spent in municipal and State politics, writing, and travel.

From Cleveland, with his wife, who has been his collaborator in all his literary work, he came to New York in 1910, and for a time was connected with the People's Institute. In 1914 President Wilson appointed him Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York, and now came a stormy period which lasted for four years. Though he was instrumental in bringing about many needed reforms, his alleged radicalism and pro-Germanism caused him to be constantly embroiled with the extreme conservatives. From Ellis Island he went to Paris to be with President Wilson during the peace negotiations. From the disappointments following the war he turned in 1919 to a new interest in organized labor, and for three years thereafter was associated with the weekly paper "Labor" and with the co-operative movement. He was prominent in the Conference for Progressive Political Action, formed in 1922, and during the La Follette campaign of 1924 was an active assistant to the third-party leader. His more recent interest has centered about the School of Opinion, which every summer holds sessions on Nantucket Island. The credo with which he closes his book shows a shift in emphasis from general to personal reform. Social changes, he thinks, will come more surely through the reformation of the individual. "I believe in reform," he writes, "but prefer the reform that is taking place within myself." Not the least interesting parts of the book are the pen. pictures of Woodrow Wilson, Tom Johnson, Robert M. La Follette, Mark Hanna, Brand Whitlock, and Newton D. Baker.

THE LIFE OF ELBERT H. GARY: THE STORY OF STEEL. By Ida M. Tarbell. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $3.50.

This is a powerful "apology" for Judge Gary, chief executive officer of the United States Steel Corporation, its chief creator, since its establishment its most important member, perhaps the greatest personage in the industrial world.

The sub-title, "The Story of Steel," is misleading; so considered, the book is quite inadequate; it is even inadequate as the story of the United States Steel Corporation. Its importance (and a great one) is as a vindication of the character, motives, and career of Judge Gary, and of the methods and policies which, established by him, govern the conduct of the greatest of industrial corporations. Miss Tarbell undertakes to show that Judge Gary introduced into the Corporation a high ethical code of business practice which, at first regarded by many with skepticism or contempt,

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ANNAPOLIS: ITS COLONIAL AND NAVAL STORY. By Walter B. Norris. The Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. $3. The part of the narrative dealing with colonial days is attractive and fairly adequate; the remainder inadequate. The illustrations are delightful.

AMERICA AND GERMANY 1918-1925.

By Sidney Brooks. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50.

A summary of the contributions of the United States toward the salvation and rehabilitation of Germany; those of the Government, direct and indirect, and those of private agencies and individuals. The contributions have included, in chief, pressure toward relaxation of the blockade, food relief (the most important), participation in the developments which culminated in the Dawes Plan, and a considerable and still growing volume of private financing. The summary is precise, impartial, and valuable for reference; but rather too dry for popular appeal.

By a Gentleman G. P. Putnam's Sons, New

THE STATE OF ENGLAND.
With a Duster.
York. $2.

This is beyond doubt the gloomiest book ever written. Compared with it, the Book of Job is blithesome, Dante's "Inferno" jocund, "The City of Dreadful Night" sportive.

The opening section, setting forth the desperate economic plight of Britain, is good. After that the author goes quite mad. His indictment of the English people is ferocious out of all cess. No doubt there has been a good deal of moral relaxation since the war; the newrich and the British Bolsheviks are disgusting tribes. But there is no such general degradation as the lugubrious gentleman depicts. No, the Gentleman With a Duster has gone mad. Unfortunately, he is not in the small class of interesting literary madmen.

THE PATHWAY OF PEACE. By Charles Evans Hughes. Harper & Brothers, New York. $4.

A collection of the most important addresses (twenty-two in number) made by Mr. Hughes during his four years (1920-4) as Secretary of State. Most

The Outlook for

"The Greatest Cause

of Cancer," said Sir Arbuthnot Lane, King's Surgeon, of London, in his address before New York's physicians, Nov. 25, "is intestinal stasis (constipation)."

Dr. Bainbridge, as toastmaster, referred to the guest's high standing as an abdominal surgeon, calling him the "greatest living teacher of surgery." In responding, Sir Arbuthnot dwelt on the modern realization of the outstanding menace of delayed food residue in the 28 feet of intestinal tract, much of it putrefactive material, that frequently infects the blood stream, bringing. in its train an alarming series of diseases and dangerous symptoms, one of which is cancer. He said in Great Britain five million of the present population will die of this disease, unless preventive measures, easily inaugurated, are promptly adopted. To that end a New Health Society has been organized in England.

Sir Arbuthnot himself has recently published a book on Intestinal Stasis (constipation) that has received much favorable comment, and a similar book that has evoked the widest commendation, judging by its very large sales and testimonials, The Lazy Colon, has also been recently published in this country, being a digest of the newer methods in the treatment of this easily controlled condition.

The president of a large corporation of New York and New London, Conn., in ordering six additional books, says: "I intend to give the six additional copies to friends. The book is so sensible and full of helpful information clearly presented that I think it will be prized in any home."

Not a health book in the ordinary sense but written on wholly new lines of prevention and relief as derived from international authorities, including Sir Arbuthnot Lane. Authoritative, interesting, simple language, full of detailed direction. Many unsolicited testimonials.

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not one hundred per cent American according to Ku Klux standards. After many years' service at Harvard, he chose to make his home in Paris; since which time (a dozen years ago) "Who's Who in America" has placed him definitely on the shelf. We are always hearing of English novelists who find most of their audience in America; George Santayana is chiefly valued in France and England.

These "Dialogues in Limbo" were first printed, and warmly received, in England. They are in the classic tradition of the "Imaginary Conversations" and "Dialogues of the Dead." In these several discourses we listen to the shades of Democritus, Alcibiades, Aristippus the Cyrenaic, Dionysius the Tyrant, Socrates, and Avicenna; and to the spirit of a certain Stranger still living on earth, who is obviously the shade of Santayana himself. Here we may find urbane and philosophical discussion of diverse matters, from madness to self-government,

BAKER'S and from the vivisection of a mind to the

"secret of Aristotle." Our enjoyment of the book hangs upon our relish for the Santayana personality, its lambent wit, its fruitful irony. It is in our taste for that aura or perfume of which we hear in the opening dialogue, "The Scent of Philosophies:" "So a soul vibrating in harmony with the things that nourish and solicit her has an aura which, without spreading any sharp odor, refreshes every creature that inhales it, causing the nostrils and the breast to expand joyfully, as if drinking in the sea-breeze or the breath of the morning."

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ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS. Dorothy Scarborough. The Harvard University Press, Cambridge. $3.50.

In "On The Trail of Negro FolkSongs," Dorothy Scarborough, assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge, offers a very interesting study of a subject well worthy of serious consideration. "Folk-Songs" says the author, "are shy, elusive things. If you wish to capture them, you have to steal up behind them, unbeknownst, and sprinkle salt on their tails." Despite this shyness, which is characteristic of other folk-songs besides those of the Negro, Miss Scarborough has captured many of the lyrics of slavery days songs not composed, but inherited and handed down by vocal tradition for many generations. Miss Scarborough divides her subject into eight classifications; the most interesting and novel is that chapter devoted to "The Blues," "that peculiar, barbaric sort of melody, with its irregular rhythm, its lagging briskness, its mournful liveliness of tone," which has comparatively recently made its appearance north of Mason and Dixon's

Line. For the introduction here of this form of folk-song W. C. Handy is responsible, a music publisher in New York, the descendant of slaves "who stole their education and learned to figure in the ashes." According to this authority, this form of music represents the Negro's capacity for quick recovery from disaster to irresponsible gayety. Miss Scarborough prints a great many of these songs, in some cases with the musical notes as well as the words, and the absence of any literary skill shows that none of them is the work of the professional song-writer. The volume is one that deserves to be highly prized by those interested in either the Negro race or the native music of this country.

Miscellaneous

AMERICANA. By Milton Waldman. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $5.

Mr. Waldman ranges from the written records of Columbus and the other early discoverers, through the basic documents of the histories of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and down to the story of the conspicuous rare books of Irving, Bryant, Hawthorne, Poe, Lowell, Whittier, and some of the minor men of the nineteenth century. Setting the stage for his introduction of the writings of the first venturers, he sweepingly pictures the restless, brilliant fifteenth century, when it was necessary for Europe to find an outlet for her energy lest she blow herself to pieces. "She had accumulated knowledge and wealth unprecedented for a thousand years, found to her hand a trained body of mariners and geographers of a quality unknown even in antiquity. . . . Everything was ready for the creation of a new history-even an extraordinary body of historians to write it. And, what is more, an instrument had been devised forty years earlier for the recording of this history as the history of no previous epoch was or could have been recorded." In other words, it was the invention of the art of printing about 1450 that enabled Columbus, returning from the discovery of America, to found a history instead of inaugurating a legend.

Pages perhaps as illuminating as any in the book are those pages devoted to the story of Poe's "Tamerlane." The book, published in Boston in 1827, was a lost book for more than half a century. The first known copy came to light in London about 1884. Since then three more copies have been discovered. In piecing out the story Mr. Waldman ventures into the realm of conjecture. The printer of "Tamerlane, and Other Poems, by a Bostonian," was Calvin F. S. Thomas, a young man about the same

age as Poe, who had then gone to Boston to join the army. Mr. Waldman's theory is that Poe had promised to bear the cost of publication, probably counting upon financial aid from his adopted father, Mr. Allan; that Thomas, before binding the sheets, demanded his money, and when it was not forthcoming, sold the sheets as old paper. The four extant copies, according to the theory, were among the few which were sent to the reviewers, or turned over to Poe to use in soliciting sales.

Notes on New Books

$2.

IN OUR TIME. By Ernest Hemingway. Boni &
Liveright, New York.
Short stories.

WANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS. By J. Ramsay MacDonald. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $3.

Essays by the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, partly about his travels and partly about political events and personalities.

THE COMING FAITH. By R. F. Foster. Dodd, $2. Mead & Co., New York.

The famous authority on bridge writes a serious book on religion and life.

THE MASTER AND HIS FRIENDS. By H. A. Wilson. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. $1.75.

A story of the life of Christ written from the point of view of two children who lived in his time and knew him.

TWENTY MILES OUT. Indiscretions of a Commuter's Wife. By Herself. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.25.

A brief and pleasant book about life in the country.

THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL OR THE ANGLOSAXON. By Samuel Albert Brown. The Boyer Printing and Advertising Company, Portland, Oregon.

To prove that the Anglo-Saxon or Nordic people are the direct descendants of the lost ten tribes of Israel.

THE RELATION OF GOVERNMENT TO INDUS-
TRY. By M. L. Requa.
The Macmillan Com-
pany, New York. $2.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SOCIETY. By
Charles A. Ellwood. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. $3.

An introduction to sociological theory by the Professor of Sociology in the University of Missouri.

$4

JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON'S EMPRESS. By C. S. Forester. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. Napoleon slew a million men; he divorced one woman. Women easily forgive him for the dead men, but never for the divorced woman.

RAHWEDIA. By C. Harold Smith. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2.50.

"A true romance of the South Seas."

SEX AT CHOICE. By Mrs. Monteith Erskine. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2. This book, so says the jacket, tells women how to regulate the sex of their children. Perhaps it does. Mr. Dooley once knew a man who wrote such a book, and left six unmarried daughters.

LEWIS MILLER. By Ellwood Hendrick. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

The life of a designer and inventor of harvesting machinery who was also one of the founders of Chautauqua.

MODERN MISSIONS IN MEXICO. By W. Reginald Wheeler, Dwight H. Day, and James B. Rodgers. The Westminster Press, Philadelphia.

Protestant missions in Columbia and Venezuela.

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