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TILE STORY OF MODERN PROG
RESS- BY Willis Mason West. Allyn
TrssoS sto Msw Of fs Madern progress. IS
aA; TsawrltinS of the authors history;
Studcnts; in such essential particu-
po2k. The past six years bulk big.
3and they throw searching light back
oyer earlier years: hence there is
n nov needed chance of emphasis
school classes viii wish to give the
period since 1871 double the time
which has been given heretofore
The first part OF this new book is
given to brief summary Of earlier
htstory, beginning with the Stone
Age. and is followed by fuller treat
n n,nn, OF the smceessye periods Of dc
an unusual amount of space is given
70 English history. For America n
students knowledge OF that his
rory is particularly essential. Eng
etsh history gains, however. by be-
ms presented. not in an insular way.
Sput in its setting in the history Of
ta the Continent OF Europr, And time
fconsioeratton makes this met nod
more and more Imperative. Seem
hngly, the high school course In his
tory must content itself with three
pears. In that case. one year must
go to n background of early human
ProErcss, down TO the Reformation or
iater, second year, to modern nroG-
Hess, and the third. TO American his
tory and citizenship. But no such pIa
Gan meet the end desired. unless
stress is placed In the second year
upon EnEland's part With such ar
the valuable lessons of English his
tory more cmphatically, and with a..
nost as much detail. as in = separate
year upon that isolated subject.
In any course. American history is
Sure of place by itself. Tha; is
reason enough. the author thinks. for
pmittinE IL in this volume. except
whcre the connection of events dc
nands It's introduction. When
ouched at all here. therefore. it is
treated from the viewpoint OF world
development. rather than from n re-
s aI american position. The
ury is presented as an expansion OF
europe, and especially OF England
nto New Worlds: the ''ln.ercoloniai
Wars" OF the eighteenth century are
seen as part OF the hundred year
etruEgle between Franco and England
or world empire and exclusive mar
kets: American industrial invention
the nineteenth century appears as
part of the general industrial revo-
utlon; the recent advance OF Amer
ca into world politics is presented
~ part of the now international re-
atoms and new trade relations that
oHowcd the partition of Africa and
no opening of the Orient in the clos
ns decades OF the nineteenth CEN
given in It's pages TO Amcrica'S part
the world war. both in Europe and
ny nome, corresponds merely 10 the
new Significance or our country in
world development
In both logical arrangement and
nclusiveness OF events. which are
important To comprehensive under
itandtng of history, the volume
meets every requirement in that re-
spect OF high school course.
WHEN THE KING LOSES HIS
HEAD AND OTHER STORIES. Hy
LeonM Andreycv. international Book
FuDlishinE Company, New York
Leonid Andrcycv was horn IN orcl
the capital of tho Russian province
Of the same name. on August 2l
iSil. nc was ten years Younger
than his future patron and friend,
Maxim Cork. He died on Scptcm-
per IL. 1912, in Finland. an exile
from his beloved chaos ridden father
Andreycv. because OF the cumula-
I've portrayals OF the weird and the
Prrible. has been called the Russian
ugar Allan Poe. liut between Poe
ld Andreyev there lies "A century
time. and world Of space. The
ro@s o! Andrcycvs stories are
|eople who stand apart" solitary,
neiy characters, walking among
zen like planets among planets. and
banetul atmosphere surrounds
aem The idea OF most OF his stories
the conflict OF the personality with
tie, and with the falsehood which
ian introduces into his fate AS to
fyle, I~eonid Andrcyev Is "A wonder
Pi word painter, but his brush
nows only SomDer colorS. The basic