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Library Prop-ess in France W. DAWSON JOHNSTON

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Library Progress in France W. DAWSON JOHNSTON. Litt. D.

Author of the "History of the Library of Congress, 1800-1865", "Special Collections In the Libraries of the United States" former secretary of the Bibliographical Society of America, European Representative of the American Library Association.

average citizen of France, like the Library of the League, and argue that the appro average citizen of the United States, priation for the former should be made equal to THEknows very little about public libraries. that for. the latter. Probably as much can be But unlike the latter, he makes no use of them, said for increasing the expenditures for the former and as he knows nothing of them, is unwilling to as for decreasing the expenditures for the latter, spend anything for them, at least anything more and perhaps more. There is as much difference than he is already spending. in the expenditures necessary for different libra ries as there is in the expenditures necessary for LIBRARY NIHILISM different individuals.

This attitude is well illustrated by the report This negative attitude on the part of men of on the budget of the League of Nations, recently affairs toward public libraries does not, it is true, them, made to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the lead them to do away with their library character; Chamber of Deputies. The salary roll of the nihilism is of an academic they are Library of the League, this report said, includes satisfied to leave them impotent. Their needs as a Librarian at 24,000 gold francs, an assistant individuals are in some cases met by private cases, however, librarian at 15,900, two typists at 9,580, eleven libraries. In the majority of assistants at 10,500, two copyists at 7,000, one their needs are not felt. at 4,325, two messengers at 1,900; a total of twenty persons, and this, it added, for a library LIBRARY CONSERVATISM was contrast to this, which just starting. In it Those who believe in library progress may be went on to observe, is the library of the Arsenal, divided into two classes, those to whom the 1755, 800,000 established in which has printed development of libraries means primarily addi books, 20,000 manuscripts and engravings, and tions to their resources, and those to whom i' 20,000 is visited by readers a year, and has a means first and foremost, the promotion of their staff consisting of a librarian, an assistant librar use. ian, and thirteen assistants, whose salaries are The best traditions of French librarians, their very different from those in the Library of the interest in rare and beautiful books, and in the League ; the author of the report spares us the sad service of scholars, are well represented by the details, but leads us to infer that they are not discussions in the Association des Bibliothecaires only lower but very very much lower. Francais, and by its publications. In addition to The only criticism which could equal this in its Bulletin, containing the more important papers simplicity would be to compare the expenditure presented at its meetings, it has published the of the Library of the Arsenal with that of the rules for cataloguing observed in the principal

67 libraries of Paris, and the program of examina one recommending the enactment of a law similar tions for admission to the service of the libraries to the Czechoslovak library law of 1919, and the of the state, of the university, and of the city. Belgian library law of 1921. The membership of the organization consists Notable features of the Congress were the largely of the librarians of Paris and its neigh exhibitions of medieval manuscripts, illustrated borhood, but two national meetings have been books, and book bindings. The most impressive

held under its auspices, one in 1917 and another of these was the exhibit installed in the Pavilion in 1921, and an international congress was con de Marsan at the Louvre, devoted to books it, vened by in co-operation with the Societe des printed before I860; the second, displayed at the

Amis de la Bibliotheque Nationale et des Galerie Demotte, consisted of books subsequent a ; Grandes Bibliotheques de France, on April 3 to to that date third, at the Petit Palais, consisted 9 of this year. of choice specimens from the Duthuit collection ;

and a fourth, at the Conservatoire National de The President of the Association, who was Musique, was devoted to early French music and President of the Congress, as he had been Secre musical literature.

tary of the International Congresses of 1 900 and The accompanying illustrations will give some 1910, was M. Henry Martin, director of the

idea of the extraordinary character of these Bibliotheque de i Arsenal, editor of "Le Boc- exhibits.* cace de Jean sans Pew", and author of "La Miniature Francaise du XIII* au XV0 Steele".

About five hundred delegates attended the meetings of the Congress including bibliogra phical or diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Esthonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, the United States, Bolivia, Costa-Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

In addition to the general sessions of the Con gress, which were largely of formal character, there were sectional devoted to

meetings (1) administration, the use libraries,

library (2) of

and (3) the history of printing.

the different in Of sixty-five papers presented M. Ernest Coyecque

the meetings of sections and (2), the majority (I) Still more substantial evidence of the im

related to library progress in the various countries portance of the library in France at the present

or in individual libraries represented at the Con is time to be found in such measures of reorganiz gress, or to the collection of books and the com

ation as that effected by the decrees of the pilation of the bibliographical tools needed to Minister of Public Instruction dated Septem a facilitate their use by scholars, but few related ber 8, uniting to the Bibliotheque Nationale, the also to the popularization of the library and its *

Theie illustrations are published here by couttesy of Illustration, which relation to national education ; and of the thirty 4 1 od April 7 and published two articles on the Congress by its

secretary M F. Mazerolle. Conatroattur de la Blbllothique de la a resolutions by the passed Congress, number Monnale. There are two good articles on the Congress, by M. 2 in and 16. second the related to the Clavie the Revue Bleue. June The includes latter subject. Among these was texts of the more important resolutions passed by the Congress.

68 Bibliotheque de V Arsenal, the Bibliotheque prepared under the auspices of the Faculty of Mazarine, and the Bibliotheque Sainte-Gene- Law of the University of Paris, in collaboration cieve, in the establishment of the Bibliotheque with the Office de Legislation Etrangere (Minis de la Guerre, and in the efforts which have been tere de la Justice), Bureau de Statistique et de made to compile catalogues of the collections Legislation Comparee (Ministere des Finances), available in the more important libraries of the Ministere du Commerce, Chambre des Deputes, city. Faculte de Droit, Societe de Legislation Com paree, Banque de France, and the Haut-Com- The nucleus of the Bibliotheque de la Guerre missarial de Coblence. The first of these, pub was the collections made by M. Henri Le Blanc, lished in 1922 and consisting of a union list of presented to the State in 1917, and described in serials relating to law and legislation received the monumental catalogue, entitled "La Grande in twenty-nine different libraries in Paris, and Guerre : iconographic, bibliographic, documents the second consisting of abstracts of the more dicers. Catalogue raisonne", of which eight important laws and regulations published in the volumes have been published under the direction Journal Officiel from January I, to April 30, of Marcel Returnier and M. Jean Dubois. Its 1922, illustrate well the aims of the editors of collections now number over 100,000 volumes, this bibliographcial serial. almost as many pamphlets, and thousands of prints. *

The need of better bibliographical tools, and particularly of union catalogues of books and periodicals, and of indexes to the latter has been recognized in the efforts which have been made under the direction of M. Bultingaire of the Library of the University of Paris to prepare a union list of files of scientific and technical periodicals in the libraries of Paris, and of M. Jean Bonnerot, and M. Raymond Beaupin, of the Library of the Sorbonne, to publish a list of articles in the more important periodicals in the world, with author and subject index to the same. The publication of this important index was inaugurated in La Vie des Peuples, 4 rue Tron- chet, in May, and has appeared monthly, first as " " [Cliche' Illustration a supplement to the review and latterly in separ Evangelary of Notre Dame de Loon. ate form. A ninth century manuscript, loaned by the Bibliotheque de Laon

One other bibliographical publication of " LIBRARY LIBERALISM special interest must be referred to, the Bulletin de Documentation Legislative et Sociale" , The promotion of the modern conception of public service undoubtedly owes much to the The" first volume of the catalogue of the collection as a whole ii the " Catalogue Mithodique du Fondt Allcmand, par Jean DubotMet publication of Mr. Eugene Morel's Essai sur Charlet Appuhn. T. I. La Crlse Internationale ". Part), Etlenne Chiron, 1921. 292 Paget. (Publication! de la" SocUUde VHittoire le Developpement de Bibliotheques Publiques de la Guerre". Catalogue* des Bibliotheque et Music de la Guerre. There is an excellent description of the alma of this library et de la Librairie dans les Deux Mondes" by iti director. M Camille Bloch. in the Revue de Sunthiae Hlsto- rlque, August to December 1921. (1908-9).

69 LIBRARY OF NAPOLEON I AT MALMAISON Thii room, perhapsthe most interesting in the Chateau, is divided into three parts, the ceiling being supported on eight Doric columns. example of arranged The frescoesexecutedin 1800 are an excellent of the work Percier and Fontaine. The furniture is "asit was in the timeof Napoleon. This piste is reproduced by courtesyof the publishers of "Collodions A Souvenirs de Malmaison ' Devambez Pari*.)

70 It was not, however, until M. Ernest Coyec- The War, of course, made impossible the que became Inspecteur dcs Bibliotheques de la execution of M. Coyecque's plans, and the Ville de Paris et du Departemenl de la Seine economies necessary, or at least considered

in 1913, that much progress was made toward necessary, during the period of reconstruction will the realization of the ideals set forth in M. continue to delay their execution, but the organ Morel's writings. ization in June 1922 of the Comite Francois de la Bibliotheque Moderne is a guarantee that M. Coyecque's program is given in three progress will be made even if it must be made words, "distraire, instiuire, renseigner", to slowly. The President of this organization, entertain by means of fiction, to instruct by means M. Andre Chevrillon, in an article in the Revue of non-fiction, to facilitate research by works of de Paris, expresses his own feeling and, perhaps, reference. In the organization of the municipal library service he instituted not only a general advisory council but also local councils in each arrondissement consisting of teachers and others interested in popular education to assist in promot ing the development and use of the libraries. Further, with the idea that the catalogue is the key to the library, he began the publication of catalogues of the libraries of the different arron- dissements, with introductory remarks of a practical nature on the aim of the library, and the use of the catalogue. Finally he undertook the preparation and publication of an annual list of new books for the guidance of those in charge of the several libraries of the city in making additions to their collections. This list is printed on one side of the page only to facilitate additions to a library catalogue by clipping and mounting on cards.

These annual lists contain introductory essays similar to those in the catalogues of several of the libraries, but intended for the instruction of the librarian rather than that of the reader. The list for the year 1921, for example, contains an " " introduction on the library work of the American Cliche' Illustration

Committee in the Devastated Regions, and that Book binding, with arms of Due de la Valliere, 1708-1780, loaned by the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. for 1922 on library progress in Belgium and in England, the latter containing a long summary of

Mr. Walter Briscoe's book on library publicity* that of his associates on this Committee by saying, " If we Frenchmen only make an effort, we ought to be able to create public libraries equal to There wai a good"account of M. Coyecque'i woik by M. Noel du entitled Lea Bibltothiquea Munictpalca Je Parts : une Caire. " those I have seen in the United States". (Euvrc de Rtforme in the Revue de France, June 15, 1921. which

71 AMERICAN PARTICIPATION American activities were not, however, con IN FRENCH LIBRARY PROGRESS fined to Paris. The Carnegie Endowment's gift to the University of Paris was followed by a American participation in the development of similar gift to the University of Strassburg, and library service in France began with the provision by a donation of $200,000 for the rebuilding of of books for the men in the American Expedition the Municipal Library in Rheims. Rural library ary Forces by the American Library Association. work was also established in Alsace and in the Headquarters were established at 10 rue de I'Elysee in August 1918, and a library main tained by the Association, first of all for the soldiers, and later for residents of Paris who desired access to its collections.

At the end of the year 1920, the transfer of the library to the American Library in Paris, organized on August 2, was effected, and in the following year the Association made a contribu tion of $25,000 toward the endowment of the new institution. Its subsequent history is recorded in detail in its year-books for 1921, 1922, and 1923.

Coincident with the establishment of this library, intended to promote American studies in France and at the same time serve as a model of American library organization and administration, was the gift of an American library to the Sor- bonne by the Carnegie Endowment for Inter national Peace. This library, made necessary by the establishment of a course in American literature and civilization in 1918, was inaug urated on December 13, 1920, with addresses

by the Minister of Public Instruction, M. " O/cArf Illustration" Honnorat, the President of the European Bureau Book of Hours of Jean do France. of the Endowment, Baron d'Estournelles de A fifteenth century manuscript, loaned by the Bibliotheque de 1'Arsenal Constant, the Rector of the University, M. Appell, and Professor Charles Cestre *. This department of the Meuse by the Junior Red collection numbering about two thousand volumes Cross, in the Somme by the Smith College War was supplemented by the gift of one thousand Service Board. The most extensive service was volumes from the Alumnae of Bryn Mawr Col that undertaken by the American Committee for lege, a gift secured through the efforts of Miss the Devastated Regions in the department of the Schenk, professor of French language and liter Aisne. This organization, under the direction ature in that institution, and by gifts of the pub of Miss Jessie Carson, not only established lications of Columbia and Yale Universities. libraries at Soissons, Anizy, Blerancourt, Coucy, and Vic-sur- Aisne, but upon the invitation of These addressesare published in a small brochure, as well as in the Bulletin Trlmestrtel dt Conciliation Internationale, 1921, numberI. the municipal authorities, has re-organized the

72 library in one of the arrondissements of Paris, an opportunity for professional training to those has arranged with the Office National des Uni- who are unable to go to the United States for oersites for the selection of a certain number of the purpose, as well as an opportunity for young French women for professional library advanced or special courses to those who have training in the United States, and with the already had elementary training and some Institute of International Education for a sub experience in library work, has provided for the vention which would provide for the expense of organization of a library school in the American such training ; and finally, with a view to offering Library in Paris.

Cliches "Illmtration* Medal of the International Library Congress Deiiened by S. £, Vernier

"No more thorough study of Wordsworth as a phil The sale of publications of the League of Nations osophical poet has ever appeared", Professor George M. indicates that there is a greater interest in the League in Harper says in reviewing Professor Arthur Beatty's Great Britain that in any other country. The United "' William Wordsworth, his Doctrine and Art in their States is second, followed by Japan and by France. Historical Relations" (University of Wisconsin Studies). " In an article on Recent Revelations on European "American Travellers in Spain : The Spanish Inns, Diplomacy", in the Journal of the British Institute of 1776-1867", by C. Evangeline Farnham (Columbia International Affairs Professor G. P. Gooch describes University Press) is the first installment of an extended Count Bernstoff's book, 'Three Years in America", as study of the impressions of American travellers in Spain. one of the most poignant produced by the War.

reviewer of Dr. Robertson's "Edgar A. Poe, a A " Constantinople To-day, or the Pathfinder Survey of Psychopathic Study" (Putnam) says that his attack on Constantinople: a Study in Oriental Social Life", Lauvriere's big book on Poe does good service, for many, directed by Clarence R. Johnson, professor or especially in Europe, have taken very seriously that sociology in Robert (Macmillan), is an highly imaginative piece of higher criticism. College interesting example of American social survey methods applied to European " Relations of the United States with Sweden" is the life. A history of the survey is given by the director in subject of a thesis presented by Mr. Knutz Emil Carlson an introductory chapter. This is followed by chapters to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of describing the Greek, Armenian and Turkish elements in Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the population, civic administration, industrial life, the degree of doctor of philosophy. It discusses negotia refugees, orphanages, adult delinquency, native schools, tions during the American Revolution, The Proposed and recreation. In a foreword, President Gates of Alliance, the Stralsund Claims, and Commercial Negotia Robert College expresses the hope that the work may tions. be extended and continued through the years to come.

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The primary aim of Ex Libris is to give its readers information in regard to the best American and English books of general interest. The primary aim of the American Library is to make these book* available to its members throughout Europe.

The circulation of books in the American Life of William Morris Hunt", by H. M. " ; Library during August amounted to 6,283 vol Knowlton Louise de la Valliere and the Larly is, umes, that eight per cent more than for the Life of Louis XIV", by Jules Lair; "Mark a same period year ago. Sykes", by Shane Leslie; "Robert E. Lee,

Southerner", by Thomas Nelson Page; "France During the month the library received gifts of

from Sea to Sea", by Arthur Stanley Riggs; books amounting to five hundred and thirty-six "

Social Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth volumes. These included one hundred and

Century", by Philip A. Bruce. seventy-six volumes from the Virginia State Library. Other donors were the Hon. Myron THE LIBRARVS PLACE IN RESEARCH T. Herrick, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Davenport, a In recent address Professor Jacques Loeb Mrs. P. L. Dempsey, The Misses Ferris, Mile.

said, "We imagine that it is in the laboratory Eva Gebhard, Mr. Parmely Herrick, Mme.

that men discover new truth and that if we can Jameson, Miss C. M. Meals, Mr. M. B. Norris, only provide well equipped laboratories, im Mr. Dwight Prouty, Mrs. D. Richardson, Mrs.

portant truth wili soon be discovered. That is S. M. Shepherd, and Miss S. B. Sturgis, of not the case. Real discoveries are actually Paris, and Mr. H. K. S. Williams of New

made in the library and subsequently tested out York. in a the laboratory. A new discovery is new Among the books presented to the Library combination of old ideas, and those combinations

were sets of Balzac, Kipling and Carlyle ; are most likely to occur to the mind of the in is "Memories of Many Men Many Lands", by scientist, not when he handling material things, is F.E. Clark; "Learning and Living", by Ephraim but when he brooding over the thoughts of In Emerton; "A Family Man", by John Galswor other men and re-thinking them himself. thy; "Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era", by those hours of profound reflection, the new com " John Fyvie ; The Morals of Economic Inter bination may occur to him and then he goes to

nationalism", by Hobson; "World-Power his to or J. A. laboratory verify disprove. The library

and Evolution", by Ellsworth Huntington; Art- remains the great essential to discovery".

74 The Jarves Collection

collection of books and photographs recently presented to the American THELibrary by Mr. Deming Jarves, of Val Fleuri, Dinard, includes many of general interest.

The most important single work, perhaps, is the "Sites et Monuments de France" published by The Touring Club of France, between the years 1902 and 1906 in thirty-two monumental volumes. Other books about France are the anonymous work entitled "An Englishman in Paris", published in 1892, "Shadows of Paris", by G. Duval, richly illustrated by J. Gavin, and Two Gentlemen in Touraine", by Charles Gibson, published under the pseudonym, R. Sudbury. Both of these books belong to the period just before the war.

The collection includes books of travel relating Book Plate of Mr. Doming Jarves to other parts of Europe also. Among these may " be noted Spain from Within", by Rafael Shaw ; collector, and in addition to several books on "Through Italy with Car and Camera", by Dan art, published two books of travel which his Fellows Piatt ; and "Rome To-day and Yester " brother has included in this collection : Parisian day", by John Dennie ; as well as such books Sights and French Principles", published in relating to the Orient as Lafcadio Hearn's 1852, and "Italian Sights and Papal Principles", "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan", "Unghostly published in 1856. Japan", and "Kotto", and the sumptuous work on "The Hanami, or Flower Festival", described Mrs. Jarves' book is entitled "War Days in S. Takashima. by Brittany". It was privately printed in 1920, and consists of letters written to friends in the United Of greatest personal interest, however, are the States who helped in the war work carried on books by Mr. Jarves' oldest brother, James by her and her husband at their chateau, Val Jackson Jarves, and by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Fleuri. It includes also the "Feuille de Route" Deming Jarves. The former spent most of his of Albert Ledreau, a French volunteer who was life in Italy and made a collecton of pictures killed, October 17, 1914, and in illustrating the history of art to the time of reproductions color of a number of French war Raphael which he afterward presented to Yale posters. University. Four albums of photographs of travel in the A catalogue of the Jarves collection by Cavale Yosemite in 1896, in Yellowstone Park in 1897, Siren privately printed is among the books here in Hawaii and Japan in 1898, and in Europe described. Mr. Jarves was an author as well as in 1900 are also noteworthy.

75 Book Reviews

Lord NoRTHCUFFE: A MEMOIR, by Max Pemberton. Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a London. Hodder & Stoughton. 1923. 250 pages. BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Meade Minnigerode. New York. The Brick Row Bookshop. 1922. 195 This admirable story of the life and character of pages. Lord Northcliffe by his intimate friend, Max Pemberton, roads more like a romance than a simple record of the This volume contains a score of letters written by achievements of the great maker of newspapers. Melville between the years 1846-1860 to his friend. Evert Duyckinck, editor of The Literary World. They With his acquisition of Tit-Bits and in the novelty of contain much which is interesting in regard to his literary

its management Northcliffe foreshadowed the qualities work, his feeling about it, and about that of his con which were to change the whole character of news- temporaries.

giving to the English public. After the starting of the "What a madness and anguish it is", he says in one " Daily Mail this revolution in journalism was to work place, that an author can never — under no conceivable

magical changes. First of all, the Daily Mail was to be circumstances, be at all frank with his readers"; and in a half-penny newspaper, an unheard of proposition. another place when he was again feeling the limitations of Morning papers, in London, were selling at a penny, literary art as well as those of the literary artist, "I a in a and the Times held its price at three pence. News in don't know but book man's brain is better off than a these journals was often days old. Transport was such book bound in calf —at any rate it is safer fr,om that, only a short distance from London, people had to criticism". of wait until evening for their morning paper. Northcliffe's One the most interesting of the letters give* "

had over at of a Daily Mail could be all England breakfast. Mrlville's impressions Emerson as lecturer. I

was very agreeably disappointed in Mr. Emerson", he Probably the outstanding feature of Northcliffe's " says, I had heard of him as full of transcendentalism, career, and one which is too little recognised, is his myths and oracular gibberish, —to my surprise I found courage during the war, the courage of a great patriot : him quite intelligible tho' to say truth, they told me that first, in defying Lord Kitchener's belief in the efficiency that night he was unusually plain". of shrapnel when the want of high explosives was

And of Hawthorne he writes from the Berkshire Hills imperilling the existence of the British forces in France ; in a the winter of 1851, "After long procrastination 1 and, later, his great service to his country in his persistent a went down to see Mr. Hawthorne couple of weeks exposure of the danger attending a continuance of the I ago. found him, of course, buried in snow, and the Coalition Government. delightful scenery about him all wrapped up and tucked

away under a napkin as it were. I regard Hawthorne This capacity for taking broad and high views was

as evincing a quality of genius immensely loftier, and strengthened by Northcliffe's passion for displacement. " more profound, too, than any other American has shown He who lives with my son should keep his bag packed," a hitherto in the printed form, Irving is grasshopper to said the remarkable mother of her remarkable .on.

him, —putting the souls of the two men together, I mean". Northcliffe confessed to a marked dislike to sleep four The bibliographical appendix describes all first edi nights running in the same bed or place. His travels

tions, American and English, of Melville s writings, took him all over the world. Though England was his

subsequent reprintings, and magazine articles. In this home, he was literally the true, the ardent citizen of the

Mr. Minnegerode calls attention to the fact that it was world. the English publisher, John Murray, who first recognised His last tour saw him return marked with the seal of the genius of Melville. death, for disease and the "working like a steam engine" for man. crowds who had finally done the great The The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, edited by Bertha followed him to his resting place in the Abbey, the King Clark Pope. San Francisco. Book Club of Cali and his country mourned one of the noblest of English fornia. 1922. patriots, one of the greatest of Britain's sons.

Ambrose Bierce in retrospect is one of the most A. B. D. romantic figures of American literature. No mediaeval

76 knight on caparisoned steed ever went forth more blithely An Outline of Wells, by Sidney Dark. New York. in search of adventure. His career was as varied as that G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1922. 200 pages. of Cervantes, and he fought all the universe save only The editor of John O'London's Weekly has written the Turk. The Civil War was a crucible through which

as interesting an outline of Wells as Wells has of World he passed without rancour, though wounded at Kenesaw

History, for he feels that Wells is fully as interesting as Mountain ; in the England of Gladstone and Irish anything that he writes about, and that, as Anatole Reform he gallantly championed an exiled empress ; and

France has said, he is the greatest intellectual force in his mysterious disappearance in Mexico, whither he the English speaking world. wandered over the border from Texas during the Villa insurrection, was just the denouement that romance Hie author's purpose in this book is to summarize demands. Wells' message to his own generation and to discover the a This is the character in which Bierce would have actual man from the books that he has written. In in wished to be remembered by his public, as an irre letter written to him 1901 Wells says of his own " sponsible scapegrace, insensible to harm, and at the same work, My biggest thing, my most intimate thing, my

time the proudest of writers, aloof and intractable, cast first line of battleships is 'Anticipations', my best piece

ing pearls before swine, and then snapping his fingers of significant story writing 'The Invisible Man'. I think to show his disdain. To the very end Bierce was an 'The Wonderful Visit' manages to be pretty and that is arch-poseur betrayed by his features and also by his pen. 'Mr. and Mrs. Lewisham' as near beauty as I am The high intellectual forehead with a shock of grey hair, likely to get." the .piercing steel eyes under thick shaggy brows, and the Mr. Dark thinks the last of these, usually known as sensitive chin all indicate the deep undercurrent that " Love and Mr. Lewisham", was the best, and that flows through the best of his writings. Bierce was the

Wells's reputation as a novelist depends upon this and victim of "an inferiority complex", haunted to a lesser

six novels published later: "Kipps", published in 1905, degree by the same sense of futility that beset Henry

"Tono-Bungay", "Anne Veronica", "The History of Adams. Now scourging, now laughing, he drifted Mr. Polly", "The New Machiavelli", and "Marriage" through life stirring up tea-pot tempests to divert his own published between 1908 and 1912, and of these he mind. He was moody and restless and with his unbridled

considers "The History of Mr. Polly" Wells's supreme sarcasm was greatly in need of a mild Mr. Howells to masterpiece. tamper the blasts that blew stronger than those of Mark " Twain. Of his later works, Mr. Britling Sees It Through" of " he describes as one the documents of the These letters", apart from the fanciful bit of bio invaluable Great War. the Invisible graphy introducing them, have no general interest what "God King", "The Undying

Fire", that bitter record of disillusionment, ever and should not have been collected. The majority post-war and "The Salvaging of Civilization", the author's of them were written to George Sterling, his young containing

program of world reconstruction, are described moie protege whom he was assisting to attain a literary briefly. prominence that throughout his long career he had found so elusive. Often suggesting, always encouraging, and In most of his novels, Mr. Dark says, the leading sometimes liberally praising, Bierce is made to serve in character represents a phase of the author's development, death as in life as the press agent for the poetry of his and "his instinct for truth is so great that, at its call, he with friend. Did they but tell of his meetings Jack has never hesitated to sacrifice himself of yesterday. London and Miller, or his private as opposed to his is Isaac Wells always offering Abraham Wells as a or journalistic views of the foreign policies of Hay, sacrifice to the Gods". throw laconic sidelights en life in the Capital under the Big Stick regime, there would be some excuse for the

: study David Lubin A in Practical Idealism, by 'etters. But they only reveal a lonely old man, weary Olivia Rossetti Agresti. Boston. Little Brown and broken in spirit, waiting in Washington for his

& Co. 1922. greatest adventure ; and finally, impatience becoming In a exasperation, he leaves a note of farewell and goes forth giving to the world biography of David Lubin is to meet it. Ambrose Bierce as a writer perhaps not Madame Agres,i nas made an exhaustive study and a of a as great as his admirers contend, but as a man his bio conscientious characterization picturesque personality, in graphy is immense, and we regret that these afterglow one perhaps all too little known and appreciated oui

fragments are to pass for the correspondence of a life hurried surface life. With Madame Agresti it has

time. evidently been a labor of appreciation and love, foi Jackson Moore. working as she did for fourteen years as interpreter and

77 amanuensis to David Lubin she became thorough!) which held together through the darkness of the war. imbued with his ideas and a sympathetic co-worker in All his life David Lubin held high the torch of luael. his struggles. To him the modern mercenary Jew was intolerable. Lubin was born of parents in a little town in Jewish His faith in the fine quality of the old Hebrew race Russian Poland, where his family, living within the was secure. He believed that "the prophets of Israel Jewish pale, excluded from almost every trade and always tried to bring a kingdom on earth as well as in profession, and from the land as well, could experience heaven". He held fast the "inner essence" of religion. nothing but privation and poverty. The study of this life could be used as a text book to In 1855, when David was six years old, his parentt inspire young men to emulate the fine rugged character, emigrated to New York. Here he was sent to school the singleness of purpose and the zeal to sacrifice all until he was twelve, when he was obliged to set forth comfort, health, money, to high ideal. and earn his own living. He was not a studious boy, but he was of fond reading and had a certain independ Louise S. Connett ence of thought. He drifted from one small occupation to another until he was sixteen when he made his way west to California where a married sister had settled Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters, by Professor Setting up a store in one room, and selling clothing to Luther E. Robinson. New York and London. rivermen and laborers in the mining community he wai G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1923. 344 pages. able in a few years to invest a few hundred dollars which 111 he had managed to earn and save in this tiny venture intc Lincoln's mental e is more or less familiar to us and business. Here the existing business methods of haggling we accept without question the Gettysburg address and sales, no fixed prices, "Jewing down", taking what one some political speeches as models of clarity and logic. could get for goods, were an anathema to David's honest It remains for Professor Robinson to show us that the soul and here his life work began. Gradually the errors letters, dispatches, memoranda and written addresses are J in economic and business practices dawned upon him better than his speeches an we wonder if under more the evolution in his own soul commenced and at length propitious circumstances Lincoln might not have achieved a he saw his future work take shape before him. the fame as a scholar that he gained as statesman.

first attack on the trading system" His was "vicious of Starting with an arbitral y division his material into among his own business rivals. He determined to fight 'the homebred ard the finished", Professor Robinson work, a and "just weight a a for what afterwards was his life proceeds to develop in clear, sympathetic fashion a just measure". He was the first to put up the 'one subject which ihough familiar does not become trite. Its price" sign and along that line he fought his wiy to interest lies not only in the well drawn political s>nd social he had a of

a ten chain in success as merchant. In years background but the universal appeal of the central first successful stores and had inaugurated the "mail figure. "The mind and work of Lincoln were not

order" business. confined to a single age. We now realize as never

As his experiences grew, so his ideals expanded, and before, that but for the principles he held fast as a he became a pioneer in the application of sound business means of cementing the States of the Union together, principles to all branches of industry, including agricul under the aegis of one flag and national spirit, the cause a of have, ture, which interested him particularly. government responsible to the people might for lime at least, 'perished from the earth'." Madame Agresti carries David Lubin on through all (he details and vicissitudes of his struggle to gain friends F. H. L. for his ideas. Her book is a great tribute to a great man. He worked for forty years for an ideal ; he wore out his life in his effort. Mr. Dickens goes to the play, by Alexander Woollcott. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. He was obliged at last to carry his ideas to Eu-ope 239 pp. Illustrated. for fruition and succeeded in 1905 in founding in Rome the International Institute of Agriculture to which fifty- — If you love Dickens, or if you love the theatre, two nations were signatory.

better still, if you love both Dickens and the theatre, is Lubin firmly believed in a League as a means by here a book for you to warm the heart. Mr. Wooll

which international problems could be solved. During cott knows his subject well, and surely only a person in the war the Institute of Agriculture was the only inter who thoroughly enjoyed his task could handle it ic

national body which never recalled its delegates and delightful a manner.

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by Philip Marshall Brown. New York. The portant task of guaranteeing the status quo and coercing Macmillan Co. -923. 173 pages. recalcitrant nations, and to concentrate upon its real job of strengthening the Law of Nations and the This little book is a notable contribution to clear think administra

tion of justice. An extremely interesting suggestion is ing on a great subject. One rarely finds a direct and

the possibility of developing regional leagues of which lucid style so perfectly combined with sound scholarship.

the Pan-American Union is cited as an example. Professor Brown has placed the public under a. real obligation. We venture to say that no intelligent person is The Monroe Doctrine characterized as a self-deny with a genuine desire to understand is what happening ing ordinance in contrast with the European principle of to the world can afford to ignore this fundamental study Balance of Power which never can make for lasting of international society. peace.

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The of the it evolution of The upshot of all is that the evolution of inter " theory of the state, the essential the characteristics of national society is going to be an excessively slow process. mind", group the true significance and scope of war, is by This sound doctrine, and courageously accepting it, arbitration, — diplomacy, these are all forbidding subjects we shall guard against an unreasoning pessimism and be to the average reader ; but they are handled in such of able to maintain the only sort optimism that is worth simple, common sense fashion as to divest them of this while. terror. In fact one wonders why one ever shied at R. E. O. Aristotle, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Vattel, Bluntschli and Austin. After all, it is largely a matter of the way Lady in which things are put ; and we have always noticed INTO Fox, by David Garnett. London. Chatto

that the writer who has thought deeply and knows his & Windus. 1923. subject has usually little difficulty in making it understood is a This story delightfully simple one, on a theme by others. which, with minor variations, has served poets and Professor Brown comes to the defence of international fabulists from Aesop to Masefield. To be sure the per law, notes its peaceful triumphs, proves that its sanctions mutations of animals and men have become so frequent are real and impressive, and shows the broadening of its that one can scarcely find a book these days which does scope and importance in recent years. Much is said not portray respectable ladies and gentlement turning about the Permanent Court of International Justice, which into ferocious beasts and all manner of strange

is hailed as the accomplishment of the ; proudest League phenomena and it is therefore not surprising that this of Nations. is just what happened to the importunate Mrs. Tebrick,

the wife of The writer is a bit pessimistic about the post-bellum an English country gentleman. The fact a that she was Fox before she is a rearrangement of Europe and evidently draws upon a was married plausible

explanation of her large fund of accurate knowledge of actual conditions in extraordinary behavior. At first the was Hungary, Austria, and the so-called successive states. metamorphosis not complete. Mrs. Tebrick wished to sit upright, wear the clothes He declines to be swept away by vague idealism, justifies that she wore when she a was lady, turn the of war as sometimes a duty and a necessity, and explodes pages the magazines and look a at the pictures, and of the fallacy of open diplomacy, asserting flatly that nations enjoy game cribbage with her

" husband in the evenings. Still cannot negotiate in the market place. Dollar diplo with all these human attributes there was no macy" comes in for severe condemnation ; the danger gainsaying the fact that she was

a vixen, and matters went from lurking in the prevalent tendency towards diplomatic bad to worse until the

tragic climax put an end to the of exploitation of trade is made plain. misery her distracted

husband . It is a relief to come across a book with no ready formula for the existing ills and discontents. Bold state In the development of his subject Mr. Gamett has shown the rarest of of qualities, ment is, however, not lacking. The League Nations originality. The beauty, the dignity and restraint of a language, the is assessed as primarily European concern. For the faint humour flowing through the story, never present the United States can only stay out of the League once deviating from its well-defined channel, —all to

a contribute the and wish it luck. "In the meantime, as nation free subtle unfol of the is from Euiopean intrigues and politics, the United States ding tale which the writer's individuality. The is a book thing apart, with a certain timbre, to be read a may best serve the world by preserving as sacred trust and enjoyed and recommended to one's friends. in its freedom of leadership behalf of international justice". Professor Brown thinks the League would do J. M.

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