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Boo Au thors: P ublis lies6 About Peace Congresses And Leagues of Nations By Willis Fletcher Johnson Why Others Failed How the New League of Nation's May Hope to Succeed EXPmtTMBNTS IN INTICUXATION'AI, ADMIN I.ST11ATION. I'.y Krajicl? Howes ?iayre. 12mo, pp, x, 201. Ilaj-yer & HruB. Mnur onrl *U?~ *1- - n?es o IO?1S??1' ews an any and a Flowing Sea," Kipling's "Last Chantey," ?Longfellow's "'My Lost Youth," Newbolt's "Admirals All." and the original version of Campbell's "Copenhagen"?which not one in a hundred who know the common version have ever read?all at hand in one beautiful volume with two or three hundred more, their oeers. is sum?. Comment EVERY BOOK LISTED BELOW is on a ques? tion of present day interest. The authors are noted authorities whose statements may be ac? cepted as authentic. A Congress of Intrigue Alexander, Metternieh and Talleyrand at Vienna ,-? u: CONGRESS OK INTRIGUE VIENNA. Kretlcrlcl k-'resk*. Translated , '. ' ? | Intro n:-.>t Ntrtes by Harry m -, r;> xxl, ii\ '?' ? Ci utiuy Coro "Lest v.e forget'1 might well have been the legend of this timely, enter . and instructive volume. There ?obnbly no danger that the pres ss would degenerate g as that o: 1815, and there '- have been without ? ho unfulfilled and unflllable demand for town meeting diplomacy. Yet it is mightily instructive and admonitory to the wild welter of follies and gimes which marked that international conclave of a century ago, which was, down to that time, the greatest that the world had ever known and which lias since been surpassed by only this of our own day. The contrast between the two is world-wide, as it should be. That o? l-sl?r) was meant to make the world safe for autocracy; that of 1919 to make it safe for democracy. The one came at a time of despotic reac? tion against liberalism and the rights o? mam the other comes at the time of the triumph of liberalism and the rights of men and state3 over the last remnants of worse than mediaeval des? potism. It is well to study the contrast, and to read in these fascinating pages of the intrigues and the dnncos, the in? trigues and the banquets, the intrigues and the revels, the intrigues and the persiflage which composed the Con? gress of Vienna. Tne volume is made Up of annotated transcriptions from the- diaries and letters of actual par? ticipants or intimate onlookers, from Humboldt. Talleyrand and Stein to Countess Bernstorff and Countess Lulu Thucrheim. It gives an unsurpassed account of the flippancy and cynicism with which in the days of secret di? plomacy the rights of states and of men were sacriticed to the ambitions ~ and avarice of sordid schemers. Remarkable Criminals l BOOK OK REMARKABLE CRIMINALS. By H. II. Ircli s. 8TO. pp. SOC. The George II. Dcnrsii O-inpiuy. It is not generally known that Sir Henry Irving's son besides being a dis? tinguished actor is one of England's foremost criminologists. The criminals treated in this book are Charles Peace, Robert Butler, M. Dernes, Dr. Castaing, Professor Webster, Mr. Holmes, the Widow Gras, Vitalia and Marie Boyer, the Fevayrons. the Evraud and Barn hard. The careers of these famous malefactors are dramatically sketched, and especially well done perhaps be of their superior interest are the cases of Dr. Castaing, the French 1er; of Mr. ll?lmo?, perhaps the horrible monster in modern . and of Professor Webster How .vho killed Dr. Parkinson. Mr. -'s book is guaranteed to kill ul tileep. m-? Life in the Nineties THE MIDDLE TEARS. * By Katherine Tynaa. 8vo, pp. 411. The Uoughton Mlifllu ?Company. Mrs. Hinkson's book is an interesting account of her busy life during the nineties. There are many finely etched portraits of celebrities and a wealth of interesting letters to the then Misa i Tynan from W. B. Yeats. Barrie, Fran- I eis Thompson and Ililairc Belloc, and j , Mme. Blavatzky, Maud Gonne and Sarah Grand, \V. E. Henley, John Redmond and Oscar Wilde pass through j ? the book in person or in letters. Mrs. i Hinkson possesses a clear, cool mind ! and her critical faculty is both sano j and frank. This, for instance, of | Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and the critical j ; attitude of the nineties: "Wo thought a great deal of Mrs. | Atherton in the nineties. The other day 1 picked up 'The Californians' and I marvelled as I read. What was the matter with our critical faculties in the nineties? . . . We wanted clar? ifying. Literature was becoming a , thing with little relation to life. The i log Prose was dry-rotting U3 and other ' things." Mrs. Hinkson throughout the book j shows her ability to experience and to I benefit thereby. It is a book well worth having. From League to Nation Madison's Notes of the Trans? actions of 1787 JAMES MADISON'S NOTES OP HKBATES IN ? Tins FEDERAL CONVENTION OK 1VS7 AN!) THEIR RELATION TO A MOUE l'BRFK<rr SOCIETY OV NATIONS. I!y James Brown 6i-olt. With portrait nml facsimiles. 8to, pp. iTlll, 14'J. Oxford Uriiveralty I'resa. This book contains not the text of Madison's famous and priceless notes, j v.'hich will presently appear in another I volume, but a scholarly and thoughtful critical essay thereon by a constitu i tional and international lawyer of j eminent authority. It is peculiarly ! pertinent to the present time and its j needs, since Dr. Scott holds that the i so-called Constitutional Convention of | 1787 Was in fact an'nnternational con ! ference, and that the result was the | formation of a league of nations. In that view the example of that achieve ; ment may well be studied carefully by I those who aro to-day advocating an I other league of nations which shall j comprise some of the chief powers of I nil parts of the world, if not indeed ; all civilized states. A society of na- ! tions, Dr. Scott thinks, was formed j twenty years ago at The Hague, cor ! responding in some degree with our' | own organization under the old con- j federation; and it now rests with its | ?members to determine whether theyi i will form a "more perfect union," cor- I ? responding with ours under the Con? stitution. The book will afford material for .argument as well as for thought to j both those who favor and those who oppose the; league of nations. It must ' be obvious that the analogy between our "more perfect union" and the pro posed league of nations will fall far from completion if, as we were in? formed the other day, the league is to j involve no super-national force; a force to which this country certainly could not submit without abrogation or very material modification of its Constitu ! tion. Yet without such a force, what j power would the league have to cn l lorce peace? We are entirely at one | with Dr. Scott in thinking that the Hague conventions did in both form nnd fact create a society of nations I and that that society might be formed I into a "more perfect union" by some ; increase and confirmation of its objects. ? That it can be made to approximate to j the unity of our states we must be i nermitted to doubt. Just Published Another Sheaf .Another volume of Mr. Galsworthy's charming and char? acteristic fissav8 t-nd studies. It has a particularly timely interest In that it is so largely concerned with questions, material and artistic, of reconstruction and it has a more special interest for .Americans in many of its 6tudies, which deal with .American standards, intellectual and practical. Among the titles are: "American and Briton," 'The Drama in England and America," "impressions of France," "Bal? ance Sheet of the Soldier-Workman," "The Road," etc. $1.50 net. CHARLES SCRIBNERB SONS FIFTH AVE. AT 48?ST. NEW YORK A WHISTLING whisper in the uncanny night?a girl, heeding this strange call, and finding, not a person, but?! If you like the weird and the mystic, if you enjoy a throbbing romance of South Africa?the real Veldt as Cynthia Stockley alone can describe it?then there's a rare treat for you in this new hovel. oes $1.50 net By CYNTHIA STOCKLEY dulftor of "Poppy," "The Clatv," "fVanderfoot," etc. %wYork - G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS - Londoh WiHAT novel had, during December, the "largest sale" in twenty iarjre citi??s? WHAT novel was, and still is, most in demand at the public librar,? WHAT novel is still selling continuously all over this country? The answer is Hy JOSEPH C. LINCOLN and the reason ?rXOIUM it is the most entertaining story of the season. T?m h an Appleton Boek For Sale at AH Bo?katorei, $1.50 net. ich is so pertinent, so apt and so valuable that we are moved to won? der why it was not written before, or rather, perhaps, why a dozen men had not undertaken simultaneously to write the same thing. It is quite obvious that such a book as this is just about the most timely and useful that could possibly be put forth, now that the question of a league of nations to en? force peace is the dominant question in the mind of the world. For so com? pactly and yet comprehensively sup? plying the need we owe great thanks to Mr. Say re. ' Kemindlng us, with all necessary in? formative detail; that such leagues "were formed before, in 1648, in 1713 and in 1815, the author analyzes the causes and circumstances of their failure. ! They failed for two reasons. One was that they were founded on injustice, chiefly unjust disregard for the sov? ereign rights of nationalities; which is an error which we may pretty con? fidently expect the proposed league, if it is formed to avoid. The other was that they did not provide for any in Francis Bowes Sayre ("Experiment? In IntcimaUonal Administration," Harper it Brothers.) ternational or super-national agency or organ to enforce their will; which it may or may not be possible for the proposed league to provide. _ There have been various interna? tional leagues with international ex? ecutive organs, but in few cases havo they been at all successful, because nations have been unwilling to restrict or to abrogate their own sovereign powers, and therefore have been un? willing to confer sufficient authority upon international organs. In the case before us, if the league is to succeed where others have failed there must be such an international organ with plenary power. The large nations must have a greater voting power in the league than the small, and the majority must have power to coerce -the minor? ity. That is the train of argument which Mr. Sayre presents with excep? tional lucidity and force, backing it with innumerable citations and refer? ences arid with an appendix of offi? cial texts of inestimable value. Governments and the War NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AND THE WORLD WAR. By Frederic A. Om and Charlea A. Board. 6vo, pp. viU, ?03. The Macialllaa Com? pany. We have had various excellent treat? ises on the governments of the world; by James Brycc on the American, by President Lowell on the British and by Professor Ogg on those of the chief European states. Here we havo one on ? the governments cf this country and . the other important belligerents, con I sidered especially in relation to the Great War. Obviously it is calculated I to serve a triple purpose: To indicate the responsibility or non-responsibility of each nation for the war and the circumstances of its entering it; to describe the political circumstances I and conditions of its waging tho war; and to forecast the ways and means of settling the issues of the war and of the national and international re ' organization which will therein be in? volved. It is throughout a book which cannot be read without profit, and which, if properly read and studied will bo simply or inestimable benefit to every citizen who takes a practical interest in national and international affairs. The chapter which will probably command most current interest and will provoke most controversy is the last, which deals with the problem of international government and with the proposed entry of the United _ States into a league of nations having an inter or super or extra-national Ad? ministration and Executive empowered to coerce recalcitrant states with force and arms. Tho authors regard that proposal with favor, though their treat? ment of the subject is expository rather than propagandist. ine Editor and the Hyphen! _ The. Romance of a Gallant Fight ! for True Americanism COMMON f'AT'SE. By ?Samuel Hopkins Adams. I Illustrated Rimo. pp. ICti. The Iloughion Mifflin Company. Mr. Adams has made so many and so gallant fights for honesty in journal- i ism and in business that it must have ; been a pecularly congenial task for j him to write this novel, dealing with j a mighty battle between a clean and j patriotic American editor and the hyphenated propagandists who strove to prostitute him and his paper to an alien cause. It was also a comparative? ly easy task, because of the ample equipment which the author's former researches and work had given him for precisely this sort of writing. It is a story of one of our central states at the outbreak of the war, when German propaganda had not yet been unmasked in all its hideous vileness, and when many Americans were not yet awake to the issues which con? fronted them. The political intrigues, i the journalistic manipulations, the i business operations, are all set forth I with a master hand. The strain of love sentiment which runs through it | is not dominant, nor even conspicuous, ? yet it sufficiently plays its part, and enhances tho "human interest" of the tale. Though, indeed, without that feat? ure tho work would still abound in such interest. The author has admirably exempli? fied in this book his often-proclaimed principles of honesty in business, for ho has mado it from first to last one of the most honest and truthful pieces of fiction that we have read in many a day. Motivos, words and acts are all true to life. There is no scene or act which the reader will say, "That ? could not have been"; nor any speech of which he will say, "Nobody would have said that." There is no exaggera? tion of tho easy-going Americanism or of tho insidious an<i unscrupulous German propaganda; and though we are now seemingly past the time?we say seemingly past?when it is neces? sary to arouse tho one and to defeat the other, the book is still mightily interesting just as a story of love, politics and business, without the ser? ving of any such purpose. But unless Philpot Curran was quite wrong in his immortal epigram, and unless the signs of these present times are misleading to every man of vision and discretion, [ that necessity is as great now as ever it was; and for serving it this book of Mr. Adams's deserves a place in the Golden Index. ? ?m Love and Lust FOOTSTEPS. By Dorothy PercWaL 12mo. pp. 316. John I.O110 Company! The same old-time story, man the pursuer and woman the pursued, but instead of the usual conventional back? ground of much used plots written around the theatre and mistresses, "Footsteps" takes us to the Canary Islands, with the most unconventional background of unconventional people ; of a sordid little town in that heavy, I palpitating atmosphere of the islands, i where morality is not upheld as a high ? standard of the virtues and whore gambling and drinking walk together j hand in hand, mocking; the inhabitants j to come and play with them. Daphne Nugent and her father, who I settle 1 on the island to retrieve their | fortunes and much smirched reputa | tion, after a rather vainglorious career in London and elsewhere, form the principal characters in this story of i high drama and comedy. The father, a I man from a fine old English family I having become decadent, and about I whose virtues the less said the better; ! always selfishly optimistic and buoyed : up by the auto-suggestion of better be | havior, especially after an unusually j hard night playing cards and drinking, ! practically forces his daughter into the | hands of an unscrupulous Spaniard, ? who has the adjoining farm and who I cloaks hia real intentions to Daphne under a covering of servility and hom j age, being, nevertheless, unable alto | gether to hide his fanjjs. Of course, | the law of compensation prevails, and | the situation is saved by a young Eng? lish engineer, who marries Daphne and takes her to his home in England. As sex or near-sex novels po, it is a creditable book, for the fact cannot be overlooked that it is well written, In a most picturesque style. All the good and bad ?jualities of nature aro unfolded and shown in all their garish ncsa m a brilliant manner, and there is enough of the womanly sweetness, al? beit mixed with cynicism, of Paphno and of the manly qualities of Ronnie displayed to remove tho otherwise bad taste that would be left in our mouths. In the Ring MIKE DONOVAN'?Tho Miking of a Man. By Marshall Stlllman. U'nio., pp. HOI. Illustrated. Moffat, Yard & Co. All those men who like to put on the gloves for exercise will be interested in this book, and yet there is a grave ques? tion whether it would better not have been written, or, if it must needs have been given to tho public, whether some other medium or method would not have been better. The author con? stantly tells us what a wonderful per? son Mike Donovan was. The pictures show a rather stern but pleasant look? ing old man, and certainly the testi? monials from the great and the near ' great which adorn the latter pages of the book cannot be lightly overlooked. One is forced to acknowledge that Mike Donovan must have had sportsmanlike qualities and that ho certainly pos? sessed the virtue of loyalty, and yet without a real knowledge of the man tho admission is unwillingly wrung from the disinterested reader. The situation is a curious one psychologi? cally. The conclusion is that the au? thor has not a legal turn of mind?? though why one should brinp; a legal tur-, of mind to writing a book about a knight of the ring is not just clear? and does not understand the laws of evidence. At any rate, the most trivial and to the ordinary mind almost if not quite brutal incidents leave a gray, broken-knuckled trail across the pages, and then the composite author stands back, like the immortal Jack Homer, to admire Ins work and cry lustily "What a great man was he?" But. after all, this is a "class book." It will not be read by the casual reader, but-by those who love the art of box- ? ing, and to them Mike Donovan, cham- : pion boxer, for many years instructor in the art at the New York Athletic Club, and pne who has taught and boxed with half the famous men in the country, will need no introduction. It is for such that the book was written, and in it they will no doubt find un? alloyed enjoyment. Fighting the I. W. W. Tools of German Conspirators in the Wheat Country Tirn DESERT OF WHEAT. By Zane Grey. II lustrated. 12mo. pp. oTT. Harper & lioja. "Far away and long ago" may. seem the scene and time in which this great romance is cast. Indeed, the Desert of Wheat was almost as far from Bi'oadway in one direction as that other desert of No Man's Land was in the other. As for events which hap? pened just after our entry into the war, why surely they are ancient his? tory, winch we would better forget than remember in this time of piping peace. Vet were these things after all within the borders of our own land; and they were things which it both will and should take not two years but two generations if not two centu? ries to erase from the mind and heart oi the nation that has suffered them. Dr. Grey has written no liner work of fiction than this heart-gripping ro? mance of the wheat country in time of war. Five thousand miles from that dread Western Front, the bend of the Columbia Basin was yet almost as much involved in the war as Ypres or Verdun. For the wheat was needed to feed our allies, and for the destruc? tion of that wheat the shrewdest devil? tries of enemy aliens and native trait fflmx, fi 1:1 1 Elizabeth Black ("Hospital f?rrnis," Charlea Scnbner's Sona.) ors wore persistently devised and practised; with an innumerable multi? tude of both aliens and natives, some evil but pretending to be good and some good but temporarily seduced in? to evil, useii as their pliant tools. Happily, too, liiere was another and greater multitude of loyal Americans, native and naturalized, who took up the battle and fought it to a finish. Wc have seen no better picturings of the great wheat ranches than these vivid pages bear, nor any more dra? matic narratives of elemental strife, both physical and spiritual; no ac? count of I. W. W, infamies mote scath? ing, and none more sympathetic and generous toward men who had been driven to?despair by actual grievances; and no truer analysis of tho workings of Hunnish poison in our body politic and economic. In these respects Dr. Grey's romance is one of the really groat romances of American life in some of its least hackneyed but by no means least important phases. If only the author could make his characters as real es the scenes amid whieh they move, and could make them talk to each other as well as he talks about them! Still, even with its imperfec? tions of characterization and of col? loquy, it is a fascinating, an impres? sive, a great book. A ??ook of the Sea A ROOK OP TTT1? SKA. Scooted and arranged by Lady Sybil Scott, li!wo,?pp. xxiv, 47-. Ox? ford University I'ress, Of making anthologies there is no end, but there is still a possibility now and then of novelty, and that possibil? ity Lady Sybil Scott has here discerned and finely realized. We could not say that no other collection of verse and prose about the sea had ever been formed, but we may pretty confidently say that no oilier now extant is com? parable with this in compass of selec? tion, in taste and discretion, or in all tho qualities which are indispensable in a satisfactory anthology. In range of time it extends from Moses to Kip? ling; in language and race through Hebrew, Gaelic, Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English. It contains the familiar masterpieces and also many unfamiliar but glorious pieces. Being of human origin it is, of course, not wholly impeccable?not even Lady Sy? bil Scott could be quite justified in abridging "The Chambered Nautilus"? but its faults of both omission and commission are surprisingly few, while its merits are many. Just to have Turner's "Slave Ship," Browning's "Herve Riel," Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner," Cunningham's "A Wet Sheet Special Sale Through January Fine Sets of Standard Authoni, Art Books, etc. GHl Fifth Avenue, near (51th citreet. hAoHEST PIttCES AN'li CASH DOWN puiil for book?. Wo specially want ils? uni EDITION ENCYCLOPAEDIA G tlT?NNICA, THOM?j" & EBON, INC.. k* John iil. M. X. 'A'U'HiO ..???-.J2I Jak?.. thing much like "a joy "forever." Southern Neighbors Helps Toward a Better Under-1 standing of Them GETTING TOGETHEB WITH LATIN-AMERICA. ' By A, Hyatt Verrlll. 12mo, pp. i. 221. E. V. Dutton & Co. UNDERSTANDING SOTJTH AMERICA. Ry ?Tlay-: ton Sedgwlek Cooper. Illustratwl. 12rao. pp. 126, The George 11. Doran Company. "You think Anglo-Saxon and you ' speak English. We think Latin and we speak Spanish." Thus a South Ameri? can statesman epigrammatically ex? plained to a North American visitor the reason for the lack of intimate understanding and sympathy between | the peoples of the two continents. He was quite right in his statement of premises. It rests with the people, and particularly with those of the United States, to determine wh.-it the conclu? sion shall be. We shall never wholly eiianco the mode of thought of either continent, and we cannot hope to have each universally understand the lan? guage of the other. But there is ground for challenging the notion that differences of thought and language must necessarily keep peoples estranged or even unsympathetic toward each other. Wo therefore welcome such books as these, which are directly calculated to , inform the people of this country con? cerning their Southern neighbors, his? torically, statistically, economically, socially, in all respects. Of course, if we are to understand them effectively we must understand them in all the phases and relations of life. Mr. Ver rill's book is specially devoted to tho promotion of trade, and therefore dwells chiefly Upon those facts and phases of South American life which are of importance to the merchant. j That by no means covers the whole ground, but it. covers important ground and covers it very well. The latter part of the volume is practically a concise 1 handbook of the Latin-American coun? tries, giving the information which every traveller and every trader needs to have. x Mr.' Cooper's book is less technical and is broader in scope. While it has a view to commercial expansion, it rightly takes the view that in order to effect it wo should have a thorough knowledge of South America in all re? spects. The trader who goes thither knowing nothing but trade will not i greatly succeed. It is pleasant to be assured that the war aroused in those countries a strong antipathy to the | "Kultur" of the Hun? and increased the fooling oF friendship for the United i States. It is indeed made clear all i through tho book that there is now a ' great opportunity for the establishment j <*? the most favorable relations between the two continents, and that it is within our power to improve it to the full. With Pen and Press I Current Activities of Authors and Publishers Theodore Roosevelt, nearly a year I ago, made Joseph Bucklin Bishop his t literary executor and assigned to him | the exclusive use of all his personal ! and official correspondence for editing I and- publication and for use in prepar i ing an authorized history of his life j and public services. Mr. Bishop, who j was for many years an important member of The Tribune's editorial staff, was a close friend of Colonel | Roosevelt for more than thirty years, i find is exceptionally well qualified for i the important work which he has in ? hand. Charles Scribner's Sons will bo the publishers. Archibald Marshall has written a new novel entitled "The Clintons and Others," which Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish. Small, Maynard & Co. are publishing to-day Nalbro Hartley's "The Bargain ; True" and E. J. O'Brien's "The Best i Short Stories of 1918." Leonard Merrick's novels are to be I brought out in a uniform edition by | E. P. Dutton & Co., with introductions by Sir James Barrie, Sir William Rob? ertson Nicoll, William D. Howells, Maurice Hewlett, Sir A. W. Pinero and others. Tho first volume will appear next month. The George II. Doran Company will publish next week Charles Hanson | Towne's "Shaking Hands With Eng | land," an account of his unofficial mis? sion for cultivating closer relations j with England. Ernest Gordon, a leading authority 1 on prohibition, has written a digest i of the "Maine Law," reviewing the I social, legal and political workings of ? prohibition in New England, which 1 the F. II. Revell Company is publish- , ing. I Peter Clark Macfarlane, author of I that powerful political novel "The ; Crack in the Bell," published by Dou bleday, Page & Co., has just returned ; from Germany by v/ay of France; hav '. ing been with our Second Army since | St. Mihiel. Simultaneously with their publica? tion of Zane Grey's "Desert of Wheat," Harper & Bros, have issued a new edition of his "The U. P. Trail." Two splendid works. . Georges Clemenceau's speeches and [ writings on the war, translated by Ernest Hunter Wright, will presently be published by E. P. Dutton & Co. * ! Lawrence F. Abbott, of "The Out ? look," is writing "Impressions of I Theodore Roosevelt," to be published by Doubleday, Page & Co. The Robert J. Shores Corporation j announces "The King's Coming," ?y j William de Carrick, a novel describing the Second Coming of Christ; and "Denver's Double," by H. B. Marriott 1 Watson. Catherine Breshkovskaya's reminis- ; cences and letters, edited by Alice i j Stone Blackwell, will be reissued next j week by Little, Brown & Co. in a | popular edition. E. P. Dutton & Co. are beginning a ( new .series entitled "The Library of j French Fiction," consisting of transla i tious of representative novels portrayr 1 ing the life of provincial as well as of : metropolitan France. The Macmillan Company will next i week publish "Mexico To-day and To : morrow," by E. D. Trowbridge; "The I Vision for Which We Fought," by ! Arthur M. Simons?a volume of the "Citizens' Library Series," and "For? eign Financial Control in China," by T. W. Overlach. 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