Evening star., 1920-10-24
WORLD POLICIES.

AMERICAN WORLD POLICIES. BY
David Jayne Hill, author of Amer
s.anism-What Is IT." etc. New
iork: George II. Doran Company.
OR clear international value tc
X any intelligent reader, Mr.
Hilrs analysis of the league OF
nations stands out like a bea'
con against the swarming frehies OF
discussion that serve, chiefly, to be-
cloud the issue This striking clarity
of effect rises. in large measure. from
the fact that the author, in his treat
1nent of the subject, has not permitted
sentiment to encroach upon the field
of his peculiarly clear intellections
This does not mean that he disregards
the ideaIistic feelings and emotions
that lie in the vision of peaceful
and productive internationalism. He
gives to these their full value. But
he does not mix these visions with his
thinkingS-with the straight intellect
ual processes by which he puts the
covenant of the league of nations un-
der eXamina ton. in order that its true
content and inevitable effects may
stand out free from entanglemenS.
by this procedure. the average reader,
even. finds out where the league fallS
short Of the American ideal or Where
il stands against his own hope oil
american participation in the afalrS
of a world made safe for human oc-
cupanCy. Quite free from the prevail
ing epidemic of partisan unfairnesS, he
explains the reasons lying at the root
Of the long Senate blockade against
the lea que The covenant is brought.
also. to the bar of the American Con-
stitution for trial. 1t is measured by
the law of nations as well. The dis
-hni < a
mating document, whose single purpose
is to rescue the truth of the covenant.
in its nature and its effect, from the
impossible imaginary efectS pelhs
asCribed to it by period of poiltcai
excitement and partisan untruth a
body of important documents bearing
upon the history of the league OF ma
tions is appended to the text itself for
the ready reference of the reader and
student.
FORTY YEARS on THE PACIFIC. BY
Frank Coffee. San Francisco: Oce-
anic Publishing Company.
This title promises a rich content
And the promise makes good. For
the book is both a record of expert
cnce and a summary of fact, gathered
out of forty active years on the IA
cific itself on its most considerable
islands, and on its outlying lands
y part of the big story is vivid ac-
count of travel. wherein lifelike de-
Scription give over to the reader not
only the look of the place for the
moment in hand. but its feel as well.
The lure of the Pacific lies implicit
in these descriptions. A part of the
narrative tells of interesting contacts
between the author and the various
peoples embraced within the wide cir
Gle of his many Pacific Sailings An
other part is made up of curiously
solid and useful body of general in
formation bearing both directly and
indirectly upon this region. The
striking feature of this book Is It's
vitality of effect and the compactness
of its structure. The one slows
away an amazing fund of information
within the narrow limits of single
volume. The other transfers this bodily
into the open interest of the reader. to
he stored up part of his fund of in
formation.
LABOR IN POLITICS.: or. Class Ver-
sus Country. BY Clarence Nor
man Fay. Privately published at
University Press.
According to the author. this book
had its rise in formal public an
nouncement by the head of organized
labor. This open avowal ran to the
effect that organized labor. as such,
would take part in the present polit-
zeal campaign for the direct purpose
upon this class movement as directly
inimical to a democratic form of gov
-rnment, the author sets himself
against it. This opposition takes the
form of an extended critical analysis
OF the aims and methods of organized
labor in its relation both to the body
polite and to the fuIEindustrial COM
monwealth The analysis covers the
membership of the American Fedora
tlon of Labor. its income and the uses
to which this is put. the bureaucratic
methods of the controlling body. it's
central fundamental aim, it's relation
TO capital and to the people as we'll
Within this area of discussion the
nook contains an interesting and i'm
portant summary of fact In effect
the whole turns to defense of cap
ltal- That is to- say. the author
states the case of capital. going back
TO Its human sources. outlining its
uses. defining its nature as an es-
sential part of labor itself, pointing
out It's mistakes and. on the other
hand. recording the admirably con-
structive work that capital is doing
over and over again in various partS
OF the country. Perhaps il is nearer
the truth to say that this is not so
much a defense of capital as it is
giving voice to capital. which nm
organized. has no official voice of it's
own The author makes much rightly
OF the great public. also unorganized
which is either the beneficiary or the
: victim of capital and labor. accord
ing as TO whether these two ele-
mentS in single entirety are work
ing together, as they ultimately must
work. or are in a hostile disunion. un-
der which both must go to the wall.
carrying defenseless public with
them. Experience and conviction an
pear TO be the guiding hand of this
work.
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Bv
Jacques Boulenger New York. r:
p. Putnam's Sons
1his volume is one in the series
The National History OF France
edited by FIR. Funck -Brentano. Writ
ten by a French scholar of modern
outlook and method, it sets new val
uat1ons upon the two dominant
French personalities of this century
Richelieu and Louis XIV. One of fbe
important points in historic apprai-
sails is brought out through this en-
tire study-and that is that a char
acter must be estimated by the gen
eral standards of the time in which il
lived. According to this rule and by
the modern use of old material and
new. both Richelieu and Louis NV
himself stand otherwise than under
earlier and less complete means of
investigation. Richelieu is a modern
man of the familiar opportunist type.
MAKING use ol any ana all means, as
these spring up before him, to resist
the Hapsburgs in their enmity toward
France and their ambition toward
-Hapsburgian dominion. Louis
XIV here becomes something more
than a stunted libertine increasing his
stature by absurd heels of prodigious
lift, more than the fabulous progeni-
tor of illegitimate princes and relent-
less oppreSSor of France. Here he
takes on the value of many patriotic
and statesmanly deeds, an important
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