because Mr. Nock himself is so widely learned and interested in so wide a range. Mr. Nock throws over much of the traditional emphasis upon political aims, events, consequences. His study is an application of the doctrine of the "Federalist," brought down to date and demonstrated in detail by Professor Charles A. Beard, that political activities were but the shadow, economic ends the substance, in the early days of the Republic, as to-day. Jefferson is pictured as the champion of the "producers," against the schemes of Hamilton, Marshall, Adams, and other representatives of the "rich and well-born." This economic interpretation is applied to all of Jefferson's activities sometimes with considerable strain both upon Jefferson and the reader's imagination, it must be said and by and large the result is a refreshing change in the direction of realism from the traditional emphasis upon political ends. This book is not intended for those unfamiliar with at least the essential facts of Jefferson's career and of the period in which he labored; such knowledge, Mr. Nock assumes. Many readers of conservative bent will be irritated with much of the economic interpretation, will find too much talk of "producers and exploiters," of "the cohesive power of public plunder," etc. If Mr. Nock may seem somewhat dogmatic and single-tracked in his emphasis upon "class interest," he is certainly not indignant about it, nor didactic; on the contrary, the sophistication, the saltiness, and the humor which delighted so many in his editorials in the "Freeman" are here at their best. Here is a sample, which can be matched upon almost every page: In speaking of Jefferson's inventions Mr. Nock says that "he conferred an unintended benefit upon the bureaucracies of all civilized lands by inventing the swivel chair." The book by Mr. Claude G. Bowers," of the New York "World," is an account of the struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton, and between their opposing and conflicting fundamental beliefs, from the time of the formation of Washington's Cabinet until Jefferson was elected to the Presidency. No racier, more vivid, or more graphic account is anywhere to be found. Mr. Bowers's chief "The Federalist," No. X. "Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. . . . The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government." Jefferson and Hamilton. By Claude G. Bowers. Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston. $5. Wanted - Cartoons THE HE OUTLOOK wishes to receive cartoons from its readers, clipped from their favorite newspaper. 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His pages abound in deftly drawn sketches of all those men and women who took part in the "Plutarchian struggle" of the giants. In this book we "meet marching mobs, witness duels and fist-fights, turbulent mass-meetings, public dinners in groves and taverns, hangings in effigy, and champions of democracy in the galleries of theaters, pelting the aristocrats in the pits, and coercing the orchestras into playing 'La Marseillaise."" But somehow we learn of Jefferson primarily as an obstructionist, as the chief of Hamilton's opposition. We are told of Hamilton's ideas: his contempt for democracy, his belief in strong government in the hands and for the benefit of the few able men, and the other familiar facts. Then we are given to understand that these were the antithesis of Jefferson's. Generally speaking, this is all quite true, and yet it gives to Jefferson a negative character, and quite undeservedly, as Mr. Bowers himself doubtless believes. How far an author's own views color his canvas is illustrated nicely by Mr. Bowers's and Mr. Nock's books. Obviously, Mr. Bowers is a firm believer in political democracy; the basis of a free society must be the unhampered activity by the people generally in political government. Mr. Nock sniffs at political government in and of itself. Economic control by the people is to him the only basis for a free society. Their accounts of the crucial period of which they write vary in emphasis to harmonize with these views. In writing to the above advertisers please mention The Outlook when dinner has been particularly good. It need not, as "The Big House of Inver" is a fine book. It is a tragic story. There is the possibility that Miss Somerville, who supported and hunted her own hounds in County Cork right through the war, finds it difficult to be funny about her countrymen since Easter Sunday, 1918, and the horrible four years that followed. Be that as it may, this book, though it mentions politics not at all, and its scene is laid several years before the war, is as moving a tragedy as anything that Senator Yeats's group of Dublin mourners have produced. The Prendevilles were the great family of the parish of Ross Inver, and the sign of their greatness was the Big House, built in the eighteenth century, and reduced by increasing poverty, drunken vandalism, and neglect to a great empty barracks of a place. The life task of Shibby Pindy, an illegitimate daughter of the house, is to set the impoverished and degenerate Prendevilles back in the Big House and to bring to her beloved young half-brother Kit his birthright. It is a noble fight she wages, but circumstance and heredity are too much for her. Still there are noble horses in the book, for the author is never happy far from the sound of galloping shoes, and many flashes of the humor that has kept the Irish Resident Magistrate in print for thirty years are there to leaven the grimness of it. You will like her characters, they are real people; Chauncey Olcott and John McCormack might sing till they burst and never make Ireland seem half so lovely. The name of Martin Ross is retained on the title-page, for the basic idea was hers, and, as Miss Somerville points out, an established firm does not change its title when one of the partners is forced to leave it. Design THE ROMANCE OF DESIGN. By Garnet Warren. In Collaboration with Horace B. Cheney. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. "This book," says the Publisher's Note, "has come about through the painstaking research of Cheney Brothers. 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If you are anxious to learn what American writers worried about in 1925, this book can tell you very expertly. Mr. Shepard should not object if you prefer to read Lucas, Milne, Morley, or Chesterton. OUR DEBT TO GREECE AND ROME SERIES. 3 vols., as follows: ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME. By Senatore Rodolfo Lanciani. ARISTOTELIANISM. By John Leofric Stocks, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester. HOMER AND HIS INFLUENCE. By John A. Scott, Professor of Greek, Northwestern University. The Marshall Jones Company, Boston. $1.50 per vol. "Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Rome" would be a more correct title; for the famous architect, archæologist, and writer includes all these in his survey, producing a charming book, full of information untainted by pedantry, and of the most vivid and delightful comparisons and contrasts. "Aristotelianism" is probably as adequate a summary, within a space so brief, of this so vast, intricate, and tough subject as one may hope for. But why attempt what can't be done? The book is, in fact, quite unreadable except by a few learned scholars. Even this erudite and highly intelligent reviewer required three readings before he mastered it; and, this accomplished, he wept for a wasted day. "Homer and His Influence" has merit of sorts; it is sufficiently pleasant reading. But, though obviously the work of a competent scholar, it is superficial; and one suspects that this results from a too studied effort to capture the ears of the booboisie. Really, Professor Scott was ill advised to handle his incomparable theme that way. Philosophy RELUCTANTLY TOLD. By Jane Hillyer. Introduction by Joseph Collins, M.D. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2. A sort of feminine counterpart to the "Mind That Found Itself" of Clifford W. Beers, this is, in the primary sense of the adjective, a shocking book. Readers whose nerves are not demonstrably strong are advised either to let it alone or to read it through, for Miss Hillyer's fine mind eventually emerged from its eclipse. It was fortunate for psychiatrists that she was able to remember the whole hideous experience in detail. Genuine revenants from the other-world of insanity are rare; even less frequent are those who can write of it with a humor that softens some of its hor rors. Travel THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE. By Leonard Woolf. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York. $2.50. Leonard Woolf, according to his blurbographer, spent several years in the Ceylon Civil Service. He should be well equipped to write a novel of Singhalese native life, and, praise be, his book has nothing to do with the "White Cargo," "Aloma," "Kongo" school of thought. The only white character in the book is an English judge, who does not take to drink and does not fall in love with anybody. The natives look like natives and smell like natives, and they cultivate their clearings, quarrel, scheme, and make love in a thoroughly understandable manner. Almost everybody has hookworm. Mr. Woolf would like you to think of his book as the slow but inevitable defeat of a poor Singhalese village in its battle with the surrounding jungle. The inner narrative of the forest hunter with the unpronounceable name, his revolt against his village enemies, his imprisonment, and the marriage of his daughters is all subservient to this. This makes a book to be the more thoroughly recommended were it not for the strange way that the author has written it. Singhalese expressions and idioms come so thick and fast that one is tempted to wonder why he bothered with the English at all. The foot-notes (there are several to a page) do make things moderately clear, but they scarcely assist the dramatic suspense of the narrative. This is a pity. It does give a fine picture of the jungle as it really is, and the people who live in it and fear it; but to all except Indian colonels and retired civil servants tó read it is hard sledding. Miscellaneous By WOMAN'S SHARE IN SOCIAL CULTURE. The author shows that the new woman is not to be confined in her activities to school work. Many sarcastic references are made to the point of view that celibate women have a duty to sacrifice themselves to the rising generation. Alongside of this is shown the increasing difficulty of men's taking up teaching as a vocation. Unlike the schoolboys of Europe, the boys in America are no longer taught by their own sex. The author considers this unfair, as the private schools alone can afford masters and head masters. Further, elemen tary teaching is cheap and inferior because young women are apt to take it up as a stop-gap between graduation and marriage. This the writer considers as unfortunate, as is the position of girls and young women in business. 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