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American Literature of 1924 Elizabeth Stewart Mann

national solidarity of which one constructs the subtle, complicated arabesques hears so much in the more solemn of his impressions. Mr. Hemingway deals THATpublications of America is the salient with more sombre material. His hard, dispas feature of American literature in 1924. This sionate little pictures of diverse aspects of the literature seems to have the fine gift of stability. war, terse, vigorous, sardonic, recall the method It does not shift or change. It is emphatically and attitude of Merimee. With his swift itself. There are no new notes, no strange pointed style, his disabused intellect, his non cadences, no seeking after original forms. It is chalant disrespect, he has added a decisive, well- hieratic, immutable, almost statuesque. Even balanced note to the litany of our disillusion. in its diversities it is unaltered. Mr. Sherman (I) Among the novels of the year, one may, with and Mr. Mencken (2) still bombinate in the void, decorum, note Miss Ruth Suckow's "Country each hailing the presence of the other as a sign People" and Glenway Westcott's "Apple of the of national decadence. Mr. Nathan (3) is Eye". Both are stories of the Middle West, violent about the theatre, and Mr. James Branch one laid in Iowa, the other in Wisconsin. Miss Cabell (4) petulant about everything. Mr. Suckow's story has about it the simplicity, the Hergesheimer (5) has appeared again as a fine strength, and not a little of the greyness of the amateur of twilights, bric-a-brac, and historical life which it depicts. It is direct, subdued, associations. Margaret Deland (6) has shown proportioned. It errs neither in exuberance us, in Chester, a number of new friends with the nor in subtlety. There are no shades, no old ideas ; and Mr. Gamalial Bradford (7) has nuances. Everything is painted in full, broad continued his march, decorous but heavy, over strokes. Mr. Westcott's book is more lyrical. the pons asinorum. It is also more colorful. He has a wider range, Stark Young with his "Three Fountains" there is a sweep and passion in his work which and Ernest Hemingway with "In Our Time" carries far —in fact, a little too far, for he falls have alone diverged from the vast sameness. into rhetoric, a sin of which Miss Suckow is "Three Fountains" sketches South European never guilty. He has more power, but less landscapes, gardens, peasants, tourists, and the control. These books are interesting both for Italian hills. And about them, Mr. Young their subjects and for their skill of execution. weaves the thin, shining garland of his aesthetics: The essence, the stuff, the character, of America In a style limpid, sinewy, and undulent, he lies in these farming communities. These are America. Here, for good or evil, or merely for (1) "Points of View", "My Dear Cornelia". necessity, are stamped the national character (2) "Prejudices" (4th series). the (3) "Materia Critica". istics. They have the vitality of youth, (4) "Straws and Prayerboolss". assurance given by a foreshortened perspective. (5) "Balisand", a novel of the Reconstruction Period in Vir-inia (post Revolutionary). They are strong, simple, and naive, dogmatic, (6) "New Friends in Old Chettrr". credulous, generous, intolerant. They are am k (7) "Bare Souls", essays on Lamb. Voltaire, Keats, Flaubert, Walpole, Gray, and Fitzgerald. "The Soul of Samuel Pcpys". bitious and easy-going, pretentious and exuberant,

131 they are full of piety and of disrespect. Colorful, ter Street" has cast its shadow on the American dreary, half-pathetic, half-absurd, they are the universities —a shadow through which trips no true symbol of a bourgeois commonwealth, Zuleika Dobson, her amazing earrings swaying

solid, progressive, complacent, heavy with suc with a faint and delicate sparkle. There is, cess and with spiritual indolence. in fact, little sparkle about the modern college — Edith Wharton, in her New York series, has criticism scarcely more than about the modern

recalled at intervals the old sure touch that college faculty ; indeed, the authors are usually

created the "Age of Innocence , and the "House professors. In "The Plastic Age", in "The of of of Mirth". She has redeemed herself from Education Peter", in "Streets Night"

"Glimpses of the Moon", "A Son at the Front", indictment is yet she has in no way equalled the artistic dignity made, not ag of "Ethan Frome". ainst the stud In "The Midlander", Mr. Booth Tarkington ent body, not has written a book which is sure to be admired against the by those untroubled with literary sensibilities. administration Dorothy Canfield's "The Homemaker", rather or the faculty, hackneyed as to plot, is compared by a number rather, against of critics to "The Bent Twig". "The Tattooed the age."Streets Countess" of Carl Van Vechten is both more of Night", amusing and more genuine than "Peter Whiffle" though scarcely and "The Blind Bow Boy". Thomas Beer, comparable to after the promise of his sensitive and illuminating Mr.DosPassos' study of Stephen Crane, disappoints in his earlier "Three

first novel, "Sandoval". Soldiers" is Robert Herrick's "Waste" is a solid, rather the best from

heavy portrayal of four decades of American the point of

life. Vivacious, shallow, reeking "human in view of style.

terest", Edna Ferber's "So Big" (undoubtedly Wiley's is an her best work as yet) is distinguished by having ineffectual, become a "best seller". Donn Bryne's "Blind poorly written, Rattery" is equal to his "Messer Marco Polo", and too caut- SHERWOOD ANDERSON which is the strongest praise one can put into ious produc a sentence. tion. While, over Percy Marks' "Plastic Age"

Mr. Dreiser's "an American tragedy", Mr. there arose a fury of protest. That alone would ; Hecht's "Humpty Dumpty", and Harvey O'Hig- argue for its inherent truth but the seal of its gins' "Julie Cane", Maxwell Bodenheim's "Crazy aptness was put upon it when deans and college Man" and Elliot Paul's "Imperturbe" must also professors all over the country arose, and, with be mentioned among 1924 novels which are, for consciously broadminded aspects, shouted that in some reason, notable. it might, of course, be true some universities, 1924, however, is marked by the appearance but as for their young people... And moralists a it of a genre not overly noteworthy, but compara of equal breadth said might have value as tively new, at least in the United States. Among sociological document but would never remain

the mass of critical literature, common to a as a literary one. It is not badly written. \ of young nation, and led artistically by Mr. Sinclair Three books of short-stories stand out the

Lewis, this new aspect is not surprising. "Sinis whirlpool : Sherwood Anderson's "Horses and

\:'.-: Men", and the two annual collections, the benevolent, and with an air of tolerance even O'Brien and the O. Henry. Anderson's book in his malice. He has a great talent for finding follows Anderson's own tradition of cloudy, good points in a book or author, and, if necessary, disjointed, but intelligent realism. Without for inventing them. And that is why he has humor, more satirical than ironic, he paints the written so sympathetically upon Messrs. Sher rawness and chaos of American life in a style man and Mencken. which reflects almost perfectly the qualities Less urbane, but more vigorous than Van of that life. Doren, Ernest Boyd has something of the Flexible, direct, and CRITICISM same Janus-like facility. acidulous, he touches with a fine accuracy the The criticism essential, the characteristic, in books or men. of the year has His style is that of an excellent talker. He is been of a higher natural, pointed, vivid, sagacious, and erudite. quality. Ernest What is especially admirable in Mr. Boyd is the Boyd, Carl sureness of his tone. There is in it no hesitation, Van Doren, no incertitude. All is prompt and exact. In Van Wyck reading him, one has the pleasant sensation Brooks, Oscar of listening to the eternal verities. Firkins.Stewart More difficult to define in a short paragraph P. Sherman, is Mr. Van Wyck Brooks. Complex and H. L. Mencken evasive, he shelters beneath a haze of verbal and and Grant metaphysical subtleties, his elegant analysis Overton;Waldo and his fastidious inquietudes. With a style Frank and Irv live and supple, a sensibility nervous and fine, ing Babbitt— he lays before us a host of contradictory ideas, all find places and then binds them together with the ingenuous in the litany and tenacious logic of his enveloping dialectic. of 1924 critical There is nothing that he can not prove or writings. Ernest disprove with equal facility and grace. Like Boyd 's "Por the Devil, he is a great logician. VAN WYCK BROOKS traits, Real and The same can not be said for Mr. Sherman. Awarded the Dial prize of $ 2,000 for distinction in literary work. Imaginary", For, in his "Points of View" as in his other Carl Van books, Mr. Sherman arrives with miraculous Doren's "Many Minds", and the essays of Van surety at his starting point. His ideas move in Wyck Brooks, winner of the Dial prize, are the a concentric circle. When Mr. Sherman's most distinguished of the list. soul goes adventuring, it goes, not with a note Van Doren's "Many Minds" is a study of a book, but with a yard-stick. Bland, witty, number of leading American critics. It is ironic, and malicious, he is earth-bound to his shrewd, well-balanced, precise. Van Doren is own opinions, and projects into criticism, not well aloof from those "winds of doctrine" that the sensibility that feels, the intellect that blow so violently and so futilely through the understands, but only the hard glitter of his pages of American criticism. He is agile and positivism, his ingenuous rationalization, his discreet. He can assume with an imperturbable shifting and casuistic analysis. grace the most opposed points of view, and yet "Criticism in America", a collection of essays remain entirely himself. He is urbane, almost by Sherman, Babbitt, More, Mencken, Van

133 Wyck Brooks, Spingran, etc., is an interesting critical and biographical essays, is well-written, and representative book. A number of widely vivid, and discreet. To these may be added divergent intelligences unite here to give, each "The Black Golconda" (on petroleum) of according to his viewpoint and talents, their Isaac Marcosson, and "My Crystal Ball" by ideas and opinions of American criticism. I Elizabeth Marbury. In his essay, . "The Soul note that of Mr. Van Wyck Brooks as alone of Samuel Pepys ", Mr. Gamalial Bradford goes touching the significant portions of the subject. busily about his life's work of exposing the Mr. Sherman shows the usual dexterity. He is inadequacy of his own soul. clever, amusing, and extravagant. Mr. Mencken's Two notable literary periodicals took form essay will doubtlessly be the most popular among during the year : The American Mercury, the adolescents. edited by Messrs. Mencken and Nathan, and As there is nothing in the yearly crop to com The Saturday Review, directed by Messrs. Canby pare with Bruce Weirick's "From Whitman to" and Morley. The Mercury is the more serious Sandburg in American Poetry", I feel free to say and diverse. Its criticism of American life, that it is incomparable. Mr. Oscar Firkins literature, arts, science, politics, is comprehen study of William Dean Howells is a fine appre sive, scholarly, and frequently disrespectful. ciative essay. Mr. William Lyon Phelps' "As It is a sound, energetic publication. The I Like It" has 'been described as written in a Saturday Review is more restricted to the simple popular style". That seems to sum reviewing and criticism of books. It "gossips", up accurately the critical virtues of Mr. Phelps. and chats, and sums up. Its talk is loose and amiable. It prints also, one must add, essays on literary subjects. OTHER PUBLICATIONS The strongest, most genuine trend in American Among the biographical works the most literature is certainly that toward the portrayal significant are : Mark Twain's "Autobiography", of the Middle West, that vast reservoir of dramas Michael Pupin's "From Immigrant to Inventor" so lately made visible by the researches of (Pulitzer prize), and S. A. Crapsey's "Last of the Mr. Sinclair Lewis. This Middle West is the Heretics". Sherwood Anderson's "A Story least worked of all American material, and the Teller's Story" is diffuse, and, at times, rather most indubitably American. Its new literature solemn. The book has, however, a more shows greater promise than does its eastern appreciative tone than have his stories. Paul and cosmopolitan rivals, and it is from here Rosenfield's "The Port of New York", fourteen one feels that the American novel is to come.

Eugene O'Neill gives some reminiscences of In an article on Virginia Woolf in the Dial for his early life in an interview with Louis Kolonyrne December, Clive Bell says of her novel "The Mark published in the New York Times Magazine, on the Wall", published in 1917, "This is perfect December 21. ni its kind ; and, till the publication of 'Jacob's Room', remained for me her masterpiece, He refers to In a recent interview Honore Willsie notes that she is a daughter of Leslie Stephen. "The Enchanted Canyon" as the best liked of all her books. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes for the awarded as follows -for the Gerald Gould's "The English Novel of Today" year 1923 have been to Sir Ronald Ross for his "Me is described by Filson Young as the best piece best biography, novel, to Arnold Bennett for of criticism of the kind that has appeared in a moirs' ; for the best '. generation. his "Riceyman Steps

134 Translations from the French Published in the United States in 1924

following list supplements one pub lished in Ex Libris April 1924. It

THEcontains 71 titles as compared with 66 listed last year. Of the 71 titles, 41 are fiction and 30 non-fiction. Among publishers Dutton and Knopf lead with fen trans lations each, followed by Dodd with six.

FICTION The Revolt of the Angels ; tr. by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. (Dodd). Adis, Albert. A Naked King ; tr. by Joseph T. -■ Thais ; tr. by Ernest Tristan ; introd. by Shipley (Boni). Hendrik Van Loon. (Liveright). Appollinaire, Guillaume. The Poet Assassina Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume. Strait is the Gate ted ; tr. with a biographical notice and notes (La Porte Etroite). tr. by Dorothy Bussy. by Matthew Josephson. (Broom Pub. Co.). (Knopf). Balzac, Honore de. Four Stories. (Dutton). HuYSMANS, Joris Karl. Down There (La-Bas) ; BessieRes, Abbe A. Louis Mancha ; tr. by Rev. tr. by Keene Wallis. (Boni). I. Domestici. (Stratford). Larbaud, Valery. A. 0. Barnabooth and his Bordeaux, Henry. The Gardens of Omar (Yamile Diary ; tr. by Gilbert Cannan (Doran). sous les Cendres) ; tr. by Henry Longan Le Corbeau, Adrien. The Forest Giant ; the Stuart. (Dutton). Romance of a Tree ; tr. by L. H. Rose. Bourget, Paul Charles Joseph. The Gaol ; (Harper). tr. by F. Mabel Robinson. (Brentano's). Loti, PlERRE. The Iceland Fishermen (Pecheur Chardonne, Jacques. Epithalamium (L'Epitha- d'Islande) ; tr. by W. P. Baines. (Stokes). lame ; (Doran). A Tale of Brittany ; tr. by W. P. Baines. D'Esme, Jean . The Red Gods (Les Dieux Rouges); (Stokes). a Romance ; tr. by Moreby Acklom. (Dutton). Margueritte, Paul ; and Margueritte, Victor. De Lacretelle, Jacques de. Silbermann ; tr. Poum ; the Adventures of a little Boy ; tr. by Brian Lunn. (Boni). by Berengere Drillion. (Knopf). Derennes, Charles. The Life of the Bat ; tr. Maupassant, Henri Rene Albert Guyde. Mont- by Louise Collier Willcox. (Harper). Oriol. (Knopf). De St. Pierre, Bernardin. Paul and Virginia ; Little Roque and Other Stories. (Knopf). with an Original Memoir of the Author. Yvette and Other Stories. (Knopf). (McKay). Morand, Paul. Green Shoots ; introduction by DoRGELES, Roland. Saint Magloire ; tr. by Pau A. G. Walkley. (Seltzer). line de Chary. (Doran). Philippe, Charles-Louis. A Simple Story; tr. Du Boisgobey, Fortune. The Angel of the by Agnes Kendrick Gray ; with woodcuts Chimes. (McKay). by Franz Maserel. 'Knopf). Dumas, Alexandre. The Neapolitan Lovers ; tr. PoNSOT, Georges. The Romance of the River. and with an Introd. by R. S. Garnett. (Mc (Dodd). Kay). Praviel, Armand. The Murder of Monsieur Farrere, Claude, pseud. (Frederic Charles Pierre Fua'des ; tr. by Doris Ashley. (Seltzer). Edouard Bargone). Thomas the Lambkin, Prevost, Marcel. The Don Juanes ; tr. by Jenny Gentleman of Fortune ; tr. by Leo Ongley. Covan. !924. (Brentano's). (Dutton). Proust, Marcel. Within a Budding Grove ; tr. Flaubert, Gustave. Three Tales; tr. by Arthur by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. (Seltzer). McDowell. 1924. (Knopf). Sandy, Isabei.ie. Andorra ; a Nov*l ; tr. by France, Anatole. Honey-Bee ; tr. by Mrs. John Mathilde Monnier and Florence Donnell Lane. (Dodd). White. (Houghton).

135 Segur, Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de. Me FerVAL, Claude, pseud. The Life and Death of Cleo moirs of a Donkey ; tr. by Marguerite Fellow* patra ; tr. by M. E. Poindexter (Double-day). Melcher. (Macmillan). FlNOT, Jean. Race Prejudice ; tr. by Florence Sue, EUGENE. The Mysteries of the People or Wade-Evans (Dutton). History of a Proletarian Family across the France, Anatole. The Latin Genius ; tr. by Ages ; tr. by Daniel de Leon. (Labor News Co.) Wilfrid S. Jackson (Dodd). Tharaud, Jerome and Jean. The Long Walk of On Life and Letters ; a translation by Ber Samba Diouf ; tr. by Willis Steell. (Duffield). nard Miall (Dodd). When Israel is King (L'An Prochain a Lenotre, G. Two Royalist Spies of the French Jerusalem) ; tr. by Lady Whitehead. (McBride). Revolution ; tr. by Bernard Miall (Holt). Zola, Emiue. L'Assommoir ; with an introd. by Loisy, Alfred Firmin. My Duel with the Vatican; Havelock Ellis. (Knopf). the Autobiography of a Catholic Modernist ; tr. by Richard Wilson Boynton (Dutton). Loti, Pierre. Notes of my Youth ; fragments NOM-FICTION of a diary assembled by his son Samuel Viaud ; tr. by Rose Ellen Stein (Doubleday). Adlincton, Richard (Ed.). French Comedies Maurois, Andre. Ariel ; the Life of Shelley ; tr. of the 18th century, with an introduction and by Ella d'Arcy (Appleton). bigraphical prefaces. (Dutton). Moliere, jEAN-BAPTlSTE PoQUELlN. Plays ; introd. Angerville. MoUFFLE d'. The Private Life of by Waldo Frank (Liveright). Louis XV ; tr. by H. S. Mingard (Liveright). Ollivier, Rev. M. F. The Friendships of Jesus ; BARTHELEMY, JOSEPH. The Government of France; tr. by M. C. Keogh ; with preface by Rev. tr. by J. Bayard Morris (Brentano's). M. M. O'Kane (Herder). Baudoin, Charles ; and Lestchinsky, A. The OsTY, EUGENE. Supernormal Faculties in Man ; Inner Discipline ; tr. by Eden and Cedar an experimental study, tr. by Stanley de Paul (Holt). Brath (Dutton). Baudoin, Charles. Tolstoi, the Teacher ; tr. by Paleologue, Maurice. An Ambassador's Me Fred Rothwell (Dutton). moirs ; tr. by F. A. Holt (Doran). Psychoanalysis and aesthetics ; tr. by Eden PlERREFEU, Jean DE. Plutarch Lied ; tr. by Jeffery and Cedar Paul (Dodd). E. Jeffery (Knopf). Bergerac, Cyrano de. Voyages to the Moon and RoLLAND, ROMAIN. Mahatma Gandhi ; the Man the Sun ; tr. by Richard Adlington (Dutton). who became One with the Universal Being ; BERTHOUD, Alfred. The New Theories of Matter tr. by Catherine D. Groth (Century). and the Atom ; tr. by Eden and Cedar Paul RoMAINS, JULES. Eyeless sight ; a study of extra- (Macmillan). retinal vision and the paroptic sense ; tr. by Elizabeth Charlotte of Baviere. The Letters C. K. Ogden (Putnam). of Madame ; the Correspondence of Elizabeth RouviER, Frederick. The Conquest of Heaven ; Charlotte of Baviere ; tr. by Gertrude Scott tr. by Sister Francis of the Sacred Heart Stevenson (Appleton). and Lawrence Drummond (JohnMurphyCo.). FAURE, ELIE. Napoleon ; tr. by Jeffery E. Jeffery SERVIER, A.NDRE. Islam, and the Psychology of the (Knopf). Musulman ; tr. by A. S. Moss-Blundell History of Art ; Modern Art ; tr. by (Scribner). Walter Pach (Harper). Toussaint, Frantz. The Lost Flute and other FELICE, Roger DE. French Furniture in the Middle Chinese Lyrics. (La Flute de Jade ; Poesies Ages and Under Louis XIII ; tr. by F. M. Chinoises) ; tr. by Gertrude Laughlin Atkinson (Stokes). Joerissen (Brentano's).

"Modern American Speeches", edited by Pro James Stephens has been awarded the Tailteann fessor Lester W. Boardman of the Colorado State Gold Medal for his novel "Deirdre" published by Teachers College, first published by Longmans, Macmillan in 1923. Green and Co. in 1913, has just been republished in an enlarged edition It includes speeches by In reviewing Ambroise Vollard's "Paul Cezanne", Carl Schurz on "True Americanism", Elihu Root translated by H. L. Van Doren, and published by on "The Pan-American Spirit", Woodrow Wilson Brentano's, The Times says, "It is chiefly of value on "The Meaning of the Declaration of Inde because it describes how Cezanne painted and what pendence", and Nicholas Murray Butler on he thought about art ; and above all it gives us some 'Nationality and Beyond". of his sayings about art."

136 Gordon George has an article in the 19th Century for November on the novels of Disraeli. His four best novels, he says, are "Sybil" and "Coningsby", ' both political in character, and "Tancred and "Lothair" which are religious and ideal.

"The Reform of Secondary Education in France" by Professor I. L. Kandel of Teachers College, New York City, just published by the College, gives a summary and fully documented account of the history of the reforms in secondary education in France initiated by.M. Leon Berard.

In his new book on Bliss Carman, Mr. Odell Shepard describes "The Eavesdropper" published in his "Low Tide at Grand Pre' as one of the most haunting poems written in our time ; "At the Great Release", published in "The Book of Valen tines", he says is the summit of Carman's poetical achievement.

Of "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" (Little Brown & Co.) the New York Evening Post Literary Review says, "I find among her hundreds of poems in this first complete edition a few of the most beautiful, the most whimsical and the most illuminating poems I have ever read, and I find others that mean nothing at all to me."

America", icpifapfJeSu8ttSiffo>> "Pioneers of the Kindergarten in published under the auspices of the International ifreree f)uma wb qui aptee no* fiittce Kindergarten Union by the Century Co., consists #apcj fee cueuts contce no? cnSnccie of memories and biographical sketches of twenty of the leaders in the kindergarten movement, £«t^pitic8e«o9pouutcjauc5 including Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Pauline £>«««) aura pfufioft&eSoue mctrie Agassiz Shaw in the East, Susan E. Blow in the Mid-West, and Kate Wiggin on the iwue rioue Douglas Botee cp atadjee cmq ftp Pacific Coast. 8c fa c0or (j ttop a uos notmic ^H^c The Anglo-American Yearbook, published by fcutftpitca Scuourec et poutrie the American Chamber of Commerce in London, «tno9 fee 06 Seumde c^Stee * pouflfte Aldwych House, W.C.2 contains in addition to iDe maf information about American societies and clubs riofht perfonrte tie (etj tie in London, a detailed directory of American firms 2£aje puee^ieu que coue noueSucif doing business in the British Isles, and a residential directory. There are also general articles on feaefoHfSie 0l», Anglo-American relations, on British-American trade, and on English law for Americans. the facsimile of the first edition of Villon's FROMwritings, printed in US9, — published by Editions des Quatres Chemins, Paris, in its "Collections des chefs- In a little brochure on A. E. W. Mason published d'oeuvre du livre francais illustrt- reproduits en facsimile". by the George H. Doran Co., Grant Overton says Of the page reproduced here, M. Pierre Champion says that the French detective, Hanaud, who appeared in his description of the book : in Mason's earlier novel, "At the Villa Rose" and "Mais bois, ne sera utilise' quel admirable petit celui qui is the principal character in "The House of the ici qu'une seule fois, devant I'Epilaphe, el repn'sente les trot's Arrow", lamenlables pendus en chemises d'homines courtes ! Voild is superior to both of the detectives made une imaqe sincere, naive, touchante qui passe a notre con famous by Conan Doyle and Gilbert Chesterton. corde des pendus. Ce dessin est vraiment un petit chef- He has a mental stature and a moral greatness, he d'aeuvre, que nous ne retrouverons jamais plus a ce point says, to Sherlock Holmes never aspired tragique, dans 1 1 serif illustree des editions de Villon. Pour which and ma part, je ne connais pas un plus beau commentaire. moral is more hard-headed and practical than Father A sa facon, comme I'etait les gibcts, des vers de Villon." Brown.

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A History of the Foreign Policy of the United The chapter entitled "Peace, League and Senate" States, by Randolph Greenfield Adams. New is possibly the fairest highly condensed summary York. Macmillan. 1924. 490 pages. of this controverted period written to date. Com pared with the biassed and polemical generaliza An overproduction of textbooks and general of Gibbons and it is positively histories has long glutted the American and English tions Professor others refreshing. markets. In great part such books have little Taken as a whole no book issued to date will real value unless it be to yield profit for the publisher give so clear a view of the foreign policy of the and royalties to the author. But this survey as this publication by Dr. Adams. of the foreign policy of the United States by Dr. United States Adams should not be classed with the mass of Walter Russell Batsell such books. Though there are two recent and excellent on the of foreign manuals conduct American The Federal Trade Commission : A Study relations by Professors Wright and Mathews and in Administrative Law and Practice, by an excellent publication by Mowrer entitled "Our Gerard G. Henderson New Haven. Yale Affairs", Fish's "American Foreign Professor University Press. 1924. 358 pages. Diplomacy" is the only comprehensive general study of American diplomacy available, and it This volume is the first of a series of intensive serves more the needs of college students who studies in administrative law and practice. The read to pass examinations than for a reader seeking author makes it perfectly clear that the field is information on the subject. limited by the mandate from the committee which Dr. Adams traces the elements of American authorized the publication. The book does not foreign policy from the papal bull dividing America deal with the Federal Trade Commission's war between Spain and Portugal to about September, activities, nor with the large numbei" of special 1924. He shows the transition of America from investigations and reports it has made, such as a pawn of European diplomacy, through its period its study of grain marketing, of tobacco prices, of national development and expansion, to its of production and distribution of coal ; it is confined present international position. The record, epi- to the normal and permanent duties of the Com grammatically and interestingly written, is indicative mission in the field of administrative law and of the new type of history now being produced procedure. by American historians. National prejudices are While the scope of the book is still comprehen giving way to historical realities. The writer sive, it is nevertheless clearly defined. It includes of this book is guilty, for instance, of extreme the political and legislative history of the Commis heresy for his frank statement that in the useless sion, showing not only the political and economic war of 1812 Great Britain won the struggle on conditions which led to its creation, but also the land and remained dominant on the seas. In difficulties which confronted Congress in defining other instances he places his book open to the the Commission's functions in precise and unam censorship of enlightened rural and Irish legislators biguous terms. The regulation of inter-state when he fails to regard the potato famine as the and foreign commerce was treated broadly in the historical basis of Anglo-American relations. Sherman Anti-Trust Law as the result of condi American imperialism in the Caribbean Sea tions and practices which had gradually emerged is carefully and fairly traced. The bibliographical at the time when that law was enacted in 1890. limitations are obvious, but it is suggested that The law creating the Federal Trade Commission for this phase reference should be made to the in 1914 is indicative of the developments which work by Professor Thomas on the Monroe Doctrine. had taken place in the intervening period of twenty In another respect, relatively unimportant as years. It formed one of the cornerstones of Mr. the subject may be, a study of the primary Wilson's policy and its passage was one of the sources relating to American policy toward conspicuous evidences of the claim which has Samoa would have added much to the account been so often advanced to the effect that almost, as given. In the main full use has been if not wholly, for the first time in American history, made of the results of recent monographic and Mr. Wilson provided "a responsible government '. other research, as well as of the investigations The Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal of the Turner school of historians concerning Reserve Act, and the other elements of Mr. Wilson's the importance of the West in American diplomatic program, are still claimed, by many, to indicate history. that his Administration was a responsible one which

139 not only supported, but initiated and launched vidual or association of individuals, as such shall an administrative program by which the public own or possess... exclusive title to anything of might measure its success or failure in "responsible value other than movable personal effects and government". credits of labor units with the Corporation . The Mr. Henderson gives also a very detailed account Associate Units may be bodies of persons associated of the Commission's procedure and a:i extremely for any purpose whatever and apparently can interesting analysis of the decisions contained in acquire properties either by themselves or for the the five volumes which the Commission has pub parent corporation "for and in the name and in lished, together with an equally interesting chapter behalf of all the peoples". There is no indication on "Deceptive and Dishonest Practices". There of what would be the value of the holdings under is also an extremely useful summary of the diffi this plan as described. Its central affairs would culties which govern inquiries and decisions regard be conducted by a corporate Congress, in which ing practices which restrain trade. Finally, there a quorum would be "those present during the hours is a helpful appendix giving the Acts of Congress when the Congress is in session". The last estim from which the Commission derives its powers, ates indicate that the 110 million people in the accompanied not only by a general index but also United States possess a wealth of some 320 billion by an index of cases. dollars. It would be interesting to see how they Mr. Henderson is frankly critical of a good deal would take the decision of ten men present as the of the Commission's procedure and of the character final word on corporation affairs. The capital of of some of its decisions. He is equally frank in the Corporation is without limit. But apparently suggesting remedies by legislative action. On there is some miss in the scheme, which in one the other hand, although he admits that in some place provides that no one shall possess exclusive respects the results as yet are meagre, he nevertheless title to anything of value, and in another authorizes makes a strong case for the practical value of the the Associate Units "to receive moneys on deposit Commission in the past and its potential usefulness from its individual members". The individuals as a helpful administrative government agency may withdraw their deposits, but cannot draw for the future. checks against them ; in such cases no voting Basil Miles power is accorded. In a word, the scheme is an elaborate method world is The People's Corporation, by King C. Gillette. of saying nothing. The property of the at owned by the people in the New York. Boni & Liveright. 1924. 237 pages. the present time world. The titles to it are very definite ; and no It would be interesting to know whether a considerable number of individuals are likely to redoutable doctrinaire like La Follette considered organize corporations to take title to their own this book as a sign of his new era or a plot of wicked property. A good many people are quite willing wealth to do the people again. As a matter of to organize corporations to take title to other fact, Mr. Gillette is most seriously interested and people's property. If Mr. Gillette presented his most profoundly believes in his thesis. He has own corporation as the first subject of experiment, believed in it for a dozen years at least, but it is it is very doubtful if those, who are quite willing doubtful whether it is more convincing in "The to own it, would be able to give the public the

People's Corporation" than it was in his first service which it renders under his management.

attempt at stating it in "World Co-operation". Economic reform is not nearly as simple as he would With Mr. Gillette's statement of the error to be have us believe. corrected there ought to be no room for Denys P. Myers dispute. A great gain would be registered if the economic system could be co-ordinated so as to Approaches to World Problems, by the Earl of avoid both duplication of energy and waste of Birkenhead, Genetel Tasker H. Bliss, Philip service. Leaving human nature and individuality Henry Kerr. New Haven. Published for out of account, Mr. Gillette's seventeen parallels the Institute of Politics by the Yale University between "competition and co-operation" are vary Press. 1924. 126 pages. convincing ; but when one reaches the Constitution of the People's Corporation he finds himself faced Thesethree lectures delivered beforethe Williams- in with a document which reaches a solution by town Institute of Politics are content, like most

disregarding all the difficulties. of such lectures, very general and indefinite but The People's Corporation is described as a suggestive. plenary institution made up of voluntary Associate The first address by the former Lord Chancellor by Units, which shall acquire by purchase "all property of Great Britain, "Problems Left theGreat War", It is of and wealth of the world in individual or corporate is the least valuable the three. an assertion of ownership", which "thereafter shall belong collect of the materialism international relations. A is ively to the people thereof". Further, "no indi state is justified in doing only what for its own

I iU interest. Thus he Justifies the position of the other forms of government by the quality of its United States during the last few years. Once he leaders, a quality that will depend in turn on the passes from this question Lord Birkenhead falls quality of their vision. into the strange delusion that the World War In two chapters, entitled "Rousseau and the resulted from the work of "twelve narrow, ignorant, Idyllic Imagination" and "Burke and the Moral arrogant men" sitting around a green table. Imagination", he reviews the history of political The second address by General Tasker H. Bliss thought since the end of the 18th century, the most on "World Relations in Their Bearing on Inter significant phase of which he says, was the battle national Peace and War" is a reasoned and suggestive between the spirit of Burke and that of Rousseau, analysis of obstacles and an approach to peace. and the triumph of the latter leads him to consider General Bliss reaches the conclusion that "states the two chief political problems of the present still cling... to the character of relations that the time, the problem of democracy and the problem individual civilized man long since rejected as of imperialism, both in themselves and in their intolerable ; that they place their hopes of safety relation to one another. in isolation when isolation has ceased to be a possible Democracy, particularly American democracy, fact". A guarantee against external violence he declares, either lacks standards or has substituted flowing from a world so organized lies only in some standardization for standards. This seems to form of co-operative association. Then the writer him to have arisen partly out of our dedication to lucidly shows that governments have failed to lead the Jeffersonian doctrine of the pursuit of happiness, and have really hindered international progress. — as Punch remarked, "the United States is not — With business men instead of governments to a country but a picnic", and partly out of our control international affairs there would have been unreasonable efforts to secure the immediate no Ruhr or reparations controversy. Armament realization of our democratic ideals. likewise is a business question and beyond the Professor Babbitt urges the present importance intelligence of governments. of a constitutional rather than a direct democracy, In the third address, "World Problems of and the substitution of the doctrine of the right To-Day", by Philip Henry Kerr, international man for that of the rights of man. The true problems are divided into two categories: (I) the objection to the declaration of the rights of man, problems which arise from contacts between he observes, is the exact opposite of the one stated "civilized" states ; (2) problems emanating from by M. France : it does not establish a sufficiently contact of these states with "backward" countries. wide gap between man and the gorilla. This gap The first problem remains because force is the can be maintained only if one insists that genuine only ultimate world law. The second is a problem liberty is the reward of ethical effort ; it tends to of race and rival imperialisms. The League of disappear if one presents liberty as a free gift of Nations, the World Court, a proposal for general nature. treaties of disarmament and the outlawry of war are approaches to a solution of both problems. Jay's Treaty : a study in commerce and solution, There must be some for as Mr. Kerr DIPLOMACY, by Samuel Flagg Bemis. New notes, like the American at Union one time "it York. The Macmillan Company. 1923. 388 is no more possible for the world to remain half pages. slave and half free, half in chaos and half under the reign of law". Few treaties in American history have ever Walter Russell Batsell attracted as as much public attention and lively interest as the Jay Treaty of 1794. In the first that Democracy and Leadership, by Irving Babbitt. place the period in which it was negotiated was marked the Boston. Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1924. 349 period of youth and uncertainty which pages. early growth of the American nation. In the critical period of the American Confederation Civilization is something that must be deliberately England had notably hesitated to recognize the willed, Professor Babbitt says ; there is only one American Republic. The ratification of the Con direction in which one can drift, and that is toward stitution in 1789 aided immensely in giving stability barbarism. For this reason he sides with the and power to the newly established federal govern Christian against those who put the intellect or ment. The critical period of the creation of a the emotions first, but differs from him theoretic illy new state by revolution and by the subsequent in that his position is humanistic rather than recognition of foreign powers had given way to religious, and practically in holding that self- another critical period in which the development reform comes before social reform. and expansion of this new state — the American He believes also that leaders good or bad, there commonwealth — was endeavoring to assert itself will always be, even in a democracy, and that in the with success. Relations with France and Prussia long run democracy will be judged no less than being a natural step in the evolution of our govern

141 merit, the problem of the terms on which we could home are doing in other parts of the world. He negotiate with these "great powers" was at once writes with patriotic intent, but with that large raised. It is one of the vital problems in connection outlooi- which is a quality of British statesmanship with the Jay treaty. of today. He brings out finely the greatness of The Jay treaty is interesting, however, not only the Empire in what one might call its mechanical from the viewpoint of its being an important interpretation, that is to say, the thought and energy landmark in the early development of our American and money which have been spent upon the government. Its interest lies also in its general steam and electric instruments which have opened setting in modern history. Coming as it did at up new countries and brought them near to England, the time of the French Revolution its very date the nerve center of the Empire. carries interest and suggests the worthiness of one's Seven good maps show the sea route* via the attention. Panama Canal, the world's submarine cables, But most of all it is the policies and personalities wireless world charts, and the ra'Iway systems of involved in the negotiations of the treaty which Canada, Australia and Africa. The appendices merit the greatest interest. The life of John Jay give more detailed information than can be found itself makes one of the most interesting biographies in the text on the newspapers of the colonies, the of the latter eighteenth century leaders in political results of the Imperial Press Conference of 1920, life. But through Jay one meets such me as on airships of the Empire, with proposals of the Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Randolph colonies to the British Air Ministry, the ship routes and a host of other Americans, to say nothing of from the United Kingdom to the Far East, and many of the leading British statesmen of that recommendations of the Imperial Wireless Tele period. graph Committee. The policies of the treaty touched two principal Elmer Robert? points —first, commerce, and second, the question of Both the settlement of the American frontier. The Constitution of the United States, by of these problems are full of history of the mosc James M. Beck. New York. Doran. 1924. interesting nature. 352 pages. Dr. Bemis is Professor of History in Whitman College. His book is very interesting in style, This book traces the development of the constitu and most thorough in treatment, offering the oppor tion of the United States from its origins to the tunity for further reading in this field of study present day. In addition it gives a forecast of the by excemlent bibliographical notes. It contains future. This forecast is based not upon principles also an excellent brief introduction by Gaillard of government, but upon national morality and Hunt of the State Department at Washington, and social tendencies. six appendices including the Treaty Document The first 197 pages, covering the origins of the and analogous subjects. constitution, add nothing new to the subject. The L. D. Egbert field has already been tilled from every "angle by three schools of constitutional writers. Mr. Beck upholds every principle of this The Press and Communications of the Empire, document as some thing sacrosanct. by J. Saxon Mills, M.A. London. W. Col This applies even when he discusses the "balance- lins Sons & Co. 1924. wheel of the constitution" (the Supreme Court), Mr. J. Saxon Mills has written an uncommonly the system of checks and balances, which has so interesting monograph on railway, sea and air often brought stagnation to governmental activity transport and the cable and wireless services in the United States ; or even the constitution connecting the various parts of the British Empire and American foreign relations. with the mother country. The information is The writer approves of senatorial control over brought up to March of this year. It appears to foreign relations, for if a President, who was by have been derived largely from official sources and descent connected with a foreign country, were is therefore authoritative. Viscount Burnhal, the given this control, a dangerous situation would proprietor of the London Daily Telegraph, writes result. At the same time he is unwilling that the a foreword upon the relation of newspapers to United States should adopt the British parliamen government and to public opinion, which forms an tary system and thus end the possibility of a Govern admirable introduction to the detailed descriptions ment running counter to the wishes of the people. of telegraph and wireless communications, sea and The last two chapters of this book discuss "the air routes, and especially the railways of the several decay of leadership" and "the revolt against colonies of the Empire. authority" but not the constitution. Here the Mr. Mills writes with a purpose which is to writer clearly portrays the present social trend. In tell a subject of the British Empire in one pert of particular he notes the decay of the press, the it what his fellow colonials and countrymen at present trend to the inane and abnormal. Then

142 among humanity in recent years has come an immense satisfaction that the organization of the unprecedented aversion to work, thirst for pleasure, new system is to be largely in your hands. materialism, and hatred among men. These ten On the whole, this book, prepared obviously in dencies, not connected with the constitution any a spirit of judicial fairness, will do much to rein more than any other subject, are all vividly discussed. force the arguments of Mr. McAdoo's friends, Walter Russell Batsell and to answer those of Mr. McAdoo's critics. B. H. Conner McAdoo, by Mary Synon. Indianapolis. The From Immigrant to Inventor, by Michael Pupin. Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1924. 341 pages. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1923. This unusual biography is worthy of particular 396 pages. attention. After the heat and stress of the This is the most simply told biography of a recent Democratic primaries the National and foremost scientist of today, and an extraordinary Convention, on it is peculiarly illuminating certain book. of the put forward by Mr. McAdoo's friends points Michael Pupin was born in Serbia of peasant on his behalf during that tempestuous conflict. stock. In his veins ran the blood, not of serfs, boyhood of the subject Beginning with the of the but of the fighters and border-men of hardy faith in poverty resulting largely from the biography, and staunch honour. Their spirit was his, exalted effects of the Civil War, though descended from a and purified by the Holy wisdom of a wonderful line of ancestors of ability and distinction, the mother. During the summer nights he, with his writer traces Mr. McAdoo's career through his ' comrades, guarded the cattle near the dangerous to his professional and early struggles ultimate border, and, like the shepherds of old, they pondered political success. The book is too long and the upon the mystery of the stars, of sound and light. subject too complex to permit of adequate What were these? None could inform him, but treatment within the limits of this review, but among he never rested until he had attained an approximate may be mentioned the points of greatest interest answer. relations of McAdoo with President Wilson, the Mr. Urged by his hunger for wisdom and his horror the colossal work and responsibility which developed for tyranny and sham, he migrated to America upon him as Secretary of the Treasury at the when still but a penniless lad. "Seek and ye shall outbreak of the War, the correspondence between find." America soon opened her arms to this him and Mr. Clemenceau over the grave questions high-quester ; the spirit of Washington, Hamilton, of the American troops and dealing financing Lincoln, informed his spirit, Columbia College with French credits in America, the loan to the gave him the rudiments of the science which he Allies, the Railroad Administration, the War Risk craved, while later, Cambridge and ^Berlin bore Insurance Act, the question of the so-called ''Money him on. America however was paramount, so Trust", and the creation of the Federal Reserve back to America he came : presently his discoveries, Board. ripe fruit of his knowledge, repaid his land of Through these pages stalk the figures of Wilson, adoption, whereupon honour and wealth flowed Bryan, Baruch, Untermeyer, Baker, Carter Class, back to him. and the other well known figures of the War. The Many, seeing light, have worshipped the sun ; Bank incident is explained and the condition Riggs to others, the mere attainment of knowledge of the Treasury Department, its traditions and the seems a goal sufficient unto itself ; but to the economic forces which produced or contributed greatest, which are the simplest minds, knowledge to that condition are ably discussed. Mr. McAdoo s has appeared -but as the guiding thread which connection the Federal Reserve Act is referred with leads through the labyrinth. to in a letter from President Wilson, which may The thread that Pupin followed was that of re well be quoted. It says : search into the primary marvels that surround us, ''Your letter of December twenty-third was very — —electricity, light, sound, which are all as one generous and me a great deal larger share gives the further he went the more surely he found of the for currency legislation than is credit the himself approaching the Great Cause of all that is. at all due me. In looking back upon those months George G. Fleurot of struggle, I realize how absolutely indispensable and invaluable the part was which you, yourself, An Intimate Portrait of R. L. S., by his Stepson played. I think that Owen and Glass would Lloyd Osborne. New York. Charles Scrib agree with me that without your constant guidance ner's Sons. 1924. 155 pages. and mediation the task would have been well-nigh impossible, and I am sure they would join with This little book would seem to be the last word me in the warm and deep admiration and gratitude the family of Stevenson's wife can have to say which I feel for the part which you, yourself, about him. It is surely intimate enough, not only played. I am sure they would also feel as I do an regarding R. L. S., but regarding also his stepson.

143 It contains nothing really vitally new regarding and "The Eavesdropper", published in "Low "Luly", as Osborne calls his step-father, but it is Tide on Grand Pre" he describes as one of the most gossipy and carefully presents Stevenson as his haunting poems written in our time. The last public sentimentally regards him always, and as verse of this reads : , he will be regarded in it is very evident now that "And all the swarthy afternoon of letters. generation the anecdotal history His We watched the great deliberate sun has and his son-in-law having, one nearly passed, Walk through the crimsoned hazy world. would exhausted the subject, the Scotch say, Counting his hill-tops one by one." essayist may now be safely left to be judged by his work. It is time. Mildred Aldrich Barrett Wendell and His Letters, by M.A. de Wolfe Howe. Boston. Atlantic Monthly The Real John Burroughs, by William Sloane Press. 1924. 350 pages. Kennedy. New York & London. Frank having Wagnalls & Co. 1924. 250 pages. The subject of this volume is fortunate in for his biographer Mr. Howe, an accomplished man of letters, a friend, a fellow Harvard The author was a close friend of Burroughs, personal man, which knowing him intimately and admiring him discrimi and of the New England circle in natingly. This dainty little volume, illustrated with Mr. Wendell found himself happiest. The kind with the bio photographs, moreover contains many letters reader of the book will sympathize eccen from Burroughs to Kennedy, and some also from grapher's amiable tolerance for his friend's tricities, — snobbishness, his Walt Whitman. Thus we have the portrait of a his amusingly fantastic tree, lovable man depicted with that inside knowledge habit of climbing his family his whimsical — least the which contributes those personal touches and unreasonableness, etc. which had at hours, and of provi reminiscences, that alone can draw one close to a virtue of enlivening class-room person. ding Harvard with an original, who added for a here a little, a little, to the gaiety Still the book somehow fails to charm : like a generation, there kind roughly lined coat it neither glides on smoothly of American academic groves. The same nor permits one to snuggle into it comfortably reader will also accept heartily this book's essential a and sti and yet it is a good coat. judgment of Mr. Wendell as devoted man, who, Although he admires his friend, Mr. Kennedy mulating teacher and a loyal, generous grace of does not hesitate to criticize where criticism seems for the rest, was not lacking in a saving due. Of him also might be said : "I come to wit. (1904-1905), bury Caesar, not to praise him." Professor Wendell's year in France George G. whither he came as the first American Exchange Fleurot — professor on the James Hazen Hyde Foundation — was the red-letter year of his life, and resulted Bliss Carman, by Odell Shepard. Toronto. in the writing of what is his best book, "France McClelland & Stewart. 1923. 184 pages. of To-Day" (1907), a genuine contribution to knowledge, with tho flavor of all that was most The author, who is not only a professor of original and agreeable in its author's personality. literature but a poet, has written an exceedingly "France of To-Day" will surely survive everything interesting appreciation of the poetry of Bliss else he wrote, whether in the field of fiction, of Carman. Carman, he says, was most deeply biography, of the essay, or in the field of the familiar influenced in his art by the French Pamassiens letter, where a perusal of the present volume will with whom his studies in France brought him in not give him a distinguished place. touch, and in his thought by the great French To conclude, we offer two modest samples of teacher, Delsarte. the wit and point which were not wanting in Mr. While he was, therefore, most clearly original Wendell's literary equipment, one to the address in his nature poetry, his finest work, in Mr. Odell s of Yale, and the other to those of our compatriots opinion, is to be found in his love poetry. "Songs in America who insist on abusing French books . or the Sea Children" he describes as the most the first was his reply to a French professor in beautiful and perhaps also the most impressive of Paris who asked him why Yale had chosen for all his books. Next to this in importance he places its motto Lux et Veritas,— "Parce qu'a Yale la "Sappho", which is in some ways a continuation verite est toujours un luxe" ; the second a sentence of "Songs of the Sea Children", and "Behind the from "France of To-Day", — "The French are Arras". given to writing things which they would not say ; Among individual poems, "At the Great Release , English-speaking men are given to saying things published in "The Book of Valentines", seems to which they would not write." him the summit of Carman's poetical achievement. Horatio S. Krans

144 Clyde Fitch a\d His Letters, by Montrose J. Mexico in 1914. Less justifiable is his attack Moses and Virginia Gerson. Boston. Little against "the great indecision", or the failure of Brown & Co. 1924. 406 payes. the United States to declare war upon Germany in 1914 particularly in view of the support of sort of letters one would like to write — Just the neutrality by the American people in the election They are of fun and amusing and can't! full of 1916. Then in the general account of the war and the spirit of the boy who never descriptions one suspects strong personal bias. Further Some of his descriptions might almost grows up. fteriodack of objectivity is shown, in that space is given rugged( such as the one of the beds in be called to trivial matters that show personal faults at the Robda, Spain, of which he wrote that they, "though expense of larger problems. hard, were dead . The author suggests, in the preface, his own Three things stand out,— Clyde Fitch's love for conclusion : "that Dr. Wilson was a statesman of friends, of beauty in any form, and his his his love high aims and unique talents, whose life work absorption in his work, work often carried out was hindered by a faulty perspective— personal illness. despite and political". From the evidence given this 36 original plays, 21 adaptations, and He wrote conclusion is justifiably deduced. At the same of novels, as well as several 5 dramatizations time the impartial reader will look forward to a ; a large amount of work for a man books certainly time when scientific historians and psychologists only 44! Among some of his best known plays of are able objectively to estimate respectively the Brummel", "Nathan Hale", "Barbara are "Beau work and the character of Woodrow Wilson. Frietchie," Truth", and City". "The "The Walter Russell Batsell His letters are most vivid and entertaining, doubly so if one is interested in the theatre. The The. Apostle and World, book has an introduction by the well-known critic Paul the Modern by Montrose Moses, is illustrated, and has an index. Francis Greenwood Peabody. New York. Marguerite Holm MacMillan. 1923. 280 pages. To one who is interested in the heated contro Wilson, a Study, Woodrow Character by Robert versy now raging in the religious world between New Dodd, Mead Edwards Annin. York. Fundamentalism and Modernism this latest book & Co. 1924. 404 pages. from Professor Peabody 's lucid pen will prove This volume is not a biography or "life" but is the worth while reading. most comprehensive presentation of the character One might imagine that such an eminent mo and work of Woodrow Wilson from 1890 to 1920 dernist as the author would have scant sympathy that has yet been published. The setting begins for the Pauline theology. But the Harvard teacher with the twenty formative years of later prominence defends Paul on the one hand against his critics in which the character discussed was professor who declare the apostle a despoiler of pure Chris and president at Princeton University. The work tianity, and on the other hand against his friends of the later president during those vigorous years who have made him out a hyper-Calvinist. in which he regenerated a university scholastically, The problem of Paul is whether he or Jesus introduced a balanced elective course of study, founded Christianity. "Was Paul a bold innovator attempted to reform a stratified social organization, involving the plain gospel in subtle reflections and then entered politics as a result of personal which have perplexed Christians ever since, or was antipathies and his "not very edifying" opposition Paul the first to realize the meaning of the Gospel to certain men and a graduate school at Princeton, and to give it a supreme place among the purposes are now generally known but are given here in of God?" clear perspective. Professor Peabody studies Paul the man, his letters The second phase of this character study deals his religion and his ethics, and with keen psycho with its subject as a political leader. Beginning logical analysis shows how the teachings and life with the championship by Dr. Wilson of progres of Jesus filtered through the apostle's mind, sive principles as governor of New Jersey, Mr. temperament and spirit. He shows how clearly Annin interestingly traces the steps that led to the Paul grasped the essential principles of Christianity presidency and later years. Much of the material while coloring them with his mysticism, his drama is new ; chapters labeled "Wilson and Harvey", tic sense and his Hellenic training. He was not, "McCombs and Tumulty", "The Passing of Bryan", the writer declares, the preacher of the religion and "Wilson and Roosevelt" can not but be read of fear, but the most convincing witness of the with avidity. untroubled joy to be found in religious faith. Mr. Annin shows a fair knowledge of the histori Professor Peabody thinks that Paul's was a cal and contemporary events that go to make his modern mind, and that his astonishing energy work valuable. Later judgment will hardly dis and loyalty to truth should appeal to the modern pute his indictment of the Wilsonian policy towards world.

145 This attempt to humanize the great apostle, to A Man — Finished, by Giovanni Papini ; translated make him a real man among men, to clear his by M. P. Agneti. London. Hodder & record of traditional accretions and to show that Stoughton Ltd. 1924. 320 pages. "while his eyes are on the stars his feet are on the ground", is a distinct contribution to the Pauline This book, which has been published by Harcourt anthology. The fair-mindedness of the argument Brace & Co. in the States under the title of "The as well as the clarity of style ought to commend it Failure", has been rather more appropriately to a host of serious-minded folk. named there than in England. Not that Giovanni Here is the gist of the volume : "The religion Papini has remained a failure ; his book on the of Paul is fundamentally what the modern world Christ would disprove such assertion. But the so insistently demands, a religion of sanctified volume here under review, as a literary product, sanity and illuminated common sense." If we as a human document, as an argument, is indeed an had more such books there would be a wider utter, a dismal, a tragic-comic failure. circle of readers interested in religious problems. Signore Papini went forth twelve years ago to Joseph Wilson Cochran give battle in these fifty chapters, and he meant to insure victory for himself against those, who had impolitely inferred that he was a "finished man", Saint Helena, Little Island. Tr. from the Rus by soullessly laying bare the secrets of his soul. sian of M. A. Aldanov, by A. E. Chamot. The result is a rambling jumble of neurotic patter, New York. Knopf. 1924. 194 pages. which conceivably might possess some transient value to medical students, desirous of becoming An interesting book, tracing the influence of psychiatrists, but which surely would never have Napoleon's downfall on the little group of people appeared in foreign translations but for the success brought to St. Helena. The first part, dealing of the signore's later work on the Redeemer. with Susie Johnson, a rather dull little girl whose Egomania flourishes on every page, but without mother married Sir Hudson Lowe, is the least the saving grace of individuality of purpose or interesting but it is brief. The most vivid perso originality of thought, let alone a glimpse of hu nage in the book, with the possible exception of mour. Slapstick philosophy stares one in the Napoleon, is Count Balmain, the Russian Com face, paired with the hopeless immaturity of a far missioner, Scotch by ancestry, an interested from sympathetic Peter Pan of stunted growth. spectator of life in all its details, and a confirmed On pages 84-85, for example, the author rises into heartbreaker : one doubts whether he would ever the often involuntarily amusing sphere of megalo have married Susie Johnson when she was sixteen mania when he makes a discovery to the effect that and he forty if it hadn't been for the fatal dullness he is the world, modestly pronouncing "that when of being shut in with this queer litt'e international I die the whole world will be annihilated". group who never saw the great man they were there Signor Papini intrigues his reader somewhat to guard. when he says : "I do not write to make money. The bitterness and boredom of the Emperor's I write for the sole purpose of relieving myself." exile, the devotion of friends whose loyalty was Yet he changes his mind anon — distinctly his most their only chance of fame, the stupidities of Sir engaging habit— and says later to the younger Hudson Lowe, are shown with biting clearness, generation, though he was but thirty himself at as well as the hideousness of enforced boredom the time, that "it is for your benefit that I have for an active and indomitable mind. So much collected together the documents and arguments calumny and so much sentiment have been spent for the defense". And again we read : "Not upon the strange drama of St. Helena that it is only am I not finished, I am actually inexhaustible." refreshing to find Napoleon treated neither as saint Ultima ratio Regis] or devil, but after all his glory, a terrible victim of The book is probably one that today gives pain human circumstance. even to its author. To a reviewer, who prefers to There are a few passages in the book that are praise, the task has been one of mild torment. magnificent, notably the scenes after the death of Emperor Paul, the glimpse of Napoleon throwing Frits Holm stones at the trout, and finally the description of his death. The friendship between Napoleon and Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan, described, one Betty Balcome is charmingly but 1865-1877, by Susan Lawrence Davis. New finds almost the same details in other histories. York. American Library Service. 1924. 316 is an and On the whole this interesting unusual pages. book, full of detail, and showing admirably the forces stirring in that little island while the great This book is a literary curiosity. It was undoubt captive lived. edly written with the best of intentions, and there Alice Frankfurter is much of interest in its pages, but the gushing,

146 sentimental style of its author detracts greatly Chinese Lanterns, by Grace Thompson Seton. from its merit. London. John Lane. The Bodley Head There is too much repetition, and there is page Ltd. 1924. 373 pages. after page of genealogies of "locally prominent" China, both as empire and republic, has been people, such as one finds in the county histories so the victim, more than any other country I know of, popular all over the United States a few decades of those globe-trotters and journalists, who labour ago. under curious that it is possible to Miss Davis quotes many conversations she has the conviction alone correctly, about had with founders of the original Ku Klux Klan, write intelligently, let a month or two among and her usual authority is "So and So gave me this Chinese questions after those whom they love to style "Chinamen". It fact for this history". She saw parades of the simply can not be done. Klan as a child, and evidently had unusual oppor us, how she was attracted by the tunities for getting first-hand facts about the The author tells to China in order to attend the workings of the Order. No one who has at all thought of going a of years back, studied the question doubts today that the Ku wedding of the ex-emperor couple Sun Yat Sen and some Klux Klan did save white supremacy in the Sou and in order to look up Dr. in the old Land of Sinim. thern States after the fall of the Confederacy, and other leading figures in Manji and Cathay she prevented the stricken and conquered seceding About her experiences writes at length — often entertainingly, but always states from joining Haiti and Santo Domingo in — under the handicap of lacking accuracy and she the hopeless mire of Black Barbarism. It is a pity concerning today's occasional that this "Authentic History" of the Klan which includes some chapters modernized woman within the Middle Kingdom. accomplished such a great work could not have Thompson Seton's twenty-nine chapters been edited by a skilled writer, and the kernel of Mrs. acceptable contribution' to real historical matter it contains extracted and put might have formed some ladies' magazine, for in such periodicals little into a readable magazine article. A wide-spread the needs of the hour is ever exacted. But, interest aroused by the publicity given the post beyond book, her — unedited and, World-War organization which has usurped the done into a experiances frequency, flawy — become a menace name of the great Klan of Reconstruction days, with regrettable of learning more, through assures heavy sales of any book dealing with the to those who are desirous conscientious study, of our fellow beings on the Ku Klux Klan ; therefore Miss Davis' work is side the published as written. other of "lantern". Holm Paul Rockwell Frits

The Difference and Other Poems, by Harriet a Balcony, From Paris by Ernest Dimnet. Lon Monroe. Chicago. Covici-McGee. 1924. 123 don. Grant Richards. 1924. 234 pages. pages.

Most of these enjoyable essays were first pub Harriet Monroe's contribution to poetry is not lished in The Saturday Review, and include so much in her capacity as a poet as in her editor sketches of life in Paris, and impressions of contem ship of "Poetry : a Magazine of Verse", published porary' politics and literature. in Chicago, in which she has championed the Canon Dimnet has seen almost everything from cause of moderns with a staunch heart. his balcony at the College Stanislas, and has found As a poet, she hinders herself by a certain everything which he has seen interesting —at least meticulous, spick-and-span quality which effectively he writes as if he had. The subject of one sketch kills the possible beauty of her work. One is is the Paris ghetto of the Rue des Ecouffes ; of reminded, in this little volume, of a New England another the chapel of Marie Bashkirtseff in the farm kitchen thoroughly scrubbed, pots and pans churchyard at Passy ; and cf a third, a visit to the shining, presided over by a severely chaste spinster studio in Auteuil of the painter and author, Jacques whose sole companion is a black tom-cat by the Blanche. Other essays relate to literature ; among name of Jasper. That is the spirit of the book of these are a review of Herr Grautoff's "Die Maske poems which Miss Monroe has appended to an und das Gesicht Frankreichs", and a clever imi incredibly academic preface. And while New tation of Marcel Proust. England kitchens and spinsters and tom-cats have But of greater interest even are his occasional been immortalized by Robert Frost, their claim to expressions of opinion ; for example, when he romantic fame rested not in themselves, but in speaks of the partiality of modern French readers him. The title poem is an instructive blackboard for foreign literature, and again when he says that lecture with two exhibits. "Children", says Miss the French of twenty-five years ago were, apart Monroe a bit sternly, "you will observe how from the enterprising people who read Le Temps, people talked, thought, and acted in 1823. Exhibit entirely indifferent to foreign affairs. A. Now, glance if you please, at B. Compare A

147 with B. Who will tell me what is the difference pluck and hold the substance but cannot stain the between 1823 and 1923?" Of course no one fingers with the rich, wild juice. The lyrics run answers, because she takes the words right out of smoothly and musically, without any obvious faults your mouth and writes a poem about it. to trip them up, nor any certain merits to recommend Included in this volume is the Columbian Ode, them. In reading them, I was not conscious of which, so we are informed, was the official ode of effort, but I was not stimulated. I passed from the World's Columbian Exposition, written in one to another because the pages were easily turned. 1892. I was pleased, yet found nothing memorable in the Charles McMorris Purdy pleasure. I would nor return to ''Wild Cherry" to read any the book Wild Cherry, by Lizette Woodworth Reese. particular poem in the little collection. If about, Baltimore. Norman Remington Co. 1923. were lying I might pick it up and glance it, that it was 68 pages. through perhaps without realizing a being re-read. But if it were put away on shelt, The author of "Wild Cherry" goes out gathering no magnetic appeal would call me to its particular ; blossoms and cherries, but in the manner of one corner I should let it stay there quietly and who touches beauty with hands that are carefully decorously. protected from flower and fruit alike ; which Harriet S. Bailey

MADAME DU DEFFAND

From her "Lettres a Voltaire" published by Bossard as one of their "Collection des Chefs-d'CEuvre Meconnus".

"As much or more may be learnt from the letter-writters as from the writers of memoirs", Edward Dowden says in his "French Literature". "If Voltaire did not take the first place by his correspondence, so vast, so luminous, so comprehensive,

it might justly be assigned to his friend Mme. du Deffand."

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131 Literary Notes

An interesting circulating library for foreign "Periodicals for the Small Library" by Frank books is the "Bibliotheque Etrangere", 3 rue du K. Walter, librarian of the University of Minnesota, Cherche-Midi, Paris (VIe), of which Mme. J. Bu- just published by the American Library Association cher is the director. German, Spanish, Italian in a fourth edition, gives the following as the — and Russian books are to be found here, in fact fifteen most important : Atlantic, Century, Good books in almost all languages except English — Housekeeping, Harper's, Independent, Ladies Home as well as translations from these languages into Journal, Literary Digest, National Geographic, French. Outlook, Popular Mechanics, Review of Reviews, St. Nicholas, Scientific American Monthly, a on Bret Harte in the Nineteenth In recent article Scribners' and World's Work. Century, J. P. Collins gives the first place among all his stories to "Colonel Starbottle's Client". Of W. H. Hudson's fiction, "The Purple Land" and "El Ombu" will probably survive "Green In a review of Sherwood Anderson's "A Story Mansions" in spite of all popular preferences just Teller's Story" (Huebsch) in the New York. Times now, Mark Van Doren says. "Far Away and Long Book Review, Lloyd Morris says that one cannot Ago will continue to seem one of the most beautiful read it without being reminded of "The Education of British autobiographies. "The Naturalist in of Henry Adams". "Completely supplementing La Plata", "Idle Days in Patagonia", "Nature in each other the two books together offer a consistent Dowhland", "Hampshire Days", "A Shepherd's and total picture of the tragedy of idealism in Life", and "A Hind in Richmond Park" will long contemporary America. In doing so they contri be classics in that form which Gilbert White bute to our literature the most searching and invented but which Hudson developed in the serious criticism that has yet been made of American direction of his more pungent genius. culture, civilization and life."

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contemporary novelists she is not quite so interest 1926. ing as her master was. We feel as we never felt with James that she has no further real adventures 'Sard Harker' by John Masefield (Macmillan) a of in in store for her in the field international manners is tale which this reader found his maturity because her mind is too clearly made up." as breathless as 'Robinson Crusoe' proved to be

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