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OCTOBER 1924 ^' Volume 2 Number 1

Fiction and the Study of American History MYRON R. WILLIAMS f

Some Books on Art FLORENCE HEYWOOD

French Translations of American Works on

the Modern Science of Management C. BERTRAND THOMPSON

Book Reviews - Book Notes

Selected French Books

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Fiction and the Study of American History

Myron R. Williams

Instructor in English, The Phillips Exeter Academy

following article first appeared in the Publishers' Weekly] — [TheFebruary 2, 1924, and is republished with its permission. Editor}

Questionnaire (that popular device by As to teaching through fairy tales of this sort, which the authoritativeness of the au not really...?"

A thor is supposed to be multiplied by The young men and maidens of this day and in the number of correspondents among whom the generation (ages 18 to 30) reply this fashion : — labor of composition has been divided) a ques "The historical novel? A contradiction of

If — tionnaire on the value of fiction in the teaching terms. you want history, read history in If of history elicits strange results. Opinions range school. you want a real novel, go a long, from those which regard fiction as indispensable long way from schools and things academic." collateral reading, in some cases even as a fair The historical novel panders to adolescent hypo — "Kenilworth", a substitute for history itself (e. g. crisy pious resolution to study history (and

"Henry Esmond"," The Cloister and the Hearth") get credit for doing so), which weakens into a

to those which scorn such use of fiction as foment worldly willingness to be amused. In the

ing superficiality, a kind of blithe aviation over ascetic seclusion of a library cloister they glow of of the fields fact. In order to make something (like the rest us) under the glances of a Rowe- it like steerage-way, seems best to limit specu na. Only we don't call it research. : lation -at once to these two questions "The Buyers of books for children (chiefly aunts — historical novel what is it?" and "What use and uncles, genuine and social, for parents seem it in can be made of teaching history, even more to buy relatively few books) hold to this view : specifically, American history?" "If you must read novels, at least read histo

A composite reply from the academic world rical novels. Read instructive, improving books.

would read something like this : "The half of We do not pretend that you will like them at

the world that reads historical novels nowadays first as well as some of the sensational books that

is the half of the world that formerly read epics you have been accustomed to, but you will grow

and tales of the gods. They look at literature to like them. They are moral and will teach of as an avenue of escape from the realities the you history. These are the books which we present or the immediate future. Primarily, they read when we were young..." So they were,

are the young and unsatisfied or the old and dissa and it may be that envy and jealousy (active is a tisfied. The relish of life as it and curio motives with censor and up-lifter) here play

sity for constantly more and more of the same their unobtrusive part. ; is thing (which is realism) not theirs romance, But boys and girls themselves voluntarily read idealism become the realities to this happy historical novels, and do so eagerly, as any libra

world of the very young and the much too old. rian can testify. Their reasons although indi 3 it a vidually less articulate, would be these : "We but first of all, let be well written

like to read about soldiers, pioneers, statesmen, novel, which a teacher would willingly be and the great things men and women have done overheard recommending to an intelligent in danger or in difficulties. We like to see what schoolboy.

life was like in old Plymouth or Salem, on whal Next, "What use can be made of fiction in ers, out on the plains, or at Washington. We teaching history?" This question for brevity, in are also learning history. Besides, these sto will be answered general terms ; its specific

ries are the most interesting, without much love reference to American History will be found in

in them, or hard words." the list at the end of this article. 1. Reading is a Now let us see what answers to our questions fiction in no sense substitute for history. we have received : First, "What is an historical Such books make, moreover, poor collateral novel ?" 1 . It is an unreal romance, not close reading with history. Fiction may be flavored with ly related to life as we know it and live it. 2. facts, but facts cannot be profitably colored or

It is an inartistic hybrid between history and diluted with fiction. 2. Novels are enor

fiction, being neither the one thing nor the mously valuable in building up and adding to other. 3. It is something which it is "good that intangible and indispensable structure known a form" to read ; the more it mortifies the patience, as "back-ground", which gives boy or girl a the more it improves the mind. 4. Whatever certain intellectual savoir faire, particularly val in is, is of 3. it it something that boys and girls between uable the study history. For the of of the ages of 10 and 17 read with pleasure. This convenience readers this article only have : they probably do for reasons already given divisions in the printed list been made ; and

the beads of description are attached to one under such captions as "The West", "New of another on a string events often marvellously England" or "Political and Social" may appear of ; contorted there is little space or occasion for titles not commonly thought as "historical

the subtleties of character analysis and intro novels". They probably are not. The proper of spection ("love") for the characters are men study of American History is to get us acquaint

action, with the valor and virtues congenial to 10 ed with our country ; and such books as these a in to 17; they give their readers share events happily furnish illustrations. 4. Under differ

removed in time and space from daily environ ent headings will be found books appealing to

ment, feeding that thirst for facts which, at this a considerable variety of ages, intelligence and

age at any rate, often goes with a scorn of artist taste. The one common denominator that the is of ry. This indeed the Cooper age, Cooper compiler had in mind was some standard of whom Barrett Wendell has remarked that into literary merit. For that reason some books have

whatever language his work was translated, the been omitted intentionally ; others uninten

translation was superior to the original. tionally. It is a "reader's list", with no claim I of believe there should be a dissolution the to exhaustiveness, and as such it no doubt of in of union History and Literature as found represents some vagaries of judgment and

the term "historical novel". More buncombe recollection. 5. In short, let books like these

has been written for "historical novels" than for be insinuated into the hands of boys and girls — of any other brand literature except lyric between- the ages of 10 and 17, and as much — poetry. A novel must be a good novel good later as Providence permits, preferably not by — it it is for the boyjwho reads or else not a the history teacher, during vacations and with good "historical novel", or anything else. Let no implication that either mind or marks may

us say rather "fiction", fiction the scene of thereby be improved. This, at least, seems a ; is which accidentally laid in this place or that safe assumption. Discovery and Early Colonization. The Civil War. 1492. Johnston. Bacheller. A Man for the Ages ; The Light Sunset, ToURGEE. Out of the in the Clearing. MuNROE. The Flamingo Feather. Churchill. The Crisis. FARNOL. Black Bartlemy's Treasure. Garland. Captain of the Gray-horse Troop. Westward Ho. KlNGSLEY. Goss. Jed ; Tom Clifton. HAWES. The Dark Frigate. Glasgow. The Battleground. The Vi rginia Colony. Henty. With Lee in Virginia. Thackeray. The Virginians. Johnston. The Long Roll. King. Between the Lines ; Colonel's Jonhston. To Have and to Hold ; Audrey ; The Croatan ; Prisoners of Hope. Daughter. Page. Among the Camps ; Two Little Con The Massachusetts Colony. federates. Austin. Standish of Standish ; Betty Alden, Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin. etc. Trowbridge. The Drummer Boy ; Cudjo's Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter. Cave. Holland. The Bay Path. Dutch New York. Reconstruction and the South. Bynner. The Begum's Daughter. Cable. Grandissimes ; Old Creole Days. Barr. Bow of Orange Ribbon. Fox. Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. Paulding. The Dutchman's Fireside. Murfree. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains. Explorations and the Seven Year's War. Page. In Ole Virginia ; Red Rock. Catherwood. Story of Tonty (La Salle) ; Smith. Col. Carter of Carters ville. Romance of Dollard ; Lady of Fort St. John. Bynner. Agnes -Surriage (Boston 1745). The Navy and Ships. Chambers. Hidden Children (1756-1763). Hawes. Mutineers ; Great Cooper. Last of the Mohicans. The The Quest. Melville. Moby Dick ; Typee. The American Revolution. Hergesheimer. Java Head. Atherton. The Conqueror (Hamilton). Connolly. The U-Boat Hunters. Bacheller. In the Days of Poor Richard

(Franklin). The Western Frontier. Brady. The Grip of Honor (Paul Jones). Chambers. Cardigan ; Maid at Arms ; Little Atkinson. Johnny Appleseed. Red Foot. EcGLESTON. The Circuit Rider ; The Hoo- Churchill. Richard Carvel. sier Schoolmaster. COOPER. The Spy ; The Pilot ; Leather- Jackson. Ramona. stocking Tales. White. The Blazed Trail ; The Rules of Dudley. The King's Powder (New Hamp the Game : The Riverman ; The Silent shire). Places. Ford. Janice Meredith. Jewett. A Tory Lover. 77ie Great West. Mitchell. Hugh Wynne, Quaker ; The Red 0 Pioneers ; My Antonia. City. CathER. Huckleberry Finn ; Tom Sawyer. Stoddard. The Spy of Yorktown. Clemens. ToMLINSON. Boys of Old Monmouth, etc. Gates. Biography of a Prairie Girl. Thompson. Green Mountain Boys (Ver Hough. The Covered Wagon ; The Mis mont). sissippi Bubble. Thompson, M.. Alice of Old Vincennes. Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp, etc. The Hawkeye ; Vandemark's Folly. After the War. Quick. The Wreckers. McCoOK. The Latiners (Whiskey Insur Stevenson. Gray Dawn. rection). White. Hale. Man Without a Country ; Philip No WlSTER. The Virginian. * lan's Friends. New England. War of 1812. a Bad Boy. Bynner. Zachary Phips. Aldrich. Story of SEAWELL. Little Jarvis (1798-1800); Mid HAWTHORNE. House of Seven Gables. shipman Paulding ; Decatur and Somers. Howells. Rise of Silas Lapham. Political and Social. Pool. The Harbor. Churchill. Mr. Crewe's Career ; Smith. Peter. Tarkington. Coniston ; The Crossing. The Gentleman from In- Ford. Hon. Peter Stirling. diana ; The Conquest of Canaan. HERGESHEIMER. Three Black Pennys. Merwin. Calumet K; The World War. Norris. The Pit. Goss. Jed's Boy ; Jack Gregory.

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A literary map of the united states Reprinted by permission of the Public Library of Syracuse, New York.

"Where the Buffalo Roamed ; the Story of the Alexander Mackenzie, the author notes, was the Canadian West", by E. L. Marsh (Toronto, The first white man to reach the Pacific Coast of North MacMillan Co.), although intended primarily for America by land, and Paul Kane was the first juvenile reading, is certain, because of its compend artist to put on canvas the picturesque Indians ious form, to be enjoyed by others than juvenile of the Canadian West. readers. Beginning with Radisson and Groseilliers, and the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in the seventeenth century, it narrates the adventures The London Nation in a recent article on books of those intrepid explorers of the "Great Lone for boys describes Mark Twain's "Huck Finn" Land" of-, the eighteenth century, Verendrye, as the happiest inspiration of Twain's genius. Samuel Hearn, and Alexander Mackenzie, and the "It was his only work", it observes, "that gave him thrilling history of the struggles between the assurance of a place among the writers of first rank, Hudson's Bay Company and the North West and there was something more than fun in his Company, and concludes with the story of the remark that it was the best novel he had ever read' ; Selkirk Settlement and the expeditions of Simon and the best thing about it is that everyone can Fraser and Paul Kane. enjoy it as much as boys do.

6 Some Books on Art

Florence Heywood

Art Lecturer at tke Louvre; Author of "The Important Pictures oF the Louvre'

There is but one way to appreciate and balanced in mass and sonorous in chords of — understand pictures to live with them. Confer color. Such pictures appeal not to the intejlect ences and books at best can serve only as sign but to the emotion. Critics, connoisseurs, posts. A good sign-post need not be detailed and above all artists have written, some delight nor an art book didactic. If a sign post indicate fully, some technically, on the artistic worth a direction clearly and stir the traveller to press of various paintings. Such appreciations help on ; if a book stimulate a quest among pictures, the layman to understand the laws governing then sign-post and book have served. For harmonious composition.

just as a nature lover may be trusted to see Many of the so-called Primitives, that is, the

a sunset through the trees and the ferns along pictures of the thirteenth and early fourteenth the brook as he wanders down the by-paths, centuries, can be considered from the child's once he has been started on the right way, standpoint, for they depend largly for their so may the art lover be trusted to perceive charm upon the story element. When art

truth and beauty after books have sent him was the hand-maiden of the church the early gallery-wards. artists were engaged by the priests to present There are many approaches to the enjoyment religion to the ignorant people through symbols of pictures. The child looks at a picture and and fables. The artists themselves had theii

exclaims, "Oh, what a pretty lady!" subject matter primarily in view. This they Many people remain children in art. Even made interesting by simple decorative means. if they do get beyond looking for the pretty Therefore beginners may approach the Primitives lady they still cling to the story element, they with some such books as those by Mrs. Jameson,

wish to know exactly what the objects represent, her "Legends of the Madonna," "Symbols what the picture signifies. Art, since the first of the Saints", and others. Her work produced

cave man commenced to draw in his cavern in England many years ago and decidedly in and portrayed an animal exactly as he was mid-Victorian spirit is still as good as anything

or else invented an ideal god and decorated done along this line. It is especially helpful a him has swung constantly, like a pendulum, to gallery visitor who is unversed in ecclesias between literature and music. Books which tical lore. Green's Handbook, "Saints and is treat of the meaning of pictures are themselves their Symbols," a portable manual for gallery not only in the realm of literature but bring art use.

likewise into the literary field. They do not Art students often look upon a study of the

go beyond subject matter, beyond art as illus saints in pictures with superior contempt, but

tration. it will do them no harm to put themselves in of On the other hand books which consider the reverent spirit the men of the Middle

the aesthetic beauty of pictures lead to the Ages and the Early Renaissance if they wish

realm of music, for pictures approach music fully to taste these exquisite emanations of

when full of harmony, when rhythmical in line, an age of faith. In the enjoyment of pictures the next step "Isabella d'Este" and "Beatrice d'Este" take one taken by the beginner is usually toward the irresistibly into the vivid life of the Renaissance, anecdotal. People enjoy biographies, reading for they are filled with the sparkling letters of the about the men who created the pictures and two sisters to each other, letters bubbling with those who figure on the canvas. There are the gaiety, gossip, fashions, and customs of many amusing books about artists, such as the Court. Her "Balthazar Castiglione," an the inimitable "Lives of the Florentine Painters", other delightful volume, not only depicts the

PORTRAIT OF BALTHAZAR CASTIGLIONE From the painting by Raphael in the Musee du Louvre.

by Vasari, who was a poor pupil of the great times, but reveals a beautiful and scholarly Michel Angelo but a delightful story-teller, nature, a sincere and loyal soul, a man whom and Rudolfi's book on Venetian artists. the serene Raphael loved and has painted A pleasant writer ever is Julia Cartwright, with understanding and sympathy. The Por- and her "Florentine Painters" is a helpful intro tait of Castiglione now in the Louvre is one duction to the artists of Florence. of Raphael's late works and one of his greatest. She has written other books in which the at Hare in "Camps and Courts of the Renais- mosphere of the times illuminates art. Her sance gives not only the life of this same Bal-

8 thazar Castiglione whom Raphael immortalized, pendant la Renaissance", and his "Les Precur- but also devotes a portion of the volume to seurs de la Renaissance" ; Woltmann and

Castiglione's great work, the Cortegiano or Woermann's "History of Painting" ; and Kugler's 'Perfect Courtier", wherein the scholar dwells "Handbook of Painting", —all standard works, upon the court of his beloved Duchess Elizabetta to mention but a few ; to the more modern Gonzaga surrounded by her retinue of courtiers, treatises, as A. Venturi's "Storia dell' Arte men famous in arts and letters. It was the Italiana" (in four volumes, to be translated) ; "Book of the Perfect Courtier" that became E. Faure's "History of Art" ; R. van Marie's the guide to men of distinction in the Renaissance "The Development of Painting in Italy" ;e and dictated usage in the Elizabethan Court, Andre Michel's "History of Art" ; and Hourticq's both Sir Phillip Sydney and Sir Walter Raleigh "History of Art in France". A practical small living by its tenents.Would Sir Walter have volume for reference is the "Short History flung down his cloak for the Virgin Queen of Italian Painting" by Brown and Rankin ; to tread upon had he not read the Perfect Courtier! and Reinach's "'Apollo" is the most compact Especially delightful books along art lines illustrated volume on art. are the autobiographies of artists ; and Benvenuto In determining the authenticity of pictures Cellini, that braggadoccio, that delightful scoun the modern critic is no longer permitted to drel, who blushed at no exaggerations and launch his opinions without proofs. He who no self revelations, has left us a vivid picture introduced the modern system of analyzing of life in Italy and France during the sixteenth pictures scientifically was Morelli, an Italian century and a still more vivid insight into the senator who adopted a Russian nom de plume distressing uncertainties of an artist's soul. and wrote in German. He has left valuable Madame le Brun, the friend of Marie Antoinette, books concerning Italian Art in the Galleries a guest in many a European court when she of Munich, Dresden, and Berlin. Bernhart was a refugee at the time of the Revolution, Berenson is the American follower of the Morel- has bequeathed to us not only several of her lian system. His series of works o.i schools own portraits, and portraits painted of the of painting and on individual artists are all royal personages among whom she sojourned readable and suggestive. The tables at the but also a delightful narrative of these various end of each book give the resume of his opinions courts. after careful research has been done. When the layman turns from the significance The Morellian system which Berenson follows of pictures and from their historic setting consists in selecting the painting of a certain to a study of pictures as artistic creations, artist that is known by documentary evidence he may examine them again from several angles. to be genuine, in studying all details, such For he may study the various phases as expres as the folds of the draperies, and the eyes, sions of the age in which they were created, thumb, fingers, and feet, and then comparing as factors in the evolution of painting. Or these similar details in a disputed picture. he may question their authenticity ; or, last Possibly the most delightful and stimulating and rarest of all in the trus appreciation of attitude toward art is the one found in works pictures, he may sense, —yes, verily savor, by aesthetic appreciators. Such works are their aesthetic charm. neither historical nor archaeological but are Innumerable are the valuable histories of art, the sensitive reactions of finely strung natures from Bryan's "Dictionary of Painters" ; Crowe in the presence of the beaut iful. The comments and Cavalcaselle's "History of Painting in are usually of a high literary standard, and the England" ; Eugene Muntz's "Histoire de L'Art books are works of art in themselves. Such

9 ' are Walter Pater's Impressions" ; Theophile in the famous Rembrandt Chiaroscuro is the Gautier's "Promenades Raisonnees au Musee most marvellous, such as the "The Supper at du Louvre" ; Raffaelli's "Mes Promenades Emmaus", are to his mind false. au Musee du Louvre" ; Taine's "Philosophic Ruskin, the writer on art, painted a little de l'Art", and "Voyage en Italie" ; and John And Whistler, the painter, wrote a few stinging Addington Symonds' many treatises on history lines, such as his inimitable "Ten O'clock". and art. The observations of George Moore Ruskin's place in the art world as a critic is on painting in his essays and novels are acute still underestimated although he is acknowledged and personal. to be one of our greatest stylists in literature. Many such works, which are classics, are His works are read and are still of value and, frequently at variance with the art opinions while not as popular as in his own day, they of today. But they are often intensely interes are more appreciated than they were twenty ting because of the very fact that they reflect years ago. For he is a virile writer and because the art appreciations of their own times. Such of his very prejudices arouses antagonism and a volume is Lessing's "Laocoon", which presents stimulates thought. In spite of his superb the standards of the late eighteenth century, egoism, of his religious assuptions in art, of a standard based upon antique models, Roman his haughty, personal bias, his influence on the rather than Greek, for our most precious treasures world of his day was beneficial. He shook ' in sculpture, such as the Venus de Milo" the classic stronghold, strongly entrenched and the "Hermes" of Praxiteles, had not been on its Corinthian column, re-established a discovered when he wrote. ove for the Gothic and for the Italian Primitives, Diderot in his "Salons" discloses likewise pointed out Tintoretto, then lost to the world late eighteenth standards, and in England in his own daik shadows, and took men out Sir Joshua Reynolds in his "Discourses" laid of doors. Possibly in his insistence upon the down the Canons of Art with that superb and observation of plant life and the forms or mine final assurance that frequently characterizes rals he took a leaf from Leonardo da Vinci's Academicians and which has inevitably had inimitable "Notebook". a wholesome effect on art. For, while helpfully From the day of Camille Mauclair's concise defining certain laws, did not Sir Joshua like little volume on the "Impressionists", books wise assert that cool tones must be used spar have piled up on modern art. Cezanne, Post ingly ; and did not Gainsborough immediately Impressionists, Futurists, and Cubists, Matisse chalenge him bv flinging the "'Blue Boy" defiantly and his followers of the Autumn Salon have m his face. all found critics, defenders, and interpreters. Many artists who were likewise writers have To mention but a few of the tirades or eulogies been already alluded to. One who' was both would fill the pages of another article. The painter and critic in the nineteenth century best advice to give a student of art, next to in France was Fromentin. He wrote not that great exhortation — look at the pictures of his own times however but of the Dutch yourself and try to feel them, —is: select as masters in "Les Maitres D'Autrefois". Very your guide that author who sympathizes with prejudiced, he would not acknowledge as the painter. You need not agree. But only artistic any of Rembrandt's pictures except by the open mind and the willingness to be the ones that are realistic, those wherein the led into an understanding of what original values are sure, as the '"Portrait of the Baron creators are trying to do can we hope to attain " Six", the one of "Frau Bas", and the School to an appreciation of thrt which seems to us of Anatomy ". His poetic masterpieces where new and strange.

10 French Translations of American Works

on the Modern Science of Management

C. Bertrand Thompson

business men are now pretty this is due entirely to American influence as AMERICANwell aware that there is a science or art exercised through French translations, a few of business organisation and management words in regard to these translations may have

quite distinct from the technic of manufacturing, a certain historical interest.

selling or accounting. The entire "efficiency Unquestionably the greatest influence in this

movement" grew up around this idea and has matter has been that of the famous savant Henry shown itself so thoroughly adapted to the facts Le Chatelier, professor at the College de France, of experience that it has become an integral part who was the first to recognize the significance

of business thought and practice. of the work of Frederic W. Taylor, "the father

During the last thirty years an enormous of Scientific Management", and of practically literature has been written on this subject in the entire efficiency movement. At the inter 1 America. Its guiding ideas have become part national exposition of 900 in Paris when Taylor

of our industrial atmosphere. There can be demonstrated the extraordinary results of his no doubt that the constant and conscious effort work on metal-cutting tools Professor Le Chate

to improve the technic of management is in lier was greatly impressed by the scientific value

large part responsible for the great development of the methods of research employed- by Taylor

of American business. and by the incalculable importance of a general

It is not the same in France. In this country, ization of his methods. Nothing was done at the

there is an extensive and valuable literature on time, however; but in 1906, when Taylor's

the technic of manufacturing processes regarded famous book "The Art of Cutting Metals"

particularly from the standpoint of applied appeared, Professor Le Chatelier had it transla

science, but the arts of selling and of management ted at once and published by Dunod et Pinat in in general have always been and still are to a 1907 with the title "La Taille des Metaux". large extent considered outside the domain of While this book, aided by the enthusiastic a is, scientific— that fora Frenchman, mathematical- propaganda of Professor Le Chatelier, made of a treatment, with the result that a native literature certain impression on limited circle French on the subject was inexistent before the appear engineers and prepared the way for serious of of ance certain American books in translation, discussion of methods organization, its real

and even to-day is only at a rather tentative import was unfortunately missed. The French of beginning. temperament saw in it only a striking example is of It probable however that the importance the application of scientific methods to the of this subject will be more and more recognized technical problem of the operation machine in of in France. Already there is a great deal tools. The fact that Taylor's mind this was

discussion which is at least evidence of a live a mere incident in the rational organization

even though rather theoretical interest. As of a plant passed unnoticed. II Even the succeeding publication of Taylor's Practice of Scientific Management", Miss Ida "Shop Management" ("La Direction des Ate M. Tarbell's "The Golden Rule in Business" liers", Dunod et Pinat) and "Principles of Scien ("La Regie d'Or des Affaires"), a complete tific Management" ("Principes d'Organisation translation of Gantt's "Travail, Salaire et Bene Scientifique des Usines", traduit par J. Royer, fices", C. B. Going's "Principles of Industrial Dunod et Pinat), has not succeeded in eradicating Organization" ("Les Principes de 1'Organisation this impression. It is to-day more necessary Industrielle", Trad. A. Blandin) and the trans than ever to explain in France that lation of my "How to Find the Factory Costs" "taylorisation" and "tayloriser" mean something ("Methodes Americaines d'Etablissement des en more than the introduction of the telephone Prix de Revient Usines '). Certain others are or adding machines or even the use of the on the way. stop watch. is of There also a translation the well known All of Taylor's works, including scattered book of F. B. Gilbreth "Motion Study" publi papers, have been published sooner or later in & shed by Dunod Pinat, 1920, translated by the Revue de Metallurgie, under the direction Ottenheymer under the title "Etude des of M. Le Chatelier. Mouvements". The efforts of this devoted admirer of Taylor

This list is not complete, but covers the more have not been confined exclusively to the trans important American books. lation of the works of the Master. M. Le Chate Without doubt the French temperament will lier is also responsible for the French edition accept sooner or later the most modern American of Miss Christine Frederic's "Scientific Manage

methods, but the process is and will continue ment in the Home," also of an abridgment of to be slow. Translators have in H. L. Gantt's "Work, Wages and Profits" great difficulty finding French equivalents for American words translated by M. Nusbaumer under the title and are frequently obliged to paraphrase largely. "Travail, Salaires et Benefices" (Revue de This means often that the ideas represented Metallurgie, Decembre, 1915), and of my com by these words are entirely new in France. pilation '"Scientific Management", under the One cannot even be sure that the paraphrase title "Organisation Scientifique, Principes et it means the same thing to a Frenchman that Application," Dunod et Pinat, 1915.

does to an American, as also is Dunod et Pinat have also published the trans the background entirely different. lation, 1914, of Taylor and Thompson's "Con crete Costs", by M. Darras, under the title However, the ultra-protective system establish

"La Construction en Beton et Mortier de Ciment ed by the Government and re-enforced by the

Arme ou non Arme". present rates of exchange cannot last for ever,

At the request of Payot & Cie., I have under and there is hope that when French industry

taken to supervise the translation of certain begins to enter in real competition with foreign American classics which have been published industry the way will have been prepared for

by that house under the general title "Biblio- the modernization of organization methods is theque de l'lndustriel". In this series there has if which still necessary this country is to take appeared my little book "Le Systeme Taylor", its place beside America and Germany in the 1919, in part a translation of my "Theory and business race.

12 Columbia University Studies in French History and Literature

The American Library in Paris has recently "Eustorg De Beaulieu, a disciple of Marot, received as a gift from Columbia Univers ty 1495 (?)-l552," by Helene Harvitt. "Corneille a complete collection of its doctoral dissertations. and Racine in England", by Dorothea Frances There are six hundred and fifty-four of them Canfield. "European Character in French Dra in all, and all of value to the research student, ma of the Eighteenth Century", by Harry but of special interest from an international Kurz. "The Influence of Italy on the Literary point of view are the studies of French history, Career of Alphonse de Lamartine", by Agide literature, institutions and thought which are Pirazzini. "Women in the Life of Honore de to be found among them. Balzac", by Juanita Helm Floyd. "Vers Libre ; Among studies of French history the following a logical development of French verse", by may be noted : "Feudal France in the French Mathurin M. Dondo. "Frederic Mistral ; poet Epic ; a study of feudal French institutions and leader in Provence", by Charles Alfred in history and poetry", by George Baer. "The Downer. First French Republic", by Horace Mann Among studies of a philological character : " Conaway. "The French Constitution of 1793", Practical Substantives of the— Ata in the Ro by Thomas Gold Frost. "Turgot and the mance Languages", by Luther Herbert Alexander. Six Edicts", by Robert Perry Shepherd. "The "The Affirmative Particles in French", by French Assembly of 1848 and American Con John Gordon Andison. "Modern Provencal stitutional Doctrines", by Eugene Newton Curtis. Phonology and Morphology", by Harry Egerton "Ledru-Rollin and the Second French Republic", Ford. "Ellipsis in Old French",_by William by Alvm R. Caiman. "Protestantism in France", Edwin Knickerbocker. by Joseph Stanley Will. "The Sovereign Coun Among sociological studies : "The Abolition cil of New France", by Raymond Du Bois of Privateering and the Declaration of Paris", Cahall. "Spanish and French Rivalry in the by Francis R. Stark. "Gabriel Tarde ; an essay Gulf Region of the United States, 1678-1702. in sociological theory", by Michael M. Davis. The Beginnings of Texas and Pensacola", by "Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician", by Frank William Edward Dunn. "The Commerce of H. Hankins. "The Labor Movement in France", Louisiana during the French Regime 1699-1763", by Louis Levine. by N. M. Miller Surrey, and "Some French Among theological and philosophical studies : Contemporary Opinions of the Russian Revo "La Vie de Saint Eustache par Pierre de Beau- lution of 1905," by Encarnacion Alzona. vais ; published for the first time from the Among studies of French l.terature are the manuscripts of London and Paris, with introduc

following : "Toulouse in the Renaissance ; the tion, notes and index", by John Roberts Fisher. floral games, university and student life ; Etienne "Li Romans Don Lis", edited by F.C. Ostrander. Dolet (1532-1534) Pt. 1— The Floral Games of "Baron D'Holbach ; a study of eighteenth Toulouse (Les Jeux Floraux)", by John Charles century radicalism in France", by Max Pearson. Dawson. "The Extraordinary Voyage in French "The Ethical Implications of Bergson's Philo Literature before 1700", by Geoff roy Atkinson. sophy", by Una Bernard Sait.

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15 Book Reviews

The Cheyenne Indians, their History and Life, The Book of the American Indian, by Hamlin by George^Bird- Grinnell. Photographs by Garland. Pictured by Frederick Remington. Elisabeth C. Grinnell and Mrs. J. E. Tuell. Harper & Bros. New York. 274 pages. University Press. 1923. New Haven. Yale We are back to the days when the trackless 2v. 788 pages. prairies harbored all manner of fierce and gentle Like George Wharton, James, Jesse Walter creatures, red men, bison, deer, elk, wolf. Yes Fewkes, Ellsworth Huntington, and Carl Lum- terday they were, to-day it seems as if they never holtz, for the work done by them before the In had been. dians either became extinct, or were assimilated Sentiment must not forget that if there were by their neighbors, Mr. Grinnell in his present noble red skins there were also heaps of bad Indians, work has rescued much valuable ethnological mater for it is certain that the inward vision, through ial, though he himself states in his book that an which alone we can contemplate the past, is prone cient industries disappeared with the coming of to be dazzled and to overlook the blemishes. the whites, while many customs observed by the Thus, looking back into our own lives we see Cheyennes while they lived in the North, were lost but the magic sunshine of immortal youth : for through migration and the influence of civilization; gotten are pain, heartbreak, disillusion. "Sad Amongst the valuable information with which as the days that are no more" resumes all fruitless the two volumes are filled, particularly interesting regret! is the fact that, in old times, descent was matri- Nevertheless in this book we face the fact of a lineal in the tribe. As among the Banyai of South great crime committed : millions of free and Africa, the man went to live with the family of the happy creatures remorselessly dispossessed, pursued girl he married, the children belonging to the and slain because we desired their lands, hides, mother's family and not his own. At present the flesh, their all. True, we are the tools of progress, tribal descent is on the male line. civilisation must march on ; lands that fed one Among the Cheyennes, nevertheless, the women hundred now sustain a thousand times more still have great influence, both on the men of people. Hand in hand with civilisation walks their families and in the men's councils. They religion, the cruel Bible. It was not enough are in fact, the final authority in the camp, and that the Great Spirit had made himself manifest traditions exist of women chiefs. Formerly, wo in all the wonders of His Creation, in the high men sometimes went to war as helpers, and many clouds, the lofty peaks, the rolling prairie, while accounts tell how Amazons fought side by side His voice reverberated in the storm. No, not with their braves. In the camp life, too, woman enough, because the white invader alone possessed was an equal partner with man, and those who the written Word and woe to him who could had taken part in war with their husbands or had not read. It was foreordained and doubtless accomplished extraordinary industrial achieve- necessary that History should be written in blood, mants, grouped themselves into guilds in accord but let us not rejoice at our own smears! ance with the service rendered. Take this book and read the true story of Sitting Highly interesting also for the ethnologist are Bull and his braves. Ponder the gentleness, the study of the successive transformations of the honour and justice of this great chief : study weapons and implements used by the people ; the the true talc of General Custer's fight with the details of their culinary science, ancient and mo Sioux on "The Little Big Horn River" in 1876. dern ; the old-time hunting and fish-catching Consider how indomitably this starving, disarmed, methods ; their amusements, as simple as their ill-clad but heroic band of warriors, hampered lives ; and their war-customs, ceremonies and sol by their women and children, pressed on over dier organizations : while the pages relative to the unknown lands, through ice and snow, ever relent education of the Indian children by their parents, lessly pursued, until it finally attained temporary in which the plays of the boys and girls appear as safety over the Canadian border. Later, heart the miniature life of the adult, are quite a revela sick and despairing they trusted to specious pro tion. The habit of the very small children to mises and recrossed the border, meekly consenting play at building from clay, geometrical, animal, to be parked on a reservation which grew ever and men figures, sometimes with artistic skill, is more restricted by greed of the settlers. At indeed, very remarkable ; and of especial interest is last you will come to the slaying of Sitting Bull the wonderful picture of village life, at the succes and or the remaining members of his heroic cohort sive hours of the day, a picture as vivid and realistic of Silent Eaters. as a Jack London could have penned it. History shows few such magnificent examples Albert Milice of pluck and endurance than are here related,

16 and this narrative of Mr. Garland's stands out addition Mr. Mackenzie informs us that while

as a very fins achievement. Vinacocha, the culture hero of the Peruvians, carne

This is a volume great in size, instructive, and from the the West, the culture-hero of Brazil,

sad because true. The fame of both writer and Sume, "'was a white-bearded man who came from artist are too firmly established to require further the east". comment. Albert Mihce George G. Fleurot

Myths of Pre-Columbian America, by Donald A. Mackenz e. London. The Gresham Publishing Company, Ltd. 351 pages. In -this volume Mr. Mackenzie opposes the theory of spontaneous generation of religious conceptions and cultural practices among various civilizations. a It is, for instance, curious fact that the Mexican in a coat of arms, an eagle holding its beak wrig in a gling snake, is found unique symbol "The

Feathered Serpent ", the Mexican national God.

The author remarks that only one bird is a slayer

of serpents, the African secretary bird, the Egyp

tian myth of Horus. the hawk, and Set, the serpent, may be regarded as the original form of this sym THE MONASTERY OF THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE. bol. Mr. Mackenzie claims that pre-Columbian From "Gienoble and Thereabouts" by Henry Ferrand. in of America contains indications a civilization Published by the Medici Society, London. across the course, culture drifting Pacific. Of Illustrations in heliogravure.

such an influence is obvious both in North and in

South America where even some strain of Asiatic Grenoble and Thereabouts, by Henri Ferrand. blood is found mixed in the blood of the indigenous London. populations. Nevertheless, the Amerinds seem to The Medici Society. 1923. have received cultural influences perhaps stronger — This guide book de luxe I say de luxe because still and more obvious from the East and these it is not only unusually fully illustrated but the Mr. Mackenzie seems to have under-estimated. — illustrations are in heliogravure, has an introduc At any rate, the geological arguments quoted by of tion by Leon Auscher the Touring Club de him from various authors against the Atlantis ' France, in which he describes Grenoble as the If theory are not at all convincing. he is right capital of the French Alps and the Mecca of French in in writing that the Cro-Magnon race Western tourists.

Europe has also been traced in North Africa, he Its popularity is made plain in the description forgets to mention that the race had its American of the city and its environment, by Mr. Ferrand.

representative in the Lagoa Santa race, studied The church of St. Andre in Grenoble he calls anatomically by Ten Kate and Doctor Rivet, the most interesting relic of Merovingian art in which seems to have been once dominant over the ; France and the Monastery of the Grand Char of of America, main part South and several regions treuse, the first among all the beauties surrounding North America. A Grenoble to become famous. chapter is devoted Especially interesting are some quotations from also to the higher mountains of Vercors to the

Smith's survey of the world-wide Professor Elliot south, among which is Mont Aiguille, the first

practice of mummification, showing that its geo mountain to be climbed for the sake of the climb, graphical range corresponds curiously with many ; the feat being accomplished in 1492 other chapters Yet other cultural practices. Professor Elliot to Oisans in the east, the chief mountainous region Smith admits that this custom may as easily have of Dauphine, and still others to the less dangerous reached America from Egypt through the Guanches, attractions of Unage-les Bains, and to Grenoble

it Indonesia, who practised extensively, as from and its winter sports. through the Pacific gap. In the same way the

practice of erecting earth mounds or burying Vagabond Fortunes : Wayfaring in Provence, of corpses in cliffs and caves, that placing stones by Magdalene Hersfall. London. Methuen of in the mouths the dead, a or pearls as amulets Co. 1924. 146 pages.

universal practice which seems to have existed in

Southern Europe as early as the epoch of the Gri- The author came to France with a proper con maldi troglodytes, may as easily have come to the sciousness that each individual Britisher carries the

Amerinds from the East as from the West. In Entente in his keeping, and left it with the feeling

17 that she had not been traveling in France at all, Strenuous Americans, by R. F. Dibble. New but in the Roman Colony of Gaul, Roman in its York. Boni and Liveright. 1923. 370 pages. every fibre from Marseilles upwards till it breaks off sharply at Lyons. This she felt particularly The sub-title of this collection of condensed in the Arena at Nimes, which though smaller than biographies : "... who preeminently and distinctly that at Aries and those in Rome and Capua and embody all that is most American in the American Verona, is the most perfectly preserved Roman character..." is a quotation from "The Strenuous amphitheatre in the world. Life", by Theodore Roosevelt. When one reads And although the remains of the Saints make her the short list of men whose lives and achievements wish that we had borrowed cremation from the Mr. Dibble has briefly depicted, one first feels Romans instead of burial from the Egyptians, via a bit doubtful as to the appropriateness of the the Jews, and the curious double-headed Madonna quotation, but upon reflection decides that he of Notre Dame de Villeneuve excites her interest selected very well indeed. The most of the more than anything else in the churches, perhaps, men honoured with chapters are exactly what — she does not escape the fascination of medieval are called today '"typical", successful Americans Provence either, especially that of the chateau of pompous, self-made and self-satisfied. les Baux, which she describes as a stronghold in The seven little biographies in the volume Faerie, dream-like, remote, timeless. are those of Jesse James, Admiral Dewey, Brigham Nor that of the land itself, the Camargue, that Young, Frances E. Willard, James J. Hill, P. T. Bar- land of level, limitless horizons, beyond which, num, and Mark Hanna. Of the lot, Jesse James in Canadian phrase, one may see the sunset of the is by far the most interesting, and in fact the only day after to morrow, from which she returns to one that a red-blooded, generous minded person ordinary life by the less known route through would take any particular pleasure in knowing. Clermont-Ferrand and the heart of the Cevennes. America's greatest outlaw is portrayed as a home- loving, gallant man, the victim of persecution A Vision of Morocco, by V. C. Scott O'Connor. rather than of an innate evil nature. His resource London. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 382 fulness, courage and daring are already too well pages. known for Mr. Dibble to add anything to his reputation along that line. The entire book is a series of visions : visions of The Filipinos who are struggling for freedom cobalt-blue seas, of the rolling Bled crossed by could get many good arguing points from the innumerable caravans of camels, of ancient Moorish chapter devoted to Admiral Dewey, who seems towns with intricate bazars, dark and twisting to have been smiled upon by Fate as ardently streets, mosques and minarets, of barbaric but as that fickle goddess frowned upon Jesse James. chivalrous Khalifas, Sharifs, Pashas — of all the Dewey had, however, evolved through years wonder-trove of the Orient. of study a plan of attack against the Spanish pos Beauty is wasted upon the unobservant, the sessions in the Far East, and was well ready for unappreciative, but Mr. Scott observes all beauty the task assigned him when the hostilities with a trained eye and sensitive brain while his broke out. Dewey's wavering political opinions— pen happily depicts his varied impressions. "a Dimmycrat with strong Raypublican leanings" Travelling with Mr. O'Connor is like being a as Mr. Dooley put it, probably cost him presi wafted upon a magic rug, avoiding the endless dential nomination, after the skirmish with Spain friction inherent to travel one merely glides with was successfully terminated. him through charmed space. He is the most Polygamy was necessary to people and transform imper onal of writers ; like the painter his perso into fertile fields the frowning deserts of Utah, nality is only shown by the quality of his vision and Brigham Young's exploits as the chief exponent and the manner of his treatment. Yet I wonder of of the mainspring the Mormon doctrine con- if we do not sometimes miss the impression of titute that worthy's sole claim to greatness. Other getting close to the traveller and of sharing with wise, the celebrated Mormon leader was an uncouth, him the incidents of the road? uncultured schemer, what the French call an Mr. O'Connor gives us a fine portrait of Marshal "opportunist". Mr. Dibble states that "Honest Lyautey, Governor General of French Morocco, Brigham Young", who during the first fifty years of whom he is a warm admirer, and of his Staff ;

a his of his life worked like common labourer for also a quick sketch of General Berenguer, High daily bread, left an estate worth some three million Commissioner of Spain to Morocco in 1922. dollars, an imposing sum considering the time Incidentally he is sceptical as to the possibility and place of Brigham's activities. of Spain's conquering there. thought nothing of wrecking James J. Hill This is moreover a well presented volume railroads and ruining thousands of investors, i 'I'strateH bv charming photographs. ends, may be when it suited his particular but George G. Fleurot classed as an empire builder. P. T. Barnum,

18 the world's champion mountebank, seems to have it is the very reason that I have written." In been a conceited hypocrite, who lectured on the above sentence Professor Chew sums up this prohibition and was on exceedingly friendly volume —a veritable labour of love —and its raison terms with the prettier women in his troupe. d'etre. With almost Boswellian fidelity he traces The chapter on Mark Hanna might equally the life of the poet and the comments it gave well bear as heading "William McKinley" : rise to from the morning when he "awoke famous" it shows at length just how much a puppet in to 1922 and the publication by Mr. Murray of the hands of Hanna was that weak sister among "Lord Byron's Correspondence." the presidents, who owes to the chance of an Professor Chew quotes impartially the adverse assassin's bullet the efforts of sentimental poli and the favourable criticism all down the years tical writers to obtain for him a brilliant place and more than justifies his modest contention in American history. that his quotations prove that "Byron has not All in all, Mr. Dibble's book is very readable, been and has never been, forgotten, and that the and well documented. The truth about the hundred years since his death, if they heard many lives of our "great" men is not avoided, no matter a voice of detraction raised, have also been a century how unpleasant it may be. At the end of every of praise." chapter, there is a bibliography, valuable to those Fifty pages of bibliography close the volume. who care to read further about some "Strenuous No great poet has given rise to such contradictory Americans". Paul Rockwell verdicts or such fierce controversy. Consider the judgment of men of our own or recent days. Stephen Study Crane ; A in American Letters, Carlyle, "who never fully made up his mind by Thomas' Beer. New York. Alfred A. about Byron", speaks of him "sitting in sunny Knopf. 1923. 248 pages. Italy, in his coach-and-four, writing over many Crane is a difficult subject for a biographer, reams of paper, the following sentence, with not only because his life was difficult for the average variations : Saw ever the world one greater or unhap- mortal to understand, but because he sometimes pier? This was a sham strong man." But seemed to invite misunderstanding. When, for Miss Mathilde Blind pertinently asks : "Who example he writes to Wallis McHarg, "when is the strong man here? The sage who, living people see a banker taking a glass of beer in a cafe, to be eighty-four, fussed and fumed for over they say, 'There is Smith!' When they behold fifty years about such an ordinary complaint a writer taking a glass of beer, they say, 'Send as dyspepsia, or the poet who, suffering from for the police!'," he gives you the feeling that wasting fevers and agues, never wrote otherwise he would be disappointed unless you did send than jokingly of his bodily ailments, and who, for the police. only too truly foreboding his early death, treated Mr. Beer's book describes Crane's discovery that but as a trifling matter compared to the serious of the Bowery and "Maggie", his adventures issues for which he was prepared to sacrifice life?" in Texas and Mexico and success with "The Ruskin in "Praeterita", says, "At last I had Red Badge of Courage", further adventures in found a man who spoke only of what he had seen Cuba, and life in England. It contains also inter and known", and scourges his critics : "They esting reflections of his opinions of contemporary talk about Byron's immorality as if he were altoge literature in some respects more interesting because ther immoral and they actually appear to imagine his acquaintance with literature seemed to have that they! they!! yes, they!!! will be able to wipe been very slight, and his acquaintance with foreign his memory from the earth." literature almost naught. Of the works of French Matthew Arnold calls him, "the greatest natural nineteenth-century authors, for example, he had force, the greatest elementary power, I cannot read only a few paper-backed translations of but think, that has appeared in our literature Flaubert, De Maupassant, and Zola. He appears since Shakespeare". And John Morley : "Though to have disliked most of the latter's work, including he may have no place in our own Minster, he "Le Debacle", which he was said to have imi assuredly belongs to the band of far shining men tated in "The Red Badge of Courage", while of whom Pericles declared the whole world to be Stendhal's "La Chartreuse de Parme ', which the tomb." Henry Harland insisted he must have read before A. A. Warden writing his famous novel, he seems not to have My Life, the Peasant Anissia and translated read at all. told by by Charles Salomon. New York. Duffield Byron in England : His Fame and After-Fame, and Co. 1924. 136 pages. by Samuel C. Chew. London. John Murray. The simplicity of this story, which after all 1924. 351 pages. is not a story, but raw truth shorn of all ideals, "That so many books have been written about is its strength. It stands, almost without alteration is, Byron is not an objection to this one ; rather (and what alteration there is of phraseology,

19 not of fact) as the peasant Anissia told it to Mme. Nothing joins that theatre period to ours as Kousminskaia, the sister-in-law of Tolstoi, who well as the Bateman family. With Kate Bateman, is himself responsible for the few slight changes. Henry Irving began his career at the Lyceum Thea

Anissia's life is one of extraordinary, unending tre ; the eighties remember the third daughter, hardship and sorrow, sickness, cruelty and death. Isobal, with Edwin Booth, and the youngest one, The sentences are short, photographic, with an Virginia Frances Compton, the mother of Compton almost complete lack of tinted adjectives. On Mackenzie, author of "Sinister Street", creator

the road to Siberia Anissia says : of Michael and Sylvia.

"I wanted to get a shirt to bury him in. I To those of the writing craft the presentation said to the children : 'Children, your father will of newspaper methods and style would alone die today. That's sure.' We wept together, justify the decade's claims to be called "fabulous".

and then the children went to sleep. I sat up From beginning to end one is tempted to quote,

at the window. I couldn't sleep." but the book should be swallowed whole. It is a of There are passages in Sherwood Anderson colorful familiar record a decade which where he attempts to do just this. But the effort the author declares to have been "a three ring is usually felt. It lacks the sustained natural circus with marvellous side shows and prodigious

simplicity that can exist only when it is unpremed natural curiosities ; glittering with mirrors and

itated. chandeliers ; thunderous with brass bands and ; Through the whole tale there runs the under fireworks choked with the dust of caravans". current of an unshaken and accepting natural Nearly three-quarters of a century has elapsed piety that marks those of simple and direct nature. and, seen in perspective, an American of today In the face of the utmost calamity, they say, "It can well afford to laugh as he marvels, although is God's will." M. R. in all probability, many readers will thank heaven

devoutly that their ancestors, though of the period, — The Fabulous Forties 1840-1850— A Presen were different. tation of Private Life, by Meade Minne- Mildred Aldrich gerode. New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons.

1924. 345 pages. American Problems, a Selection of Speeches and Prophecies, by William E. Borah. Horace Here is a book that every American, who honestly Green, New Duffield and Co. wishes to understand the Great States — to look editor. York. on what we have been, see what we are —should L.1924. 329 pages. of read. The colonial days are known to every In this book have been collected a score one, so are the trying days of the Civil war. But the most conspicuous speeches by Senator Borah,

here is the great transition period which marked whose name is linked with all the major questions

the opening up of the vast west and the first great in political circles during the last few years. rush for wealth, and Mr. Minnegerode has set This publication has at least one merit : to of it out with nice understanding and a fine sense give the reader a chance knowing in detail

of humor and it is a justification of Dickens' "Amer the viewpoint of the independent statesman on ican Notes". some burning questions, — the bonus bill, the

The book is a neat picture, full of amusing recognition of Russia, the need for restricted details, of the fashions, habits and political and immigration. The Senator contends that "life social methods in the States from the Millerite and property are just as secure to-night in Petrograd

movement to the gold rush of the Forty-niners. and Moscow as in .New York or Chicago". This It tells how our grandparents lived, how they may be questioned by those returning from Soviet- dressed, what they ate and how they ate it ; what land. But he proposes an apparently irrefutable

they read and what they sang and how they sang argument in stating that American businessmen

it ; how they voted and why they did it ; how they in Russia would be "more secure with their ambas travelled and what it cost them ; where they went sador and their consuls than they are without is and how long it took them ; what they read and them". It interesting also to note that from of how they liked it, and how they amused themselves. Mr. Borah's view-point the recognition Russia No chapters are more diverting than those devoted would do much to restore peace in the world. of of in is to the theatre all its branches unless it be that Mr. Borah one the chief promoters the is devoted to the press. Those were the days of Disarmament Conference. He a champion

the Forrest-Macready rivalry and the Astor Street of Peace through any and all means. of riots, of Fanny Ellsler and Jenny Lind, the His speech on immigration does not give a of advent of Papa Bateman and his family of prodigies, thorough account the reasons why the govern Kate and Ellen Bateman, at the respective ages ment should protect citizens of the United States

of six and four, appearing during the final year "who will be brought into competition with the of the decade as Richard and Richmond in "Ri hordes of people who will come here at the close it chard III". of the war". But shows the subtle display

20 of arguments, the clever paths by which heattempted cago Tribune, in Chicago, has along with other

to win the Senate's vote. important qualifications, the vital one of being

Other instances of his ability as a politician timely. It was completed only last year. Readers of and as an orator may be grasped passim, as well daily newspapers, who are interested in the inside

as picturesque catch-phrases and well-coined workings of the highly organized machine of human definitions. brains and hands which produces the modern Pierre Denoyer newspaper, will find an accurate, vivacious and of it in complete account this book. Students of From Pinafores to Politics, by Mrs. J. Borden journalism will probably find more necessary infor

Harriman. New York. Henry Holt & Co. mation than they can assimilate in several years

1923 . 363 pages. without holding the nose of theory close to the

grindstone of practice. And practising journalists How simple seems the process indicated by the

will find what they know, or should know, of their title, —just a matter of jumping out of the one

metier, set down in orderly fashion. into the other. David Darrah After all, why not, since all of life is but a pre paration and each phase but a step toward the

Treachery by next. The boy begins by angling with a worm The of France, C. J. C. Street, ; & and ends as an expert with the fly rod he begins M. C, 0. B. E. London. Philip Allan Co. ; with Rounders to become a golf "Pro" he cribs 1924. 179 pages. his lessons and ends in jail. The girl used some — times to give her sweetheart a bite of her apple, Mr. Street the reviewer cannot discover his —

; dedicates now the apple is hers exclusively she used to military rank this book "To the British ; plait her hair, now she bobs it she began with nation whose unfailing common sense and sturdy them, hitherto, dolls to wind up with babies. Such is the proces self-reliance have prevented from sion of events. becoming the catspaw of any other race", the Mrs. Borden Harriman draws us the picture implication being that he would fain open her that of an agreeable, successful and prominent career. eyes to danger now. Well,

in alone and the It is the fad present day America for every the title contents would — woman to found or to follow some movement make some people see red, as the phrase is but does clear try of some kind,— reading, sewing, or bridge societies, seeing red not the vision so let us social service, nursing or mah jongg, — little matters, to be calm and, at least, recollect that by "France" of but it must be something beyond or above home the author means the policy its government life and family. Mrs. Harriman elected suffrage since 1918. of "Brother, in and politics ; being gifted with the necessary what the beam thine own eyes" is endowments for both, she soon appeared in the the inevitable reflection as one reads this indict : foremost van, as the mere nomenclature of the ment "the victorious nations more scrupulous is personages with whom she moved sufficiently than France" (p. 4) "she busy re-arming herself" testifies. (p. 20), "the Saar Commission a catspaw for George G. Fleurot French propaganda" (p. 55), "no reliance can be placed upon her word" (p. 76), "abundant proof

Editing the Day's News, by George C. Bastian. of French intrigue" (p. 90), "a mere dangerous New York. ;MacmilIan Company. 1923. menace to the peace of Europe than Germany

of excesses 220 pages. ever was" (p. 104), "the full story the of in of the coloured troops the French zone occu of is in 1 The element time a dominating factor pation will never be known" (p. 17) "The Entente of a the editorial office newspaper. Yesterday's with France is a hollow sham and must be dissolved news is worthless today. Too much time has (p. 174) and so on. elapsed. News "breaks" and is flashed short dis This language carries us back to the popular

tances or thousands of miles and must be de-coded, literature of the war, the "great" war in which in edited, "headed up", set type and printed in the author acted a part. We were then told that ", of a few hours. Editorial work must be accurate and Germans, "Boches were alone capable scraps ; swift and on the copy desk clock-watching is no of paper and atrocities. Now we are asked to crime. And as time passes, journalistic methods believe similar stories of our Allies.

continually change and improve. The technical Once a man fixes on his "nationalist" blinkers, of a forms which were modern and "live" few years like one in delirium, he sees visions enemies ago appear as clumsy and dull today. Text books on every side. Round the compass he goes, a of is on journalism must be, among a number other a patriot run amok. Mr. Street soldier, not of ; things, up-to-date. a historian he is too near the events which

"Editing the Day's News", by George C. Bas he writes. Does he want another war, and to is a of tian, who copy- reader in the office The Chi gain what objects?

21 A Frenchman could write a book on the treachery The book is to be recommended to capitalists, of England ; so could the Boers, and did. A Red who will be surprised to learn how wise and power

Indian could write on the treacheries of America ; ful they are ; to economists, who can acquire

so perhaps could Mexico. from it much information about economic laws in Forty years ago James Anthony Froude wrote : not found their books ; to socialists, who can it "If we could think more of the wrong things learn from the unwisdom of compromising

which we have done ourselves, and less of the with anything but death ; and to communists,

wrong things which we accuse the enemy of having who can acquire from it inspiration to decanonize done, I believe that would be considerably more Lenin. effective." Denys P. Myers I came on an interesting passage in Lord Morley's "Recollections" which I recommend to Mr. Street : " Mussolini — as Revealed in his Political is in war', 'There no morality Napoleon said. Speeches, Nov. 1914—Aug. 1923. Selected, Is the same true of sweeping negative diplomacy, translated and edited by Barone Bernado in the breaking down wholesale or bit by bit of di Quaranta San Severino. London J. M. Dent great solemn treaties? Mr. Gladstone once put & Sons Ltd. 1923. 375 pages. it more wisely : 'The history of nations is a melan is, choly chapter : that the history of government This anthology of Mussolini's speeches, supple is of of one the most immoral parts history'." mented in each case by circumstantial notes,

Is Mr. Street surprised at this confession of places the remarkable personality of the Italian a very old Parliamentary hand? dictator and the inner meaning of the fascist — A. A. Warden movement for fascism without Mussolini is scarcely conceivable —at the disposition of the Germany in Transition, by M. Philips Price. English-reading public. is London. The Labour Publishing Company As seen by the compiler, his hero "romantic, Ltd. 1923. 262 pages. daring, ingenious, tempestuous" and "stands if It would be very interesting one could regard now the principal figure in the arena of world- in the recital of alleged facts this book as history. politics". The son of the blacksmith of Forli if It of would be even more interesting one could is "a volcanic genius, a bewitcher crowds. It a a regard it as contribution to social theory. He seems regular warrior, with an indomitable a purports to be both of those things. As matter daring, great physical and moral courage, and of fact, it is built upon tenets which do not bear he has seen death near him without wavering.

examination except for those who accept certain, He is the real type of Roman emperor with a

theoretical premises as their gospel. Mr. Price severe bronzed face, but which hides a kind and is evidently a left-wing communist alongside generous heart. He is what people call a real of is whom Trotsky a life-member of the Carlton 'self-made man', and is a great lover of the violin is Club by inheritance. The reader asked to and of all kinds of sport : fencing, cycling, flying,

believe that "capitalist imperialism" is spending riding and motoring. Mussolini gets all he wants, its time plotting against the communist millennium and quickly, and, as all his party do, knows exactly by without regard to economic laws or markets, what he does want." His character is marked of and that the better classes labor have been "a richness of sympathy for mankind, a blunt of given some property by the capitalists just so they straight-forwardness, a gentleness soul, together would be traitors to Rosa Luxemburg. with exceptional moral strength, pure idealism, On the other hand, we are multifariously in which lift him not only above party politics, but

formed that the real dyed-in-the-wool left-wingers also high above the average of mankind".

have constantly betrayed their cause because The dominant note of Mussolini's career, as — of their own stupidity and their own theoretical revealed in its various phases, "The Socialist — — flights, not to mention their criminal tendency The Man of the War The Friend of the People — — to work through parliamentary channels and their The Fascista The Member of Parliament in poltroonery selling out various abortive revolu The Prime Minister", is patriotism, not ordinary in is tions. The God this theology the volumes patriotism, but a driving, all-compelling, all uni of. "Das Kapital" which Marx did not live to fying moral power. Ten years ago, Mussolini is write. The Devil bifurcated between capital- was a socialist and revolutionary. He wanted bourgeoisie and socialism as practised from Moscow Italy to enter the war because he believed the

to Munich. The hero of the book is Rosa Luxem allies' victory would bring about the triumph

burg who, according to Mr. Price, has the only of socialism. The "treason" of the German

virile mind in the German socialist annals since socialists, however, disillusioned him as to the is a the Armistice. The heroine collective group possibilities of "internationalism", and he was of socialist theorists whose socialism is so doubtful rapidly drawn to the idea of a "national war . as to be damned. His evolution from this point has been steadily

22 in the direction of a more and more intensive woman, one of the most dominant notes for progress nationalism. Here are some of his ringing phrases : in new Turkey, and on Mustapha Kemal, whose ''Neutrals have never dominated events. They dynamic personality, courage and foresight have have always gone under. It is blood which moves iaved his country, are of real interest. The the wheels of history." ''To deny one's country, )ther chapters, with their constant italics, exclama especially in a critical hour of her existence, is tions and parentheses, reminiscent of Victorian to deny one's mother." "I seek ferocious men! diaries, are frankly tedious ; they are saved only I want the fierce man who possesses energy — because of the relative novelty of subject and the energy to smash, the inexorable determination landscape. Miss Ellison, a correspondent of the to punish and to strike without hesitation." "My London Morning Post, a friend of Turkey and ambition. Honorable Senators, is only one. For a worshipper of England, has, of course, to her this, it does not matter if I work fourteen or sixteen credit that she was the first woman of her race hours a day. And it would not matter if I lost to penetrate into Angora, where she appears my life, and I should not consider it a greater to have been received with open arms and all sacrifice than is due. My ambition is this : I honors as a full-fledged powerful mediator and wish to make the Italian people strong, prosperous, unofficial ambassador. She is told how much great and free. Now and always to be a humble she would have saved England had she only come servant of our adored Italy!" He strongly dis the year before. "It is very doubtful," she modest avows, however, the use of violence for its own ly answers, "whether I could have done much, sake. even then." In foreign policy, he favors ''preparedness", One gathers that Lloyd George is the one and respect for treaties, and hard bargaining — ''nothing only evil factor of modern England ; that the for nothing". He is impressed by the "fatal American national motto is "Time is Money" ; interdependence" of all nations, he believes the and that the Bolshevist element in Turkey is nil, United States is now the center of the world, for altho the Reds are "allowed" to distribute and that the vortex of world politics is shifting their literature, "no one ever thinks of reading it". lo the Pacific. It would be hard to find a more loyal and a more Socially, his battle-cry is production. "Enough ardent friend of Turkey. of the Italy of the hotel-keeper... we are and we The book is indexed and profusely illustrated. wish to be a nation of producers." He is indivi M.R. dualistic, and membership in a "flock of card holders" no longer appeals to him. Yet he knows that no nation can do great things if the masses — arc brutalized, and in the new Italy "magnificent Anthologie des Ecrivains Morts. creation of power and wisdom" — the workman, whether of hand or brain, will "take first place". Volume I of the "Anthologie des Ecrivains I am unable to refrain, in concluding, from Morts a la Guerre (1914-1918)". published by quoting two or three of the aphorisms, indicative the Association des Ecrivains Combattants, is now of high culture and profound wit, which frequently off the press, and on sale at book-shops throughout enliven the speeches : France. It is a handsome, well printed volume "Journalists, who have enough of the poet of 770 pages, containing biographical sketches in them not to belong to the industrial world, of one hundred and eighteen French writers and are enough of the industrial world to be poets." killed at the war, with an appendix devoted to "It is always the cities which create history ; South American and Spanish writers who fell the villages are content to endure it." in the Foreign Legion fighting for France. Follow "The neo-spiritualistic philosophies are like ing each biography are a bibliography and extracts oysters —they are palatable, but they have to be from the writings of the subject of the sketch. digested." The politicians of the extreme left "swallowed Bergson when they were twenty-five Three other volumes are to appear ; in all, and have not digested him at thirty". the work will contain over four hundred and Paul Scott Mowrer fifty chapters, each devoted to a French writer, or to foreign writers serving in the French ranks. II, will have An Englishwoman in Angora, by Grace Ellison. Volume which is now under press, an to the writing of the Amer London. Hutchinson and Co. 1923. 320 appendix dedicated in the of France, pages. ican Volunteers killed service with some fifteen chapters by Paul A. Rockwell, If 200 out of these 320 pages could be eliminated, biographical of Alan Seeger, Henry Farnsworth, hovv much better for the author's literary reputation James McConnell, Victor Chapman, Kiffin Rock and our own patience it would be. The chapters well, Raoul Lufbery, Edmond G~net, Norman on Halide Hanoum, that brave and vigorous Prince and others.

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