we must understand them in all the
phases and relations of life. Mr.. Ver-
rill's book is specially devoted to the
promotion of trade. and therefore
dwells chiefly upon those facts and
phases of South American life which
are of Importance to the merchant.
That by no means covers the whole
ground, but it covers important ground
and covers it very we'll. The latter part
of the volume is practically concise
handbook of the Latin American coun-
tries, giving the information which
every traveller and every trader needs
to have.
Mr.. Cooper's book is less technical
and is broader in scope. While it has
view to commercial expansion, it
rightly takes the view that in order to
effect it we should have a thorough
knowledge of South America in all re-
spects. The trader who goes thither
knowing nothing but trade will not
greatly succeed. 1t is pleasant to be
assured that the war aroused in those
countries a strong antipathy to the
"Kultur" of the Huns and increased the
feeling of friendship for the United
States. 1t is indeed made clear all
through the book that there is now a
great opportunity for the establishment
Of the most favorable relations between
the two continents, and that it is within
our power to improve it to the full.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Remarkable Criminals

BOOK OF REMARKABLE CRIMINALS. BY
II r. Irving Svo pp. 800. The George Il.
Doran Company.
1t is not generally known that Sir
Henry Irving's son besides being a dis
tinguished actor is one of England's
foremost criminoloCists The criminals
treated in this book are Charles Peace,
Robert Butler, NJ. Dernes, DR.. Castaing,
Professor Webster, Mr.. Holmes, the
Widow Gras, Vitalis and Marie Boyer,
the Fevayrons, the Evraud and Barn
hard. The careers of these famous
malefactors are dramatically sketched,
and especially we'll done perhaps be-
cause of their superior interest are
the cases of DR.. Castaing. the French
poisoner; of Mr.. Holmes, perhaps the
most horrible monster in modern
criwa and of Professor Webster How
ard who killed Dr.. Parkinson. Mr..
lvng's book is guaranteed to kill
peaceful sleep.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
About Peace Congresses
And Leagues OF Nations
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

lyman from W. B. Yeats. Barrie Fran
els Thompson and Hilairc Belloc, and
Nine. Blavatzky, Maud Come and
Sarah Grand, w. f. Henley. John
Redmond and Oscar Wilde pass through
the book i'll person or in letters. Mrs.
Hnkson possesses clear, cool mind
and her critical faculty is both sane
and frank, This, for instance, of
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and the critical
attitude of the nineties:
I'VE thought great deal of Mrs.
Atherton in the nineties. The other day
l picked up The Californians and
marvelled as I read. What was the
matter with our critical faculties in
the nlneties? We wanted clar-
flying. Literature was becoming a
thing with little relation to life The
log Prose was dry-rotting us and other
things"
Mrs. Hinkson throughout the book
shows her ability to experience and to
having
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Romances of Patriotisl11--
Book News and Miscellany

evidence. At any rate, the most trivial
and to the ordinary mind almost if not
quite brutal incidents leave gray,
broken-knuckled trail across the pages,
back, like the immortal Jack Homer, to
admire his work and cry Justify "What
a great man was he ?"
But, after all, this is "class book"
It will not be read by the casual reader,
but by those who love the art of box
ing, and to them Mike Donovan, cham
pion boxer, for many years instructor
in the art at the New York Athletic
Club, and one who has taught and
boxed with half the famous men in the
country, will need no introduction. 1t
Is for such that the book was written,
and in it they will no doubt find un-
alloyed enjoyment.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25

ternatonal or supernatural agency or
organ to enforce their will; which it
may or may not be possible for the
proposed league to provide.
There have been various interna-
tional leagues with international ex-
ecutive organs, but in few cases have
they been at all successful. because
nations have been unwilling to restrict
or to abrogate their own sovereign
powers, and therefore have been un-
willing to confer sufficient authority
upon international organs. In the case
before us, if the league is to succeed
where others have failed there must
be such an international organ with
plenary power. The large nations must
have greater voting power in the
league than the small, and the majority
must have power to coerce~the minor.
ity. That is the train of argument
which Mr.. Sayre presents with excep-
tional lucidity and force, backing it
with innumerable citations and refer
ences and with an appendix of Off
cial texts of inestimable value.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
With Pen and Press
Current Activities of Authors
and Publishers

Theodore Roosevelt, nearly year
ago, made Joseph Bucklin Bishop his
literary executor and assigned to him
the exclusive use of all his personal
and official correspondence for editing
and publication and for use in prepar-
ing an authorized history of his life
and public services. Mr.. Bishop, who
was for many years an important
member of The Tribune's editorial
staff, was close friend of Colonel
Roosevelt for more than thirty years,
and is exceptionally we'll qualified for
the important work which he has in
hand Charles Scribner's Sons will
be the publishers.
ArclNbald Marshall has written q
new novel entitled "The Clintons and
Others" which Dodd, Mead & Co. will
publish.
Small, Maynard & Co. are publishing
to-day Nalbro Bartleys "The Bargain
True and E. j. O'Brien's 1.-The Best
Short Stories Of 1918"
Leonard Merrick's novels are to be
brought out in uniform edition by
4. P. Dutton G. Co., with introductions
by Sir James Barrie, Sir William Rob-
ertson Nicoll, William D. Howells
Maurice Hewlett, Sir A. w. Pinero and
others. The first volume will appear
next month.
The George H. Doran Company will
publish next week Charles Hanson
Towne's Shaking Hands With Eng
land" an account of his unofficial mis-
sion for cultivating closer relations
with England.
Ernest Gordon, leading authority
on prohibition, has written digest
of the "Maine Law" reviewing the
social, legal and political workings of
prohibition in New England, which
the F. H. Revell Company is publish
ing.
Peter Clark Macfarlane, author of
that powerful political novel "The
Crack in the Bell" published by Dou-
bleday, Page G. Co., has just returned
from Germany by way Of France; hav-
ing been with our Second Army since
st. Mihiel.
simultaneously with their publica
ton of Zane Grey's desert of Wheat"
Harper Il Bros. have issued a new
edition of his "The u. P. Trail" Two
splendid works.
Georges Clemenceau's speeches and
writings on the war, translated by
Ernest Hunter Wright, will presently
be published by E. P. Dutton & Co.
Lawrence F. Abbott, of "The Out
look" is writing impressions of
Theodore Roosevelt" to be published
by Doubleday, Page G. Co.
The Robert J. Shores Corporation
announces THE Kings Coming" by
William dc Carrick, novel describing
the Second Coming of Christ: and
~Denycr's Double" by H. B. Marriott
Watson.
Catherine Breshkovskaya's reminis-
cences and letters, edited by Alice
Stone Blackwell, will be reissued next
week by Little, Brown & Co. in a
popular edition.
e. P. Dutton & Co. are beginning a
new series entitled "The Library of
French Fiction" consisting of transla-
tlons of representative novels portray
ing the life of provincial as well as of
metropolitan France.
The Macmillan Company will next
week publish Mexico To-day and To-
morrow" by Il. D. Trowbridge; "The
Vision for Which We Fought" bv
Arthur M. simons-a volume Of tbe
"Citizens Library Series" and "For-
eign Financial Control in China, bv
I. w. Overlach. Later will appear
Russia, Mongolia, China" by John
f. Baddeley, in two volumes
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25

and Flowing Sea-" Kipling's Tast
Chantey," sLongfellow's "My Lost
YOUTH Newbolt's "Admirals All" and
the original version of Campbell's
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES not one in
hundred who know the common version
have ever read-all at hand in one
beautiful volume with two or three
hundred more, their peers, is some
thing much like "a joy forever"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25
Life in the Nineties

THE MIDDLE YEARS By Katherine lyman.
Svo, pp. Ali. Tho Eoughton s1fhin Company.
Mrs. Hinkson's book is an interesting
account Of her busy life during the
nineties. There are many finely etched
portraits of celebrities and wealth of
Interesting letters to the then Miss
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25

LANES NIADIsoN's NOTES OF DEBATES IN
IL TiiE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1887 AND
SOCIETY OF NATIONS. BY James Brown
Scott. With portrait and facsimiles Syo. DID,
xviii. l49 Oxford EriiYersty press - e
New-York tribune., 1919-01-25

NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND THE WORLD
WAR. BY Frederic A. Ogg and Charles A.
Beard. Syo. pp viii. G03. The Macmillan Com
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