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A Budget of Good History Books
Of Lands, Peoples and Affairs
By Willis Fletcher Johnson
Before the Revolutions j
Laying the Foundations of Mod?
ern Europe
Tlir BXTANSION OF KlUOPK. lty W. ?'. Al>
h?e WiUi mil**? an<l Illustrations. Two toI
????e* .*-.,. pp. xxl. 512; xUl, ?163. llotiry Holt
i. Co.
To comprehend the present we must
understand the past. To see aright the
world war of the twentieth century wo
must scan with discriminating eye the
perspective of the centuries since that
pn-at era of navigation, discovery and
expansion which extended the interests
of Europe throughout the world. It was
from the early part of the fifteenth to
the latter part of fthe eighteenth cen
turv'that the foundations of modern Eu?
rope, and, indeed, of the whole modern
world, were laid, and laid so deep and
strong that they could'not be. subvert?
ed even by the two revolutionary
periods which have intervened between
those times and our own. Great changes
iiave occurred, no doubt, but the gen?
eral construction of Europe was ill
19M much the same as in 1780.
I? ?a to a history of the three and a
half centuries which we have indicated '
that Professor Abbott devotes the hand- |
j-om? and compendious volumes which I
lie before us. It is not so much, how- !
ever, a history of events, .narrative and
dramatic, as of processes and condi?
tion?, contemplative, explanatory and
philosophical. And this latter is pre?
cisely the kind of history that at the
present conjuncture of human affairs is
of the greatest value. We all know, or
vc car. readily learn from existing
works, all about the voyages, battles
ami what not of those crowded cen?
turies. But we do not all know what
the meaning and results of those things
were and what their relation was and
is to the present time. This, then, is
the purpose which our author has
sought to serve, and in his effort he has
admirably succeeded. Particularly rich
ere his sumptuous volumes in discrim?
inating expositions of the advance of
human knowledge, the increase of
human comfort ar.tl the general growth
of arts and sciences. It is a history,
above all, of the development of Euro?
pean civilization and of its extension
throughout the world. As such it de
serves a permanent and conspicuous
place among the best literature of the
age*_
The Empire of Spain
Conceived in Antiquity and Once
Overshadowing the World
Till-, RISK OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE. By
llog Blgelow Merrlnian. With mm** an?! tables.
Two v ;?.;>-. Svo, pp. xxvilt, 0-U; xr, 3i>7. The
Ma raiUau Company. t
No land of Europe or of the world is |
more the home of legend and romance j
than Spain. Neither are there many
lands comparable with it in influence
upon the serious history of the world.
Too much given to regarding her in !
her decline, we have too little consid?
ered her in her rise and dominance, or,'
if we have thought of the latter phases
of her career, it has been as the enemy
and antagonist of England.
It was well, therefore, for Professor '.
?Weinman to prepare this comprehen?
sive history, profusely marked with
the tokens of painstaking research, of
the rise of Spain from the time of
Pelayo to that of Ferdinand and Isa?
bella, a period which comprises the
completion of the reconquest from the
Moors and the consolidation of the
various separate states into a great
peninsular kingdom, with an outlook
into America and upon the whole
world. The relation of this fascinat?
ing narrative to all European history
>.- by no means unimportant, while as
n background to the history of the
Western Hemisphere it is simply in?
valuable. The author has performed
his task with discretion and with a tine
sense of proportion, and has fortified
himself with numerous citations of
authorities and copious bibliographies,
and lias thus produce?! a history which
will permanently command a standard
rank.
Where Haroun Reigned
TO BAGDAD WITH TIIK BRITISH. By Arthur
T on i'Urk. Illustrated. 1-nio, pp. xlU, 295.
I*. Apploton & Co.
There is more of six-inch shells and
shrapnel in th% book than of "spires
of fretted gold": which ?3, of course,
exactly as it should be. There is much
to stir the imagination in a twentieth
century campaign in Mesopotamia, but
there is also much more to engage tho
more practical attention. Mr. Clark
?as v??ry much "in it" as a member of
FOF: tilos? who love "good sioriea."
particularly when they dea.1 -rvith
?tip pu-ture?que ?in-i semi-mythical
lan?s uf :h* eastern MedltemLatum,
THK C'l-'l'ICN'S H1CAI?T comes aj a de
!i?ht
' A j:nr-y of love and adventure, he?ght
*ti*-o by myfitery, thai increases In in
? Er*?f a* i; develops and culminant In
a ?it?(*? of situalions of ?rreat power and
pasiir.n that are not readUj* forgotten.
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gut for describing the things' he saw
and relating the incidents in which he
participated. His book is a really
"worth while" contribution to the liter?
ature of a part of the war of which we
have not heard as much as we should.
Portugal and Japan
Volumes of Strongly Contrast?
ing Characteristics
PORTUGAL. OLD AND YOUNG. An Historical
Study. Uy llf-or?? Voting. Crown Svo. with
frontispiece ami Unir niaiw; pp. 341. Oxford
I nivcrslty Puss.
JAI,'AX: n? Woe of a Modern Tower. By Hubert
1 ? lorter. Crown Svo. with map? and Illus?
trations; pp. xi. 3tjl, Oxford University Press.
It would not be easy to lind two re?
lated volumes more strongly contrasted ]
in style than these two members of the
admirable historical series which the
Oxford Press is putting forth. Of Mr. j
Young's "Portugal" it is difficult to
speak in terms which will not seem ex- !
travagant- Not since we last reread !
Macaulay and Green and Motley and I
their compeers have we opened a more
entrancing history book than it. Packed !
and crammed in every line with au?
thentic information, marked with co- j
pious research, discretion and a tine \
sense of proportion, it it; as interesting :
as a novel and as dramatic as an acting '
play. One may not care three whoops
for Portugal, yet let him once begin j
this book and its spell will hold him
fast bound t0 the end.
Of Mr. Porter's "Japan" we would ;
r.oi speak too severely, because it was
far from being finished when its au- \
thor died. It contain?? much that is !
of real value, particularly of the later \
history of Japan. But it is written in !
the dry and dull style of an economist. '?
or statistician?which Mr. Porter !
largely was, and in which capacities !
he excelled most contemporaries?and ?
it is marked with extraordinary dis?
proportion. For example, while the
work aims to expjain and to describe j
the onening of Japan and her rise to I
the status of a modern power, the ac?
count of Perry's mission is of the
briefest and most perfunctory descrip- j
tion, while of Townsend Harris, per?
haps on the whole the greatest figure
in the modern history of Japan, there |
is only an incidental mention. Again, ?
while many pages aro given to the war !
with Russia and several minor engage?
ments are described at length, there is
nothing but the barest mention of the
battle of Tsu-Shima, by far the great?
est naval battle in that war and one
of the greatest in all the history of
modern navies. Such faults greatly
mar a work which, despite them, is of
' considerable value and will be gener?
ally prized with the rest of the series.
Economic Europe
Three Hundred Years of Indus?
trial Development
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ET
ROPE. By Frederic Austin Ogg. Svo, pp. xvl.
07.7. The Mat-mill an Company.
There might be question as to
whether political changes had caused
economic changes, or vice versa. Cer?
tainly both have been revolutionary,
and they have been inseparably associ?
ated. Probably each has affected and
also effected the other. Professor Ogg
does not undertake to determine this
question, nor, indeed, to give an en?
cyclopaedic history of the economics of
all Europe. What he does is to deal
with the economic history of the chief
I three European nations during the last
i century, which has been the period of
greatest economic development in all j
the history of the world, and also to j
review the history of the preceding
three centuries sufficiently to provide
? a definite and illuminating background.
We need not say that he does this in j
i an authoritative and masterly manner, j
i His personality is a sufficient guaran- !
! tee of that. He has produced a volume j
of exceptional information, valuable ;
; for standard and permanent reference,
and timely for the use of all who would j
refresh or increase their knowledge of
; the economic condition of Europe just
before and at the outbreak of the war, >
and of the processes through which
that condition was attained; and who,:
?upon the basis of that knowledge,
would consider intelligently the eco-1
nomical leorganization of the world j
; which must take place after the war.
War Time Tasks
! THE CALL OK A WORLD TASK IN WAR TIME.
I ?y J liovell Murray. 12mo, pp. 2J4. Student
Volutitrrr Mowroftit.
The duty of practical Christianity in
war time is the theme of this earnest
and suggestive volume; divided into
such heads as Reality in Religious
Life, Christian Internationalism, Open
The First Shot
| for Liberty
Military Text Books
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vision in it, nor any namby-pamby
sentimentality, but all is straightfor- !
ward, practical and manly. It is a
book which should prove inspiring and
helpful to all who labor for the wel?
fare of humanity.
American Labor
A History of Economic Devel?
opment in the United States
IllSToUY Ol' LAHOR IN TUR UNITED STATES.
By Jolin It. Commons. David J. ??pon*. E B.
Mitteliuan, John P. Andre??!. Helen M. Sum
ner, II. 15. lloaglninl hih! Selig I'erlninn. With
hu Introduction by Henry W. Karnain. Two
voluinoa. Svo; pp xxv. 023; n, 020. Tho Mac
utlllnii Company,
This is decidedly the most compre?
hensive and on the whole satisfactory
work of tho kind which has thus far
appeared. In time it extends from
Colonial days to the present time. In
scope it deals with practically every
phase of that v.-vtt congeries of ques?
tions, issues and what not which we
vaguely term tho Labor Problem-so?
cial, moral, political, industrial, com
: inercia!. This it docs with amplitude
Bonnet Copplestone
("The Lost Naval Papers";.E. P. Dutton
& Co.)
of information and authority and in a
spirit of greater impartiality than we
might expect to find in such a work,
the writers of which are sure to
have strong inclinations toward one
side or the other of every disputed sub?
ject.
While it takes a philosophical view
of the great problems involved and
j seeks to explain the various processes
and results which are recorded, it con?
tains little special pleading or propa?
ganda, but is primarily and precmi
; nently a history, conceived and writ
' ten in the true spirit of an historian
who writes not a tract for the times
but a permanent and trustworthy rec?
ord for all time. It will doubtless be
generally accepted as the standard his?
tory of American labor.
The Story of the Balkans
TDK BALKAN'S. A HISTORY. By Nevlll
Korben, Arnold .1. Toynbce, I). Mitran; and D.
C. Hogarth. With niapn. 8mal) fcvo, pp. 10S.
Oxford University PiesB.
This is one of the most comprehen?
sive and most useful volumes in the
admirable "Histories of the Belliger?
ents" series, because it deals in a most
lucid manner with those very phases of
the world war which are least under?
stood and which are among the most
important. It was in the Balkans that
the war began, and it was because of
their, that it was waged. "Mittel?
europa" was the essential first sten in
th" Nuns' march to world dominion,
and 1he realization of "Mitteleuropa"
required first of all the destruction of
Serbia.
But the histories of the five Balkan
nations are so inextricably intertwined
and commingled that it is scarcely
profitable to attempt the relation of
one alone. It is essential that all shall
be told together or concurrently. That
is what is done in this capital volume.
It is done with marvellous conciseness,
and yet so well that the pages never
seem dry or dull, as is too often the
? case when compression is applied to
the nth power. In scope of vision, in
accuracy of information, in sanity and
equity of judgment and in readable
interest the work is?well, let us say,
worthy of the famous press from which
it is issued.
Visions of Pacifism
THE POLITICAL CONDITIONS OF ALLIED SUC?
CESS. By Norman Angoil. 12uio. up. xxvil, 350.
<i. 1". Putnam's Son?.
Mr. Angel? has recovered in part
from his pacifist dreams, and devotes
his latest book to a generally sound
I plea for the cooperation o? democra
I cies for self-defence. Yet some traces
and some influences of those futile
visions still remain. Especially does he
cling to the delusion that the war is to
j be won by persuading the German peo?
ple to turn against their own govern
j ment, and that if it is won in any
other wav the victory will be vain.
i We should, he seems to think, assure
the Germans that after the war there
will be no commercial or industrial
? prejudice against them and no thought
of holding them to good behavior
! through the potential exercise of mili
i tary power; for if we do not do that
they will cling to their autocracy and
I militarism. From that view o? the case
we must dissent. It is necessary to
! discriminate between the economic de
| struction of a nation, which is some
I thing with which we have no thought
I of threatening Germany, and the tak
1 ing of measures to prevent a nation's
us'ng its economic prosperity for the
political destruction of others, which
is what we certainly do intend to do.
COMBINE "BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE"
AND READ
DAWSON BLACK: /S\
RETAIL MERCHANTES*
By PROFESSOR HAROLD WHITEHEAD
College of Business Administration, Boston University
Author of "THE BUSINESS CAREER OF PETER FLINT* (Nation?
wide Serialization), Etc.
An absorbing story of the first year in business for himself of a retail
merchant, skilfully combining fact with fiction, or "business with pleasure."
Dawson Black was not a business machine, but a human, lovable young chap,
and the account of his mistakes and successes is fascinating and inspiring
aside from the sound business lesson it points out.
Illustrated, $1.50
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE
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Facts and Fancies of the War?
Current Fiction and Miscellany
i Humor in Hell
Captain Bairnsfather Continues
the Odyssey of Old Bill
FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE ny Captain Bruce
tlalmsfather, With Introduction liy (ic.rgu Hum
Putnam, l'art V. Thlrtyon? cartoons. ??. V. I
Putnam's Sous.
| Thank God for humor! If it were not I
l for that saving grace the world might1
! well go mad. The man who can make ?
| two smiles appear where there was
only one before is a benefactor of the
! race. But how much more is he who !
I can make Bmiles and mirth prevail !
where without him there would be only I
the gloom of utter tragedy! Most of ]
I all must we be grateful to him who can
j do this without a trace of mere flip
| pancy or making light of really serious
I subjects.
j Such is the gift of Captain Bairns
father. He is not unmindful of the!
awful tragedy of the war, of the brutal
iry of the Blond Beast or of the mar?
tyrdom of its innumerable victims. If
he does not dwell upon these, it is be-j
cause he knows too sadly well that I
Freeman Tilden
("Khaki"; The Macmlllan Company.)
there is no need of it, that they are
already seared into our very souls.. But
neither is he oblivious of the other
phases of the war, of the humor, some?
times grim, sometimes racy, which is
to be perceived in the trenches. We
may be sure that the soldiers themselves
have a sense of it; the fact that they
still live and have their reason proves
it. Indeed, we are told that Captain
Bairnsfather himself cultivated that
sense and developer] his marvellous
power of graphic expression of it in
ihe trenches. We can imagine that he
| gave great comfort, relief and joy to
I his comrades with his rude sketches on
i fragments of boards and rocks. He has
given them to the world in the subse
; quent publication of his inimitable
' cartoons; which we could wish to be
j seen by every soldier who goes "over
I there" and by every one who is inter
' csted in our soldiers and in the war.
| And this latest collection contains some
i of those which arc best worth seeing.
"Arise, Ye Dead!'*
! THE CLOUD. Hy ?Sarfcll lYentkc. 12mo, pp. 70.
K, I'. Dutlon <v Co.
The book is really a bugle blast, to:
waken sleepers and even, as before
i Verdun, to call the ?lead to life. In
! that one penetrating, insistent note
? the damnableness of the Beast of Ber
! lin is pilloried, the loyal service of our;
! allies is approved, and every Ameri
? can heart worthy to inherit the legacy
| of 177t3 is roused to action for God and
I man, "to a victory that nothing in all
? Germany can ever halt."
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Mr. Churchill's War Notes
A TRAVELLER IN WAR-TIME. By Winston
Churchill. Illustrated. llano, pp. 172. Tlio
? Mil mu?an Company.
Wo have hitherto said that Mr.
Churchill's novels, however entertain
' ing as such, always have and serve a
serious purpose. We may also say that
? his non-fiction writings, most^ serious
; in their purpose, are always as inter?
esting as novels. Certainly the latter?
! rule applies to this compilation and re-j
: print of his periodical articles on his
! observations in Great Britain and
I France. To these he has appended an
| essay on "The American Contribution
; and the Democratic Idea," which is full
I of interest and discussion of what the
! author regards as impending social and j
I political changes, and as a presenta- ;
? tion of his views of the necessities of
; the war; to wit:
Nothing short of victory. There
: can be no arrangement, no agree
? ment, no parley with or confidence in
I these modern scions of darkness?
i Hohenzollerns, Hindenburgs, Luden
j dorffs and their tools. Propaganda
I must not cease; the eyes of Germans 1
I still capable of sight must be opened.
I Bui, as the President says, force
must be used to the limit?force for
a social end as opposed to force for
an evil enil.
Sound doctrine that, whether from
novelist or from statesman.
"The Choosers of the Slain"
TITK r-TIOAT J-njNTERS. By James B. Connolly.
Illustrated. 12mo, pp. I. -G3. C!iiirl**s Scrio
I'tr'-i Son..
Kipling, in one of his most tran
i scendent battle ballads, depicts the de
! stroyers as preying upon battleships
and cruisers, na they were, of co'Jrse, >
originally meant to do. In the present?
war one of their chief functions is to |
hunt and destroy the submarines, and I
it is with this activity of theirs that |
Mr. Connolly largely deals in these ?
spirited talen. We say largely, be-1
cause other phases of our naval cam- !
paigns also recciv- attention. The]
author writes with the triple merits of
a naval expert, an accomplished story
teller, with dramatic and humorous'
gifts of a high order, and an earnest j
patriot, and he has produced a collec-,
tion of tales which will be read with j
absorbing interest and with much profit.
Haggard's New Tale
A Sympathetic Romance of Love
Triumphant
LOVE ETERNAL. By Sir II. Rider Haggard.
I21110, pp. MS Longmans, Green A. Co.
It is st far cry from "King Solomon's
Mines" and "Allan Quatermain" to
this romance of English country life,
but that is not to say that there is a
great contrast in merit. Some dif?
ference there is, beyond question,
since "Quatermain" was almost unique
olid unapproachable amid romances of
wild adventure, while such supremacy
can scarcely be claimed for "Love
Eternal." Yet the latter stands well
above the average of writings of this
kind and will add new credit to the
repute of its versatile author.
Briefly, it is the story of two fine
young English persons, she the daugh?
ter of a purse-proud and vulgar
blackguard and he the son of a big?
oted clerical cad. They love each
other truly, but their scalawag sires
object to their mating; so, after a
dramatic scene, in which he knocks
! her father down-?oh, how we love
| the lad!?they part to meet no more
; for ten years. Amid the stress of
I the great war they meet again, with
love as strong and true as ever, and
are married, only to be parted for a
I time by her death and then reunited
i by his death. It is a capital tale,
I humorous, dramatic, sympathetic, and
; true to human life.
"The Ship of Death"
' THE sniP OF DEATH. By Edward Stillgfbaner.
? Authorized translation hy M. T. H. Sadler. 12mo,
pp. 222. Urctttauo's.
This extraordinary work of irnagin
; ation is centred upon the torpedoing
. of the passenger steamer Gigantic?
j an obvious pen name?by a German
submarine, and the going mad of the
captain of the latter craft under the
obsession of the ghost of one of his
victims, who was a young woman of
| whom he had formerly been, enam
I oured. In his madness he passes
I through thirteen successive reincarna?
tions, in each of which he is the chief
actor in some monstrous crime of the
j Germans. It is a work of colossal
I power and fascination, though un
| speakably grewsome.
Marriage via Reichenstadt
I TUE DEVIL'S CRADLE. Ry Mrs. Alfred Sidg
; wick. 12mo, pp. 301. VV. ,1. Watt & Co.
This is another noteworthy novel
| by .the author of "Salt of the Earth,"
i revealing German life, the general
? characteristic of the Hun as an indi
| vidual and his attitude towai^d his
: country, and the revolting effects of
Kultur and an arrogance which is
appalling in its bigotry.
The story opens several years prior
to the war, when ' peace apparently
reigned over Europe, England especial
! ly not thinking of war with Germany.
Karen Gilfoy, an English girl, is in?
vited to the wedding of a schoolmate,
who is German, living in Reichenstadt.
? While there Karen falls in love with
! and eventually marries Graf v. Hohen
I roda, a much-admired type of Junker.
Though in love with her husband,
Izaren is disillusioned about Germany
and 'he German customs, knowing that
j she will never become a good German
as her husband wishes her to do. She
perceived that the Germans have
nothing but hatred for England and
all things British though they ape
their ways where ever it is possible
io do so. At the time of the assassi?
nation at Serajevo, when Germany is
secretly preparing for war, Graf v.
Uohenroda is killed in a duel, leaving
Karen alone in Germany, in the den
of the wolves, not even the fact of
having married a German of the mil?
itary class being a protection from the
gross insults inflicted upon her.
It is an extraordinarily strong and
absorbing story, written in the first
person, and Mrs. Sidgwick has told in
a compelling way how Junkerism and
Kultur are predominating factors in
Germany, sacrificing everything and
everybody to their merciless and sin?
ister grasp.
Household Economy
Till; TAPLEX BOOK FOR RECIBES. Sro, pp.
I"i7. I'ho Xaplcx Corporation.
THE TAPLEX BUDGET A.ND RECORD FOR
PERSO.sAJj OR b'AAULY EM'ENSKS. Pullu,
pp. IjI). Tho Taplex Corporation.
Two useful book.--, particularly in
these days of conservation, income tax
and what-not. The one contains a
number of attractive recipes and
blank spaces for writing or pasting
cuppings of a great many more, and
should be of much practical conve?
nience to the housewife. The other is
an expense book, i'n which the family
: or personal out-go is thoroughly ana
I lyzed and classified and tabulated by
days, months and the year in a most
i lucid manner. The use of it should be
! a valuable incentive and aid to thrift,
I as weii as a means of information and
! reminder.
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One of Our National Foibles
! THE PERIL OF UIFALUTIN. Ity Huntington Wll
| soi^ 12mo, pp. 2o3. Dulfleld & Co.
"Avoid extremes" is the keynote of
j Mr. Wilson's essays, and upon it he
? dwells with earnestness, it' not with
I ?any startling degree of originality. His
! experience in public life has invested
. him with the authority of information,
! and his judgment is generally sound,
against reaction on the one hand and |
radicalism on the other. It must be
regretted that he makes some misstate- ;
ments, such as that "We paid Spain
$20,000,000 for the Philippines," as also i
that the publishers have permitted !
some glaring typographical errors to
slip into the text.
Ambulance Service
TUB WHITE ROAD OF MYSTERY. By Philip
Do/ia Orcutt. Illustrated. 12mo. pp. 173. The |
John Lauo Company.
Mr. Orcutt was an ambulance driver;
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I the Boche," has refused an army com
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! Marine Corps. Before he wrote his
! book of war adventur?-? Mr. Preston
was known as a playwright. He joined
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The University of Chicago War Pa?
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