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10 7 THE NEW YORK ihLEKALD, SUNDAY, DE(3EMBEK 26, 1920. Two Livinig European Ex-Preimiers Are Themes c>f New Bipenlnfr sentence of the book, and in interesting than other men in their a masterly review of the creation of ^orse." measure of the young patriot and even Holland. Alsaceorraine,Whatever may Vie thought In gen- 1 is impuc&uon it may explain wny tne most triumphant success. With others 'tuthor came to ub« his modern Greeoe which touches on every But It required the Inte war. with for the first time: VenizelosGibbons wisely says: "Venizelos did eral of the wisdom of writing peculiar the might-have-been is a repreach; blog- with TO An IllfP Mr Ralfmir if la ti "Damn it all, the is mat for Wilson's nethod. aspect of Near Eastern events, dating beggar right! antagonize Wilson, ,.apbies while the are ' subjects yet "Mr. Balfour the man of of the XVf.-W t And I hope we shan't have to shoot irifluence would last only if he- could typifies tribute; they please in disappointing." from the entranee great figure |jif: ::<:.v'v. a]iIve, of a volume. "A L.ifo t in whom great powers of record of them all as a him." m lake military contribution to the iiart^oilar acion But the performances i* who moves through 1 with some of machine.rather than Venizelos never ceased to lielp him- lu of Near Eastern problems, and °' Arthur James lJalfour." it may be go deficiencyeomprelensioncomplete. It takes Mr. Balfour from true god In 'he | soition and a marked of which self in helping , and he pro- tliat was so improbable that it was un- said that the author udgment deficiency his birth in 1848, at Whittinghame, to an intimate personal biography, makes up in he goes on to "The For vlded an army and navy of surprls- nieCessary to worry unduly over the nergy," say. his present hour. It. shows him as is yet to be written. Venizelos, in terest for what he may lack in 'tatement, of course, must be taken Via «nnnl nf anv old Greok of the ing strength, after breaking loose oijinion of Wilson's experts." Secretary of State for Ireland ^ To go no when Mr. wis>m. vith due qualification. Judgment Mr. as leader of the House of age. Incarnate of her from the Constantine Government, The author relates an old Turkish deeper, <18871891), golden and'splrlt f0 is described as "an Balur Jalfour has in large measure; few as Prime Minister most glorious traditions, must, like which, with its proven pro-German tade to illustrate true Turkish char- island, (1902-1905),Commons, pj, surrounded by urbanity,"cometelyone 'ould compete with him In rapidly as First Bord of the Admiralty Napoleon, be the subject of many | proclivities, always opposed the Allies a(;'ier, always uniiKiim noioiug ever and the true will of Greece. rf,ader, at least, felt well rewarded. leizlng the nature of a sudden as Foreign Secretary books. And his story will be truly an f Thus ho ^iippens that could not be worse. ij>j (19151916), forced the Allies first to reckon with »ere are many books with not even while his views of more distantemergency, as a member of the British<19161920), epic of an epoch. Timur the Eamo came him and then to welcome him. "When to a brilliant definition to their credit. juestions are often- sound. But he has peace delegation. This skeleton is learn little of what he said but ' We onia, Nasreddin and his wife were This ilways appeared to some of what he has done. Born he gained but few conees-Although biography seems, first of all, to experience clothed with an Interpretative account everything Jjgl ;reed that it would be wise for the deserve classification by reason of tho Mfflculty in getting all objects, near of Mr. Balfour's main activities. Mr. one unredeemed .on the g sions at Paris, he was able with his of the odja to pay his respects to the con- m ethod of its md remote, simultaneously in a Just of , then under Turkish military forces, when Constantine had author. He is primarily Raymond seeks to discover and lay island mm ueror. The only difference of opln- in terested in the character of his 'ocus; his is not the automatic, and for domination.his father had some pre- | ^ jn gone and he was Prime Minister, to !' bare the motives, example, free Greek from n was concerning the offering that te and is only secondarily interestedsitr,ilmost infallible Judgment of some Mr. Balfour's course In Ireland science of his future when he re- | territory.Thrace the be made to Timur. Wlftn Nas- behind Greece Bulgarians and tho lould in listing the achievements that do not treat statesmen, contracting to the or behind his handling of tariff reform trained from sending his boy to f Smyrna region s, stood in the presence of the nd smallest to the environment I Horn the Turks, and then come to the >dt\jn te directly to throw light on the details, expanding during his years as leader of the House for schooling, fearing reatest of the Tartars he carried a ch demands. also, he has fire his nature to rescue of the small British forces laracter. It is a study of motives Energy, largestof Commons. So that the specific which would ardent j " j" isket of figs. Timur, who was Ottoman domination guarding . proud ra ther than of results. That is not to ift.en shown, energy fierce and is always sulwrdinated toperformancethe understanding of § ! a shot, amused himself but it a fitful of Greek soil and When Venizelos visited England being good sa y that any part of Mr. Balfour's is energy, impetjous,character behind the performance. of so large a part | y using Nasreddin for a target. As iblic the stimulus of a occasion and his becoming, as he did, establishing his Government he afterre- pV career has been passed over great requlrng However just such a biographical people, ich in Nasreddin's face in nan ann of their celved great honors, and Lord Curzon fig splashed 8U mmnrllv hilt it la that ,o arouse it; with success comes method may be, certainly it is not the chief instrument ' h' p cried. "Allah be praised!" ' Mr. Balfour is first refused his son | said: lasis has been given to certain pe- constitutionallylethirgy.lacking in interest. And that is the He at liberation. fool," said Timur, "I don't see ' a too "The pj"You ,-j,ads. "Most distinct as an individ- ndolent.the effect partly of blanket recommendation that one feels lCleuthorios permission to study law S feelings excited hy Trieoupis. about." in the deeds that he the hat you have to praise Allah ustl. Mr. Arthur James Balfour belongs 'larrow margin of physical strength." forced to give; this book is an in , insisting that he engage ( wrought, me to woe ... "My wife wanted bring ap- to an business in Crete and remain content f with uihlnh l.n emertrorwioc easily recognizable type, Or. again: "'throughout his long biography. In both contentinterestingand les," answered Nasreddin. se both ( with his lot. But fortunately for § as nothing compared with those which i11 in England and Francereprentedby fcreer Lord Rosebery was Judged not manner. Crete and Hellenism, the Greek Con- si have been encountered and triumph- It was the resolution and prepared- noted the antly overcome hy our guest of this 11 ess of Venizelos more than allied *! 1-General at Canea young " intellectual gifts and helped Herbert Adams Gibbons. afternoon." el which finally brought deIsion Venizelos's of the Infidel Turkish Empire Paris Reads ot's of Pirehistoric Wells the boy to get his own way. To Athens For Venizelos had done the un- £ dlsinteration Guy' Critique ' 1 Europe, and marked an increase in he went, and very early in life adopted KRussia's downfall and with it danger equalled.he had made himself trusted By PANAME. 1 Ike Wells a Socialist, has deliberately Then our nation, weary of burials, of Russian domination of the when his wits not! " le population of Greece of from tlie will calm as his own the old definition of Greece, possible country "T T3 are talking about Wells hero Iaimed to the opposite view." Exalting dead, the living. neiienes. rear East, removing necessity of At Paris Venlzelos joined forces with 1)0,000 in 1907 to her present number And we shall desire that one talk of "Hellas is where mere are thuld interest The Herald's readers I lelf-coneciousness has disturbed." Whose soul could no more have bomc our sorrow! anned to make a Here Andre translates the long study of foreign Billy They pliall sing of love, as we of G Portrait of Un<:le Sam I fluenees upon French literature in passage [rum wnicn ne uruwB mis suffering: I will give the French, sinceconclusion.As we tremble with rage, shall Philip a the 01jr own time. it was tel- they OF DESTINY. Br Philip dequate way. and also our taking earners, who wish not only for a passion or by Ignorance take the Perhaps it amuse to read so with PEOPLE work may you very quiver pride. Oihbs. Harper & Bros. I c redit for Mr. Hoover's during greater share of the proceeds of their wrrong way. ... To those whom eilathy or a kind of intuition, for, as I English a writer as Wells in another ' he most of the funds for which I 1 DAVID COYLE. war, labor, but also for a larger control of call the People of Destiny humbly fc und afterward, such an was language: As for me, harsh old crier of war, Reviewed by Vrere and inquiry " TITU- furnished by England the management and machinery of v rite the words: bet the world have "Malheur a Whether or no I survive the stroke that Well, now. who can tnai nemm a< tually being made here. When the cclui qui croil que dans "ranee. . . . Amer- eace." sets up to be labor. When I was in p Ir motxlr I'ordre peut sucqeder au frees us. is it that this Englishman With,all this criticism of America ica 1 found a consciousness of this While this wholehearted friendship suits are published you shall have My work.I feel it.will not outlive the the torchbearers of the future? Why, iieaordre avant que Vobstdant Gibbs finds himself in . . . fior America and to see her war. retiring 'hilip among the rich people. The longing tllem. I des dca aexea alt recti un it is ourselves! No modest, for he to see our virtues 1< to rapport problivieAnd my soldier songs will have no more within prefers disagreenent,wisest among them did not adopt the ?ad the world peace and No doubt in com mencement de solution I" future for us, safely withdrawn ,nd to view our shortcomings with of hos- tl form the central theme of the any symposium of opin- a singer. of the ocean; but a stiff-necked attitude complete civilizaion,Io And these are M. Billy's final words the broad barriers liarity. When, however, he turns from tility to the demands of labor for a book, there are several chapters of n, Stevenson, Kipling, Chesterton and as leaders of the world, bear- Dn the work of Guyot: who career ^ he anti-Americans to our friends the more equal share of profit and of gov- nlere friendly gossip in which our dls- M'ells would be among those admired Yes, yes; the hour will come.he ers of the White Man's Burden and ^ he "T doubt if even in England Wells foresees It may prophesy. ntellectual and liberal Englishmen ernance. ... If any- tl of all foreign capital goes ere. But the best known, the most has found a more critic When these cries of dear to a high chief unsnarlers ^Inds them regarding us with an like there will be no cans his of the clear-sighted pride, arising. thing half way, appreciation reception read of or one more skilful in forth his conquered nation. entanglements wheresoever e which we should seriously the he was accorded and to his own idely these English authors setting of her unaslnessbloody conflict in United States. here, pxact Will seem like ravings to a restored "America is at the threshold consider. They are uneasy at the slow the in countrymen his that Ameri- iri is Wells. meaning." in the world," he "That, then, is one of ways opinion Some of the Americans and land supreme destiny recovery of our liberty of thought. observers see the fu- cans are a fine sort of folks. To all of English Where none shall- the hate in the war, when which English Among us he has often been in Paris used to ask the of comprehend says. "By her action "It Is, I think, true that as soon as ture of the United States. The other vi'hich we can modestly say only that why title through which I lived. for the first time her strength was s with Jules Verne. But comuredthat Wells's novel, "Mr. Britling Sees IV full imerica entered the war there was no Is the way of militarism.a most every one who reads Philip Gibhs's revealed as a mighty nation, ^ of allowed in the United a ccount his visit here will wish that c of the race." class nation. Wo put all problems of ^\rhat. has startled the .,* f(>rmlst theory, upon which the was printed a few days ago in Clarte. progress which however, press . . constitute, in the lifo to the test of that simplicity ^ of of Wells i« nourished, his faithoptiilsmthe review founded by Parbusse, the where wing English politicaladvanced of some nervous onlookers, aopinion is found in middle class homes, t hought more than all that is the that i the possibility of unbroken title being given by the editor. Though is nor aristo- may lead them into psychology neither anarchy welcome ( way in which the United Statesruthess and terrible, adventures.tremendous iM ss.thisbirth, he wrote of an earlier war. the poet's cratlc In of New York an Woman privilege. spite ( other final words find echo in the hearts To Jovernment has dealt with labor mong Anatole of wealth, . . . But I do not believe that they philosophers, luxury, unjust inequalities and labor leaders since the war.dls>ute.swill ever in 'ranee for example, to a despairing of those who have lived through the the spirit of our militarists, our indulge aggressive FROM MESLOM Jingo The wholesale arrests and for imperial ambitions or worldwarfare essimism! 'There is one thing that last few years. rumors of revolution, our Government , of men accused of revolutionarydeportaionsdomination. Their to the mazes me," writes France in 'Histoire These messages from the spirit of news and our hostility THE TESTAMENT OF DEROULEDE. censorship tropaganda seem to these peace terms and to certain clauses in bmique.' 'It is the value we place Mednm received hv MARY of free thought, Fhilip Gibbs ( When we have ended the war In Intolerance with revolutionary sympahlzersideals the league was due to a deep-seated pon an existence which does not in "I came away with memo- , triumph. are reports: is gross in their violation of distrust of entanglements with foreign us in anything. We appear to lestAnd our assumes again her McEVILLY, of immense of a filled with vital en- country ries people 'r as the British coercion of libertytroubles, Jealousies and rivalries; and elleve that life in itself Is precious, place. interest to women. i kind in heart, sincere and simple all rgy, ..." Although disagreeingIreand.the of the United States, so far 'everthelcss observation of nature Then, with the evils born of conquest. in their ways of «nnd speech. spirit that thought to some extent with those who from desiring 'mandates,' harked aches us that nothing is more vile Will disappear the horror follows The "Woman" of the title is idealistic In emotion, practical in a conqueror. the, American sense of liberty.critijseI back to the old faith in a 'splendid or more to tie despised. faith up- " is YOU! and democratic by andconduct^ lo believe there is a danger in the everywoman.it soil of America Is isolation.' 'Formerly we were less upset by Then France, loving and free bringing. The j ?nite,j States of an access of that as mighty lean and and and the popular "Be it may, it is clear, at entimentallty. Every one held his from bitterness, Meslom, with the knowledge strong free; ntolerancc and sudden gusts of that the of the American wn life that comes out of it will, I least, destiny Infinitely dear without Rowing her young grain under new power passion which may sweeppopularthe is now marked out for the and of eternity, extends think, and hope and pray, be used to people ,] any regard for the lifeprovingof laurels. wid|om ountry and lead to gvnt e trouble. great mission of leaTTing the world to a Ihers. Men were nearer then to Will lienor Labor, father of Fortune, a hand. Can afford gain the liberties of other nations and The essential weakness of And sing Peace, mother of long toll. guiding you new . phase of civilization. . They we are made to devour one naire: to help forward the welfare of the to the to him? jlemocracy is due unsteadiness cannot escape front that power even But our streak modern race,anther. ignore human family." nd feverlshness of public opinion." though they shrink from its For that will be a tranquil Peace, These are the words of a man who ervous, hypocritical, please*" Itself by august. serene, There are, it seems, among By their action n $1.50 at all bookstores Is a good friend to America; some- theyresponsibility.may ractisHig sanctimonious cannibal- That disarms the body without arming n who have studied AmericanEnglishnenlife, the world into strife or imos ne seems nven 10 mmei »»«« plunge again m. Even in the uot of gobbling each the spirit: js'ssimists who forecast two possible settle its kill or we a certain affectionate bllndMss to pence. They may 'her down we proclaim the For shall prove ourselves conquerors Publisher* vrays of development in our future. cure. They may be reconcilers or Just at heart. BRENTANO'S* faults which arc painfully evident to .. of life. We no longer daresacredesscon- Neither of them is pleasant to It is a terrlfle power for And we shall reclaim only what was ourselves. In his chapter on what t destroyers. ss mai me is murder.' and I do hope that neitherconemplnte.any people to hold, if r were a citizen taken from us. Knaland thinks of us, however, he « "FYom this atrocious doctrine there ' true; hut I think there is a shade of the United tita' j l should be afraid explains in a way that will bo most fl to-day a reaction, and Anatole f truth in them, aqd that they are .afraid lost my country should hy PI Gibbs ______1 enlightening to American readers p lie ip |franee himself, like Wells a pat-Hint, distrust ufflciently possible to considered nnie of the causes for British ,1Inngers ahead. The first is a uncial I and dislike of this country. r evolution on " of Bolshevistic lines, 111 O f l*\ r> First, of course. Is the behavior p through strife beta-eon the wagelea!nc China Fared Ill 4.1 L LIIV^ 1 tflLC V ortain American braggarts who as- r nrnlng classes and the profit holding Conference lower s rtod in [iiilillc that we won the war, ,, las AMKKICAS AIMS AND ASIA'S AS- M>«uco to as as wild mn ATinva n.. n.n » \w conference than a summary of Manp anarchy fierce, tl even more important, our Senate's he ikon up with a discussion of Japan's and, fl nd is bloody as that in Russia. subtle diplomatic Jockeying that . LINCOLN C. ANDREWS refusal to the treaty. Most Century Company. liare ill the conference and of the By ratify . Lot me that do not j d to the defeat of the say I pose Mr. Gallagher was a Celestial King- potentialities in the future relations l (englishmen would have appreciated a n s representative ;Om. 4 a prophet nor liellovo this of Tiie New ,j f this A hook addressed to thos»e in whose hands the success of our refusal on the around of the unrtght- |, York Hkrami at the peace J. country and Japan. I.Ike China, timely prophecy. . . Hut Iparticuardo His At tlint time L>r. said: "Here Ja Nations lie*. those who sre in charge of the work of others. It contains eousness of the treaty, a fact of ] there social conference. hook Is an account Wang pan suffered a defeat at the may l>e considerable l>eleveof at re have ln'«-n telling our T'ol- e invaluable suggestions for handling mien so as not merely to increase their which are too well aware; <. the deliberations I'nris, with people In the case of Japan It wasconfernco;her they only trlfe in the United States for various j" «w the but to make them of the 'of that we shotild to special reference to Asiatic and Amerl- example and advice of the plen for racial that fell upon efficiency dependable, loyal upholders body but simply refuse ren sons. equality are a our den o on c'an affairs. The author was for a riendly Western Powers! Look to doaf ears. In the which they part and of carry our share of the burden of "restlmrto which it will afford the reader. Thiere id the (niectllenoe of Lady Tree"* Thr Richmond Ntin Lender says:. '* » their as with hi* " llement of the Shantung problem that purpose. The domination of tlie last, rhnpter in'the hook, entitled contributions; there is Mr. Shaw's tringcncv, admirable general To it is to he lured on and 01 hegin 1, in growing excitement and s.vini he devotes the greater part of his 1 he President's personality over his Phe Lonely One," thai Atnertenns will comments on the art of the theatre; I here is Mr. Max Rrrrbnhm'.- delight pathy." book. ° wn delegation, and Indeed over ti irn of affectionate and there are tlhe witty contribution.* by Sir Herbert The Ch The words of l»r. Wang, a mem- Lloyd for the portrait Mr. Wilson, fttil irony, icago F.rrning Run! p aces it: ber of the Chinese delegation, tittered leorge and Clemenceau, was i fact, il rawn by a more or less disillusioned Tree's daughters. In fact, the level of wit and writing in Mr. Max lleer-. "It is in a class i|self; lectin as is almost by fairly with interesting details." to the author oji the eve of the sys the author, were also the se- n.Imlrer, as n Michael stripped his hnhm's collection suspiciously high." of the c ret treaties and agreements made he- nwer when he came to love It too f'rirr 7 71 fin , whensigning pi Illustrated drawingk, etc. I'rirr *1.00. ehnnld hr unlr nl i/onr honk'tore; not, it ran he had ''ivecn the various from original photographs, if from the Chines,, had hist announced that. Allies, upon which rrinch. Mr. flallaqher Inmsnts whatj Thin book should be on sale ai your bookstore; if not, it. eon br hart frow E. P. OUTTOIM * CO., <581 Fifth N. Y. they would not sign the treaty he- ''his dominant personality rottltl east |j e counts the Initial error of the Avenue, cause of the Klaochau decision, will " n spelt. d In irnlna to Paris and rewroteI'rcslr-nthis E. P. DUTTON A CO., 681 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 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