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trenches and more recently mas Deen en-
gagged with ex-President Taft and DR.,
Lowell of Harvard in making speeches
for the league. His plea that the war
terminate in an International agreement
against war reads with far more force
than many other similar appeals made
by men who have not fought in France.
Captain Chamberlain's volume has
foreword by Mr.. Taft, in the course OF
which Mr.. Taft says:
There is no part of our people whose
opinion on the questions of whether we
should have league of nations. and
whether the pending peace treaty should
be ratified ought to have more weight
with the Senate of the United States than
the four million boys who we've enlisted
in the war to defeat Germany. They
know why they offered themselves. They
know what the national purpose was
They know what their lighting was IN
tended to mean for America and the
world. Still more significant is the opin-
ior of the eight hundred thousand OF
those four millions who were given the
place of honor in the trenches and who
did the actual fighting. The most sig
nificant of all is the view of the seventy
thousand American boys who offered up
their lives in the cause, and whose great
purpose in making the ultimate sacri-
flee Undoubtedly was to end all wars for
the world
TIE AMERICAS NATION: A HIS
TORY"
Volume No 4, England in America, 1880
1852" by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LII. D.,
| and Volume No. G. Provincial Amer
lea, 16sO-l740," by Etarts Boutell Greene.
Phi. d. Harper Bros, Publishers, New
York City.
| In "The American Nation; A History,
Vol deals with England in America,
15So-l652" and is from the pen of Lyon
! Gardiner Tyler, LII. d.
The EDITORS introduction gives the best
idea of the purpose of the book. ana
! among other things the following VIII be
of interest:
! some space has already been given in
| this series to the English and their
! relation to the new world. especially the
! Ia tier half of Cheyneys European Back
lground of American History, which
deals with the religious. social and po-
| litcal institutions which the Engilsh
| colonists brought with them; and cnap-
| ter of Bourne's Spain in America,
| describing the Cabot voyages. This vol
tune begins a detailed story Of the Eng
llish settlement and its title indicates
the conception of the author that dur
| ing the first half century the American
colonies were simply outlying portions OF
the English nation, but that owing 10
| disturbances eliminating in civil war
4
hines not suggested by the home govern
ment.
] 1.-The aim of the volume is to show the
reasons for as we'll the progress OF
English colonization. Hence for the illus
tration Sir Walter Raleigh has been
el, osen, as the most conspicuous coionlzer
of his time The freshness of the story
Il in its clear exposition of the terrible
difficulties in the way of founding self
sustaining colones-the unfamiliar soil
and climate Indian enemies, internal dis
Z sensions. interference by the English
government, vague and conflicting ter
+ ritorial grants. Yet out of these dr.
! ficulties, in As years of actual settlement
/ two southern and six or seven northern
I communities were permanently estab-
ljshed. in the face of the opposition ana
I rivalry of Spain, France and Holland
For this task the editor has thought
that President Tyler is especially quahhed
as an author whose descent and historical
interest connect him both with the north
ern and the southern groups of settle
ments
In Vol. No. 8, entitled. Provincial
America. l6e0-174O," Evarts Boutell Greene,
the erudite writer. and in. the editor
Tutroduction'' to this volume the follow
I ing information os given;
s'ro the period between 1859 and l'4o mas
been applied the term THE Forgotten
Half Century Most of the writers on
colonial history in detail give special at
tention TO the seventeenth century. the
period of upbuilding, and the genera
historians like Bancroft and Hildreth
(, sweep rather rather lightly over the
epoch between the English revolution
and the forerunning of the American rev
olution In distributing the parts OF
.aThe American Nation, this period has
been selected for especial treatment, be-
cause within it are to be found the roots
of many later institutions and expert
ences.
THE service of the book to the series
is to build a bridge between the found