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time. A.. Mr.. Schuster says in his foreword,
quoting Matthew Arnold, they give glimpses
Of causes and effects and vistaS Of the dark
ling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle
and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night"
Many of the pictures hold q secret, as Sc
curey as the dead hold theirs" The photo
graphers are in the main nanaeless. Some OF
the photographs are remarkably good; others
are poor in competition and detail, but the
surprising thing Is that they could be taken
at all under the circumstances, for example,
wheat field dripping with blood" Mr. Stall
ings speculates about the personalities Of the
photographers. "A wit photographed those
Russians running peI-rneM and . humantst
caught those sad exiles in the cart, and only
. cat among camera men could have looked
so long at q king who SITS . draggIed eagle,
morosely watching his armies scatter before
Mackensen's vans. But who caught the sad
file of prisoners bearing that comrade with
the Hon1eric thrust over the left nipple?
And the n-cemmissiOned officer In
the left foreground il smiling. At whom?"
The order Of the pictures tells q complete and
sad story. The first in the collection Is one ot
the Congress Of Vienna 1915, entitled THE
Balance of Power" The last is q pot-pourr1
of newspaper headlines Of April and May,
1893. Toxic to Extend War Operations
Britain Studies Dual System to Supplant
Dole" Paris Awaiting Debt Statement from
America" Europe Swims in FASCIST Tide,
Mussolini Says Roosevelt Warns World to
End War. Cut Arms 81 ,00e 00O Set ASIDE
for Job Relief Here" japanese Buy So, ,0o0, 900
Arms" The climax Of the war to end war, as
these pictures develop the plot, seems an
antielimax
THE RUSSO-JAPANESE TREATIES OF 1897
1916 CONCERNING MANCHURIA AND
MONGOLIA. BY Ernest Batson Price.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press
NR- PRICE was in the foreign service OF the
United States in China from 1914 to 1899,
when he resigned to become president Of China
Airways Federal, Incorporated U. S. A. and
the China Aircraft Corporation. Since 1892 he
has been associated with the Walter Hines Page
School Of International Relations OF the Johns
Hopkins University. He has therefore consider
able basis for knowledge and Interpretation Of
China's affairs In 1918 the Soviet government
published some of the secret treaties between
Tsariet Russia and Japan. which "suppiemented
and modified their published treaties Of 1907
1919 and 1916. in relation to Manehura and
Mongolia" These secret treaties have been
studied By DR. Price and have been fo9aad to
show the evolution Of RussO-JapAnese relations
from "a mere truce Of mutual tolerance
to full alliance within . dosen years from the
close Of the war waged between them in Mn
churia-" Dr. Price does not coneern himself
with questions Of right and wrong. interna-
tiona1 justice, the legal or moral right of
stronger nations to divide into spheres of interest
part of another nations territory He is in
teFested only in facts, and . lnaited number
A~~k -
taken their place in history, for the reapproaeh-
ment between Russia and Japan came to .
definite end in October. 1917, when the bolshe-
Wiz regime began. The break with the past was
complete, for the Soviet government gave an
nations to understand that the flterna$icDal
relations Of the new Russia would be new re3n-
ti0ns, not Q resumption Of the old Many
writer's On the Manchurisu situation kave ex-
pressed . belief that RUSSIA may be the deeid-
ing factor IN the conflict between China and
Japan. DR.. Price does nok abaKEon hin i'm
partial historians point Of vkv to voice IN
opinion On that subject. Hin book viii be q
the utmost value to the stu<,ent of YaI Eastesn
tribsltion to that history
TIE SOFT SPOT. BY A. q. II. HutchinsHI-
Boston: Little, Brown Co.
IA /EIEN Stephen VAIN was . boy in pu0lic
w school, one Of his reports sent by the
headmaster to hh parents bore the annots-
tiou: Doing well but has soft spot some
where" The eentle old clergyman, his fAthe1,
puuied over the wording a soft SPOT me.ns
. kid heart-but why the "but?" TtnaU
he settled Il to his satisfActiDO. OF course The
but" vas . nissake; It should hsve been
and" The life Of Stephen VAIN was to shaw
that the but" was terribly correct Whhoas
wishiug to quarrel with the author, reader
may think that he hs been altogether teo
charitable toward Stephen VAIN In the cnotce
Of his title. when Stephen waS . boy, the1e
wzs und0ubtedI . soft SPOT" but b the
tine he had reached 50 the spot had spsesd
until the whole character had become gAn-