1 渴 tate state policíes not only with reference to matters military but also with reference to foreign affairs. We thus see that the Government's military arm (whose only legitimate function should be to carry out the civil Government's policies) has, like Frankenstein's monster, become stronger than its creator. This valuable volume should have had an index. RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY History of Religions. By George Foot Moore, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D. International Theological Library. II-Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. At this momentous turning-point in the world's history this account of three great missionary religions competing for world dominion is both timely and valuable. Cognate in origin, each believing in a divine revelation, in the creation of all things by a divine fiat, and in a way of salvation from divine wrath toward the un , each claims to be the only way. such fundamental affinities are So offset by antipathies due to the individuality of each that they are mutually incompatible and hostile. Professor Moore fills up this outline by exhibiting in copious detail the historical development of each in ancient, mediæval, and modern times. The religion he describes is that of intelliHe finds and gent and religious men. describes the same varieties in each of the three religions-sages, saints, scientists, hostile sects, mystics, Aristotelian philosophers, liberals and conservatives, reformers and pious persecutors. To know Christianity adequately one needs to know its competitors as here described. Reunion in Eternity. By W. Robertson Nicoll. The George H. Doran Company, New York. In this volume by the editor of the "British Weekly " the author hardly does justice to himself in the opening chapter in saying: "Depending entirely on the teaching of the New Testament, we propose to set down a few points which are generally admitted to be part of its unveiling." In point of fact, his quotations from the New Testament are slight, his quotations from other books abundant. In his second chapter, "Immortality without God," he quotes from such skeptical writers as Swinburne, Carlyle, and Buckle. His book is not so much an argument, either Scriptural or philosophical, for personal immortality as an interpretative account, with quotations, from a great variety of thinkers of different temperaments, of a world-wide faith in a personal immortality and its almost inevitable consequence, the immortality of love and the reunion of the loved ones in another life. World's Debate (The). By William Barry. The George H. Doran Company, New York. This English scholar and historian op"Catholic England to Heathen poses Prussia." He pays tribute to the work of the Roman Catholic Church. Himself an ardent Catholic, but having always lived in the company of men and women whose faith differed from his, what he says concerning the Catholic point of view in this war is worth heeding. He concludes that democracy and Christianity should recognize each other as by origin and spirit of the same nature. Both in style and in method of handling his subject he is original and forceful. FICTION Life at Stake (A). By Marcel Berger. Translated by Fitzwater Wray. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. A war story which describes realistically and rather drearily the discomforts and unpleasing life of a French poilu who, after being wounded, is forced to serve in the "auxiliaries." The thing is well done, but hardly seems worth doing. Shadow of the Past (The). By F. E. Mills Young. The George H. Doran Company, New York. Trail of the Beast (The). By Achmed Abdullah. The James A. McCann Company, New York. A detective story. The action is in Paris, and the plot after the French type of which Gaboriau was the first exponent. But the "hero" is an American "sleuth." It is an exciting, dramatic tale. But we wish the author wouldn't begin sentences with "too"- 66 -as Too, he had an impulse," etc. EDUCATIONAL Colleges in War Time and After (The). By Parke Rexford Kolbe. Introduction by Philander P. Claxton. (Problems of War and Reconstruction.) Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Education by Violence. By Henry Seidel Canby, Ph.D. The Macmillan Company, New York. German Conspiracy in American Education (The). By Gustavus Ohlinger. The George H. Doran Company, New York. This little volume contains interesting evidence concerning German educational propaganda in America before and during the war. The most curious circumstance revealed by the author is that some of the propagandists should actually have dreamed of cutting our National culture loose from its stem and grafting it on a German stem. Mr. Ohlinger warns against a renewal of attempts to introduce German into the grade schools. In The Outlook for February 26 mention was made of such an attempt in Missouri. Our Winter Birds. How to Know and How to Attract Them. By Frank M. Chapman. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. WAR BOOKS Dardanelles Campaign (The). By Henry W. Nevinson. Illustrated. Henry Holt & Co., New York. As we have noted in connection with such books as Brand Whitlock's "Belgium" and Ambassador Morgenthau's book on Turkey, the most satisfactory treatment of the great war so far has been in separate books relating to single phases and countries rather than in general histories of the war. Mr. Nevinson's book will undoubtedly remain the most complete, probably the final, book on the British failure in the Gallipoli campaign. He speaks very frankly of the lack of sound planning, of the timorous yielding of experts who should have pointed out the dangers more positively; but he tells also of the marvelous heroism and intrepidity of the Australian and British troops who fought a losing fight on the peninsula. Padre in France (A). By George A. Birming ham. The George H. Doran Company, New York. Canon Hannay, whose Irish tales have delighted so many readers, now, still under his pseudonym, tells of his experiences as a British chaplain in Belgium and France. Sky Fighters of France: Aerial Warfare, 1914-1918. By Lieutenant Henry Farré. Translated by Catharine Rush. Illustrated. Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston. This book will at once take its place as one of the handsomest books yet issued about the war. As recording the experiences of an artist, this is altogether fitting. The score or more of reproductions of the artist's paintings are matched in vividness by the accounts of air battles, mostly told in conversational style as the result of Mr. Ackerman is one of the best known and forceful of war correspondents. His present book has claim to attention, first, because it is a clear presentation of the conditions as he saw them in Siberia, and, secondly, because it is full of human interest and entertaining writing. The author traveled, he tells us, some twelve thousand miles with the Allies in Siberia. He stayed long enough in Omsk to record striking experiences with the refugees from Bolshevist cruelty and oppression who had been passing through that city literally by the millions. Vagabonds of the Sea. The Campaign of a French Cruiser. By René Milan. Translated by Randolph Bourne. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. Victory Over Blindness. How It Was Won by the Men of St. Dunstan's and How Others May Win It. By Sir Arthur Pearson, Bart., G. B. E. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS Stories of Great Adventures. (Adapted from the Classics.) By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Illustrated. For the Children's Hour Series. The Milton Bradley Company, Springfield. Woodcraft Boys at Sunset Island. By Lillian Elizabeth Roy and M. F. Hoisington. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. POETRY By the Banks of Stillwater. By Paul Shivell. Vol. I. The Stillwater Press, Dayton, Ohio. There is an appealing simplicity about all of Mr. Shivell's poetry which inclines his critics and his readers to overlook his many technical limitations. Crude and uneven in form though they frequently are, many of his poems attain to a dignity of spirit and outlook which is not often found. His attitude towards his art and his manner of speaking are well described and illustrated in the first stanza of his "Summer and Submission," included in the present volume: "Content to serve with my fellows, I have not denied my soul the joy But finding men preoccupied, Have waited and labor'd apart, And the peace of God in my heart." "Some of Wordsworth lumbers like a raft," and so does much of "By the Banks of Stillwater." But through halting lines and unpoetic phrases there shows the portrait of a devout and courageous spirit, content with life and rejoicing in all its labors. We wish that "By the Banks of Stillwater" had been edited as critically as the author's previous slender volume in Houghton Mifflin's "New Poetry Series." Perhaps, however, had this volume passed through such a winnowing it would have failed to present as complete and satisfying a picture of the man whose life it represents. "By the Banks of Stillwater is the first of a series of three volumes, of which two are yet to appear. It is interesting to note that Mr. Shivell is his own typesetter and publisher. Typographically his volume is eminently well done. WEEKLY OUTLINE STUDY OF BY J. MADISON GATHANY, A.M. HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IN Based on The Outlook of August 20, 1919 Each week an Outline Study of Current History based on the preceding number of The Outlook will be printed for the benefit of current events classes, debating clubs, teachers of history and of English, and the like, and for use in the home and by such individual readers as may desire suggestions in the serious study of current history.-THE EDITORS. [Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.] I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Topic: Shantung. 1. What is the story of Shantung as outlined by Mrs. Wright? 2. What, too, are some of China's objections to the Shantung arrangement as Mrs. Wright sees them? 3. Make as many comparisons as you can between the question of Shantung and that of Alsace-Lorraine. Give reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with Mrs. Wright's attitude on these questions. 4. What reasons does Mr. Wheeler give for upholding the decision of the Peace Conference about Shantung? 5. Which of these writers, in your opinion, has presented the Shantung question more convincingly? Reasons. 6. State and discuss your personal belief as to whether the Peace Conference should have given Japan a foothold in China. 7. The main fact is that Japan has been granted certain rights in China. How do think you this whole matter could be finally settled with as little national prejudice and hatred as possible? 8. What have you learned from Mrs. Wright and Mr. Wheeler about Japan and China and the people of these countries? 9. State and discuss four propositions found in or suggested by these articles. 10. Talk for five minutes on "The Future of Japan." 11. Two very valuable books to read on the Far Eastern situation The Far East Unveiled," by Frederic Coleman (Houghton Mifflin), and "The Mastery of the Far East," by A. J. Brown (Scribners). are 66 II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: Labor Troubles; The B. R. T. 1. Make a summary of the causes of labor troubles as found in these references and list the results indicated. 2. Name the essential industries of our country. Would favor a law making strikes in these you industries a criminal offense? Discuss at length. 3. Explain the seriousness and the significance of "any action which brings the authority of authorized representatives into question or discredits it." Illustrate fully. 4. Make clear just what is meant by the factory system. Discuss its advantages. Has it any disadvantages? If so, name them. Do you think people generally would be more contented had it never been intro duced? Reasons. 5. Some think trade unions and labor organizations are an industrial curse. What is your opinion of them? State your reasons. 6. Discuss the attitude you believe business corporations and private business men should hold toward wage-workers. 7. If you owned a business, would you be willing to share the profits with your employees and grant them a voice in the management of your business? Explain why or why not. 8. Write an editorial of about three hundred words on the relation of work and thrift and the present industrial situation. 9. Two suggestive books are "Democracy in Reconstruction," by Schafer and Cleveland (Houghton Mifflin), and "Industry and Trade," by Bishop and Keller (Ginn). B. Topic: Andrew Carnegie-WealthMaker, Knower of Men, Wealth-Giver. Reference: Pages 596, 597. Questions: 1. Give all the facts you can about the life and deeds of Andrew Carnegie. 2. How do you account for his success? Which had more to do with his success, Mr. Carnegie's personal qualifications or the industrial and social conditions of his time? Give reasons for your opinion. 3. Mr. Carnegie believed it a disgrace to die rich. Discuss whether it would be a good thing for America if the inheritance privilege should be entirely abolished. What are some of its evils? 4. James Russell Lowell believed that democracy was a form of society in which a man could climb "from a coal pit to the highest position for which he is fitted." Is the United States such a democracy? Discuss and illustrate. 5. What lessons do you see in the life of Andrew Carnegie? C. Topic: Radicalism in the Making. 1. What does Professor Davenport mean by "the movement towards agrarian radicalism" in the Northwest? How does he account for it? 2. Explain the trend of things that lead Senator Davenport to conclude that "there is need of a party of constructive liberalism." Do we need a new political party? III-PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION (These propositions are suggested directly or indirectly by the subject-matter of The Outlook, but not discussed in it.) 1. Labor is never an economist. 2. The law of supply and demand is a thing of the past. 3. The workman should be considered a machine. IV-VOCABULARY BUILDING (All of the following words and expressions are found in The Outlook for August 20, 1919. Both before and after looking them up in the dictionary or elsewhere, give their meaning in your own words. The figures in parentheses refer to pages on which the words may be found.) 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The other is to send $4 for a year's subscription to The Outlook Company 381 Fourth Avenue, New York "MARE NOSTRUM" The publication recently in The Outlook of "The Hermit of Amerongen," by BlascoIbáñez, has suggested to me the propriety of some further notice of the distinguished Spanish author, in view of the fact that an English translation of his latest novel, "Mare Nostrum," is just appearing from the press. The publication in America, last year, of the excellent translation by Mrs. Charlotte Brewster Jordan of the Spanish novel of Vicente Blasco-Ibáñez, entitled "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," is a curious illustration of the sudden leap into popularity which sometimes comes to a writer previously unknown in a foreign country, although widely known in his own. "I awoke one morning and found myself famous," said the author of "Childe Harold"-and Blasco-Ibáñez might well have said the same of his phenomenal success with American readers. For at the time of the publication of "The Four Horsemen" in this country he had already written many novels and was widely known and celebrated, not merely in Spain, but also throughout Europe; but, though many of his earlier works had already appeared here and in England, their translation seems to have attracted so little attention that it is safe to say that the author was practically unknown in this country until rediscovered by the translator of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Very suddenly came the phenomenal success which has made the name of the author and his scholarly translator known throughout the land. This success has led the reading public to look with eagerness for the appearance of the author's latest work, "Mare Nostrum" (Our Sea), just published in an English translation, which keeps up the standard set in the earlier companion work. "Mare Nostrum," like "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," has to do with the great world war which has just come to a close, but it deals with a different phase. In the other story the scene is on the land -in Argentina and on the great battlefield of the Marne. The new novel is concerned with the submarine activities of the Germans in the Mediterranean Sea, and at the same time with their elaborately organized spy system, in which feminine wiles play a prominent part-so much so that one is constantly reminded while following their criminal complications and intrigues of the French dictum, " Cherchez la femme." But, apart from the interest of the story, with its incidents of plot and many scenes of thrilling adventure, there is much interest attaching to its framework and varied background. There are many vivid character portraits, many charming pictures of sea life with delightful presentation of the mythological divinities of the ocean; and not merely these, but also elaborate excursions among what I may call the fauna and flora that haunt its mysterious depths. As regards the translation of his work into a foreign language, a great author must naturally feel some concern. A good English translation is not the easy work that some suppose it to be. Any tyro may dig out some kind of version by plodding over grammar and dictionary. But an author has a right to something more than a bald, literal, wooden translation. Each language has its own peculiar idioms which call for the highest skill in their rendition into another tongue. Having read The Four Horsemen " in "Mare Nostrum " (Continued) the original Spanish, carefully comparing original and translation, I have found these excellences so abundantly displayed in the countless felicities of the translation that it is a real satisfaction to learn that the authorized translation of "Mare Nostrum" has been intrusted to one who has already shown herself so competent to handle sympathetically the difficult Spanish originals of Vicente Blasco-Ibáñez. WILLIAM HYDE APPLETON. Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE SENATE I If the writer doesn't always agree with The Outlook, he always finds it honest in the expression of its views. Now I hope it is worth while to say, in these important hours our country is living through, that I think your editorial "The League of Nations in the Senate " is the fairest, most honest, candid, sincere, nonpartisan, statesmanlike, patriotic, man-toman talk on the subject I have read or heard. I wish every American would read it. II I have just read your editorial on "The League of Nations in the Senate." Your argument has not convinced me that the Senate should ratify the present Covenant so far as we know it. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and the preservation of our free institutions, our sovereignty, and our Monroe Doctrine is the first duty of our Senate-their sworn duty. It is true that our President has deserted the White House for six months and devoted his time to making a new map of Europe and weaving a Peace Treaty and League of Nations, which he will urge the Senate to ratify. The President's conduct in joining the Big Four in Paris at the Peace Conference and taking an active part in fixing the boundaries of the European nations is contrary to the principle of the Monroe Doctrine, and will tend to undermine this important principle of our foreign policy if our Senate ratifies his action. It is therefore important, at this critical time, that our Senate should show European nations that we will not support our President when he violates the Monroe Doctrine. The duty of the Senate is to keep within their Constitutional power, and to refuse to follow the President when he urges them to ratify a League made by and for Europe. I hope our Senators will be wise enough at this time to do no more than ratify a treaty of peace with Germany. JOHN E. KUHN. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Don't Wear Brooks' Appliance, the Brooks' Rupture Appliance Has automatic Air Cushions. Binds and draws the broken parts together as you would a broken limb. No salves. No lies. Durable, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. Protected by U. S. patents. Catalog and measure blanks mailed free. Send name and address today. Brooks Appliance Co., 471D. State St., Marshall, Mich. |