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in political theory has been partly due
to economic causes, partly to the in
fiuence of Protestantism and to the
movement for nationality; the part
played by individuals in history, ex-
aggerated by Carlyle, has decreased,
but is, Mr.. Russell thinks, unduly
minimized today by sociologists.
The course of Mr.. RusselPs his
torical and economic survey is at
tended by careful reasoning and clear
exposition at every step, with the re-
suit that cause and effect are seen to
be operating, as always in history,
with almost mechanical but unpre-
dictable certainty Almost, but not
quite, for no one can be oblivious OF
the part played by chance; that is, by
trivial occurrences which have had
surprisingly great effects. The dis
cussion of the book is planned In four
parts: 1.-THE Principle Of legitimacy"
THE March of Mind" Democracy
and Plutocracy in America" and Ma
tionalism and Imperialism" Mr.. Rus
sell concludes that economic nation
alism, the dominant force in the mod
ern world, derives its strength from
the fact that 1t combines the motives
of self-interest, to which Marx and
the radicals appealed, with those less
rational motives that inspire patriot
ism" OF Karl Marx, he says: Marx
was not a wholly pleasant character;
envy and malice abound In his pages.
Unfortunately, much of what was least
admirable in his disposition has been
copied by his followers. One cannot
but feel that any war waged In such
a spirit must, If successful. lead 70
peace as disastrous as that OF Ver-
sailles. Hatred, INDUCED beyond
point, becomes a habit. and must seek
perpetually new victims" Bertrand
Russell. passionately devoted to the
idea of personal liberty, Is forced to
the conclusion that organization Is
winning in the struggle with freedom;
and, since organization increases the
power of nations and that power has
too often been exerted in war, only by
world wide economic organization
can mankind be saved from collective
suicide"
FROM JUNGLE TO ZOO. Adventures
of a Naturalist's Wife. BY Lucille
@. Mann. New York: Dodd'
Mead g. Co.
MRS. MANN, wife Of the director
4Vl of the National Geological Park,
wishes that she had devoted some
time in college to the disSecting OF
frogs, instead of doing so much Gre
ative listening" and studying OF ID
sens plays, for her marriage led her
into a scientific world Of which she
had little knowledge and she has
found it fascinating. She had the
not unusual aversion to reptiles. Her
husband cured her of that unscientif1c
emotion and the frontispiece OF her
book shows her with a long snake
wound around her waist. while Its
head rests placidly on her arm. The
book will prove absorbingly interesting
to both old and young. for a zoo, Mrs.
Mann tells us. is not merely q place
where the nurse takes the child and
the child takes a bag Of peanuts. 1t
has its background and history in the
jungle, and there anything may hap
pen.
With her husband Mrs. Mann has
visited numerous foreign ZOOS, has ex-
plored the jungles of British Guiana.
Guatemala and Honduras and has
spent some time in the naturalist's
paradise of Barro Colorado Island, in
Gatun Lake. of course collecting ami
mails everywhere. She tells stories of
snake catching, which became her
favorite sport; Of bug-hunting. Of
housekeeping on the Pomeroon River,
in British Guiana. Of adventures in
jungle camps and of jungle tragedies.
In her apartment in Washington Mrs.
Mann has a changing miniature zoo,
where pets come and go and all places
in the sun" are awarded to tanks Of
gayly colored tropical fish. She has
had to barricade herself against an
enterprising photographer who came
to photograph her surrounded by her
menagerie. Because she has zest in
all her experiences with animals and
with humor and apt phrasing. Mrs.
Mann has produced delightful book.
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WINDING ROAD. BY Neil Bell.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
CHIFTY, or flexible, according to
- the one sitting in Judgment, Ste
phen Martell, by q winding road, ar
rives at a certain point of success in
politics from which his friends among
labor party leaders think they can vi
sion the premiership. Then his polit-
ical career ends, is "irretrievably
smashed" just when it has barely be-
gun and Is coming to mean a great
deal to him. There have been too
many women in his life, most Of whom
he has treated very shabbily. If he
only hated cowardice as vehemently
as he believes he hates hypocrisy, he
would command more sympathy. AS
it is, it seems a form Of retribution
that his political hopes are ruined
through his indiscreet love for one
woman. He is still q young man
when ne and Dora leave England to-
gether, unable to marry, for reasons
similar to those satirized by A. P. Her
bert in Holy Deadlock" The letter
which he writes to Peter Wingfield on
the eve of departure does not indi-
cate any exuberance Of happiness. He
and Dora are no longer to be sep
arated, but they are being 'cut of
from most of the things which make
life a thing to be glad Of, a thing
worth striving to hold on to-" The
responsibility for most of Stephens
unadmirable character intricacies Is
placed by implication on his handi-
capped childhood. When he was only
S, his mother and her lover were
killed by his father and Stephen was
sent to live with an uncle on his
Devonshire farm. Later, because of
q scandal in this family, he was trans
ferred to another uncle, a chargeman
at the Colneness Dockyard, who shortly
started his nephew as an apprentice
shipwright School-teaching, journal
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