1 '"I J^ct5bMB Tnw rtomeo 'Both Their Hous Until the Lover; TO THE L..YST MAN. By Ziini Grey Harper & Brothers. THE popularity of Zune Grey hai long been a puzzle to man: critics. His romances ari frankly tales of blood. He always fur nishes his growing clientele with i grand holocaust. Yet despite his san guinary themes he has many reader who hold the usual run of Westeri thrillers in deep scorn. His hold 01 them is not hard to understand, fo: he gives them good straight stories free from the shallow sentimentalit; and lurid phraseology that sometime \ mar this kind of Hction. In a preface to his latest story, Zatr Grey tries to let us into his secret lie describes his methods. He hold a brief for romance. "Romance," hi asserts, "is only another name fo idealism, and I contend that life with out ideals is not worth living. Neve in the history of the world were ideal needed so terribly as now. Tt wai Stevenson particularly who wielded : bludgeon against the realists. I'eopl live for the dream in their hearts And I have yet to know arty one wh< has not some secret dream, some hope however dim, some storied wall ti look at In the dusk, some painted win (low leading to the soul." Further on in the preface he says "My inspiration to write has alway come from nature Character um action are subordinated to setting. Ii all that I have done I have tried t< make people see how the world is toi much with them. Getting and spend ing they lay waste their powers witl never a bre.ath of the free and wonder ful life of the open!" Zane Grey then toils how he cami to write the story of a feud. He heart rumors of a terrible struggle in thi Pleasant Valley in the Tonto Basin o Arizona. He decided to go there ii rtuest of material. To his surprise hi found that the natives were ver; reticent about the episode, and it tool several successive visits to gain theii confidence. In 1920 he says: "With out my asking it several different na fives of the Tonto came to tell mi about the Pleasant Valley war. X< two of them agreed on anything con eerning it, exefept that only one of thi active participants survived the fight ing. Whence comes my title 'To th< Ijjist Man.' Thus t was swamped ii a mass of material out of which ' could only flounder to my own con elusion. Some of the stories told m? are singularly tempting to a novelist But though I believe them myself, ] cannot risk their improbability t< those who have no ideu of the wild ness of wild men at a wild time There really was a lerrime unu uiuuuj feud, perhaps the most deadly am least known in all the annals of th< West. I saw the ground, the cabins the graves ill so darkly suggestivi of what must have happened. "T never learned the truth of tin cause of the Pleasant Valley war. 01 if 1 did hear it had no means ol recognizing it. All the given cause; were plausible and convincing Strange to state there is still seorecj and reticence all over the Tonto Basil as to the facts of this feud. Many de< seendants of those killed are livlnf there now." Mr. Orev has seen and absorbed am yet his conception of what happened seems to be peculiarly his own. W< suspect that he feels all the tru< novelist-creator's affection for Jear Tsbel and Ellen Jorth, the children o: the leaders in the feud. Jean Tsbe was summoned from Oregon to ak his father and his half brothers in tin war which they saw approaching be< tween themselves and the encroachinf sheep herders. Jean has Indian bloo< in his veins, and this helps him it ambushing the family's desperate one mies. There are two sieges in thi story, the first an attempt of the Jo?-tf faction to wipe out all the Tsbels bj surprise, and the second the retail fion by the Tsbo's. In the final ohap' ter only Jean and Ellen survive anf Jean Is ab'e to say: "You're a Jortt and I'm an Tsbel. We've blood on out hands?both of us?T for you and yot for me!" Mr. Orev gives those readers whr like b'ood their moipv'ii worth Thert In a Hash Knife cane of rustlers anf an Imports! Texas srtinman who fle-uri In the storv. Nearly everv one shoot" to kill. The peonle of the storv art little more than animated tarcets Zane Orey treats his suhlerts as Klne Huno of Pwar.i'and did when he socured a rifle. But Omy's real enthusiasm Is for his seftlne. Fie Is s Action scene painter of no mean order as the render's flrst slprht of Tont< Rastp proves. "}1t> felt n sheer foree, a downward drawing of an lmm?"e atrvss beneatt him. . . . tt seemed tp he a stupendous tru'f surrounded on thre< sides hv hptd tindu'atlntr lines o! peaks, and op his side hy a wall st hlrh that he felt lifted aloft on th? rim of the sky. . . . "For leagues and leagues a cnlossa red and yel'ow wtui, a rampart, i 7 and Juliet P es' Go On Fighting 3 Alone Are Left mountain faced cliff seemed to zigzag westward. Grand and bold were the s promontories reaching out over the f void. They ran toward the/ westering sun. Sweeping and impressive were 8 the long lines slanting away from " them, sloping darkly spotted down to t merge into the black timber. . . l. ] . The craggy broken cliffs merged Into 1 Zane Grey drinking E ; On a British . WITH BEATTY IN THE NORTH SEA. By FUson Young. Little, Brown & Co. j s t i' I ^ HE modern naval battle is difI ferent from everything else i In tV... nni.1^ In Ttlat 6 w.c ... ....o. . nowhere else do men, banded together i s in such numbers and wielding such 1 , power, contend with one another at so extreme a peril to themselves. It is more ringed with terror than any other human experience. Each man commits himself, with a thousand others, to a vulnerable shell, and J launches it into an arena sheeted and Superman SELECTED L.ETTERS OF FRIEDRICH i NIETZSCHE. Doubleday. Page & Co. | THE NIETZSCHE-WAGNER CORRE- I 8PONDENCE. Edited by Elizabeth I Foerster-Nletzsche. Boni * Llveright I Reviewed by BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. NIETZSCHE! A word to madden and con- j Jure with?a word that is a blasphemy, a sword, a bomb, a scareorow, a boo-boo! In the ears of the illiterate and the sentimentalists. In the early years of the last century children used to be taught how to behave by saying to them: "Tom 1 Paine'll get you!" In certain books " of the time one of the saviors of the - Colonial army an<1 the great enemy of j r cant and camouflage was represented 1 with horns and tnil. t Then, again, a little further back there was a. certain Benedict de ftpl? noza, a quiet, ascetic thinker of Ami sterdam. who was excommunicated ' from the Jewish church in that city - j with the most formidable and heartless anathema that has ever been proI nounced anywhere. This Ood-tntoxli rated man was called "An atheist and a menace.". Tills man, who lived In a i little furnished room, ground lenses for a living and ate a howl of oat) rtieal with some bread and eggs three ' times a day, was put oown m me I Who's Who of the time as a "swinish > senstiallst." ? One can. of course, write a hook on ( > the venom that pursues the trans. valuers of current values and dlsasr soclatlonists of Ideas hack to Prome theus. It Is an old story?and merely proves that all new visions are born i with the evil eye. . | In 1X83 Nletssche wroto to his sls? tor, Mmo. Koerstor-Nletzsehe, frotn | fills-Maria: "It Is absolutely n stood In the worst possible way ani f l despised." ) Which is a pieco of psyi hology and > a prophecy. What lies have been ufi tcred in his name! What stupidities I have been ascribed to him! What i vi inc.1 he has had to shoulder' He | THE NEW YORK taversed red sided cedar greened slopes running down and down into gorges choked with forests, from which soared up a roar of rushing waters. | Slope after slope, ridge beyond ridge, [ canyon merging into canyon?so the tremendous bowl sunk away to its black deceiving depths, a w^derness .across which travel seemed impossible." But when there's any shooting to do those mountains never got in the way. What's a little thing like a mountain between enemies? j ' _ - m M * ?#? * n at a desert spring. Battle Cruiser blotted with flame and concussion. He can do nothing for His own safety, but only for the common purpose. . . . This is warfare at the point to which Christian civilization has so far succeeded in bringing it; and no pagan ingenuity has invented anything more hellish than this?that man's floating home and citadel can in a second be turned into a weapon to destroy him by the thousand. . . . "One has some right to say this who /or the whole of a gray January morn-1 ing knelt in the Lion s top while the storm of that concentrated bombardment gradually enveloped her. and had nothing else to do but consider it and Philosopher has been called "monster," 'the author of the world war," a "preacher of brute force"?and what else? Personally. T have made it a point to challenge every one for the last twenty years whom I have heard re vue me name or mis me most portentous figure of modern times and one of the greatest psychologists and poets of all time. In every case without exception I have founS that these abusive critics had never read a single line of Nietzsche! They were merely parrots. In "Thus Spake Znrathustra" Nietzsche says: "Such things are not said for long ears. Every word. also. Is not suited for every mouth. These are fine, fur away things; at them sheep's hoofs shall not grasp!" Long ears and sheep's hoofs- It Is Just those who believe that Nietzsche wn< a nihilist, when as a matter of fact he was an optimist, a world creator, the great trumpeter of individualism against Prusslanism, paternalism and state and ecclesiastical slavery of every kind. These letters of Nietzsche are a treasure of incalculable worth. They begin In his youth and end in 1888, when that mighty brain went Into darkness? with a letter addressed to another man whose mind was going "into its penumbra?Strlndberg. Nietzsche's last letter to the great Swede is "slcned "The Crucified." There is another signed "Klet*sche Ctesar." Strindberc has a letter to Nletasschc signed "The Mont, the Highest God.'; Which merely proves that grent men have the same privilege of going Insane as stock brokers, Sunday school ; teachers. Congressmen nnrl shoe clerks? Before any one begins the study of Nietanche f advise him to read these two volumes. They reveal the soul? the strong, sweet, marvelou.?ly human soul?of this reviled man. They project the most significant figure in all human thought on the enrthplane. j They portray the author of "Thus j Spake Zarathustra"?the greatest prose-poem written since the Bible? as n spiritual entity in flesh of the very highest, order. His whole life was n mental, physical and financial martyrdom He was ascetic. Ho wu! : HERALD, SUNDAY, iOOK S OF RECENT PUBL1 iWS AND VIEWS OF i give himself to its sensational embrace. I remember that the increasing uproar and concussion came gradually to have a stupefying rather than an exciting effect; the mind became numb to mere terror, while it remained actively interested in what was going on. Many mere details are , registered on my mind and memory; The smell and taste of cordite smoke, as the wind drove it back upon us from the mouths of our guns; the great sounds about us, which I admit to be among the noblest sounds I have ever heard, so enormous were they, so deep and trembling. . . . I remember also 1 he silences; lulls that came in the very heat of battle, when sometimes for live or ten seconds there would be no sound but the soft brushing of the wind and its harplike harmonies in the rigging, until a salvo from our guns would split the heavens again and, like its echo, the hollow growl of the enemy's guns would fill the gap between it and the next. . . . "On the pictorial side the chief impression of the action was its remoteness. The Lion being our leading ship there was nothing before me but the horizon and the four black smudges on the port bow that only through binoculars were identifiable as big ships. If one looked abeam, however, the whole pattern of the chase could at times be observed^ and a curious effect of the great outspread chase to the southeast was that it seemed motionless, like a problem spread out on a chess board. The far line of the enemy battle cruisers, the farther line 01 our light cruisers on their quarter, our destroyers astern and in the middle, and at the apex and the head of the whole the smoke from the German destroyers and light cruisers?these for half an hour at a time would not change in relation to one another, and so, being the only things visible on the circle of the sea, appeared to be motionless." mis civilian s aescriiiuon 01 me Dogger Hank action in the North Sea on January 25, 1915, is the high water mark of Filson Young's "With Heatty in the North Sea." Beside thlsj picture all formal despatches fail in emotional effect and the terror of German officers' descriptions of conditions aboard their ships leave the reader cold. No one ever painted so moving and true a picture of a modern naval battle so poignantly as this, for no one appears to have had the power of detachment that came to this writer who as a civilian aid to Admiral Beatty served on the Lion for six months with this as his crowning experience. Primarily Filson Young's text is concerned with what to him are more important things. These Include a daily account of life aboard a battle cruiser in war time, attacks on the British Admiralty, an exposition of the British navy's unreadiness for war and a defence of the vessel that floats over the ship that flies and the one that submerges. But readers of war books have had their fill to overflowing of such matters. And what they will find for satisfaction in these pages is such stirring and memorable passages as the excerpts we have quoted above. They are what make this book stand out for admiration and gratitude. T) /\i -i 4- ^P/-\ J3UUgJLlL ?U sickly almost every day of his lif? always on the verge of collapse. He was threatened with blindness for many years. He wandered from plac e to place In Europe in pursuit of health and quiet. A Freudian paradox?this prophet Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawn by Stuart Davis. of th<- superman. Gentle, urbane, correct to the point of the most ultraphillstlnlsm, a stickler for the conventions nnii the proprieties (ho breathed a slch of relief when Warmer legitimised liis child by msrr.vlng Cosima and felt shocked when lie heard the great Richard take the name of Christ blasphemously), he preached the most revolutionary and exhilarating doctrine that humanity has ever listened to?unless we except Max Stirner. His whole philosophy Is an attempt to conceive himself and j humanity as they are not. He gave man a new vision, a new illusion, and unveiled?or at least formulated -a new truth, thn Wlll-to-Power. It is ultimate. Whatever lives desires power. Humility, sclf-nhnegntion and JANUARY 8, 1922. Young Chin THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF CHINA: A HISTORY AND A SURVEY. By Mlngchien Joshua Bau. Fleming H. Revell Company. THE march of events in China, and the developments of the Washington conference, lend an additional interest to Dr. Bau's book, which, in any case, would stand out as a study of primary importance in the discussion of world politics. Dr. i Bau has performed a colossal task with tireless energy and careful n\- 1 search, and l^e has done it with a Judicial poise, a clearness of insight and a fairness and breadth of view that1 j give his work high rank both as a ! j contribution to history and as a philo: sophical statement of political theory, with concrete application to the case ! in hand. Dr. Bau's qualifications are themj selves remarkable. He is a graduate I not only of the Tsing Hua College, and j of Columbia, but also of Yale and j Johns Hopkins. He has held the CarI negie Endowment International Law j Fellowship, and has also studied at the Union Theological Seminary and the Yale Divinity School! His command of English is complete; his style is altogether admirable?fluent, simple, vigorous, dignified, and always accurately adjusted to the matter of his discourse. And. above all. one feels, deeply, that he is actuated throughout by devotion to the highest ideals, boil) of loyalty to his native land and of a broader world-citizenship. But he nowhere wan-ers into a vague idealism. He is practical, soundly rooted to the solid ground of fact. Any estimate of the book naturally runs to enthusiasm. Moreover, it tills a place hitherto vacant. There is nothing in English covering the same field adequately. M. Henri Cordler's special study? j Hiatoirr tics Relations the la Chine avec les Puissances Ocddcntaiea? comes down only to 1900, ind Although ' his monumental ffistoirc - - m I * . ..-xs&sjJSer 1 V. / ' I **? ssooi wmmm> wmwmmmmm .ji Mingchien J Bau. national struggle for concessions and the present phase of international aid ; and control, culminating in the new consortium of bankers. The second part deals minutely with the policies of the great Powers toward China? Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States, and the third part of the book is given wholly to the policy of Japan in China. The fourth section treats of the progressive impairment of China's sover- ' eignty by extraterritoriality, concessions, leases, spheres of influence and tariff restrictions. It is a sorry tale. ' Dr. Bau is at his best in his interpretation of the attitude of the nations toward China. Russia he pronounces aggressive, unscrupulous, tricky, sometimes violent. The attitude of France has varied, depending , largely upon her own relations to her , allies, especially Great Britain?opportunist, but not wholly unfriendly. Germany from a mild beginning developed to a position of out and out j ner's Child i Great gouts of life are hurled at our i heads. IJtanie* that end in screams < and sobs. Catafalques of bronze burst and give forth doves and butterflies? i so hard, so tender is the soul of this wonderful man. His "superman"? Simply, "Be hard i [on yourself] and live dangerously." The existence of man Justifies man. ' The existence of pain Justifies pain. The existence of death Justifies death. Whatever is is a bridge to a beyond. Perpetually create new vistas, new < values, new heights. Fuse will and j ' dream. Put wings oil your vires. Let ! your purpose 1m- a sword. Exalt your pains. Make golden butterflies of your gricis. Be playwright to yourself. I?rt j your brain ptyy Shakespeare to your i fatalities." If this he not Faith then what does f1 the word mean? The great moment in Nietzsche's life after reading Schopenhauer was his meeting with Richard Wagner. And there is a very humorous letter from Nietzsche to Rohde which tells of how the tailor delivered to him his evening clothes wnly a half hour before he was due at Tribschen, demanded his money, and when Nietzsche told him he could not pay him^ (lie tailor stripped hlin. raced away * In the rain with the suit, leaving the future prophet of the sufs rm.in In his ihlrt and underdrawers. The correspondence between Nietzsche and Wagner is ? rich mine. One "oilin quote rrnm almoin fvcry icrter. * There I* a foreword by H. I, Mencken, ' llie Jnck Dempsey of American t-rltl- | dstn. He believes that Wagni r failed ' to apprehend the full greatness of Nietzsche. As a matter of fact, Nleta- ' 1 ache outgrew Wagner. Nietzsche was ' a *tin that buret at high noon. Warner was a sun that grew senescent. Compare "Parsifal" with Zar.a- I thustra." However, It Is *i good thing I that Nietzsche did not live to tho age 1 af Warner?he, too, might have done i "Parsifal.' 1 The letters ara Interspersed with > biographical matter by Nietzsche's sis- i ter, which adds to the value of the volume. I These two hooks are the non-fiction i ooi1 the value of the Japanese conception of it. There is too much of a desire of tne tail to wag the dog about it. China, and not Japan, is ultimately the potential arbiter of Asiatic destinies. The Japanese idea of a "Monroe Doctrine" is too militant; it lacks th< corollary of non-interference with the nations outside of Asia. Dr. Bau's analysis of this is keen, but he man ages to remain hopeful of a revised Japanese attitude that would bring about genuine cooperation. The fifth section of the book dealwith problems that have arisen sinc< the war; in particular with the new consortium wherein he sees the l_s?ihilit in.l ttf i f > v i.,n- tvi?1i :1m l ere Mary warn ins: that it must b< reciprocal, as other nations. Japan In [ articular, must also learn It. I-asth he outlines an attitude toward Japan which should be based upon *elfrespect, resisting aggression, hut also unclliiitory and friendly. Me would rive Japan preferences, as ChlnaV closest fr.iend. but would not allow hei unwarranted liberties. The whole scheme culminates In .1 lofty vision of devotion to world wol fare. China must not attempt domi nation, nor Imitate the German mis fake, but must "take the lowly path if service." Mo w>r? an awakened na Ion taking its place as an apostle 01 'Kill wit Ion, preserving Its" ancient deals but also making full use of tVestern science and acting In a spirit ?f altruism. His final word compels quotation, Says he? '"For the day will come when it i* tot the nation that dominates others phi snail no great, niu ine nation :hat can render to mankind the grcit !?t acrvtco." H. I.. PANOBORN. Max Eastman dci linn that when he lold Bernard RIia? that hp wu writing a book on humor Shuw advised k.lm to go to a sanitarium. "Thorn Is 10 mom clangorous litor.tr> symptom." is said, "than the temptation to wrltt ibout wit and humor. It indicates th? otnl loss of both," But Kastm;tn por listed in his undertaking, and hlftmok, "The Sense ?>f Humur" (Scrlb nor's) is among th> recent publicationa, I