Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-11-17
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The Library Table
BY THE sBoOKLovER

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b Hfs3pFYss. has been in process of
I.hnAktnG FAST and furious rate
EdnFinEs efpasts nine years. First
THERE ssSSck$ Che -FOUR years of the
twaf. 6drtp which the whole world
tdevoted sinselfs 10. settling, the .ques-
/, ton whether sthe s4Prussian: idea. OF
autccr4cy or sthe sAGnerican idea Of
kdemocraaya safos isd sss;pfevail.. ~ In adj
ditioR2 hts sMas ">afwsr to end war"
.atsIesat 80, it..~.ae claimed. and it
was sure to be followed by world
wide enduring, peace. But the So.
called peace of: the last Ave years
has In much sof the world been only
az little. less hateful and devasting
than the actual war. These FIVE years
FORM The subject Of an interesting
arc ,m rs st new book Europe
gapeonst observer and student OF
Eurepsan affairs for ffteen years,
intending a residence in Paris DUR
ING ;tne war and the peace confer
enee, = ana author Of many valuable
historical books; among others THE
New. Nap 81 Europe.. The New Map
Of Asia and The, New Map OF AT
F.4s $500 50, T5s,A =
Dr.; :Gi hbons takessa pretty pessi-
mistic view. Of the present world Sit
Euatioh and he is severely ieriticalg of
the ,statesmanship that has thus far
failed to pull the world out of the
morass. :. First he says; that having
taken "a new world order ..for. our
slogan we proceeded to esour. ideal
istic principles as Weapons to ..break
down the morale of orr enemies, and
a atas. since the defeat OF Germany.
continued to juggis With ours ideals
as we did in war time" so the
world is< actually. at war. hes says
and the treaties forced upon the
vanauished enemias have not: been
| It was never. intended that the doctrines
OF sclf-determinatibn; the S,fre ssfrrec-
tion 1of uhjeet NATIONS or the recti-
ncation OF frontiers should be put
into eject. If there had been any
fact that the yictors fell out over the
spofls OF war and BY the "deternni-
nation OF France and some of the
smaller nations to apply the law of
tTetaDation to their now defenseless
why. In the authors opinion Europe
has not yet found peace. In his
judgment "the league of nations: Is
tmpotent with or without the United
rope to peace until the three furies
vanity. greed and revenge-cease
severe in his criticism of the treaty
OF Versailles. which he says was
worthless unless permanent coercion
OF the Germans was provided for
that the Germans would obey the
treaty only in so far as force was en-
ployed." The spirit of the treaty"
he says. rs not peace but war. The
Germans were to be considered per-
manently AZ enemies. They. were
not to be allowed to become friends
When you have an enemy you do not
have peace. go
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DR.. Gibbons has SO successfully
compressed into q volume of a little
more than coo pages the eventful
story OF Europe Since 1918, and has
told 1t with such illumination, as to
make his volume almost indispensa-
bic for the student of recent history
In his chapters on the peace confer
ence and treaty and the later confer
ences and treaties ne makes full use
OF tho literature, biographical, criti-
cal and interpretive. that has grown
up around these events. He tells the
story OF the Balkans, Turkey, Poland,
Russia. and all the other nations,
new and old, ended. enlarged or trans
formed by the war His chapters on
the "Unsheathed Sword of France"
and on Trance and Belgium in the
Ruhr" are particularly Interesting at
for. her own sake. for the sake of
peace and Cor tho well being fYthe
world. France ought to ,sheathe the
sword" But he also says '':the honor
able and: the practicable way to get
her to do this ia to- offer her our own
sword in case another 1914 arrives"
Dr. Gibbons pronounces Frances
Ruhr policy, as -"Bismar ckian.' and
says that the present; generation OF
Ffenehmen seem. to approve IL. Upon
fair and just solution of the Franco
says, depends the question of a dur
able peace or a new and more horrl-
Bile war than the last one" :
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The Isle of Man has been made both
q real and romantic place for many
who have never visited 1t by Nhe
novels OF Hall Game Years a 60 the
Booklover was carried to this English
island by the place vividness of 1.-THE
Manxman" and "Tlle Deeriister." Now,
after forty years of literary work.
Hall Game has published another
Manx novel. The Woman 5of KiIla-
ioe. kiilaloe Is the name Of a farm
in the Isle of Man. =, -
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Mrs. j. Borden Hartman gives a
delightful account of her first White
House luncheon during the Rooseyelt
regime. in "Hither and Yon,"hher-rem-
iniscences now appearing in the Cen.
fury. After the luncheon. when ,Presi
dent Roosevelt, was talking 10 Mrs.
Hartman, Col. Butt INTERRUPTED to
tell him that the waterproof suit he had
ordered from. Africa had come. Mrs,
Hartman says: 1.-THE President sprane
here!' He thrust his, arrns and then
his legs into 1t. rushed into the hall.
selzeo q cane, ran up and down the
hall shouting. pretending TO shoot
aides, nshers, and any old thing handy
forgotten. and like the people in The,
Young. Visitors oezed. out into.
Pennsylvania avenue" -. -.
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:. Whether &the prolonged, dream OF a
husband in "a state of intoxicatton,
the hallucination of a rnadman ;!.or
just modern, version Of the medieval
beast fable is the intent of the story.
-sLady Into Fox byeDayid darnest, sit
is hard for. q : reader to guess, Mr..
Richard Tebriok went for a walk over
the hills one afternoonswith his young
wife, and suddenly, whore, his wife
had been the moment Before was q
small fox. of a. very bright red. It.
looked at ham very sbeseechingly, adj
vancd toward him atFpace or, two, and
he saw at once that his wife was
looking at, him from the: ANIMALS
eyes. This was. a most unpleasant