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Diplomacy Still Essential
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unrestrieted national liberty at what
ever cost, we can think only of the
separate national states and the price
will be the abnndonment of a league
of nations. Our first step is another
movement away from the peace oi
force. . . We must go about oui
task with open eyes. We must start
by admitting that we cannot get some
thing for nothing. that if national
states are vital to the orderly develop
ment of the world, as we believe they
are, we must sacrificc some world
order for the sake of the developmunt
of national characteristics."
He thinks a true internationalism
must be a natural growth, and- there?
fore something which nuist come gradu
ally. '"Those parchment agrcements
that go beyond the general desires oi
the people who are expected to observe
them may do much more harm than
good." "The universal peace must
come through the proper development
of free national states and through
the voluntary recognition by those
national states that they are mem?
bers in a society of states." This
the proposed covenant drafted in
Paris does, he thinks. It is flexible
and not too deiinite; it makes possibh
cooperation between national units
without weakening or destroying them
More he fears is not wise or expedient
If w.e attempt too much now, if wo ex
pect too much progress, we may sel
back the clock in our over-eagerness tc
set it forward. Disagreements will noi
end to-morrow; permanent peace may
be long distant; "how far no man car
tell."
Plca for Rcasonableness
Let us then be reasonable. Let us
not ask more of men than human na?
ture has shown them capable of; let
us not treat nations as if they were
something which history dcmon'slratef
only too clcarly they have not been
and are not now. "The ambitions
of great -men, the suspicions of little
men, the constant misunderstandings
of all men, may undermine any struct
nre that this generation bui'lds. If
however, we build with wisdom and
with couragc and with patience those
that come after us will bo helped by
our work. Our building may fall, but
if wo have built aright. some of the
foundation stonea will remain and be?
come a part of the structure that will
ulti?nately abido."
Mr. Morrow favors general public
discussion of the text and general
principles of the league and hopes fot
its adoption. Certainly, so reasonablc
and clear a little volume as this ought
to play iis part in securing that adop?
tion of this great principle for which
all thinking men hope, which should
this time be so handled that it will
seem to later gonerations something
better than the mcre reitcration of
the idcal.
A German League
Mathias Erzberger Gives His
Idea of Covenant
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. By
.Mathias Erzberger. Henry Holt & Co.,
New York. $-.25 net.
Ever since the beginning of the war,
Mathias Erzberger has been a promi
nent leader and interpreter of the mod?
erate forces in German political life.
ile has occupied a position about
equally far removed from the i'anatical
chauvinism of the Pan-Germana and
from the resolute pacilism and interna
tionalism of the extreme Socialists.
At first, like the vast majority of hia
countrymen, he was carried off his feet
by the initial victories of the German
armies; and his record contains some
very indiscreet demands for the an
nexation of French and Bcigian terri
tory. But he soon lost faith in the
possibility of a complete triumph by
force of arms; and during the later
stages of the war he was a consistent
and ardent advocate of peace by con
ciliation. His present book, written on
the cve of the German military' col
lapse, is a desperate clutchmg al'ter a
last straw, an efi'ort to save something
from the wreckage of Teutonic ambi
tiona by the adoption and skillful man
ipulation of the idea of world federa
tion.
As might be expected, Herr Erz
berger's arguments in behalf of a
league of nations are not unlike those
put forth in support of the project in
the various Allied countries. He
points out the appalling waste and in
bumanity of war, the impending bank
ruptcy of the Europcan beliigercnt
nations, the certainty that future con
flicts will be even more costly and
destructive. He cites numerous his
torical instances where groups of
.states have united, at some sacritice of
exelusive rights, for the achievement
of a common purpose.
Coming down to the practical details
of the scneme, Erzberger lays down six
fundameiital points: compulsory arbi
tration, disarmamu.it, the freedom o?
the seas, equality of economie privilige,
readjustment of present colonial ar
rangementa and the creation and safe
guarding of permanent neutral states.
These points, in his opinion, constitute
the irreducible minimum programme
upon which all nations must agree if
the proposed federation is to succecd.
The author's nationalist biaa is clearly
revcaled both in the formulatron and
in the discussicn of these points. He
insists that naval power bc sacrificed
absolutely upon the altur of disarma
ment, although it is obvioua that, in
the event of a breach of the peace, an
aiyny could be improvised in a com
paratively short time, whereas many
years are requirod to build up a navy.
He demands a conaiderable augumenta
tion of Germany's colonial possessions
and the application of the "open door"
principle to German trade. But he
says nothmg about tbe right of self
determination for subject peoples, and
he also fails to admlt German re?
sponsibility for damage committed dur?
ing the war, except in the case of
Belgium.
Aims of Italy>
Ferrero Tells What the League
Should Do for His Country
By William L. McPherson
PROBLEMS OF PEACE. By Gugllelmo
Ferrero. Published by G. P. Puiiiam's
Sons. Pages 231. Prico $1.50.
"In 1914 there were still two
Europes; in 1919 there is oniv one."
That is tho keynote of Professor Fer
rero's volume, diacussing, for the bene
fit of American readers, the nineteenth
century struggle in Europe between
tho dynastic, Divine right principle
and the principle of popular sov
ereignty. Europe, the writer thinks,
ia now rid of the destructive issue
which had kept it, since Napoleon's
time, at war or in constant dread
of war. A new JSuropc can be con
structed, he says, which will be "co
hereat and concorriant with itself."
What is the method by which this
coherence and freedom can be secured?
Primarily, it is to "render justice
to all the European peoplcs who were
the victims of Germany, of Austria
or of both, beginning with Italy." That
is the message which the author seeks
to deliver to America. Ia it intel
ligible to us? Professor Ferrero is a
strong Nationalist. And his conception
of a strong Italian nation includea
tho acquisition by Italy of that natural
frontier in tho Alps and on tho east
side of the Adriatic which Austria
Hungary so long denied her. Italy is
not "imperialistic," he says. "To sus
pect her of imperialiatic ambitions is
to insult her century-old misfortunes,
tho culmination of which came in the
supreme sacrifice which she has now
made" (meaning her crushing and dis
proportionate lossea in the World
War).
This ia a view which has had scant
consideration in this country or even I
at Paris, where there has been a dis- i
position to weigh Italian compensation
in an apothceary'a scale while award
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ingto other Allied nationsvast stratches
of territory in Asia and Africa?under
mandatories from t\,e league of nations.
Ihe author believes in a league of
nations which will supplant tho holv
alliance of other days. But he con
tends; that it should fullv rospect na
tionality, that it should admit only
states recognizing the principle of pop
ular sovereignty and that it should as
sume effective control over armaments
His book was written before the
present simulacrujn of a society of
nations was evolved at Paris. The
society, as we know it, does not assumc
eflective control of armaments. It has
yielded to the principle of nationnjity
so far that it retains only the faintest
adumbration of super-natural author
lty. Whether it has set up popular sov?
ereignty as a pre-requisite of admis
sion within its circlc remains doubt
tul. And Italy, becauso her national
lstic claims have been slightcd, may
not even become a charter member ofit.
Professor Fcrrero's message to the
American public has thus been made
obscure by occurrences which he did
not anticipate. It would be interestinij
to know what he thinks now of the
league of nations as tho balance wheel
of the new Europe. Would he predict
for it as great a vitality and as pacific
an lnfluenco as the Holy Alliance en
joycd?
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire
Out in New Edition
"ALICE SIT BY THE PIHE." Uy J M
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Barrie's mood flickers in and out
from whimsy to burlesque and back
again in this little play, which Miss
Etnel Barrymorc popuiarizci in New
York several seasons ago. Even when
the joke ia just a bit far fctched and
preposterous Barrie hoids it together
by the skill of his trcatment.
The play has been worked over for
the reading public and the stage direc
tions dcvelopcd to such an extent that
there is at times all the suggc3tion of
a novel. The wit of the old dialogue
seems fresher than that of the new
stage directions, but for the most part
the play reads as weil as it acts.
CORNELIA
By Lucy Fitch Perkins
Cornelia, the girl who would rather
be aorry than safe, is twin tister of
Emmy Lou and Rebecca of Sunny.
brook Fann.
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German Spy Still Flourishes
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CHRISTOPHER AX D COI.VMBL'S. By
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Two mistakes marred the fortunes
of the twins, Anna-Rose and Anna
Felicitas. One was a German father,
which gave them the name "Von
Twinkler"; the other was an English
mother, and this resulted in a hard
headed English Uncle Arthur, who,
j finding their presence in England in
the early days of the war a source
of constant embarrassment, thought
fit to ship them off to America. Their
equipment consisted of two hundred
. pounds in the bank and an amount of
1 youthful simplicity only equallcd by
their limitless inexperience in dealing
with a difficult and suspicious world.
Ghristopher and Columbus they dub
j themselves as they start out on their
] journey to discover the continent
! about which they know little more
I than did that worthy voyager him?
self. Whatever trepidation fills their
i hearta at the perils of the unknown
j is by no means admitted even to eaeh
; other. The god from the machine ap
!pears almost at once, however, in the
j form of a chance acquaintance upon
| the ship, Mr. Twist, a man possessed
of mothcrly instincts and a large fort?
une accruing from his invention of a
simple household device which Amer?
ica immediately found indispensable.
| He alternately simpiilie3 and compli
: cates the successive situations in
? which the party find themselves. With
an innocence of ir.tent and a simplicity
of soul comparable only to their own,
Mr. Twist undcrtakea io pilot tho
twins into a safe haven in America,
] only to be confronted at every turn
! wfth the fatal tendency of American
1 towns to believe the worst and to act
j accordingly. He finally succeeds in
i building about them a very Ghinese
| Wall of suspicion, until at last a kind
? providence and a reaourceful lawyer
! combine in furnishing a way out.
The twins, however, progress blithe
! ly from New York to California, se
renely unaware of the interest and con
i jecture of which they are the centre,
j and mystified only by tho language,
i sounding like English, yet strangely
i incomprehensible, with which the na
I tives obscure their meaninga. The
America seen through their eyes
would perhaps present Btrange con
tours to some of those same natives.
They have, however, unboundod- confi
j dence in Mr. Twist, and, relying on him
! to find a way out of all dilemmaa, face
j all jlifficulties checrfully, encountering
them with a naive wisdom suggestive
of the rcsourcefulncss of the immortal
I Mr. Dick. The story follows a leisure
ly course and ia told with abundant
humor. Its satire of things American
is not without its barbs, but there is
the admission of the saving grace of
American nicenesa, kindlincss and coin
mon sense embodied in Mr. Twist.
E. I. T.
MacGill's "Glenmornan"
"GLENMORNAN." By Patrick MacOIU.
A novel. Published by Oorge II. Doran
&. Co. Pp. 814. Price, $1.00 net.
With the possible exception of Spain,
no country has been so exploited for
"atmospherc" as Ireland. Therefore a
book about Ireland in which the worti
I "mayourneen" or "acushla" does not
I occur once and the names of Emmet or
' Parnell are not even mentioned de
; serves special citation. There is no
doubting the first-hand quality of Pat
' rick MacGill's knowledge of Irish peas
> ant life. He shows an instinctive
; understanding of the character of an
I Irish peasant community?- its passivity
i to the hard conditions of life, the mys
j ticism engendered by its isolation and
tho pungency of its unsophistication,
i and he has striven righteously(not to let
I his vision be obscured either by the
! fog of melancholy or the golden haze
j of romance.
But the effect of this restraint has
! been to make "Glenmornan" a narra
! tive somewhat passionless and even
colorless. This may be due to the
straggling and unmoving character of
the story itself. Doalty Gallagher has
left Glenmornan a boy of fourteen, and
after a varied experience in London,
during which he has risen from dock
hand to the post of reporter on a
London daily, he is suddenly seized
with a homing instinct. He finds the
unchanged simplicity of Glonmornan's
life immensely satisfying, but after he
haa fallen in love with a barefoot
peaaant girl and failed to win her he
suddenly weariea of its primitive life
and leaves again for London. The
story remains to the end in a stato of
suspended animation, largely because
its principal characters are never
vividly realized. R. D.
A Murder and a Mystery
THE SECOND BUT/LET. By Robert Orr
Chlpporlleld. 280 poges. ?1.50. Robert
' M. McBrlde & Co.
The publishers describe thia atory
as "a book of thrifls and surprises."
Which, oi course, is all that is re
quired of a mystery. While it is high
ly desirable in any case, the average
rcader of a crime novel does not de?
mand the style of a Henry James or
the wit of an Irvin Cobb.
The thrills in Mr. Chipperfield are
more or less a matter of how easily
one is thrilled. But the surprises are
absoluto. He carrics his rcader
through a labyrinth of adventure, with
an apparently guilty person at every
turn. First you are surprised that
one of the character.; is the murderer,
then you are surprised that he is not,
The greatest surprise of all, which is
quite as it should be, is the discovery
of the real slayer.
Not brilliant in style, not remark
able in character drawing, Mr. Chipper?
lield gives us a mystery story thnt is
worked out in fine detail of incident
and an interesting picture of the mur?
derer. Lovers of this type of fiction
will doubtless stay up all night to
finisb tho story.
And They Lived Happily
THE HILLS OF DESIRBJ. By Riehard
Aumerlo Maher. Published by Macmtl
lan Company. Prloe, $1.60.
"The Hills of Desire" ia not a book
with a "message." It does not attempt
to teach a lesson or point a moral. It
is a book to be read in the spring time
or summer, in the warm air, out
where the grass grows and the birds
sing.
It tells the story of Jimmie and
Augusta and Donahue. Jimmie is a
reporter (who, like all reporters, is
writing ia novel), and Augusta is his
wife and Donahue is their old horse.
When Jimmie's health fails and he
can no longer work on his precious
book he and Augusta set out behind
Donahue in a rickety gypsy wagon and
bit the open road. A summer and
winter out in the country bring re
turning health and renewed ambition.
The book i3 nnished and sold.
Augusta is consumed with a burning
desire to writc and she does. And
editors buy.
Then comes a dark, menacing
shadow in the form of a love letter
from another woman. Augusta goes
away and the psychic powers that oc
casionally come to her prompt her to
leave a note which says, '"We may
not live together. We shall not die
apart."
And then the war and we find Jim?
mie in the trenches. One day he is
wounded?f^atally, he believes?and he
recalls Augusta's words, "We shall not
die apart." True to her prediction
they meet while the hospital is being
bombed, but miraculously escape and
decide that there ia more fun in living
together than in dying together.
A Good Young Man
THE EVOLUTION OF PETER MOORE.
By Oale Drummond. Publish?ri bv
Britton Publishing Company. Jllustrat'ed.
305 pages. Price, $l.,r.0.
That group of modern novel readers
which believes that works of fiction
, should do nothing but "take a load off
j the mind" and which was cxemplitied
; twenty years ago by followcrs of Mrs
| E. D. E. N. Southworth, will doubtless
I repay the author and the publishers of
' "The Evolution of Peter Moore" bv
storming the booksholves in quest of
this latest of Miss Drummond's tales.
The war forms a background for
Peter's evolution, for he leaves his
birthplace in the Middle West at the
putbreak of hostilities to cnlist in the
Canadian army. The laxness of his own
country in entering the world conflict
; preyed so on Peter's mind that it be
j came an obsession with him and he
! determined, singlehanded, to set his
native land an cxample by joining the
Dominion forces.
As though this act of self-sacriiice
were not enotigh, Peter Moore, on thc
eve of his departure for France, mar
ries Bertha Hunter, a childhood friend,
not because he Ioved her, but because
he thought it the gentlemanly thing
to do, as Bertha seemed a little more
than willing.
Bertha, left behind in New York
City, develops a fondness for the place
and determines to make herself a fix
ture there. She discovers that she has
a talent for millinery and, while Peter
rights overseas, Bertha fits hats on
society women and forms many ac
quaintances in "fast company."
Peter, in the course of time, evolutes
into a major in the American army,
but he and his wife have by this time
taken widely different paths and every
thing becomes hopelessly complicated,
only to be unravelled in the last few
pages by Miss Drummond's practised
hand. Tho illustrations, by Thelma
Gooch, are quite in keeping with the
written word by the author.
HAWTHORNE.
To Jail for an Education
HIS FRIEND MISS M'FARI.ANE. Bv
Knfe Langley. Bosher. 37s page^
Price J1.50. Harpi r & Bros.
Upon "a crumpled piece of paper"
Tommy Tupper, hiding under his bed
in the rcformatory, wrote to his friend,
Miss McFarlane. According to a hasty
count of the epistle, which is repro
duced in Mrs. Bosher's novel, he suc
ceeded in crowding 750 words on the
I one sheet.
j This example of condcnsed verbosity
I is in accord with the rest of "His
j Friend, Miss McFaTlane," and the won
j der at Tommy's achievement is replaced
S as one reads further by amazement at
Mrs. Bosher's.
The j)lot is the not unfamiliar one
of a girl who chafes at the vain and
empty life of society and tinds salva
tion and happiness throuch the cheer
ful spirit of a poverty-stricken child,
The author's heroine is weathy, beauti
ful and benevolent. All through the
volume she is referred to most fre
quently as "Miss McFarlane." She is
that sort of a person.
Knowing little of the endless rami
fications of Southern relationships, we
are nevertheless inspired" to wonder If
the hero, Caldwell Tams, is not some
distant kin of Dr. Vivian of "V. V.'s
Eyes," written by a fellow native of
Mrs. Bosher's state, Virginia.
The story deals with the fortunes of
Tommy Tupper, a lad of the fnountains,
who sins deliberately, so that he may
be sent to the reformatory and there
acquire a schooling. On the way to the
institution he meets Miss McFarlane,
and from then on they struggle toward
happiness together. In the final pages
l one finds that Tommy is on tbe way to
! a private school and the hero is en
; route to France, but is passing a mo?
ment to hold Miss McFarlane in his
arms. p_ -p. V.
Story of American Youth
"FLEXIBLE FEItDINAND." Bv .Tulle *I
Iitppmunn. Published by Oeorge ll'
Doran. 312 pages. Price $1.50.
Miss Lippmann, the author of the '
Martha" books, was born and edu
cated in "Brooklyn. A number of her
poems have appeared in magazines and '
anthologies. Further fame awaits her i
when Mary Pickford appears in a mo- |
tion picture adapted from "Burkoses '
Amy. ' lt is to be hoped that Pickford ?
fans will Bee a real scenario at last, in- j
stead of a series of scenes showing i
Miss Pickford's passion for the animal I
kingdom.
"Flexible Ferdinand" is a pleasant ;
picture of American youth. The Brad
fords, Ferdinand's parents, neither be
lieve in bringing up their children
wholly "by hand" nor in indulging in
the craze for self-expression, which,
carried to the limit. results in making
American children the centre of atten
tion in the noiseless dining rooms of
European hotels. Ferdinand's advent
urea are readable. When his father
fails ignomoniously in coping with the
financial responsibilities of husband
and father, Ferdinand's'' mother, se
authorofa bi$ book #
Snaith is big?has always been a big
author?but it took "The Undefeated"
to make people realize how big he
really is. Until you know Bill Hollis,
the little green-grocer poet, his wife
'Melia, Josiah Munt and Sally of the
Motor Corps?heroes all in the great
conflict?you've inissed the most in?
teresting people in fiction today.
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h Conrad
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cretly rejoicing, takes to the stage.
Hence Ferdinand is sent off to school,
where he begins learning life as well
as lessons in earnest. Later on he be
comes a doctor, invents a new and ef?
ficient method of treating a fell dis
ease and puts it suceessfully into prac?
tice, with his mother for patient. Of
course, he marries the girl of his
choice and "lives happily ever after."
The other young Bradfords, James
Barnes, lazy and dissipated Alicita, a
negligible quantity, except in aiding
the development of the story, provide
variety of type, and Matilda Mueller is
an amusing paragon of the genius
"family servant." K. W.
A Romance of Paris
THE AXURE3 ROSE. By Reprinairl Wright
Kiuffmari. The Macauley Company.
New York. J1.50.
"Nothing can lastingly hurt Paris,"
says Mr. Kautfman in a prefatory in
| troduction which he believes to be
! necessary for a story about that city
| which takes no account of the war.
| "The Azure Rose" was conceived prior
i to 1914, he says, and written with
| the conviction that whatover might
! befall Paris would remain Paris.
He was right. The Paris of "The
Azure Rose" is immune to Zeppelins,
| aeroplanes, Big Berthas and Bolshe
| viats. It is as immortal as the Bag
dad of Haroun al Raschid. It will
! live as long as there are Reginald
Wright KaufTmans and aa long as
workaday humanity rclies upon thom
to find its romance for it.
The narrative travels upace and at
tains its journey'.^ end with niar
vellouB speed considering the entice
ments to loiter.
PRIVATE
SeCRETARr-"?)
? new detective romance
GERALDINE
BONNER
wh? wrot?
"The Girl at Central"
Lost jewels, a lost baby,
an indignant hero, a brave
heroine, much
mystery and a
dever little de?
tective to etraight
en it all out. Here'i
a rattling good ro?
mance.
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