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The Peace Negotiations-Robert Lam
sing. \ dignified account of the differ
ences between the president and the sec
rotary of state before and during the
peace conference. As one of the five
American representatives at the confer
ence Mr.. Lansing writes with authority
upon what happened at Paris, describing
bis efforts to induce the president to
accept a judicial basis rather thun one
of force for the ending of war, 10 find
some sort of guaranty that would pre-
serve the equality of nations, to hasten
peace by postponing the plan for the
league till after the peace treaty was
signed, his disapprOval of the secret dip
lomacy and the Shantung settlement he
makes it CLEAR just how and why he, and
presidents point of view.
Margot Asquith-An autobiography.
One can we'll understand the interest
shown in England over this book where
the people described in its pages are
known to everyone. Such men as DIR.
Jowctt, John Anderson Symonds, Lord
Merely. and Gladstone were Mrs. As
quiths close friends and their letters
to her are full of interest. The book is
a frank and vivaciOuS account of an I'M
usually varied and interesting life. Few
people are IN a position to write with
more authority on the social and pOlit-
zeal life of England in the present day.
| The reviewers of this book are giving it
severe criticism and high praise almost
in the same breath. One says: The
book is more than a broad outline of his
tory; 1t is a vision, and whether one
sees it all eve to eve with him. or with
vision is stupendous. 1t Is picture of
mankind in the making developing under
biological laws, man himself becoming
the maker of new or newly operative
laws of growth and thus able to modify
and direct his own future course. An
other says that though Mr.. Wells has
read widely and industriously in prepar-
alton for this work his sources are
plainly meagre. almost exclusively Eng
lish and not always the latest or most
dependable Again; Tic shows a IT,
tanic grip on the great Signihcances and
his detail is accurate to a degere that
is well nigh marvellous"
The Film Mystery-Arthur Reeve. \
Craig Kennedy story which has as its
background the moving picture industry.
y famous movie star is playing in a
picture which is being taken in the Ii
to the financial hacker of the firm which
employs her. Suddenly. without warn
ing, she drops dead, and Craig Kennedy
is called in to solve the mystery.
The Observation-Disclosures J. Locke.
A man born in a circus tent and grow
ing up TO De an expert JlgBief. enllStS as
q private in the war and rises to the
rank of brigadier general. After the
war he returns to his old profession.
Strength of the Pines-Edison Mar
shall. The hero is summoned from his
comfortable home to a cabin in the ut
termost wilds of the far West. There he
learns that he is the last of one of the
three families who have kept up bit
ter feud for years owing to dispute over
some land titles.
The Innocent Adventuress-ATar
Hastings Bradley. \ pretty Italian
girl. young and poor, leaves her father,
the count, and her American mother and
comes to America to find a husband.
Many things happen before she succeeds
in her quest.
Sisters-in-Law Gertrude Atherton.
An interesting story of CALIFORNIA; aris-
tocracy and others. The book opens
with a description of the earthquake and
fire and ends somewhere in France
where the sisters-in-law see again the
man they both love.
Vagrant Duke-George Gibbs. A
grand duke of Russia is driven penni-
less from the country and comes to
America to earn a living. He finds a
place in New Jersey ostensibly' as a for
roster, but in reality to defend the owner
of the estate from a mysterious danger
which threatens him.