T CHILDREN'S READING BY SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG Author of Sons and Daughters," HE restrictions placed upon the use of labor and materials by the various administrative boards may have reduced the number of books published during the war and until after the final terms of peace are received. But there are forces at work in the opposite direction; the war has produced its own flood of "literature," and the returning soldiers promise to add to the output. For not only is this the greatest war in history, it involves also the largest number of men-and women-conscious of something to say and of a fair facility in saying it. With the end of the war it becomes urgent that popular interest be rapidly developed in problems of reconstruction, if only to save us from the calamity of a new book from every soldier and nurse and commissioner. Nevertheless there are war books of real and of enduring value for old and young. One of the disappointing features of the season's juveniles is the failure to utilize war facts and war idealisms in a more effective and more realistic manner. The war books written for the young are too frequently stilted and artificial to the last degree as stilted and artificial as the juveniles of ante-bellum days. On the other hand, a number of the books written by men and women under the impulse of the tense feelings aroused by the stirring adventures of the war, while not intended for children, An excellent war record for children is recent years that are of value now because lands and peoples. These include various also made the subject-matter of special sig- The Blot 'Scutcheon $1.00 net nificance to children. The books likely to be of more lasting value among those written for adults have also been starred. A SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG WAR BOOKS FOR CHILDREN The Adventures of Arnold Adair, American Ace. By Absorbing adventures of a flier on the western front; true to the essential facts of aerial warfare. 10-14. Oliver Hastings, V. C. By Escott Lynn. E. P. Dutton & Co., N. Y. $1.50. Stirring and interesting, though impossible, adventures of an English youth at the very center of the whole war. 10-14. Uncle Sam's Boy at War. By Oscar Phelps Austin. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. $1.25. "An American boy sees the European war," and learns a great deal about munitions, transportation, submarines, and trenches. 12-16. *The Wonder of War in the Air. *The Wonder of War on Land. By Francis Rolt-Wheeler. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. $1.35 each. Reliable descriptions of the machinery and strategy of modern warfare, interestingly presented in story form. 10-14. *A Boy of Bruges. By Emile and Tita Cammaerts. Illustrated by Albert Delstanche. E. P. Dutton & Co., N. Y. $1.50. A story of child life in Belgium preceding the great war, and a picture of the German invasion. 8-12. The French Twins. The Belgian Twins. By Lucy Fitch Perkins. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. $1.25 each. The successful portrayal of child life in "The Eskimo Twins" is continued, but colored by the events of the war. G-10. OTHER JUVENILES OF TIMELY INTEREST *The Story of the United States. By Marie L. Herdman. Illustrated by A. S. Forrest. Our Island Story. [England.] By H.E. Marshall. Illustrated. An Empire Story. [The British Empire.] By H. E. Marshall. Illustrated. F. A. Stokes Co., N. Y. $3 each. Large, handsome volumes, interesting; attractive illustrations. 10-14. *This Country of Ours: The Story of the United The World's Story: A Simple History for Boys and The story of man's life told in simple language. Ilustrated. 10-14. When I Was a Boy in Greece. By George Demetrios. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. 75c. each. Pierrot, Dog of Belgium. By Walter A. Dyer. Double- Story of the present war and the rôle of a dog in defend- Romances of Reality Series: Electricity. Engineering. The Boys' Book of Submarines. By A. Frederick Col- English Fairy Book. By Ernest Rhys. F. A. Stokes Co., N. Y. $1.35 each. These books are attractively illustrated and convey the Translations and whole make-up in character. 10-14. Old tales of Flanders and Brabant that are still being told The Allies' Fairy Book. Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Most of these tales are new to American readers; selec- (Continued on page 553) Two books of great interest in connection with the prob- German lems of PEACE. Whether Atrocities ous "POTSDAM GANG" With Affidavits, Photographs, etc. and their powerfully-wrought plans to loot the whole world -which all but succeeded! THOMAS TIPLADY'S SKY PILOT" TALES The Soul of The Cross at the Front Cloth. Net $1.25 The North American says of these two enduring works on "the. Great Adventure :"" An outpouring of human nature that differentiates Tiplady's work from a legion of war books that have gone before." BOOKS FOR BOYS GRIT-A-DILLON WALLACE author of "Ungava Bob," etc., is to Labrador Wild. For adventure and realism of the most healthful sort boys will find it difficult indeed to beat this latest story from the surviving companion of Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., the Labrador explorer. Illus trated. Net $1.25. UNCLE JOE'S Edward A. Steiner author of "On the Trail LINCOLN of the Immigrant," etc., gives us a delightful story of the influence of the life of Abraham Lincoln upon the boys of a far-away land. Will move every patriotic American to greater zeal and greater service to-day. Illustrated. Net 81.00. CAMERON EDWIN C. BURRITT the author of "The Boy Scout Crusoes," presents a new sheaf of Adventures in the South Seas. The success of "Boy Scout Crusoes" has furnished the incentive for a fascinating story of adventures which will keep the reader spellbound until the last page is reached. Illustrated. Net $1.25. AT HIS COUN- ALBERT LEE has written the first big Tale of the great War for Boys. Lieut. Gen. Sir R. Baden-Powell says: "It is a most exciting yarn for boys which should arouse their spirit of patriotic adoration." Illustrated. Net $1.25. Ask ANY Bookseller for Fleming H. REVELLS' Revell Company New York 158 Fifth Ave. A Selected List of Books for the Young (Continued) FOR OLDER BOYS AND GIRLS *The Roots of the War: A Non-Technical History of Europe, 1870-1914. By William Stearns Davis, William Anderson, and Mason W. Tyler. Century Co., N. Y. $1.50. A very readable and informing account of the political developments since the Franco-Prussian War. Clear and authoritative. Cavalry of the Clouds. By Captain Alan Bott, M.C. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $1.25. One of the first books about fighting in the air. Depicts the daily life of the flying officers in France; describes heroism modestly and without exaggeration, yet vividly and truthfully. *With the Flying Squadron. By Harold Rosher. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. Macmillan Co., N. Y. $1.25. Letters from an English pilot to his family. In spite of his tender years, the author had a remarkably mature sense of responsibility and sober outlook. "He died at work, at 22 years." An inspiration to youth. *High Adventure. By James Norman Hall. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. $1.50. Well-written, thrilling adventures of an American airman; fine sentiment. The First Hundred Thousand. All In It. K1 Carries On. By Ian Hay Beith. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. $1.50 each. Vivid and realistic accounts, full of humor and human nterest. Over There with the Australians. By Captain R. Hugh Knyvett, Anzac Scout. Charles Scribner's Sons, N. Y. $1.50. Brilliant narrative; story of Australians' part in the war from the unusual angle of an intelligence officer. Carry On Letters in Wartime. The Glory of the Trenches. By Coningsby Dawson. John Lane Co., N. Y. $1 each. Inspiring records of the performances and emotions of the soldier in action. Though imbued with lofty sentiment, they will appeal to the young. Reveal a magnanimous and heroic spirit. From Bapaume to Passchendaele. By Philip Gibbs. G. H. Doran Co., N. Y. $2.50. Journalistic, but vivid and authoritative. "A clarifying panoramic view of the wide sweep of the war itself, knit of innumerable close-ups." Fighting Starvation in Belgium. By Vernon Kellogg, of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $1.25. Conditions in Belgium before and after the invasion, and the work of organized relief, introducing Herbert Hoover. Authentic, sympathetic, and informing, as well as interesting. The Doctor's Part. By Col. James R. Church, M.D. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. $1.50. Treatment of the wounded men; details and incidents. Work of the Red Cross and of other relief agencies. *Home Fires in France. By Dorothy Canfield. Henry Holt & Co., N. Y. $1.35. Short stories of French life and incident in the region swept by the war. Finding Themselves: The Letters of an American POEMS AND PICTURES OF THE WAR From the Front. Collection of 86 Poems. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. $1. Real trench verse, voicing forth the spirit of the defenders of democracy. In Flanders' Fields. By Lieut.-Col. John McCrae. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y. $1.25. Inspiring poems, full of fine, tender sentiment. Poems of the Great War. Selected by J. W. Cunliffe. Macmillan Co., N. Y. $1.50. Excellent collection; includes John Masefield, Edith Wharton, etc. Treasury of War Poetry, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. $2. A very interesting collection from Kipling, Alfred Noyes, Rupert Brooke, and many others. The Muse in Arms. Edited by E. B. Osborn. F. A. Stokes Co., N. Y. $2. A well-arranged, representative collection of war poems. Fragments from France. By Bruce Bairnsfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y. $1.75. Sketches and drawings depicting the humor and pathos of the soldier's life. Raemaekers's Cartoon History of the War. Compiled by J. Murray Allison. Century Co., N. Y. $1.50. First of the series of four volumes of these famous war drawings in chronological order. Covers the first twelve months of the war. Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in England. In America. J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila. $1.50 each. Striking views, with comments by the artist, of the industrial aspects of the war's tremendous activities. "As impressive as cathedrals." Scribner Gift Books The Great Adventure Present Day Studies in American Nationalism He who intelligently and fair-mindedly The City of Trouble Petrograd Since the Revolution By Meriel Buchanan "A book which has not been surpassed by Soldier Silhouettes On Our The Moving Experience of a Y. M. C. A. By William L. Stidger It gives what the parents, sisters and wives of those at the front have long craved-a look into the very heart of the soldier. Illustrated. $1.25 net RICHLY ILLUSTRATED The Valley of Democracy The People and Activities of the Middle West By Meredith Nicholson "It is a book which could have been written only by a Westerner; and it is a book for every American-Westerner and Easterner, Northerner and Southerner-to read, mark, ponder, and inwardly digest. The book is well thought out, well planned, and well written."-Professor Brander Matthews in the New York Times. Illustrations by Walter Tittle. $2.00 net On Our Hill By Josephine Daskam Bacon Kate Douglas Wiggin says: "A winsome, book this, but one with a flavor all its own; Byways in Southern Tuscany By Katharine Hooker Almost like an echo from the past comes this fascinating volume on the 'Byways in The Plays of J. M. Barrie Richard Burton says: "There is but one Barrie, and his name is James! Blessed is he among modern authors, and twice blessed are we that today we can put his plays into our library among the standard volumes that give it tone and attraction." What Every Woman Knows $1.00 net The Admirable Crichton Quality Street Echoes of the War $1.00 net $1.00 net "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,"" The New Word," Barbara's Wedding," and A Well-Remembered Kiss." $1.50 net Crosses of War By Mary R. S. Andrews Poems of war and patriotism by Mary R. FICTION Simple Souls By John Hastings Turner "Well, read it, and read it again, and keep Lovers of Louisana By George W. Cable Southern Tuscany. Charmingly illustrated The Sandman's Forest with sketches in black-and-white and photo- In the Wilds of South America Six Years of Exploration in Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil of Natural History By Leo E. Miller of the American Museum It is a wonderfully informative, impressive, and often thrilling narrative in which savage peoples and all but unknown animals largely figure, which forms an infinitely read BOOKS SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE able book and one of rare value. With 48 full-page illustrations and with maps. $4.50 net By Louis Dodge "He has produced a book for children that has more of the qualities of J. M. Barrie at his tenderest than anything which has yet been produced in America."-Philadelphia Ledger. With colored page illustrations by Paul Bransom. $2.00 net The Book of Bravery By Henry W. Lanier Forty-five stories of adventure on land and CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS BOOKS SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE The History of the People of the United States," etc. Here, almost coincident with the end of the war, is the book which the most sanguine did not expect for at least another year. Here, close upon the events it records, is the first complete political history of America's part in the war. Not a collection of articles-not an array of inanimate statistics, but an authentic, coherent narrative written by one of the most distinguished living historians. The work deals almost exclusively with the developments in this country following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Professor McMaster shows how inevitably we were drawn into the conflict. He discloses the methods and extent of the German propaganda in the United States, tells of the treachery of Germany's officials, discusses the submarine campaign, the peace notes, the breaking of relations and our declaration of war, all in the light of authoritative information. An interesting feature of the book is that describing the shifting attitude of Americans towards the war during the early part. There is no other book that covers, in any such degree of comprehensiveness or interest, the political, diplomatic and military developments in America during the past four years. There can be no other book which will handle so tremendous a subject more satisfactorily or more completely than this of Professor McMaster's. "It must have an enviably commanding rank among the permanent records of the war."-New York Tribune. 8vo, with map. $3.00 net. This Department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION Ashton-Kirk Criminologist. By John T. McIntyre. Illustrated. The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. $1.40. Colette Baudoche. The Story of a Young Girl of Metz. By Maurice Barrès. Translation and Foreword by Frances Wilson Huard. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.50. Eyes of Asia (The). By Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $1. Not for a long time has Mr. Kipling written anything which has had so much of the old charm of his early tales of India as is found in these fictitious letters supposed to be written by East Indian soldiers engaged in the present war to relatives at home. Some are from France; one or more from an English hospital. It is exceedingly interesting to get into the mind, so to speak, of such a man, and to see the war and the wonders of France and England as they appear to him. There is humor in the little book; there is also much that throws light on the loyalty of the Indian soldier to the Empire. Laughing Girl (The). By Robert W. Cham bers. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.50. One rejoices to find that in this tale Mr. Chambers returns to the lighter vein of writing in which he made some notable successes in the earlier part of his career as a novelist. The book has a war plot, but it is essentially gay and romantic in its situations, talk, and characters. Once on the Summer Range. By Francis Hill. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50. The romantic flavor of the title hardly suggests the tense dramatic situation of the novel. The action takes place on a Montana ranch, but the people and the plot are far removed from the ordinary "Wild West romance. The feeling is sincere and moving. The quality of the writing is distinctive and unusual. In the nature of the tragedy one is reminded a little of the late Vaughn Moody's "Great Divide." Out of the tragedy comes the serenity of accepted fate, although not the commonplace "happy ending." Out of the Silences. By Mary E. Waller. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.50. Miss Waller will be remembered as the author of that exceedingly popular story "The Wood-Carver of 'Lympus." The present novel is a tale of life in western Canada and deals largely with the adventures of a boy who gains knowledge of the ways of the Cree Indians, of what life means, and of what exists outside his little circle of observation from a quaint and wise saddle-maker, who is really the chief character of the book. In the end the boy finds his way into the outside world and meets with love and success through the ideals he has thus absorbed. Shavings." By Joseph C. Lincoln. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.50. Shavings," otherwise "Jed," short for Jedidah, is the one and only live character in this new story by a popular writer, with the single exception of a delightful little girl. Plot, action, and people might all be eliminated and, if "Shavings" was left, the book would still be immensely enjoyable. Everybody in the little Cape Cod village where Shavings" lived considered him queer and cranky, but he was in fact wise, sweet-natured, and so keen in his comments on bores and humbugs that his 66 The New Books (Continued) gentle irony passed harmlessly over their heads. He was a maker of toy windmills and toy animals, and his quaint little shop was a gathering-place where war issues and other things were talked of. There is a double love interest in the story, but, after all, it is "Shavings" that makes the book amusing and clever. Skipper John of the Nimbus. By Raymond McFarland. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50. A lively, exciting story of Gloucester and the fishing banks. It will hold the boy reader, but it is well adapted also to the mature reader who loves a tale of adventure. Tales of War. By Lord Dunsany. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.25. The well-known English dramatist who writes these sketches has the gift of true imagination. Some of his pictures of war are over-subtle, but it is always worth while to read them carefully, because each culninates in a vision or a lesson that is true. Lord Dunsany is unsparing in his exposure of the German spirit and the German purpose, but he always strikes with a rapier, never with a bludgeon. White Nights, and Other Stories. By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50. A new collection of short stories by the famous Russian novelist whose leadership among the realists of fiction is undisputed. BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS After They Came Out of the Ark. Told and Pictured by E. Boyd Smith. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.50. Book of Elves and Fairies (The). For StoryTelling and Reading Aloud, and for the Children's Own Reading. By Frances Jenkins Olcott. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2. Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said (The). By Padraic Colum. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50. Imaginative children will like these quaint tales, some of them on familiar themes, like "The King of All Birds," and others new to most American readers. The pictures are particularly successful in catching the author's spirit. Canadian Wonder Tales. By Cyrus Macmillan. Illustrated. The John Lane Company, New York. $1. This book should interest child and grown-up alike. The tales recounted in it represent the folk-lore of various parts of Canada. Many of the stories, we are told, are still reverently believed by the Canadian Indians. The author has taken them from the lips of living people-stories handed down by oral tradition from some far-off past. They are mostly animal stories with all the fascinating features of magic, transformation, articulate speech, from the animals, and the interchange of kindly offices between man and beast. The volume is well illustrated. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks. By William Elliot Griffis. The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. $1.25. A sheaf of delightful fairy stories from Holland, which abounds in legend and child-lore. These are capital reading, with drollness as well as slyly indicated lessons of courage, thrift, and sturdy self-reliance. English Fairy Tales. Retold by Flora Aunie Steel. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.50. Famous Pictures of Real Animals. By Lorinda Munson Bryant. Illustrated. The John Lane Company, New York. $1.50. This is a book that any art lover who wishes his children to love art may well own and treasure. It tells the story of animal life as it appears in art, by famous New Pilgrim Press Publications The Interpreter By Washington Gladden, D.D. A selection of sermons which are timely and marked with all the vigor of thought so characteristic of this late leader among great thinkers. $1.50. Postage 10 cents. The Christian Approach to Islam By James L. Barton, D.D., Foreign Sec'y of the American Board. Probably no book that has been published shows a clearer insight into the nature of the task, better understanding of what is genuinely religious in the Mohammedan faith and worship, or more wisdom regarding the method of winning a sympathetic hearing for the message of Christianity. All who are interested in Missions, or in the present development of affairs in the near East, will find this volume profitable and intensely interesting reading. $2.00. Postage 15 cents. The Christian Idea in the By Raymond Calkins, D.D. "This book ought to find a wide circle of readers for it is clarifying to thought, timely in its propositions, and is one of the finest pieces of war literature that has yet appeared in America."-The Biblical World, Chicago. $1.25. Postage 7 cents. 14 Beacon St., Boston The Winning of Religious Liberty By J. H. Crocker, D.D. A brief and popular history of the evolution of religious liberty from the earliest Christian Centuries down to and through the period of Pilgrims and Puritans. $1.50. Postage 10 cents. Prayers and Thanksgiving An exceptionally choice book designed for daily devotional reading by the author of "Closet and Altar," already so favorably known. $1.25. Postage 5 cents. The American Girl and Her By Margaret Slattery. "The next generation will need, more than any other for centuries has needed, strong, earnest, Christian Womanhood. On a thousand hills, hidden in countless forests, and on wide prairies, that womanhood is now being marred or made it is for the thinking American man and woman of today to decide which." This is a book for everyone who is interested in making the American girl a finer woman and the community a better place in which to live. $1.25. Postage 10 cents. The Jolly Shipleys By Elizabeth Price. A neighborhood story so natural and so jolly that every young girl from ten up is bound to enjoy it. Illustrated. $1.25. Postage 8 cents. The Outdoor Story Book By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, author of "Stories for Sunday Telling," etc. The stories are very short, and each one helps little children to feel a special comradeship with nature. $1.00. Postage 7 cents. Star Stories for Little Folks By Gertrude Chandler Warner. Through entertaining little stories written around the various constellations, children are awakened to a live interest in astronomy. Illustrated. 60 cents. Postage 5 cents. The Surprise Book By Patten Beard, author of "The Blue Bird's Garden," etc. A clever story of a little girl who creates a scrap-book from stories which she especially likes and which every reader is bound to like quite as well. Illustrated. $1.00. Postage 7 cents. The Pilgrim Press The New Books (Continued) pictures and sculpture, with a running comiment of text that is simple, dignified, and delightful. Once Upon a Time Animal Stories. By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Illustrated. The Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Mass. Philip Kent in the Upper School. By Truxtun Hare. Illustrated. The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. $1.35. Post of Honour (The). Stories of Daring Deeds Done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War. Told by Richard Wilson. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.25. Sandman's Forest (The). A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons. By Louis Dodge. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2. Spanish Fairy Book (The). (Cuentos de Hadas.) By Gertrudis Segovia. Translated by Elisabeth Vernon Quinn. Illustrated. The Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.50. Three Gays at the Old Farm (The). By Ethel C. Brown. Illustrated. The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia. $1. Trail Book (The). By Mary Austin. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2. The stuffed animals and the wax figures in a museum come to life and tell about their lives to two imaginative children. The mastodon, the puma, the coyote, and the Indians and the mound-builders all here recount their history in stirring narrative. There are some hard names like Tse-tse-yote and Ongyatasoe, but these the children can easily skip in their eager chase for the "story." Trail of the Cloven Foot (The). By A. Hyatt Verrill. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.60. A thrilling story of the adventures of American boys in Central America. A lost gold mine and the search for it furnish the opportunity for courage and endurance. 19 West Jackson St., Chicago Mr. Verrill knows Costa Rica and Panama thoroughly. Turquoise Story Book (The). Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature. Compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner. Duffield & Co., New York. $1.75. What-Happened-Then Stories. By Ruth O. Dyer. Illustrated. The Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, Boston. $1.25. BIOGRAPHY Far Away and Long Ago. By W. H. Hudson. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2.50. Mr. Hudson, whose books of fiction and of nature study have long been admired by a discriminating, if not a very large, body of readers, gives us here a retrospect of his life, and especially of his early days, written with charm and gentle simplicity. He was born and lived for a long time in the pampas region of South America. Because of the loneliness of the country his mind naturally turned when he was a mere child to observation of nature. He loved birds and trees, and he talks about them and about the few people he saw with poetic feeling. The book deserves a place on any shelf of biography alongside "The Story of My Heart," by the English naturalist Richard Jefferies. Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air. By Henry Bordeaux. Illustrated. Translated by Louise Morgan Sill. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. Yale University Press, New Haven. $1.60. Recollections of a Russian Diplomat. By Eugene de Schelking. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.50. Perhaps never before has attention been turned more to the past, especially to the recent past, than in these times when we are so thoroughly living in the present. This is particularly true of personal reminiscences. The present collection of such reminiscences is worth reading because it describes what the author calls "The Suicide of Monarchies." It has special reference to Nicholas II and William II. The author was well acquainted with these characters, and is ruthless in exposing their weaknesses. The feebleness of Nicholas eliminated the Romanoffs from the throne, and the author prophesies that "the insensate, egoistical, and dynastic policy of William will inevitably eliminate the Hohenzollerns from among the monarchies." The prophecy seems already to have been fulfilled. MUSIC, PAINTING, AND OTHER ARTS Face to Face with Great Musicians. By Charles D. Isaacson. Introduction by Leopold Godowsky. Boni & Liveright, New York. $1.50. How to Sing a Song. By Yvette Guilbert. Introduction by Clayton Hamilton. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2. Yvette Guilbert is a name to conjure with. Her peculiarly dramatic interpretation has won for her a place all her own. The present volume gives us an idea of her penetrating faculties of observation and sympathy as well as what it means to perfect the technique of an art. The book will doubtless have the greater reading because much of it, unconsciously, is autobiograph ical. HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS Asia Minor. By Walter A. Hawley. Illustrated. The John Lane Company, New York. $3.50. The publication of this well printed and illustrated volume is timely. Hardly a day passes but what one hears the question: In just what part of Asia Minor will the Turks retire after they are expelled from Europe? Mr. Hawley indicates the region in a book which describes Asia Minor from the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea to the Mediterranean coast and the Hittite ruins. While the book will be particularly interesting to the archeologist or to the Bible student who would know more about the cities of the "Seven Churches of Asia," it will also interest the student of current events, especially in connection with the reading of Mr. Schreiner's more vivacious book, "From Berlin to Bagdad." Modern and Contemporary European History. By J. Salwyn Schapiro, Ph.D. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $3.50. These are days of history making. But by the same token these ought to be days of history reading. The period which began with the Battle of Waterloo and is ending with the present world war constitutes modern history. In his task the historian has certainly had the embarrassment of riches. His work shows a fine sense of selection. An informative appendix, a very rich bibliography, and an ample index add much to the volume's value. Regulation of Railways. Including a Discus- This creditable example of book-making from an Iowa press will be welcome to all Iowans interested in the history of their great State. It tells in minute detail the story of a melancholy chapter in the winning of the West from the aborigines. It is |