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the early efforts to create an times. The movement for better drama had two AMONGAmerican play was Royall Tyler's, sources. In the academic world two. or three whose "The Contrast" was produced young men, prominent among whom were Bran- with success at the John Street Theater, in New der Matthews and George P. Baker, shocked York, in 1787. We are told it is the first Ameri the professors of literature by insisting upon can comedy to be produced by a professional making the drama a separate study. Having company. In the opening lines the author is gained this much, the former began his Dramatic exultant over the fact that he has introduced into Museum at Columbia University, and the latter play writing the principle Monroe later introduc offered his course on Modern Dramatists and ed into politics, thus paving the way for the the Technic of the Drama. By nineteen twelve founders of the American Mercury : over fifteen colleges were giving courses in drama and at Harvard an experimental theater was Exult each patriot heart I— This night is shewn established where plays written by students of A piece which we may fairly call our own. '-Yofessor Baker's were, and are still, tried before the public : encouragement was given This all-American comedy presents the con the efforts of this 47 Workshop, as it is called, by of an untraveled trast between the homely virtues Mr. Craig of Boston, who offered an annual American and Chesterfield's polished gentleman. prize for the best Workshop play of the year. from time to time the American dramatist's If This in the city where Samuel Sewall, protesting enthusiasm for an American stage still leads him against the acting of a play in the council chamber, to make contrasts, the great contribution of recorded in his diary March 2, 1714, "Let not contemporary playwrights is based upon a Christian Boston goe beyond Heathen Rome in more significant of America. understanding the practice of shameful vanities". For the new plays the authors have seized the The second vitalizing force manifested itself vital forces of human nature and clothed them in the organization of groups of amateurs. The with the garments and speech of primitive most prominent of them was formed in 1915 American Poetry, technical skill, a life. know and took the name of the Washington Square ledge not only of human nature but of the people Players. It was composed of young people who who have inhabited the mountains of Kentucky often met in the back room of a Washington and Carolinas have made the creation the possible Square book-shop and who, dissatisfied with of "Sun Up," by Lulu Vollmer, "This Fine-Pretty the plays offered by the professional managers, World," by Percy MacKaye, and "Hell Bent fer decided to have a theater of their own. They had Heaven", by Hatcher Hughes, the last of little money, their talents were undeveloped, but which received the Pulitzer prize for 1924 and they had much enthusiasm. We are told that which has been brought to Paris by Fortunat the same night they decided to give plays they Strowski to be produced in French Marcel by began with Dunsany's "The Glittering Way". Harrand. A witness has us the : "There *** given description was a good fire on the hearth, and it was snowing Early in our century those interested in outside. The folding doors between the two American drama were aware that we had no rooms of the bookstore were improvised into a American Theatre Libre nor American Literary proscenium. An open window at the back, Theater, such as that of Antoine and Becque in through which penetrated the dim illumination Paris, such as that of Yeats and Lady Gregory of Macdougal street, served to give an impres in Dublin. The New World was behind the sionistic impression ofTheaven. For properties

105 Mr. Robert Edmond Jones, with the inspiration hypocrisy... left a prisoner in the cabin by those of the impressionist, rolled long strips of wrap he betrayed, he blasphemes the God who fails ping paper into wands. Mr. Moeller and Mr. to rescue him from the rising waters of Eliot impersonated the mumbling rocks. The the flooded valley. other actors went through their parts, reading This play is American even to the hypocrisy the lines from the printed page. For an audience of Rufe, for if he is a Tartufe, he is an American there were Miss Palmer and Miss Westley, Tartufe, relying more upon hymns than upon each of whom paid ten cents for the privilege casuistry to seduce his rival's fiancee. The of an impromptu excursion into the rarified primitive conception of foreigners, the speech, atmosphere of pure art. The total receipts were used to defray the expenses of two candles." They later secured a theater, the Bandbox, and during their first season produced fourteen one- ac;. plays and pantomimes, all but five of which were written by Americans. The rest of the story is well known ; before the war interrupted their work they had produced plays such as "The Clod" from the 47 Workshop, plays by Moeller, Langner, Murdock Pemberton, Ameri cans, and by Maeterlinck, Andreyev, de Musset and other Europeans. Back from the war, the remains of this first group, fortified by new members, organized the Guild. It is this Guild which, after all the difficulties of recommencing, has built up a large following in the form of annual sub scribers who assure it success, and it is this Guild which will soon open up its own new theater on Fifty-second street between Seventh and Eighth avenues, in New York City. That these two movements, the academic and non-academic, are closely related is easily seen from the fact that a former member of the Guild, Augustin Duncan, who began his career with a similar movement in Ireland, off-spring of the Irish Literary Theater, the Abbey Theater, EUGENE ONEILL staged and played in one of the pieces we have Courtesyof Niekolts Murcv. mentioned, "Hell Bent fer Heaven", written by -yHE American playwright, whose "Emperor Jones" was a young professor of the drama at Columbia *■ produced with success at the Theatre de l'Od<5on. University, Mr. Hatcher Hughes. in Paris. He has twice been awarded the Pulitzer P Mr. Hughes has dramatized religious fanati Prize,— in 1920 for "Beyond the Horizon", and in 1922 cism. This great force moves the voice and for 'Anna Christie". body of a puny wretch, the "Runt", as the author first designated him : Rufe, the runt, the mountaineers, their peculiarities, are peculiar is as "hell bent fer heaven" as the latest recruit to the scene of action, the Kentucky mountains ; to the local anti-vice society. He sings and the characters are people of- a very particular prays the name of God into every phrase, and place moved by the passions which move every phrase is used to further his diabolical mank nd, fanaticism, love, hate and revenge. designs, until murder itself is sanctified. The language they speak, the words they use, This zealot, to destroy his rival, tries to might be foreign, the play might be produced renew an ancient feud which a marriage is in pantomime, the plot would be understood. about to terminate. A brother is incited to It is curious that in "Hell-Bent fer Heaven" kill the fiance of his own sister.. But the plan as in "Sun-Up", by Lulu Vollmer, there is a fails : the fanatic is left to discover his own mountaineer doughboy. In the former the i .% Yank returns to marry, in "Sun-Up", he marries "This language is a precious heritage of the and goes away. The author of this latter play mountaineer from a thousand years of folk- has chosen the mountains of Carolina for her culture ; yet so cramped is the standardized scenes. Besides feuds, these men are known culture of the average normal school teacher for their "moonshine", whiskey made by moon (blissfully ignorant of the Elizabethans and light ! One of the laws made by the first Chaucer and 'Beowulf, not to mention Burns Congress was a tax on whiskey manufactured and Synge) that the first admonishment of the in the United States. It produced a rebellion, mountain child—who has braved lonely miles and Washington had to use armed force against of storm —swept trails, humbly to 'crave larnin', the mountaineers. From this time on these —is for him to correct and shamefacedly disavow people have looked upon the law as their enemy. his own ancient mountain speech in favor of Their vindictive animosity to the law is voiced the 'grammatical rules' of a rubber stamp in the play by the widow Cagle, whose iather education. was taken by the law, whose husband was slain by a revenue officer, and whose son is now remov y 'Yea, sir. hit war the first cold spell that come, ed from her by the draft. Word comes that the right when the grapes is about all gone and the son has died in action. Once more the mother rest of the berry tribe, between the turnin' of cries out against the law. She has a chance for the weeds under and the dyin' of food, and thar revenge. In the even ng an army deserter comes in a gang of jay-birds and they fills the seeks refuge in her cabin : her law is : a life ior mind of the bird poetry.' a life. But in the night she hears her dead son's voice. Overcome with mysticism and There is a sentence I wrote down from the joy, she lets the deserter go : it is sun-up in her lips of an old mountaineer." heart. Thus is it that out of the mouths of babes and Otherwise excellent, with the rare good sucklings our latest dramatic school has taken iortune of a Lucile La Verne as the corn-cob much of the dialogue of recent American drama. smoking mother, this play flickers but into But fortunately for us, Mr. MacKaye first insipid sentimental] sm: it is "Hell Bent fer learned the language of the ordinary playgoer, Heaven", as produced in New York, with the at home from Steele MacKaye, the play-wright, hypocrite saved. his father ; at Harvard, from George P. Baker, The difficulty of presenting some of these his professor. recent American plays results from the use of dialect. The two authors we have mentioned have used it, more or less. Eugene O'Neill Since "The Contrast" of 1787 we have bewailed has used the word suited to the character and the importation of foreign plays. This has never his characters have not always been brought up interfered with our support or appreciation of on the "Letters to His Son". The use of. them. Even when such plays as we have been dialect is so marked in such a play as "This considering are presented, a half-dozen other Fine-Pretty World", a mountain play by Percy audiences are listening to importations. MacKaye, that more than one critic was led to This danger of foreign influence is not great. exclaim that it seemed as though a student had Shakespeare and Moliere might be more highly tried to write a play in old English with the aid esteemed by some had they never borrowed : of a dictionary. but they would not be Shakespeare and Moliere. Mr. MacKaye, deeply inspired by a desire Such men as Brander Matthews and George •to produce a national theater, has lived among P. Baker have known how to profit from the the natives and tried to reproduce their very models given by the Greeks, the French and those speech... his play is full of poetry and passages between. As a result we have a school of Ameri of beauty, but he has out-Synged Synge. His can dramatists which is appreciated not only enthusiasm for his art, however, cannot but at home but in Europe. Ibsen and Andreyev move us to a better understanding of his efforts are no longer the only invaders : Eugene to create an American "Theater of Poetry" : O'Neill and Hatcher Hughes are abroad in a field in the Survey of 1924, Mr. MacKaye said: that is open to others who may care to follow.

197 The English and French Languages : An Entente

J. Mark Baldwin, Lt. D., Correspondent of the Institute of France

of extending the entente question of the dominant class, to become the exclusive between two allied nations,

the great of THE speech the colony. The processes of coloniza England and France, to include the tion have been among the most important means and of their reciprocal cultivation propagation of propagation of the French, English, Spanish, two languages, opens interesting vistas. The Portuguese and German languages. topic has all sorts of bearings, linguistic, historical, By this means English has come to be spoken educational, of which I select the most general of of by one-fifth the entire population the globe. ior brief treatment. It was also due to this that the Spanish and It isof special interest to tne speaker to note Portuguese languages secured their wide dissem

that the topic brings the United States-directly ination in the Western Hemisphere. into the circle, since the American Republic of This means spreading a language, however, is the most populous single country speaking is very limited in its working, since it requires the and extension of her English language, the the favourable theatre which the colony presents. influence in all the avenues of literature, trade, The colony, being a domain of exclusive political etc., through the medium of the language, influence, is not open to the free competition brings her into line with her democratic peers, of tongues. England and France. No discussion of the future

Another important instrument of the propa of the English language can disregard the United of a gation language in virtue of its utility is States, and no discussion of the French language

Commerce. The great movements of commerce can disregard so important and sympathetic a

facilitate the peaceful penetration of this or clientele. that language, which goes along with the trader, the industrial agent, and the exploiter. Here I. the competitive conditions are present and utility is the criterion of survival. Its forms of speech Two principal motives seem to be invo|ved go on tours of conquest of the world along and in the propagation permanent establishment with the goods, ships, inventions and patents of a language : there are two criteria, so to of a country. In recent decades, with the speak, of its fitness to survive : its relative utility of decline the commercial importance of Spain and its relative elegance. Nothing can stop the and Portugal, the Spanish and Portuguese need, and spread of a language which meets a languages have fallen into the background, nothing can destroy a language whose elegance while English, German and French, especially of fit and makes it the vehicle human sentiment the first two, have made enormous advances in

aspiration. Language is both a practical instru of consequence the expansion of British, Ameri a ment and spiritual vehicle ; these are its two can and German trade. essential functions respectively utilitarian and These two processes, both based upon utility, aesthetic.

find illustration in great sections of the earth

Considering the subject first from the point of today. In Africa, colonization is the business

view of utility, we find certain fields in which of the day : the languages of Europe are being is of the practical availability a language the sole imposed upon the natives, each in the sphere

or main motive in its diffusion. of of influence its respective country. In South

In Colonization, in the first instance, the lan and Central America, the influence of trade of is guage the mother or colonizing country, an is all important. Coming after the epoch of

important instrument. It adds itself to the colonization, which fixed the vernacular of this of institutions government and other elements or that country by substituting a new speech of the social regime put in force. Even when for that of the natives, this vernacular finds is the language not officially propagated or itself in turn obliged to compete with the by it of enforced decree, still tends, by the prestige languages the great commercial nations.

198 in Mexico, a country in which these processes as I have said, English and German have super of change take on very interesting forms, we seded French, and are superseding Spanish, find English and German advancing by great in the mercantile and industrial life of Mexico, strides, through the rapid accommodation of the they have hardly touched the aesthetic or senti — country to the trade-currents, which flow strongly mental life English, little, German not at all ! through it. French commerce has fallen back, This domain is held securely by the two Latin comparatively speaking, in Mexico, and with languages, Spanish and French. French is not it the use of the French language in practical only first of the ioreign tongues in prestige and life. (1) honor with literary men, it is the literary and of There is a vast region of human life and interest, artistic language the country as a whole, however, which these motives and factors of ranking with the vernacular. While the process of penetration by English and utility do not much affect : that of sentiment and German has gone on in business circles, the aspiration, the entire sphere- of permanent reading public^ has devoted ever human expression in literature and art. Here itself with greater interest and French we come upon the criterion of elegance. In enthusiasm to literature and French art. So true is this, that German this field a language succeeds because it is treatises in science elegant. and practical invention, as well as those in the social and moral sciences, are The conquests of a language in this domain introduced into are permanent, since its products are fixed in Mexico largely in French or English translation.^) artistic and literary form, its models become While German has imposed itself by reason of its commercial classic, its cult dominates in education and serves utility, it has remained for the and the ends of recreation in the theatre, the romance, Latin languages English to express and the spiritual and the collections of the bibliophile. In this interpret side of life. In this Mexico is not an isolated but a way, language ceases to be simply a tool ; it typical case. becomes the embodiment of the national spirit The reason for this is undoubtedly to be found and its organ, reflecting the character and temper in what we may call, in a large sense, the "ele of the race, of which it remains ,the spiritual gance" of the French language. Historically, possession. French has shown its supreme fitness as the vehicle of clear and The means of propagation and extension of a elevated thought, no less than of subtle and varied language in this sphere are very different from emotion. Its iorms those already mentioned, being no longer util lend themselves to the use of refined and delicate and refuse to itarian but sentimental. Literature is not an imagery, tolerate the clumsy, the article of commerce, though books are bought gross, or the obscure. It is due to this character that and sold. A play is not judged by its utility of elegance French maintains in literature, art, measured in profits to the theatre or to the author, in in diplomacy, and in polite intercourse, but by its essential human meaning and value. wherever people are civilized ; it does not The means of dissemination are here, therefore, require any of the artificial supports of official decree, ecclesiastical or commercial not commercial or practical ; they are of a quite patronage, different order. A people may be compelled exploitation. to use in daily life a language which it hates, I think it may be said, in short, that English, while at the same time expressing its spiritual in the future as in the past, is bound, by reason aspirations, finding its recreations, and fulfilling of its utility, to remain dominant in the world its most intimate inspirations, in a different of practical affairs, apart from all questions of language altogether. its relative elegance : and that French is bound, to remain the Here again I may draw illustrations from a similarly, dominant in domain of art letters, country, Mexico, in which I have studied these and apart from all question of its phenomena and in which they are typical. While utility, by reason of its elegance. Of these two languages, French need not enter into sharp competition with English, in the field of com P 1. The general statements made about Mexico, founded upon merce, and English has no need to compete my personal observation, will be found fully confirmed in the admirable article by M. Ezechiez Chavez, formally sub-Secretary of public instruction of Mexico, entitled "L' opinion publique 2. I found that my books, although written in English, were mexicaine et la guerre europeenne", Bulletin de la Bibliotheque more available to the Mexicans in the French or German trans americaioe, June 1916, lation.

199 with French in the domain of literature. In Another sphere of utility in which such the latter sphere, in fact, thatAof the things of co-operation may be made effective is that of the mind, there can be no real competition, government usage in general, diplomatic and since all the worlds masterpieces are open to official. The two languages may be made all peoples alike, and have full value for each, equally and together the official medium of whatever its mother tongue. international correspondence, and even of do We have here, then, sufficient indication as mestic communication in matters involving to what the true relation between French and foreign affairs, political or commercial. English should be in the future : it should be Governments alive and sympathetic to this one of co-operation, of entente, a cordial entente utility may in many ways serve the entente ; maintained and developed in the common as, for example, in the colonies of both countries, interest of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin civilizations. where a polyglot population has to be constantly communicated with, and in all the regulations It it be true that the best policy in respect to concerning foreign trade, where effective adver both languages is one of co-operation and tisement or information might benefit by state reciprocal encouragement, we may then ask ments made in both languages. what are the practical means by which such a programme can be carried out? Our aaswer The same recommendation has its place also may be stated under the same two captions- in private trade and commerce. If the com utility and elegance. mercial and industrial classes are trained in the Let each of the two peoples and the two two languages, they will have an arm of great trade. governments adopt both languages to serve advantage in international For example, the the' greatest possible range of utilities. in the South American countries skilful use of different languages has been of great advantage Evidently, the first step is to make the two to German trade. In Mexico, where as I have languages available to the mass of the educated said, the English and German have become people in both countries. English and Americans current as commercial languages, French houses should encourage the study and practical use would profit greatly by being able to use in their of French in schools, homes and colonies. The advertisements, announcements, correspondence, French should do the same for English. etc., the English along with the French and Such encouragement may go far beyond the Spanish. In other countries, where French official school programmes and courses of study : commerce has made headway, the English or it may comprise informal exercises and themes, American merchant finds it to his advantage a for certain texts, the citation of preference to know French. Here is an important field authorities —all the means, in short, by which for useful and friendly co-operation. an instructor or tutor can raise the prestige and heighten the appreciation of a given national In the sphere of elegance the same sort of life, culture and language in the mind of his entente is possible. There is already under pupil. The extraordinary educational campaign way a distinct movement toward a more intimate of this sort conducted in the United States in the literary and artistic relation between the English last thirty years in favour of German may be speaking countries and France. In this move cited in illustration. The German language, ment the United States is prominent. The German Science, philosophy, and culture have countries which use English already recognize, had an extraordinary exploitation in all the through their leading writers and artists, the American centres of education. Even in pri intrinsic value of the French language. vate life, this may be made effective, for in choos —This recognition will become reciprocal and ing governesses and tutors for children most general. But there is much to be done in turning parents are guided as much by the relative this preference to account in popular ways. The values placed, in their social milieu, upon one stigma of lightness and license attaching to the national culture rather than another, by consider French romance and play must be removed : ations of utility. and on the other hand, the impression in the In all these ways, both official and informal, French mind that English literature is in great let the English prefer the French, and the French part dry and sterile, on account of the tradition the English to other foreign languages ; the of puritanism, must be overcome. "Bovaryism", gains in the long run, will be enormous. on the one hand, and "spinsterism" on the

200 other, must not continue to hinder just apprecia The real importance of this last-named factor tions of the literary workmanship of the masters has been shown in the history of American on both sides of the channel and on both sides education in the twenty-five years preceding of the Atlantic. Here real work of sound the War, a period during which there was a instruction remains to be done. English books remarkable rise in prestige of German. It are not all occupied with histories of prudes, was part of a movement toward the over-estim and French books do not all glorify the ation of German models and German scholar Libertine. ship, showing itself in a remarkable way n the As to the United States, the problem is similar universities. It was due not only or mainly except for the special conditions obtaining in to direct German propaganda, but to the resi American education. The educational means dence in German universities of large numbers students, of encouraging the study of a language are not of chosen American advanced who there the same as in England or France. afterwards became professors all over the country. This double migration to and from is no In the first place, there national system Germany became so general that toward 1890 States, of education in the United through which most colleges and universities in the United a direct influence could be exercised upon States had one, two or more devoted germano- the whole systems of the different country. The philes on their teaching staffs : these men coun states are dissimilar ; and in each of them — selled the student to study German, to consult considerations of utility of a local sort geo German authorities, to follow German models, graphical, commercial, etc., are influential in the and n case he desired to fit himself to teach shaping of the school programmes. Further in the United States, to go to Germany and obtain there is great rivalry among the partisans of the a Ph. D/degree. One may easily imagine the different modern languages, in this locality or influence constantly exercised in the same that, and this often takes the form of active direction, of all these teachers, in successive propaganda, resulting in the election of partisan academic generations. I cite this to show the school boards. In Germano-American localities, extent to which this movement of mere imitation, choice texts, the the Germans control the of encouraged by arrangements to facilitate exchange arrangement of programmes, and the distribu between the institutions of the two countries, tion of the student's hours of study. In many went to establish a real pedagogical monopoly of the states, the most that could be effected in for Germany and things Germanic in the United schools, a the public would be to secure fair States. and equable distribution of the student's time I of It is by analogous measures this sort, as between French and German. It is possible, think, that the influence of French language however, even in the state schools to create an and French culture in general may be extended atmosphere for French—as has recently been in America. Apart from certain lines of com done for Spanish, seeing its commercial utility merce where the use of French would be advan in South American trade —so that pupils who tageous, the avenues of direct utility are not between and German, have a choice French largely open. French can not replace English should choose the former. In secondary educa of or Spanish in the practical life the Americans. tion the feeling of the parents is often decisive, But in the direction of an enhanced moral and since the scholar is still in his teens. scholarly prestige French may look for its

In the universities, both the State institutions conquests. It must count upon its elegance,

and the great private foundations, the "modern as an instrument of literature and art, and upon — languages" group, comprising French, German the excellence of French thought, science, and and perhaps Spanish or Italian, are generally philosophy to forward its fame and enlarge its

made alternative to one another, the student place in the western world. making his choice with the advice of an instructor. To this end, the French people should become

While it would be generally impossible to secure more familiar with English ; by using English any direct preferential recognition of a given they can interpret and explain things French language, it is possible to secure a larger attend to the Americans. Intercourse between the ance of students in one class-room than in another, two countries should be developed, especially •

by various means, of which the personal influence in literary and scientific circles. The univer of the instructor is the most important. sities and schools of^ France should be made

201 — accessible, and these facilities made known to If a fair chance is thus given it the chance English speaking students. The technical in that the wide field opened after the war affords — struments of scholarship, such as catalogues, and if the proper means of legitimate propagation announcements, bibliographies, should be pro are created, French will soon overcome the lead duced in French and circulated in America, and heretofore held by German in the United States, the classics of France, with French commentaries, and assert there, as elsewhere, the superiority should be made available to the young American. to which its ntrinsic qualities entitle it.

MONACO. — From "Things Seen on the Riviera", by Leslie Richardson, published by Seeley'Service Asso. London. Courtesy of the Publishers.

The English Femina-Vie Heureuse Prize has Walter Damrosch's "My Musical Life" (Scrib- been awarded^to Mr. E. M. Forster for "A Passage ner's) and Arthur Ransome's "Racundra's First to India". Cruise" (Huebsch) have been republished in London by George Allen & Unwin. In an article on Norman Douglas in the New York Times Book Review February 8, Herbert S. G. W. Cable, who died on January 31, was the ' Gorman describes "South Wind" as his best author of "Old Creole Days", "Madame Delphine", book as well as his best novel. and other stories of Creole life.

202 Recent Articles in French Revues on American Subjects

The following list supplements one published in Ex Libris in May 1924.

Les Etats-Unis et leurs jugements sur la France. L'Emprunt Fran?ais aux Etats-Unis, Ernest II. L'Education, Bernard Fay. Correspondant, 10 Dutrey. La Quinzaine Economique. ler Decem Mars 1924. bre 1924.

L'Ecole et la politique aux Etats-Unis, W. S. Impressions du Canada, Ribadeau-Dumas. Paris- Roggers. Revue Mondiale, 15 Mai 1924. Medical, 27 Decembre 1924. Chateaubriand et l'Amerique, Pierre Moreau. La Poesie fran<;aise au Canada. Alphonse Desi- lets. Revue des Poetes, Revue des Cours et Conferences, 30 Juin 1924. 15 Decembre 1924. La Pratique et la Rhetorique aux Etats-Unis. L'Or Americain et la restauration economique de C. Sprietsma.' Revue des Cours et Conferences, l'Europe, G. Edgard Bonnet. La Revue de France, 15 Decembre, 1924. ler Septembre 1924. * Un grand Diplomate canadien : l'Abbe de la Un Americain a Sainte-Helene, Marguerite Corne. Robert de Roquebrune. Revue de I'Ami- Coleman. Revue Mondiale, ler Septembre 1924. rique latine, ler Janvier 1925. La liberte scolaire aux Etats-Unis, William D. Les Etats-Unis et les Philippines. Lucien Bee. Guthrie. Le Correspondant, 25 Septembre 1924. Revue Mondiale, 15 Janvier 1925. Le systeme Taylor, J. L. Maurice. Cahiers des Trois Romans de Waldo Frank. Charles Cestre. Etats Giniraux, 15 Octobre 1924. Revue Anglo- Amiricaine, Fevrier 1925. Notes sur l'Amerique, Andre Jouve. Europe, Montreal, la Metropole canadienne. J. Louis 15 Octobre 1924. Faray et Louis Hourticq. Revue de Paris, lw Fevrier 1925. L'Idealisme de la Jeunesse universitaire aux Etats-Unis, Schinz Albert. Revue Bleue, 20 Octo Portraits d'hommes d'Etat etrangers : le President bre 1924. Coolidge. Augustin Leger. Revue Bleue, 7 Fer vrier 1925. Les Etats-Unis et l'lmmigration, R. Pruvost. Europe Nouvelle, 23 Octobre 1924. L'Amitie Franco-Americaine en 1925. L'Art de se connaitre et de s'estimer entre nations. Bernard L'Avenir de la Culture classique aux Etats-Unis, Fay. Le Correspondant, 10 Fevrier 1925. Jean Malye. Revue Bleue, ler Novembre 1924. Une grande Liberalite Americaine. Gabriel Le Sejour de Talleyrand aux Etats-Unis, F. Hanotaux. Revue des Deux-Mondes, 15 Fevrier Baldensperger. Revue de Paris, 15 La Novembre 1925. 1924. L'Agonie du Francais en Louisiane, Franck L. et Les Colleges Universites Americaines, Robert Schoell. Revue de Paris, 15 Fevrier 1925. Lincoln Kelly. Revue Bleue, 15 Novembre 1924. M. Frank Kellogg Secretaire d'Etat, et la nou Le programme du President Coolidge, Andre velle orientation de la Politique Americaine. Geor Fribourg. Les Annates, 16 Novembre 1924. ges Lechartier. Le Correspondant, 25 Fevrier 1925. L'CEuvre de James Joyce, Louis Cazanian. L'Amerique et l'immigration. Lucien Bee. Po Revue Anglo- Amiricaine, Decembre 1924. litical Fevrier x 1925.

" Of Rene Lalou's "Contemporary Literature" In an article on D. H. Lawrence in The Nation, translated by W. A. Bradley (Knopf) Ernest Boyd February 1 1, Edwin Muir says, "He has not ful says, "It is intrinsically a first rate and indispensable filled the promise shown in 'Sons and Lovers' and piece of scholarship, in the very best French tradi The Rainbow*. But if he has not written any tion— balanced, clear, authoritative and never completely satisfying work, he has written in all dull —like Lanson's general history of French his books more greatly than any other English literature". writer of his time."

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204 of the month, or rather the best book in each of American Books Translated the following classes : (1) intellectual life, into French in 1924 (2) history and general politics, (3) economic, industrial, commercial, and financial life, following list of American books trans lated into French during the year 1924 arts, ancient (4) novels, (5) poetry and fine (6) THEis based on "Les Livres de l'Annee" and modern literature, and literary criticism, published as a part of the "Bibliographic de la France." (7) philosophical and social life, (8) law, (9) me dicine, and (10) foreign countries. The question Cather, Willa, Mon Antonia. (Payot). has also received the attention of reviews like Cooper, Fenimore. Le Corsaire (Gautier). ClarU which limits itself to the selection of the Crawford, F. Marion. Khaled. (Plon Nourrit). Curwood, Le Piege d'or. best book of the month. James Oliver. (Cres). Finn, Francis. Lucky Bob. (Lethielleux). In its study of this problem, and in its effort Lafcadio, Hearn. Esquisses Martiniquaises. the to assist American libraries in securing best Trad. Marc Loge. (Mercure de France). in French contemporary literature the American London, Jack. La Peste Ecarlate. Trad. P. Library in Paris has aimed primarily at the Gruyer et L. Postif. (Cres). Poe, Edgar Lettres d'Amour a Helen. selection of the best books relating to French Allan. Trad. Cecil Georges Bazile. (Emile Paul). life and art. In making this selection it has had Twain, Mark. Le Prince et le Pauvre. Trad. the assistance of : M. Andre Chevrillon of the J. W. Bienstoch. (Fasquelle). Academie Francaise ; M. de Moncetz of the Tom Sawyer a travers le monde. Trad. A. Savine. Comite du Livre ; Madame Duclaux of the (Michel). White, Stewart Edward. La Longue Traversee. Committee appointed to award the Prix Femina- Trad. Leon Bocquet. (Michel). Vie Heureuse ; and others. The results of its Wharton, Edith. Un Fils au Front. Paul study of the problem have been embodied in Alfassa. (Plon Nourrit). selected lists published in the Book List of the American Library Association, and in the some what more extended lists published bi-monthly FRENCH BOOK SELECTION in Ex Libris. For the month of March, the Literary Committe of the "Sociiti SektOana" of Paris It is the desire of the editors of Ex Libris as chose the following . books as the best in its well as of the officers of the Library to make opinion : these lists as useful as possible, and to supplement Combats et batailles sur mer, Claude Farrere et ; des fault, Gaston them by others of an equally useful character. Paul de Chack Le flambeau Rif Cherau ; Un cadet de Beam, Charles de Bordeu ; the of With this in view readers Ex Libris are L'enlZvement sans clair de luue, Tristan Dereme, asked not only to criticise the lists which have Les Opinions d'Anatole France, Jacques Roujon, Renan, ; Ronsard already been published but to suggest other Jeunesse iTEmest Pierre Lasserre et son temps, Pierre Champion ; Eloge de la books which should be included in them, or Frivoliti, Beaunier ; Frederic Ozanam, Georges other lists which would be of value. Goyau.

In an article entitled "The Last of the Dedlocks", "Men and Issues : a selection of speeches and the Nation and Athenaeum says, "To understand articles", by George Wharton Pepper (Duffield), the character and point of view of the late Lord consists for the most part of speeches delivered Curzon, it is necessary to reread Dickens' 'Bleak since January 1922 when Mr. Pepper took his House'. In that book there is a portrait of Sir seat in the United States Senate. His speech Leicester Dedlock which gives a clue to all that delivered at the Belleau Wood Memorial meeting seemed strange and out-of-date, and fantastic, held in Philadelphia, April 9, 1922 is included in and slightly absurd in Lord Curzon s composition." the volume.

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LES SURVIVANTS LE JANE-GL'Y

LE CHEF NOIR LE CANOT

by Deslignères, from "Y^TOODCUTS reproduced Edgar Poe's "Aventures d'A. Gordon Pym" (Traduction Baudelaire), published by Helleu et Sergent, 125, Boulevard Saint -Germain, Paris.

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The Planters of Colonial Virginia, by Thomas poverty was rife in England, and planters brought J. Wertenbaker. Princeton. Princeton Uni out indentured servants, a system satisfactory to versity Press. 1923. 260 pages. all concerned for over a century. Few of these "servants" were degenerates or criminals, but Mr. Wertenbaker treats Ris subject in a new and mostly honest laborers, desirous of bettering their interesting fashion. His opening paragraph might condition in the world, and selling their services serve as a good plea for forest conservation. At the in a dear market. Some political prisoners, so- close of the Sixteenth Century, the great Eng.ish called criminal laborers, were sent over, and were forests had virtually disappeared, and timber and a source of real strength to the colony. The vast its by-products had to be sought abroad. Impor bulk of the settlers were English, and this fixed for all tation was especially important, from those countries time the character of the population of Virginia. bordering the Baltic, where vast forests still were The author shows that the average Virginia almost untouched. This was an unsatisfactory plantation, especially in the seventeenth century, solution of the problem, however : wars, jealous was but a few hundred acres in extent, partly courts, ice-locked ports impeded traffic. English due to the difficulty of finding labor for cultivating industry and shipping were on the wane, many larger holdings. He traces the development of splendid mariners were entering foreign service. the colony, and shows how Bacon's Rebellion, As a remedy, colonial possessions had to be in 1676, was caused by the crash of the tobacco sought. Daring navigators had already brought market, due to the Navigation Acts of the Restora home*stories of limitless forests in the New World. tion, and the ensuing misery. There are excellent Elizabethan statesmen and merchants, men of chapters on the "Yoeman in Virginia History" and far-sighted vision, realized that England's safety "Beneath the Black Tide", and an appendix, and prosperity depended largely upon economic giving the entire Rent Roll of Virginia for 1704- 1705 . independence. The little island must expand Paul Rockwell into new lands, where its own exhausted forests could be replaced. Therefore, efforts made by the London Company Racial Realities in Europe, by Lothrop Stoddard. to establish a colony in Virginia were regarded as New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1924" a crusade, vitally interesting to every Englishman. 252 pages. The settlement at Jamestown in 1607 was not the product of a selfish private venture, but the This book belongs to the same class as Mr. Madi fruition of long years of thought and endeavor, son Grant's "Passing of the Great Race", and from financed by great lords and merchants who knew the reviewer's point of view gives a very satisfactory full well that there would be no immediate returns solution of present and future problems, not only upon money invested. of Europe but of all the white world. "We Other The members of the London Company had Nordics", profiting by the change from unknown expected Virginia to be a duplicate of England. to known quantities in the human equation, have But due to tobacco, Virginia became an agricultural the matter in our hands. community, and for more than a century could not There is perhaps a too complete simplification boast a single town worthy of the name. The in the classifying of Europe and most of America colony was a series of tobacco plantations, with along racial lines, but it does explain. Race and owners, wage earners, indentured servants, and not nationality, race and not language, race and a few slaves. Thus Virginia developed during not religion, race and not remembered traditions, the seventeenth century a distinct and unique life is the touchstone and the guide. In this last of its own. Labor remained for a full century the qualifying adjective, remembered, lies the important problem of the planters. A laborer in the colony factor. earned four or five times as much as he would have We are Mediterranean, slender, dark, unstable, been paid in England. The Indians could not be artistic ; or Alpine, stocky, dark, stolid, strong and utilized for plantation work, being of too proud uninspired ; or Nordic, blue-eyed and blond, and noble a spirit, and having the trackless forests "the most masterful breed that the world has ever near at hand as a refuge. seen". We may be for the moment an impermanent A Dutch privater put into the James River in mixture of any two or of all three, but the Alpine 1619, and sold the Virginians 20 African slaves, is limited to small communities if in control, the but it was many decades before this sort of labor Mediterranean becomes great only under the leader could be had in useful numbers, the slave trade ship of a great (and generally isolated) man, while being entirely in the hands of the Dutch. Abject the Nordic has a political sense and a balanced

207 judgment which generally carry him through Greater France in Africa, by William Milligan political crises, but he must be on top, and he loves Sloane. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. ■ to fight. 1924. 293 pages. The malaise of the time is the result of present Professor Sloane visited Morocco and Algeria the lowered Nordic blood in Europe, drained off last year as member of the American Delegation in the wars of the past 400 years and thinned out invited by Marshal Lyautey. He writes in the the industrial life of the past century. The by first pages that the procedure of France in North blond Nordic must live well or not at blue-eyed Africa "serves to confirm two doctrines of public all. The dark round-headed Alpine can adapt law which, if not inaugurated, have at least been himself to factory life as well as to peasant life, sanctioned by the United States : the right of a increase and, obedient to Nordic government and nation to abate a public nuisance at its door and the intellectual progress, form a strong and useful denial to any nation or people of tenure in perpetual population, but his persistence, his lack of enthu fee simple of valuable land which is not used by siasm have enabled him to take over little by little them for the general benefit." And he compares the farms and tenements deserted by the less easily the American attitude in Cuba and regarding the satisfied Nordics. The dark, slender, long-headed Indian lands with that of France repressing the Mediterranean can adapt himself equally well and disorders in Morocco and seizing the "habou" will act as a leaven in the mass of Nordics, inclined lands in Algeria. to stodginess without this ijuickening influence. He also refers to the recourse that both France But neither of the dark peoples have a constructive and the United States had to colored troops during political mentality. Lack of vision in the Alpines, the War. In that policy of arraying Turanians too much vision in the Mediterraneans, limits the against Aryans in war time, savs he, both countries one to small groups which cannot combine to form have been, as many regret, only too successful. an empire (example the Balkans), while the latter, On several occasions he takes up the race question like the Athenians of Saint Paul, are tempted by which France faces in her immense colonial empire novel and untried solutions. There is an interesting nowadays as acutely as the United States does and enlightening comment on the racial make-up within its continental border. This formula of of France and of Germany during the past two Marshal Lyautey, "We do not regard or treat the hundred years, which explains in a measure the natives as an inferior race, merely as another race", present strained situation. is quoted twice, as if to indicate that the author has One guesses that Mr. Stoddard has blue eyes, but adopted it as a key to the problem. he has written a book interesting for all complexions Some parts of the book seem to be mere compi to read and, if can, to profit by the lines of they lations on historical or administrative questions, political conduct which he has clearly indicated. others, mere accounts of travel, but a few pages E. R. Stoever on the work of the Protectorate in Casablanca, which "almost stuns the mind", — on Marshall Lyautey, and his "tremendous dynamic force", Our Harbors and Inland Waterways, by Francis are o! greater interest. A.. Collins. New York. Century Co. 1924. The personal and coloured style of the author is 295 pages. noteworthy. Pierre Denoyer

Although New York has still the place among first The Story of the Walloons, by William Elliot American ports, it has lost most of its grain trade Griffis. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1923. to Montreal, the author points out, and if the 299 pages. Great Lakes are connected by canal with the Mississippi, will soon be out-distanced by New The more interesting among these essays relate Orleans, which might even become the greatest to the Walloon settlers in America, beginning with port in the world. He speaks also of Port Arthur, Jesse de Forest, whose company in its ship "New Texas, which holds the third place among American Netherland" were the first permanent colonists ports ; Charleston, which probably has the best in any number who made homes in New Nether natural harbor on the Atlantic seabord after New land. and including Peter Minuit, the first of York ; the Pacific ports, and those on the Great New York governors, Isaac de Rasieres, his secre Lakes ; and concludes with a description of proposed tary, and Jacob Leisler, defender of New York American waterways, including the Boston to the against James II and Louis XIV. Gulf canal. These chapters are preceded by several upon In his discussion of harbor problems he observes the history of the French Reformation, conspicuous that several European ports, notably Marseilles, in which were Lefevre, identified with the revival average 1,500 tons of cargo transhipped over every of Biblical ftudies at the Sorbonne, and Marot, foot of equipped quay, as compared with only who was equally interested in the introduction 150 tons per foot in New York harbor. of psalm singing.

208 Men ANP Mansions, l.y Harold Spender. London. traffic from west to east, from Biarritz to Perpignan.

Thornton Butlerworth. 1924. 286 pages. But Mr. Wilstach went in from Toulouse and

Biarritz, a There are no prerequisites to reading Spender's Carcassonne and ended at and as result had railway compartments book. To have visited the hisforic spots about and charabancs pretty much to himself.

which he writes, or to have been in England are

Except for a predilection for churches, Mr. Wil not necessary factors to enjoyment. England is is a stach traveller atar the heart of the present ; in in the book the word pictures of men and

reviewer. We are not much in churches, mansions which are so charmingly drawn. But interested

or in church glass. The finest glass we ever as surely as you read, you will be called toward in saw was the of Warren, those places, and toward those dead and silent men First Methodist Church Ohio. During whose names speak for them. Wolsey and Hamp drowsy sermons we used to lie on our seven-year-old back on ton Court, Charles Stuart and Whitehall, the the old-rose pew cushion with the sanctified smell that only church Warrior Marlborough and Blenheim... in each

cushions seem to get, and study that glass by .he chapter you will find yourself living in a different it hour, by the then, it age, living with keen interest. day seemed and spoiled it for us, proved, al! the glass of Europe, which is It is For an interesting book, with a quaint too le.;d reminiscent atmosphere as though the author were cluttered up with to let its pretty picture show to best advantage. telling his tales from first hand experience. 1 is But when he not poking around in some dusky if doubt Mr. Spender could write a disinterested

old is a history, he has too much sympathy and insight cathedral Mr. Wilstach charming fellow to go along into his men and mansions. With an eye for color, with. We hurry with him through

the of he sees the misery and the laughter, the glamour tourist-trodden town Carcassonne and

up the valley of the Tet into the mountains them and its pitiful waning, and the ultimate dignity of selves and the old monuments and men. French Catalan country, and thence by Harriet S. Bailey motor diligence over a rough road into that strange little independent mountain commonwealth,

Andorra, where office-holding is unpopular because A Little Book of Brittany, by Robert Medill. unpaid, and where, when the author wanted to 1 New York. Robert M. McBride & Co. 924. a have look inside the "capitol", it was necessary 1 14 pages. to hunt up the huge key from the jolly woman

This little book is intended for the traveller who charred for the government but who at the

equipped with a circular ticket from Paris, or the

moment happened to be doing a washing for one

automobilist with a week to spare in exploring of the few Andorran grandees who could afford of this gray but charming part France. It includes to hire washing done. visits to Carnac, where God saved Saint Comely "Along the Pyrenees" is a kind of a travel book, by from a pagan army which pursued him, turning of full of incident that sort. We leave Andorra ; it to stone to Plougastcl with its great calvaire and and come to Foix, where Count Gaston Phoebus

g

Pardon of St. John on June 24 ; to Vitre, which motor road on the roof of these mountains, with the is of to the North France what Carcassonne is to wheels of the railroad's motor coach spinning six- the South; to Pont Aven, more freauented by artists inches from sheer space ; we descend to the country ; than any other place in Brittany and to that ; of the iroubadors in the central foothills visit typical sardine fishing village, Douarnenez. The of ; Pau and bathe in the tradition Henry IV

author explains also the peculiar use made of the climb up again to stand in awe of the sublime

statue of Saint Catherine at Guingamp as well Cirque de Gavernie, with the river plunging 1385

as the raison d'etre of the lit-dos. feet over its icy rim ; down to Lourdes to spend

a day watching the sick and the crippled seeking Along the Pyrenees, by Paul Wilstach. Indiana ; the cure of the shrine and finally to Bayonne to polis. Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1925. 294 watch a championship match of pelote and to pages. wish that the Pyrenees extended another 250 miles

This to a somewhat indolent person domiciled to that Mr. Wilstach might go on and write about is a in Paris demoralising book. It makes one them. a of want to drop all bread-winning toil and hie to the He has detailed power observation and a

Midi to follow Mr. Wilsbach's path through plain narrative style that succeeds in imprisoning of of of the country Hannibal, of Charlemagne, and much the "feel" of this romantic region in his in Roland, through the Pyenees, and the "wrong" pages. And a pleasure is added for the reader in of direction, as the author explains at the outset the Larousse relief map of the Pyrenees which the

his narrative. All tourisme and all hotelisme and publishers have printed on the inside covers of chemin-de-ferisme, for that matter, seems to be the volume.

in collusion to draw the Pyrencan passenger R. F. WUson

209 Robert Louis Stevenson. His Work and His greatly in her debt. She has culled legends and Personality. London. Hodder & Stough- folk-lore which will delight the young adventurer* ton. 1924. 251 pages. and perhaps will lure him on to further discoveries in further years. Lady Frazer in her preface says, Much that is of intrinsic value has been written "I do not wish to teach, my aim is to amuse, to on Stevenson, and likewise, much that is neither please." I think we can safely claim that she has illuminating nor of great interest. In the collection charmingly accomplished her purpose ; but with of essays and brief criticisms contained in this the added virtue of imparting knowledge in a latest volume, "Robert Louis Stevenson, His Work delightful and not too erudite manner. And His Personality," we feel there is a loss and a Bailey blankness which have been filled in other pages Harriet S. to our greater satisfaction and advantage. We are not made aware of Stevenson himself, that rich Bare Souls, by Gamaliel Bradford. New York. and rare personality, and we feel somehow, that Harper & Bros. • 1924. 340 pages. the book has been a dutiful effort on the part of its compilers. Taken separately, many of the articles While writing with the direct purpose of portray prove not disappointing, but many also prove dull, ing the souls of other people, Mr. Bradford has and as a whole their color is nondescript and they perhaps unconsciously given us a gfimpse of miss a definite mark. himself. Through subtle brief, Harriet S. Bailey suggestions and magnetic passages, we sometimes look beyond the subsject which is held before our eyes, and see The Psychology of the Poet Shelley,. by Edward ' the author. He does not encroach upon his Carpenter and George Barnefield. London. Keats or Voltaire or Flaubert, but by sympathy George & 1925. 127 Allen Unwin. pages. and a kind of whimsical understanding, he shows that he has done all that human mind can do to Shelley has been presented to us poetically, entrap the shy, rare stuff of souls, and in so doing, biographically, affirmatively negatively, and in has tangled a bit of himself between the lines. essay form and in volume, as a blithe or as Ariel -It may be this personal touch gives the book its a more somber mystic, Now we are given Shelley altogether delightful flavor, for we feel that whatever psycho-analyzed. subject Mr. Bradford might choose, were it souls "New truth is only to supplement the ; useful old or cabbages and kings, he could never be common rough truth is only wanted to expand, not destroy". place. In this case, he has taken the most unveiling We take these words from Robert Louis Stevenson. of all confessions... personal letters... and with They are good words to remember in reading skilful hands reconstructed the men behind the "The Psychology of the Poet Shelley". In the outpourings of their souls. A book to be read two book, papers which make up this slim Mr. Car for a larger appreciation of Voltaire. Keats, Flau penter and Mr. Barnefield have not spared us bert, and the few other men of letters of whom new truths. The homogenic' tendencies of Shelley, it treats, but also to be read for the pleasure and viewed under the of miscroscope psycho-analysis, richness of Mr. Bedford's own personality. take on a pathological aspect. The questions of his inversion and bisexual characteristics are laid Harriet S. Bailey open and treated with frankness and careful argu ment. I do not say that this is a necessary book Through Thirty Years. for the general public, that the majority or readers 1892-1922. A Personal will gain greatly from its perusal or will realize Narrative, by H. W. Steed. London. Wil a deeper insight into Shelley as a poet. But it is liam Heinemann. 1924. 2 volumes. an undeniably interesting book, and I believe, would prove of distinct value to those who are Mr. Steed, who served as foreign correspondent earnestly and thoughtfully concerned with the of the Times at Berlin, Rome and Vienna, and was progress and experiments of present-day psychology. later director for European politics of the London Times till 1922, has jvst published the account Harriet S. Bailey of his career, "through Thirty Years", which includes the time spent in study at Berlin and Paris. Leaves from the Golden Bough, culled by Lady This work is at once a very racy account of the Lilly Frazer. London. Macmillan & Co. adventures of an exceedingly intelligent and 1924. 249 pages. observing journalist, and a document of first importance for the history of 20th century European Lady Frazer, in this collection of extracts from politics. Thanks to the influence and wealth the work of Sir J. G. Frazer, has put all young of the Times, the author found himself in excep people between the ages of twelve and sixteen tionally favorable conditions for making practical

210 use of the talents with which he was endowed, and It is impossible to convey the charm of Mr- he was fortunate enough to be able to look behind Steed's book by quoting extracts ; it must be read the scenes of foreign politics in Central Europe. in^its entirety. The British public has given this From the beginning of his career in Rome he was work a great welcome, and the success of the French the confidant of Visconti Venosta, the veteran of translation should be the same, for its subject Italian foreign politics, and was the means of bring matter concerns France as much as England. ing Chamberlain and Sonnino together. In Vienna Charles Seignobos he was the friend of the leaders of the Slav national party, of Mazaryk, leader of one of the Czeck of Dzieduszeki, parties in Prague, Count leader They Make a Desert, by Francesco Nitti. Trans the Poles, and the of Galician of Croatians Supilo lated from the Italian by F. Brittain. London Trumbitsch. He was employed as a friendly and and Toronto. J. M. Dent & Sons. 1924. intermediary between the Austrian and Italian 265 pages. governments, and was the advisor of King Edward Marienbad, VII during his annual cure at being This volume by the former Prime Minister of King as to consulted by the what course to hold Italy continues his attacks made upon the Treaty Afterwards he was the of in Austria. confidant of Versailles in his previous works entitled "Peaceless House, President Wilson's counsellor, Colonel Europe" and "The Decadence of Europe". .No during the Peace Conference. > other representative of the Allied Powers, past or the of the actors the He received confidences in present, has so openly attacked the general terri which the catas- tragi-comedy paved way for the torial awards incorporated in the Versailles Treaty himself at times playing an important trophy, he and the reparations imposed upon Germany. In Edward ■ role. As a result of his conversations with keeping with basic historical revelations he reco VII, and of Clemenceau Charles Roumania con gnizes that Germany's guilt in bringing on the war cerning the danger of a European war, he was is not established, and that a severe peace has no warned to resist the influence of the sufficiently justification. At times, like most Italian writers, Austrian ambassador in July 1914, and effectively M. Nitti uses vague and sweeping generalizations to rouse British public opinion at the decisive that are not based upon fact. The underlying moment. The scope of his activities increased thesis that the "French iron lords", "Poincare's during the war, and he collaborated with the national policy", and the general policy in the Saar and leaders Mazaryk, Benes and Trumbitsch in the the Ruhr "make a desert ', however, is certainly new of and creation of the States Czechoslavia provocative of thought. Yougoslavia. He was also director of propaganda among the Slav and Roumanian soldiers employed in defensive preparations for the Austrian army Old Boston Days and Ways, by Mary Caroline on the Italian front. Crawford. Boston. Little, Brown & Co. Of all that he has seen and all that he has done 1924. 457 pages. his narrative gives an impression both vivid and accurate. There is not a page which does not Every good Bostonian is brought up from the contain a shrewd thought or instructive fact. His cradle on the traditions of Boston, and so, although work presents a case rare in history. Generally this book may belong peculiarly to the atmosphere the most interesting narratives are the least instruct of that city, I believe it is the stranger who will ive documents, because the details which render reap the greatest benefit from reading "Old Boston them pleasant to read are drawn from the author s Days and Ways". It is a valuable guide, written imagination. Two notable examples are furnished without the irritating "I-know-it-all" mannerisms by the Memoirs of Marbot and those of Cardinal of the ordinary guide book. One of the most de Retz. But here the solidity of the document interesting chapters contains extracts from "New is guaranteed by the character of the author, an Travels in the United States of America", by the intelligent observer and sincere narrator, by his Frenchman, Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville, which training in historical matters, which taught him give very vivid pictures of old Boston in the days to note down his observations at once and follow immediately following the American Revolution. his notes when writing his narrative. It is guaranteed Indeed, every chapter abounds in interest and in also by his profession of journalist, by which he those little intimate details which are the charming learned to date his facts exactly. The charm of the and most faithful recorders of the past. I would narrative is not achieved by dramatic or picturesque recommend this book to anyone who is going to devices ; on the contrary, he keeps to a direct and Boston, because it would give him an intelligent familiar style, unhampered by rhetorical or diplo point of view, and to anyone who is not planning to matic precautions, and lightened by flashes of go to Boston, because it might persuade him to humor. He is consistently accurate, and displays change his mind. a keen insight into sentiments and hidden motives. H. S. Bailey

211 The Dark Cloud, by Thomas Boyd. New York. Portraits, Real and Imaginary, by Ernest Boyd. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 1924. 267 pages. New York. Doran. 1924. 265 pages.

"The Dark Cloud" is the story of a young English age and — lad of tender sensibility by an author of |r The "imaginary" portraits one could dispense tender age. Mr. Boyd is said to have written a with quite easily. Unfortunately, the personalities book when he wrote "Through the Wheat". "The here recorded are more real than imaginary, and

Dark Cloud" is striking only in one or two paragraphs are the kind of people who do not make very much and the cover design, neither perhaps notable difference in the world, one way or another, so except in comparison with the rest. it might seem unnecessary to read about them. The

The story is one of adventure, especially as author has treated them with a biting unkindness reflected upon the mind of the seventeen-year old which seems far more than their due, for after all, Hugh Turner, romantic by nature, calvinistic by why waste unkindness on mediocre sinners? Also, — iraining, and inferior by complex of adventure Mr. Boyd might sometimes be suspected of chasing tn the wide plains and waterways of our young and the ludicrous, with the embarrassing result that in vigorous nation, of the underground railway, of he catches an elephant a not meant specifically bar-room brawls and hairbreadth escapes, of ship for butterflies. wrecks and crinolines, of the fire and a sky Quebec The "real' portraits, however, savour of keen "like fresh rose-petals". The story begins in observation and a Catholicism which is more worthy where the hero runs away from the English Quebec of the author and his characters. Brief, natural ship where he served as cabin boy. Down the little sketches of contemporary writers, they leave St. Lawrence to Detroit, across country to Cincin a the reader with definite impression of each subject, nati, and then up and down the Mississipi in a river a and feeling that Mr. Boyd is more at ease with makes the itinerary of steamer physical Hugh's living models than with the mechanical puppets he adventure. The dark cloud is symbolical of self- labels "imaginary", always with his tongue in his distrust, of indecision and discouragement ; the cheek. H. L. Mencken, James Branch Cabell, passing of the cloud is Hugh's winning of self- William Butler Yeats and George W. Russell (A.E.) confidence. the scope of the The conception, are among the personalities the author has chosen ; made plot, is a good one but the execution has not to present, and we find very human portraits,

convincing. is, however, it It solely an American drawn from life, and giving the color and insight in novel, and there is little imitation it. That is that is possible under the pen of an intimate of perhaps its best point, tho the adjective is commentator. uncertain connotation. Elizabeth S. Mann H. S. Bailey of a A list of the one hundred books of fiction ranking The best biography Shelley, according to in is highest in the lists of best sellers between 1900 and writer the International Booh Review, that by

1925 is published in the Publisher's Weekly, Februa Dowden. ry 14. In this list Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" of is first. Of James M. Beck's "The Constitution the

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A list of novels with characters based on real says, "His exposition leaves little to be desired. in a persons, compiled by Earle F. Walbridge, is The things that matter most book are 7, of printed in the Publisher's Weekly, February lucidity and the awakening interest and the in under the title "Romans a Clef". stimulation of the mind, and this volume we get all three."

In the rimes Review of the Year 1 924 the follow — : of : a ing are noted as the best works fiction Gals "Our City New York textbook in city ; worthy's "The White Monkey" Masefield's government", written by High School students of ; "Sard Harker" E. M. Forster's "A Passage to New York City under the supervision of Frank ; & a of India" and Miss Margaret Kennedy's "The A. Rexford (Allen Bacon) is collection the

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President Roosevelt", edited by Laurence F. illustrations is a cross section of the Washington

Abbott (Doubleday), is described in the New Irving High School, showing the various educa York Evening Post Literary Review as the most tional and recreational activities that are carried in uman book ever wriiten about Roosevelt. on a typical American High School.

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