Take This With You ZT'. Among the New Books h a m ?. or M *?;. ’ I W _ + CRITICISMS : |Hk( - odr ' FROM THE t OCTOBER YALE REVIEW OCTOBER 1920 Books Pilgrims and Pioneers Five American Essayists . The Great Days of the Law History Made to Read Anthologists and Poets A Shelf of Books about Ireland Theatrical Chronology A Labor Leader upon Labor Theorists Reviewers Constance Lindsay Skinner . Maurice Francis Egan Moorfieldr Storey . Archibald Macmechan Edward Bliss Reed Norreys Jephson O' Conor William Lyon Phelps William English Walling Together with YALE REVIEW publishers' advertisements. The Yale Review tells you the Best Books to Buy The Literary Review of the jfleto §*ork Cbemng which on September 1 1th will take the place of the present Book Review , will be not only a review of books, but also a weekly conveyancer of essays, poetry, and general criticism. It will provide readable and au- thoritative reviews of all important books, which will give to the reader the facts and opinions he needs in order to exercise his own discrimina- tion. Nothing literary will be alien to this new re- view; puffing, padding, sneering, ignorance, and all uncharitableness, those vices of criticism, it will strive to avoid. Essays, poems, criticism in The Literary Re- view may be expected from Amy Lowell, Wilbur Cross, Clarence Day, Jr., Robert Herrick, William Lyon Phelps, H. L. Mencken, Mary Austin, Lee Wilson Dodd, John Livingston Lowes, and James Branch Cabell. Also from E. V. Lucas, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, and James Stephens. Its reviewers will be critics, scholars, scientists, and men of letters — the best obtainable. If you are in New York or its neighborhood, and already a subscriber to The Evening Post, The Literary Review will come to you weekly. If you are in California, Kansas, Maine, or regions intermediate, sign and return the blank below with two dollars and the mail will bring you The Literary Review. NEW YORK EVENING POST 20 Vesey Street I enclose $2.00. Send The Literary Review for one year. Name Street City May We Send Sample Copies OF The Yale Review To Your Friends? $ In order to introduce THE YALE REVIEW to new friends, the publishers will be glad to send a recent copy to any address sent us by a regular subscriber. $ Its readers will do THE YALE REVIEW a favor by making it a point to find some new friend for the magazine this year. $ CUT OFF AND MAIL THIS FORM THE YALE REVIEW, New Haven, Conn. Sirs: Please send a recent sample copy of The Yale Review to the following: Signed. When writing to advertisers kindly mention The YYde Review 6 Among the New Books Being parts of the hook reviews in The Yale Review for October, 1920 PILGRIMS AND PIONEERS Old Plymouth Trails , by Winthrop Packard , $5.00, Small, Maynard & Co., Boston . On the Trail of the Pioneers, by John T . Faris, $3.00, George H. Doran Co. The Conquest of the Old Southwest, by Archibald Henderson, $3.00, Century Co. New York . 1920 . In these volumes the progress of the American idea, sweeping in our time with the power of armies over the seas to the Old World, is traced for us from its first oversea crossing : a vague and shape- less dream it was then in the hearts of a handful of English men and women bound for the shores of Virginia and Massachusetts. We follow its march westward with those first dreamers’ descend- ants and their companions, who had demonstrated the Ameri- can idea in concrete, if crude, forms of government and social brotherhood, over the mountains to Kentucky, to Ohio, and on to Oregon and the Golden Gate. To-day echoes familiarly of yes- terdays. Faith and fearlessness are the American heritage. And, as someone has said, there is one thing stronger than armies, “an idea whose time has come.” We shall not lay any one of these three books down without a healthful stirring of thought. An author can do only his own part to make his book vital; the reader must do the rest, which is not necessarily, of course, to accept the author’s conclusions but to use them to sharpen his own mental blades. “Old Plymouth Trails” is not primarily a book of history. It is a book of nature lore by a disciple of Thoreau. But the natural- ist could not follow the scent of the mayflower into these historic woods without picturing to himself some early Pilgrim, after the first cruel winter at Plymouth had passed, lured forestward by the “endearing, enticing fragrance” on the raw wind, so reminis- 4 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS cent of the “may” or hawthorn lanes of his English home. He fancies the homesick Pilgrim stopping to look about for haw- thorn, then discovering the mayflower among the oak leaves at his feet and stooping to pluck it with something like adoration welling up in his heart. “It may not have been that way at all,” he admits, “but someone found that first mayflower and loved and named it.” He makes a few kindly thrusts at the decriers of the Puritans, and he subscribes to Mrs. Hemans’s much derided lines about the “stern and rock-bound coast.” It would seem that the boulders, which make Manomet shore and Plymouth beach “rock-bound,” were the first pilgrims to Ply- mouth ; and their stern rugged character not inappropriately symbolized the men who later landed among them. Plymouth Rock itself, so the author gaily tells us, “came joy-riding” from some granite ledge “up Boston way ” only a few hundred thousand years before Mary Chilton arrived to set foot upon it. The second Great Crossing is the inspiration of Professor Henderson’s pen. In his pages we follow the migratory bands of English, Ulster Scots, or Irish Presbyterians, and Germans, who settled the back country of Virginia and North Carolina and carried the American idea across the Appalachians into Kentucky and Tennessee. He has searched musty records innumerable for material about these hardy pioneers, and has collected many facts and incidents which have not before been included in the secondary literature on this period. The result is an important contribution to history. As the author points out in his signifi- cant introduction, the story of these settlers “is the history of the growth and evolution of American democracy. ” “On the Trail of the Pioneers” shows the onward sweep of the American idea over the continent. Along every trader’s trace, Indian path, and buffalo trail, north, south, west to the Pacific, the marches echo. The effect is of a vast panorama, the scenes connected only by the figure of the pioneer. Dr. Faris retires as author and becomes editor for the diaries of the men and women who set out from practically every eastern State to ad- venture in the unknown hinterland. Clearly it has been a labor of love for the author to select passages from the graphic, often ill-spelled, journals of those hardy folk, who knew the uses of the rifle so much better than the abuses of the pen. What they set THE YALE REVIEW 5 SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLICATIONS The Theatre Plays By SUSAN GLASPELL “We recommend this book to our readers. It seems to us that Miss Glaspell belongs in the forefront of our native dramatists. Particularly in the one-act form she has displayed great gifts of form as well as substance. Unless our sights are all wrong, Trifles’ is one of the best short plays in English.” — Heywood Broun in the New York Tribune. Net $2.00 The Best Plays of 1919-1920: And the Year-Book of the Drama in America By BURNS MANTLE Dramatic Critic of “The New York Evening Mail** What Mr. Edward J. O’Brien’s series of annual volumes of “The Best Short Stories” does for the student of the short story and Mr. William Stanley Braith- waite’s annual “Anthology of Magazine Verse” does for the student of contem- porary poetry, Mr. Mantle’s dramatic year book is designed to do for the theatre- goer, the producer, the playwright and the student of the drama. Net $2.00 This Theatre of Ours By H. T. PARKER Dramatic Critic of the Boston Transcript A review of the stage over the past decade, with an analysis of its present situation. Ready shortly Novels The Gray Angels By NALBRO BARTLEY With all the vitalizing powers of her art, Nalbro Bartley interprets a phase of American life — the life of a small, gossiping country town and the Bohemia of the artist world. “The Gray Angels” has not appeared serially, and so will be in wide demand by the large public which reads all this foremost woman novelist writes. On the same plane as that “best seller” “A Woman’s Woman.” Net $1.90 Christine of the Young Heart By LOUISE BREITENBACH CLANCY A “Happiness Book” for the young in heart — of all ages — a story of charm, courage, love. Few books written in America can be named in the same breath — for hearty good cheer and human courage. Net $ 1.75 The Four Just Men By EDGAR WALLACE An absorbing, thrilling story of the “Four” who by vigorous action and keen intellect endeavored to bring absolute justice into human affairs. Besides its appeal as a novel “The Four Just Men” is of human interest through its use by the Sinn Feiners in Ireland. Net $1.75 Publishers SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY Publishers When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 6 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS down was a brief, vigorous, unstudied record of daily events and impressions; and it is instructive to note how sincerity unaided achieves a certain style. One reader at least wishes that Dr. Faris had used the genuine text of the Lewis and Clark Journals, and had foresworn Filson’s Boone for Thwaites’s. We cannot conceive of Daniel Boone’s saying, “Just at the close of day the gentle gales retired ” without instantly losing touch with the kind of man he was. There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries, resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils of “literary” friends. There, if you will, you may come close to the brave spirits of pioneer days and be reimbued with faith in an America which fears nothing ahead and which never turns back. Constance Lindsay Skinner. New York City. FIVE AMERICAN ESSAYISTS Modes and Morals , by Katharine Fullerton Gerould , $1.75; Bedouins , by James Huneker , $2.00; Charles Scribner's Sons. Peeps at People , $1.25; Broome Street Straws , $2.00; by Robert Cortes Holliday , George H. Doran Co. Untimely Papers by Randolph Bourne , $1.50, B. W. Huebsch. New York. 1919-1920. Literary traditions die hard; and that literary tradition which assumes that the essay died with Charles Lamb is one that ought to have been buried long ago. With Agnes Repplier still writing — she is a very special jewel of essayists — and with these five books before us, there is plain evidence that, if the essay ever died, it has certainly at this moment a very convincing resurrection. If Mrs. Gerould’s “Modes and Morals” were shorter and moved less rapidly, they would be all ideal essays in form with not a “paper” among them, but Mrs. Gerould seems to be too much in- terested in making her points to remember that the ideal essayist ought at least to appear to be a person of leisure. However, let that pass. When we say that Mrs. Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in this attractive and satisfying volume. THE YALE REVIEW 7 HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE By Charles H. Haskins and Robert H. Lord. $3.00 ROBERT CURTHOSE, DUKE OF NORMANDY By Charles Wendell David. $3.00 ARGENTINE INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNDER INCONVERTIBLE PAPER MONEY By John H. Williams. Ready immediately OLD AND NEW: SUNDRY PAPERS By Charles H. Grandgent. $1.50 FRENCH CLASSICISM By C. H. C. Wright. Ready immediately A HISTORY OF ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE TO THE CONFEDERATION By Ray Palmer Baker. Ready immediately AN ANSWER TO JOHN ROBINSON OF LEYDEN Edited by Champlin Burrage. $2.00 ENGLISH PAGEANTRY By Robert Withington. Vol. I, $3.50; Vol. II, ready immediately DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI: THE PURGATORIO Translated by Courtney Langdon. Ready immediately KOSTES PALAMAS: LIFE IMMOVABLE Translated by Aristides E. Phoutrides. $2.00 THE OLD FARMER AND HIS ALMANACK By George Lyman Kittredge. $3.00 MYTHICAL BARDS and the LIFE of WILLIAM WALLACE By William Henry Schofield. $3.00 Cambridge, Massachusetts New York City, New York When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 8 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS There is scarcely a page which does not deserve rereading. From the viewpoint of the Newest Thought, registered on the last of August, 1920, and still changing, the opinions of Mrs. Gerould are really of the “moyen age”; but they will delight the sane who have read and experienced sufficiently to realize that three-fourths of the new things are merely bad old things revived. “The Extirpation of Culture” is hard reading to that great body of New Thinkers, increasing daily, who are without experience, who have no food for thought and have never learned that logic can be applied to life. “Modes and Morals” is an apologia for culture. It is to be hoped that Mrs. Gerould may reverse the method of that per- sonage in the tale of Aladdin, and induce some of us to barter new lamps for old. “Bedouins” is exotic; and yet nobody but an American could have written it. This Bedouin, Mr. Huneker, has found an oasis in which he cultivates flaming flowers of all colors, watered by iridescent streams and glittering fountains where all kinds of gold and silver and ruby and emerald fishes that never were fishes play about. Mr. Huneker is an American brought up in Philadelphia, of a father who had Hungarian blood in his veins, who was a lover of art, an amateur of prints, a man who surrounded himself with all that was best intellectually and aesthetically in that city. His mother was a devout Catholic, exquisitely cultivated, and very much of a grande dame . To the ordinary mind — and the ordinary mind cannot conceive the real soul of Philadelphia — it seems impossible that this interpreter of the occult in life, of the weird in literature, and even of the esoteric Satanic in humanity, could come out of that much calumniated city; but here he is — very much in the new fashion, and so very old-fashioned that he forces modes of thought, which went out with Baudelaire and the dandies of Balzac, into form again; and, of all marvels, into a form expressed in the daily press! This is indeed a modern miracle. We are really modern now. Mr. Holliday’s “Peeps at People” are thumb-nail sketches which are more than photographic, though as true as photographs because they are illuminated by the very tolerant and sympathetic personality of their author. They are for everybody; etchings from life which require no knowledge THE YALE REVIEW 9 A New Novel by Each of Three Great Novelists By VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ, The Enemies of Women. Ready in Oct. By the Author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; The Shadow of the Cathedral; La Bodega; Blood and Sand; and Woman Triumphant. Each $2.15 By LEONARD MERRICK, The House of Lynch. In press. By the Author of Conrad in Quest of his Youth; The Actor-Manager; Cynthia; The Position of Peggy Harper; The Man Who Understood Women; The Worldlings; When Love Flies Out o' the Window; and While Paris Laughed. Each $1.90 By FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG, Undergrowth. Just ready. By the Author of Marching Through Tanga; The Crescent Moon; Poems: 1916-1918;— each $2.00; and The Young Physician, $2.50. An extraordinary first novel By LEE WILSON DODD, The Book of Susan. A story of New Haven, New York and Paris in which as the New York Evening Post puts it, “Susan is the ‘new’ young woman at her best, — profoundly modern and profoundly American.” $2.00 BIOGRAPHY and REMINISCENCE Beatrice cTEste By JULIA CARTWRIGHT A brilliant portrait of a woman famous in Italian history. $3-00 Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart, 1788-1822 Valuable and varied side-lights on his time. With illus. $S.oo Diplomatic Reminiscences By A. NEKLUDOFF $8.00 Important comment on the years from 1911 to 1917. My Life and Friends. By JAMES SULLY, LL.D. The famous psychologist’s memories of notable men and events. Illus. $5.00 OF ECONOMIC INTEREST America and the New Era Edited by ELISHA M. FRIEDMAN $6.00 A symposium on many aspects of social progress. Labor and the Employer Labor and the Common Welfare Both by SAMUEL GOMPERS The most authoritative exposition of the policies of the labor unions. Each volume $3.50 Commerce and Industry By WILLIAM PAGE 2. vols. $25.00 The Case for Capitalism By HARTLEY WITHERS $2.50 The other side of labor’s complaints against capital. Modern Economic Tendencies By SIDNEY A. REEVE Of especial interest and value to the Ultimate Con- sumer. In press Labor and Revolt By STANLEY FROST A study of Labor’s unrest and of Red propaganda. The Voice of the Negro By Col. ROBERT T. KERLIN His grievances and ambitions as voiced in his own writings. $2.50 DESCRIPTION The Cathedral of Reims By Msgr. MAURICE LANDRIEUX $8.00 The story of a German Crime, 96 full-page plates. By Nile and Tigris By Sir E. A. WALLIS BUDGE A narrative of journeys for the British Museum. In two volumes. $25.00 A Tour of America’s National Parks By HENRY O. REIK, M.D. $4.00 Illustrated from exceptionally fine photographs. OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST Feminism and Sex-Extinction By ARABELLA KENEALY Very important in its bearing on the question of the equality of the sexes. $5.00 Life By SERGE VORONOFF On prolonging human energy by gland-grafting. Science and Life By FREDERIC SODDY A suggestive book on the new experiments in chem- istry. $4.00 MISCELLANEOUS Naturalism in English Poetry By STOPFORD A. BROOKE His last lectures on an important transition period. A History of Modern Colloquial English By H. C. WYLD A fascinating book for the student of social manners as well as of English vocabulary. $8.00 Walker’s Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language As indispensable to any writer of verse as his dic- tionary. $3.00 Contemporary Verse Anthology Selected by CHARLES WHARTON STORK from poems published in “Contemporary Verse.” These books are obtainable through any bookstore or direct from E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Avenue, New York When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 10 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS of technique to understand them; but they are a mere prelude to the gay, the acute, the cheerful essays called “Broome Street Straws.” Here there is something to everybody’s taste. A rabid Prohibitionist who was ill of the “flu” writes to me that the essay called “The Pub” drove away that melancholy which threatens with gloom even the most cheerful of “flu” patients. Indeed, the Prohibitionist seems to have been so touched by Mr. Holliday’s paragraphs about the English barmaids that he ex- pressed the conviction that if the refining influence of women had made the saloon into a salon , Prohibition might not have been so necessary ! The writers of prefaces have become intolerable aristocrats in literature. They will insist on contributing “forewords” to nearly every book that comes out, and their privileges have be- come so obnoxious that it is time their heads were cut off, as the heads of all privileged aristocrats ought to be. Their authors are always such stately white swans as might have drawn the boat of Lohengrin; and Mr. James Oppenheim’s swan, the late Mr. Randolph Bourne, is more stately, more impeccable, more immacu- late than all the other recent literary swans put together. Mr. Oppenheim tells us that “this book relates to the war and the present crisis of the world. It does a great service for our country. Without it our showing would be weak and impoverished com- pared with the Older Nations. We may rejoice that as England had her Bertrand Russell, France her Rolland and Barbusse, Germany her Liebknecht and Nicolai, so America had her Ran- dolph Bourne.” Mr. Bourne was a Socialist — it is not easy to say of what school; but it is quite evident that he looked on everything that is as wrong. He reversed the theory of Candide that this is the best of all possible worlds. Nevertheless, there are pages of this book that can be read with great profit by any student of the evolution of our institutions. The “Unfinished Fragment on the State” is interesting and illuminating, and ought to be provocative of serious thought. Maurice Francis Egan. Brooklyn. THE YALE REVIEW 11 Princeton University Press Autumn Publications The Constitution and What It Means Today By EDWARD S. CORWIN, Professor of Jurisprudence in Princeton University. $1.50 net; by mail $1.60 The full text of the Constitution of the United States and all amendments, together with a simple and clear explanation of all obscure passages in the light of the past 130 years' interpretation. High Prices and Deflation By EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER, Professor of Economics and Finance in Princeton Uni- versity. Introduction by Frank A. V anderlip . $1.50 net; by mail $1.60 A concise and authoritative discussion and explanation of three of our most pressing present day problems. Inflation, High Prices, and the cure — Deflation. Modern Constitutional Development in China By HAROLD M. VINACKE, Professor of Politics in Miami University. $2 net; by mail, $2.10 Prior to the end of the Nineteenth Century China had been politically in a state of suspended animation. One barbarian rule after another was imposed upon the “sons of Han." Then within less than twenty years the whole political system was changed. Mr. Vinacke traces these changes, tells how they came about, and what their effect has been. Kentucky Superstitions By the late DANIEL L. THOMAS, Professor of English in Centre College, and LUCY B. THOMAS. $3.00 net; by mail $3.15 Superstitious beliefs are more widespread than most people would suspect, and nowhere in this country are they more persistent than in Kentucky. This collec- tion puts most of them permanently on record, consti- tutes a record of what men have thought and believed, and is a contribution to both history and psychology. Patent Law By JOHN BARKER WAITE, Protessor of Law in the University of Michigan. $5 net, by mail, $5.25 A book written primarily for that large class of business and professional men who wish information concerning their rights in respect to inventions and patents. Among the subjects discussed and explained are: “What May be Patented," “How to Secure a Patent," and “How to Protect the Monopoly." Charlemagne An Elizabethan drama edited with an intro- duction and notes by FRANCK L. SCHOELL, Professor of English in the University of Chicago. $3 net; by mail, $3.15 A play by George Chapman, and so far as known pub- lished only once before, in a volume containing a col- lection of old English plays, and now practically unob- tainable. John Morley and Other Essays By GEORGE McLEAN HARPER, Professor of English in Princeton University. $1.60 net; by mail $1.70 Some of the topics discussed in this delightful collec- tion are: “Michelangelo’s Sonnets"; “Balzac's Hu- man Comedy”; “The Fame of Victor Hugo"; and “Wordsworth's Love Poetry." In spite of their wide range the author has a sure knowledge of his subjects and a keen critical sense. Giovanni Della Robbia By ALLAN MARQUAND, Professor of Art and Archaeology in Princeton University. (Vol. VIII of the Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology)., Illustrated. $8 net; by mail $8.25 Geneological and documentary material published for the first time, followed by a Catalogue Raisonne of the works of Giovanni and his atelier, and a Bibliography and Index. Human Efficiency and Levels of Intelligence By HENRY H. GODDARD, Director of the Bureau of Juvenile Research of Ohio. $1.50 net; by mail $ 1.60 The author, a pioneer in the field of using psychological tests with practical results, believes that any attempt at social adjustment must take into account the de- termining character of the intelligence, — the mental level. Activism By HENRY LANE ENO, Research Associate in Psychology, Princeton University. $1.50 net; by mail $1.60 Activism is a new point of view in Philosophy and Psychology. By its method of approach many of the old problems, — as the mind — body relation, and the nature of consciousness, — acquire fresh significance and interest. From Your Own Bookseller or the Publishers Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 12 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS THE GREAT DAYS OF THE LAW Arguments and Speeches of William Maxwell Evarts , Edited by Sherman Evarts , 3 vols., $ 20.00 , Macmillan Co., New York, 1919 . These volumes carry us back to the great days of the American Bar when the law was still a profession, when leisure was abundant and a time limit of argument was unknown, when the eloquence of Daniel Webster was fresh in the memories of forensic orators and his stately periods set the fashion of the time. These were the days of great lawyers, great causes, and great opportunities; the days when the lawyer won fame and fortune in the court room, not in the office; the days of antislavery agitation, of civil war, and of reconstruction, with all the new questions to which the disturbed condition of the country gave rise. Mr. Evarts was well fitted to shine at any period of our history. Descended from Roger Sherman he inherited the qualities of the lawyer and the statesman, while from his father, Jeremiah Evarts, he might have drawn the religious zeal and stern nature of the Puritans. He was born in Boston, graduated at Yale, and studied law at Harvard, or as he once said, following Mr. James C. Carter who in a speech at a Harvard dinner had compared him to a ship launched at Yale but fitted at Harvard, “Yes, gentlemen, it is true that I got my education at Yale, and took on my brass at Harvard,” a remark which drew from Mr. Carter the rejoinder, “I leave it to you, gentlemen, to which he owes his success in life.” When we read his arguments we cannot help feeling how the conditions of life have changed. The privateers whom he prose- cuted were men who, holding letters of marque from Jefferson Davis, captured a vessel belonging to citizens of the United States. The facts were hardly disputed, the only defense was the commis- sion given by Davis, and this defense really raised a question of law. It would seem that the case could have been argued to the jury in an hour or two at most, but Mr. Evarts spoke for the better part of two days. His argument was dignified, and most courte- ous to his opponents, but it would surely have gone over the heads of an ordinary jury to-day, and it is impossible not to feel that it was not incisive or convincing. The same thing could have been THE YALE REVIEW IS NEW OXFORD BOOKS Political Ideals By C. Delisle Burns. $1.80 The author maintains that modern politics are governed by our conceptions of a state of things better than the present. He seeks to discover the meaning of these conceptions and then to show that the value of these ideals cannot be estimated unless we know their early development. Medals of the Renaissance By G. F. Hill. | Net $25.00 A splendid book covering the entire field of medallic art both Continental and English during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, valuable alike as a reference work and for its fine illustrations. It should be especially noted that the medals figured here have for the most part not been previously illustrated. Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations By D. P. Heatley. Net $3.75 “A learned little book intended for the guidance of historical students, and especially for those interested in comparatively recent periods of history. Mr. Heatley has provided us with a wealth of valuable and interesting quotations in his footnotes, which are not the least attractive feature of this very useful work . — Manchester Guardian. Roman Essays and Interpretations By W. Warde Fowler. $5.65 The ripe fruit of a long life of scholarship are these papers dealing with a variety of subjects in Latin literature and mythology which will interest the folk-lorist, the student of comparative religion and the general Ireland the Outpost By Grenville A. J. Cole. Net $2.50 This essay pictures Ireland in the new light of an outpost not only of England but also of Europe, which has been pro- foundly influenced first by its natural physi- cal structure and then by the successive and overlapping waves from which her people and civilization have been When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 14 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS said in many fewer words and with more appeal. The argument in behalf of Andrew Johnson was heard by the writer, an ardent young impeacher, and produced no effect on his mind. Read now, after the lapse of years, it seems entirely convincing. It contains several passages which are very witty, and its tone throughout is courteous and elevated. It is Mr. Evarts at his best, but even in those days of leisure, Mr. Bingham, the manager who followed him, began his speech by saying, “The honorable counsel who has sought to make his argument immortal by making it eternal” — a taunt which lost its point when he himself took four days to reply. Boston. Moorfield Story. THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA Edited by Allen Johnson , 50 vols., $175.00 a set , Yale University Press , New Haven , 1919. “History prevents us from being merely temporal people,” says one of Mallock’s witty New Republicans. It enables us to overcome one of our chief limitations, our bondage to Time, and to “look before and after” with some hope of perceiving, in dim outline at least, the marvellous story of man on this planet. For these same good reasons, the incalculable H. G. Wells is stressing more and more the value of history in any scheme of education. It releases the growing mind into a larger sphere of ideas and allows it to share in the adventure of mankind. And the twentieth century is lending an attentive ear to its pet prophet. Hitherto, the trouble has been that those who need history most, the young, know it least. Until now they have not been considered in the writing of histories except in such dismal treatises as Dickens devised, or that designed for the instruction of “Little Arthur.” School histories and school teachers, the numerous progeny of Dr. Dryasdust, generally succeed in poison- ing children’s minds against history. This new series, “Chroni- cles of America,” has shown a more excellent way. That history can be written from full and scholarly knowledge, and yet be eminently readable, is amply proved by these twenty volumes of the “Chronicles.” There is no concession to the popular demand for the cheap, the sensational, the exaggerated. The books are interesting because the writers control their facts and have the art of presentation. THE YALE REVIEW 15 Announcement There has just been published “Theodore Roosevelt and His Time , Shown in His Own Letters ' ’ by Joseph Bucklin Bishop. The public career of Colonel Roosevelt is told in the words of Colonel Roosevelt himself. The book was planned with Colonel Roosevelt himself and more than half of it was seen and personally approved by him. It will stand the supreme record of his career. The book is illustrated with portraits and is issued in two volumes. The price is ten dollars. The Americanization of Edward Bok The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After The extraordinary range of interest in this autobi- ography of the famous editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal is suggested by the names of those who figure conspicu- ously in its pages: among presidents, Grant, Hayes, Har- rison, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and Wilson; among writers, Holmes, Emerson, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Stockton, Stevenson, Kipling; among other noted figures, Jay Gould, Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, Gladstone. Illustrated . $5-00 What’s on the Worker’s Mind? By One Who Put on Overalls to Find Out By Whiting Williams Mr. Williams left his position as personnel director of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company in Cleveland, put on rough clothes, disguised his name, and tried for a laborer’s job. The greater part of the text of his book is made up from the diary which he wrote in the evenings or the early mornings. No one could read his pages without getting something like a revelation of the heart and the thought of labor. Illustrated. $3.00 The Traditions of European Literature From Homer to Dante By Barrett Wendell, Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Harvard University This book deals with the mythical, historical, and literary traditions familiar throughout the literature of Europe, covering the traditions of Greece, of Rome from 200 before Christ to the end of the second century after, of Christendom from that time to about the year 1000, and of the Middle Ages (1000-1300), ending with Dante. $5.00 Steeplejack By James Huneker From the pages of this book are reflected with the fas- cinating skill of the author one of the fullest and most interesting lives of modern times. The simple narrative describes Mr. Huneker’s promenades — artistic, intel- lectual, sentimental — throughout a long life of varied experiences. This span of a half century is traversed by a swift pen giving varied pictures of the most brilliant people of the day. Two volumes. Illustrated. $7.50 The Art of Biography By William Roscoe Thayer This delightfully suggestive study of the development of biographical writing by one of the foremost of its living exponents, draws its instances and illustrations from the entire field of biographical literature. The contributions of modern biographers are admirably considered and characterized. $1.50 In Morocco By Edith Wharton Mrs. Wharton went to Morocco in the fall of 1918 at the express invitation of the Governor-General. She visited harems, and had exceptional opportunities of witnessing ceremonies and visiting monuments unknown even to most of the French officials. Fully illustrated. $4.00 My Three Years in America By Ambassador Bernstorff “The publication of Count Bernstorff’s memoirs of the war is an event probably of greater interest to Americans than the appearance of any other book in its field and an occasion of unusual literary and historical importance.” — New York Evening Post. $5.00 Idling in Italy Studies of Literature and of Life By Joseph Collins Dr. Collins now presents a companion volume to “ My Italian Year.” It contains interesting and informing studies of contemporary Italian authors with discussions of some after-war phases of life as seen by a skilled and experienced alienist. $3.00 CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 16 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Apart altogether from its excellence as history at once trust- worthy and attractive, this series deserves its popularity on ac- count of minor merits. The restraint in the use of illustrations, the bibliographical notes, the paper, print, and format all combine to produce a work of rare distinction and value. Archibald Macmechan. Dalhousie University. ANTHOLOGISTS AND POETS The Second Booh of Modern Verse, by Jessie B. Rittenhouse, $1.50; Fleur de Lys: A Book of French Poetry freely translated into English Verse, by Wilfrid Thorley, $2.00; Houghton Mifflin Co. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919, by William Stanley Braithwaite, $2.25, Small, Maynard & Co. Boston. Georgian Poetry, 1918-1919, G. P. Putnam's Sons. A Miscellany of British Poetry, 1919, by W. Kean Seymour, $2.00; Modern American Poetry, by Louis Untermeyer, $l.lfi; Harcourt, Brace & Howe. Albert Boni, The Modern Book of French Verse, $2.50, Boni & Liveright. The Golden Whales of California, by Vachel Lindsay, $1.75, Macmillan Co. Dust and Light, by John Hall Wheelock, $1.50, Charles Scribner's Sons. Lancelot, by Edwin Arlington Robinson, $1.75, Thomas Seltzer. New York. Blue Smoke, by Karle Wilson Baker, $1.50; In April Once, by William Alexander Percy, $1.50; Perpetual Light, by William Rose BenSt, $1.35; Yale University Press, New Haven. 1919- 1920. Mr. Untermeyer’s introduction to his “Modern American Poetry,” briefly stating the claims of modern verse, at once piques our curiosity. Beginning with Emily Dickinson, his volume prints selections from eighty writers ; more than half are represented by but a single poem, not enough to confirm the impressions of the reader, and many of his authors could have been omitted with profit and their pages allotted to better singers. Miss Rittenhouse supplements her previous volume with this second anthology of “Modern Verse,” which should attain the deserved success won by its predecessor. There is a fine dis- crimination shown throughout these pages; yet while the editor is no partisan of any poetic clan, she might safely have offered a larger hospitality to the radicals. The poems are not arranged in a sequence of authors, but grouped skilfully in accord with their THE YALE REVIEW 17 LIPPINCOTT BOOKS Seeing the Far West By JOHN T. FARIS Author of “Seeing Pennsylvania ** etc. Here is not only a wonderful panorama in text, with 1 13 illustrations and 2 maps, of the scenic glories of the States from the Rockies to the Pacific, but also an intensely interesting narrative overflowing with personal observations and bits of history and romance, making it a particularly entertaining volume for both travelers and general readers. Almost every spot of beauty and interest is described, — the unknown regions as well as those already familiar. This is the most complete and comprehensive volume on the territory covered. $6.00 net. The Book of Job By mor “d, j i£S trow ' Jr - “A Noble Book; all Men’s Book,” as Carlyle so aptly termed “The Book of Job,” the literary masterpiece of the Bible, is here given in an original translation based on a revised text. Professor Jastrow, in his lucid and fascinating style, traces the origin, growth, and interpretation of the book presenting it in an entirely new light. The volume is uniform with “A Gentle Cynic, Being the Book of Ecclesiastes,” published last year. Frontispiece. Octavo. $4.00 net. the Orient in Bible times By ELIHU GRANT, Professor of Biblical Literature at Haverford College An invaluable work presenting a wonderful and historically accurate panorama of the Oriental world, its peoples, civiliza- tions, and history. It humanizes Bible study and gives a back- ground against which Biblical activities are made plainer. Bible reading and study, with this volume for reference, be- comes more intensely human and interesting. 30 illustrations, map and index. $2.50 net. The Eastern Question and Its solution By MORRIS JASTROW, JR., Ph.D., LL.D. “This pregnant little volume presents an ideal solution of one of the most complicated problems now acutely before the world .” — New York Times It is a timely and illuminating survey of the present situation in the East, by an authority on the subject. With a map, $1.50 net. THE LIFE OF James McNeill Whistler By ELIZABETH ROBINS and JOSEPH PENNELL New 6th edition just published comes as practically a new book. It has been revised and contains new material and new illustra- tions. It is profusely illustrated. Octavo. $6.50 net. Archaic England By harold bayley Even if you are not an archaeologist this book will hold you with the thrill of adventure. The author deciphers pre-history from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, faerie super- stitions, etc. The quaint designs with which almost every page of the work is illustrated, are as attractive as the matter itself. 507 illustrations, 894 pages, octavo. $7.50 net. AFTER THE DAY By HAYDEN TALBOT The author, armed with special credentials, interviewed all the German leaders, and as a result has a remarkable story to tell of a Germany unconquered and unrepentant. The book is a revelation. 16 illustrations. Octavo. $4.00 net. Children’s Book Week IS NOVEMBER 15th TO 20th GILBERT PARKER’S first full-length story in four years No Defence 4 Illustrations by C. D. Williams. $2.00 net Not only has Sir Gilbert written again a thril- ling Parker romance-adventure, with its high lights and deep shades, its warm and human love episodes, its problems of universal appeal, its absorbing interplay of soul upon soul, but in addition, with penetrating insight and great artistry, the author has contrasted the Irish and English temperaments in many deft and tragi-humorous scenes. The plot is irresistibly dramatic from the meeting of the two lovers in Ireland until the final scene on the island of Jamaica. “No Defence” will take high place among the really great romances. Fame and Failure By julian ellis Here is something new in biography. The intensely interesting stories of eighteen famous failures whose unusual and dramatic experiences made their careers memorable. 4 Illustrations. Octavo. $3.75 net. The Nations and The league Ten representative writers of seven nations present their views on the most burning questions of the day, — France, the United States, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Germany, are represented. An intensely interesting and important con- tribution. $2.25 net. Children should have the best — LIPPINCOTT’S MERIT BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CATALOGUE will be mailed on request. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY : PHILADELPHIA When writing to advertisers Jcindly mention The Yale Review 18 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS subjects or feeling, and while this arrangement gives a certain sense of unity to the volume, it destroys in a measure the individ- uality of the writers, for the lyre passes too quickly from hand to hand. “Georgian Verse” and “A Miscellany of British Poetry” offer the work of some forty British poets of the present; strangely enough, Masefield, the chief of all, does not appear among them. Miss Rittenhouse prints poems of twice that number of Americans; yet surely here is enough poetry from our old home to offer a basis for a comparison of British and American verse. The Georgian singers are more in the great tradition than are the Americans; they like a richly ladened verse, a deep harmony. They are quieter, calmer, even in their moments of joy and exhil- aration. They find beauty in old English towns and hamlets, in hills and rivers stored with memories and associations; it is not the earth, it is their small bit of it, that they love. “Georgian Verse” is a little Academy; into each volume, new aspirants are admitted — and its verse is at times traditional and academic. American poetry is more inquisitive, more restless; its tone is nearer to every-day speech; its thought is homelier, closer to common experience. There are more wild flowers in the Amer- ican garden of the Muses; there is a sharper flavor, a tang, in the apples of our American Hesperides. Sandburg and Lindsay would ruffle the calm of Georgian music. Certainly there is a deeper grace in De la Mare than we find in the poets of Miss Rittenhouse; on the other hand, there is a directness, a poign- ancy, in her best lyrics that we miss in the British singers. This is merely a hint at the differences a reader will find in comparing these three volumes; and he will discover many more. The two anthologies of French verse in English dress supple- ment each other admirably. Mr. Thorley’s collection is the better in design; with a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry, presenting adequately the progress of French poesy from the fourteenth century to the present. Printing only translations made by others, from Chaucer and Spenser to Arthur Symons, Mr. Boni is necessarily limited in his choice. Mr. Lindsay’s “The Golden Whales of California” is a disap- pointment. There is something of the old, grotesque humor in THE YALE REVIEW 19 CENTURY AUTUMN LEADERS Interesting Facts Absorbing Fiction MAC OF PLACID By T. Morris Longstreth A new “Lorna Doone.” A thrilling love story set amid the snows and pine forests of the Adirondacks Mountain country. Frontispiece . 12mo, 339 pages. $ 1.90 TURN ABOUT TALES By Alice Hegan Rice and Cale Young Rice The famous author of “Mrs. Wiggs” and her talented husband alternate in telling ten unusual stories. Frontispiece. 12mo, 238 pages. $1.90 THE MIDDLE PASSAGE By L. Frank Tooker A fascinating romance of the sea by an author who knows and loves it. It is beauti- fully told. Frontispiece. 12mo , 272 pages. $1.90 IN THE HOUSE OF ANOTHER By Beatrice Mantle An enthralling psychic, love and mystery story set in one of the large cities of the West. It grips you. Frontispiece. 12mo, 318 pages. $1.90 SAMUEL LYLE, CRIMINOLOGIST By Arthur Crabb Clever mystery stories by a new author who brings a fresh note to this type of fiction. Frontispiece. 12mo, 347 pages. $1.75 THE REIGN OF PATTI By Herman Klein The authorized biography of the world's greatest prima donna. A delight for the gen- eral reader as well as the musical enthusiast. Forty illustrations. 8vo, 470 pages. $5.00 LIGHTING THE HOME By M. Luckiesb A pioneer book. It ranks with books or& interior decoration and furniture as an aid to- transforming a house into a home. Illustrated. 12mo, 289 pages. $1.75' GLIMPSES OF SOUTH AMERICA By F. A. Sherwood South America in a new light. A unique collection of brief, clear-cut descriptions of places and impressions. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, 406 pages. $4.0(1 EVERYDAY AMERICANS By Henry Seidel Canby A brilliant study of the American mind as the war left it. A keen analysis of the na- tional type. 12mo , 183 pages. $1.75 THE PLEASURES OF COLLECTING By Gardner Teall No connoisseur of things artistic can afford to be without it. Charming in style and content. Fully illustrated. 8vo, 328 pages. $4.00 At All Bookstores TUI? rTMTIIDV 353 Fourth Avenue Published by 1 flEi vEiil 1 UI\I W# New York City When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 20 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS “The Daniel Jazz”; “Bryan” catches the wild frenzy of the free silver campaign of 1896; “Esther” has fine stanzas, but this does not justify the book. There is nothing here to approach “General Booth,” “The Congo,” “The Chinese Nightingale,” or the elegy on Altgeld, to mention his finest work. At his best, Mr. Lindsay has a ready sympathy, humor, sincerity, original- ity, a keen sense of rhythm, an abandon of mood that catches up the reader in its rushing flight; at his worst he is sentimental, verbose, lacking in self-criticism, trivial in his diction, shallow in his thought. In this volume, the exuberance of spirit seems artificial, a mannerism; we weary of what the poet calls the “jazz bird’s screech” and “monkey-shines and didoes.” His few poems in the two little “Books of Modern Verse” are worth all this volume. Strength and ardor are the distinguishing marks of Mr. Wheel- ock’s verse. Some of the poems in “Dust and Light” appear conventional; the prophetic message in “Eagles of Democracy,” with a touch of Swinburne, or “The Man to his Dead Poet,” suggesting de Musset, does not seem authentic; “The Hymn of Man” and “Towards the Bright Doom” have too much rhetoric in them and leave the reader cold. If certain pages seem too formal in their speech, this, the worst that can be said, touches but a small part of a remarkable volume. When Mr. Wheelock writes of the earth and its beauty, when he describes in soaring lyrics the exaltation and the tragedy of love, the desolation and the terror wrought by its passing, he takes old and familiar themes and makes them new and strange by his vivid expression, the irttfensity of his emotion, the power of his imagination. In reading any modern book as good as this, the question comes of itself, how much of this flame will burn twenty years hence. One may hazard the opinion that certain stanzas in this volume will give as much pleasure then as now, especially his paean on “Earth,” which The Yale Review had the honor of publishing. No future anthologist of American verse will over- look it. “Blue Smoke,” a volume whose very form is a delight, will place its author in the foremost ranks of our lyric poets. In every page there is distinction, a power of suggestion, an emotion deep in its restraint, clear in its freedom from the blight of senti- THE YALE REVIEW 21 DM New Dodd, Mead Books DM JAPAN’S FOREIGN POLICIES By A. M. POOLEY, author of Japan at the Cross Roads , etc. Mr. Pooley’s earlier book was stated to be indispensable to all who wished to have a proper knowledge of Asiatic matters. His new volume deals with Japan’s external affairs and in par- ticular with the way in which the policies inaugurated by the late Count Hayashi have ripened into making Japan the Germany of the East. Mr. Pooley examines fully, but fairly, Japan’s activities in China, and summarizes the results of the war in regard to the problem of the Pacific. $3.50 GAMBETTA By Paul Deschanel, President of the French Republic History can show few more dra- matic careers than that of Leon Gambetta. No one is better qual- ified to write of him with intimate knowledge, with sure judgment and with marked literary skill, than the new President of the French Repub- lic. M. Deschanel, in his early days, came into personal contact with Gambetta, and has been on intimate terms with many of his associates. He has written a brilliant biography full of life and color. $4.50 STUDIES of CONTEM- PORARY POETS New and Revised Edition By Mary C. Sturgeon Interesting studies of interesting modern poets, many of whom are rebels both in thought and in the technique of their work and of whom much has been heard in the criticism of modern poetry. Ample quotations supplement the text. $2.50 THE RELIGION OF THE SPIRIT WORLD By the Rev. Prof. S. Henslow, Author of The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism It has been said by a writer who disbelieved in spiritualism that, as regards any religious value, it must ever be useless. Prof. Henslow demonstrates from a vast number of commun- ications from the spirit world, not only that there is a religion of the spirits, but what it is, and how one’s conduct in this life affects one’s position in the life hereafter. $2.00 THE NEW PSYCHOL- OGY : and its Relation to Life By A. G. Tansley This book is an effort to present, in plain, intelligible language, a pic- ture of the structure, working and contents of the human mind as it is revealed in actual everyday life in the light of modern psychological knowledge. The earlier views of Pro- fessor James and others are supple- mented by an exposition of the teachings of Freud, Jung and other great psychopathologists. $4.00 BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS By S. P. B. MA!S, Author of From Shakespeare to O. Henry An unusually clever and illumin- ating series of essays dealing with popular modern writers such as Compton MacKenzie, Frank Swin- nerton, Stephen McKenna, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols and others. $2.00 AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF OCCULTISM By Lewis Spence, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute The first really comprehensive encyclo- paedia of occultism in all its manifold branches, attempting to supply, in alphabetical form and within reasonable compass, a very literary and scientific desideratum. All the various collateral sciences — anthropology, folklore, archaeology, etc. — have been freely drawn upon; and a few articles on specialist subjects have been contributed by experts. Illustrated $8.00 THE TAINT IN POLITICS By a Well-Known English Author What is wrong with our political system? Why do we have to pay so heavily for ineptitude and waste? Why does the State, by far the richest employer, get almost the worst service? Our blunders and burdens have set everybody asking these questions. The author, a close student both of history and politics, traces the taint from the age of Machiavelli to modern political systems, and he builds on definite facts, not loose rumors and suspicions. There was never a more opportune time for such a book. $ 2.00 DODD, MEAD & COMPANY DM Publishers for Eighty Years NEW YORK DM When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 22 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS mentality. Possibly given overmuch to introspection, at times a little over-wistful, this poet gives only her best. Her style is simple, vivid, never prScieuse; there is perfect ease in all the beatity of these songs. A realist in “At the Picture Show/’ a symbolist in “Street Doves,” a nature lover in “Good Company” and other poems, the author of these verses has a wide appeal and a broad vision. Finer than his “Sappho in Levkas, ” with all its promise, is “In April Once” by William Alexander Percy. This volume has all the charm and freshness of the earlier book, with a deeper and more appealing view of the world. The past still throws its spell over this singer; the longest poem in the book, filling nearly half its pages, is a little tragedy in a castle near Florence of the thir- teenth century. In this drama, the old conflict between flesh and spirit enmeshes the characters; and it is indicative of the poet’s vision that the spirit triumphs. From the brutality, the paganism, the faith of the Middle Ages, this writer turns to the farmer, home from the great war, or to Australian troopers in London, to the poet in the inhospitable city. The distinguishing trait of this volume is its spiritual insight and a love of beauty expressed with a confident sense of art. William Rose Benet’s “Perpetual Light” is a book of which it is difficult to speak in measured terms. In publishing these poems inspired by his wife — no elegy but rather a living memo- rial — Mr. Benet, we feel sure, had but one thought: to treasure up for a life beyond life a rare personality that made and inspired him. That a presence is felt through all this book, there can be no question. The memories and emotions that moved him have been given the surest expression of all the writer’s brilliant work. In previous volumes the music, the coloring, the phrasing, the mastery of words, have not always seemed equalled by the content of the verse; here is the same technical beauty, and a greater, because more subdued; and with it, the very substance of life. Mr. Robinson’s “Lancelot” is a finer achievement than his “Merlin.” The two books are written in different keys though both have the same repression, the same power of revealing in a phrase a landscape or a mood ; for this poet works with the economy of great art, telling in a gesture what the imperfect actor babbles about for minutes. It is not in technique that THE YALE REVIEW 23 REMINISCENCES OF TOLSTOY By MAXIM GORKY Seldom does one genius trouble to understand another. Romain Rolland, writing from France, more kin to Gorky than to Tolstoy in literary method and philosophy, arrives at no such brilliant conclusion in his classic biography as does this great man of New Russia in these intimate con- versations with the great man of Old Russia. Probably $1.5° POOR WHITE By ANDERSOr? No comment on contemporary American letters overlooks Mr. Anderson; see the recent London Nation supplement and the New York Times' review of the six best books of the year. All the power of the Winesburg short stories is here compressed into a single theme. Probably $ 2.00 WINESBURG, OHIO By SHERWOOD ANDERSON Brilliant fiction of life in a mid- western town pronounced by a re- cent writerin the Mercurede France “the best fiction published in Eng- lish since the armistice.” $1.60 THE HISTORY OF A LITERARY RADICAL By RANDOLPH BOURNE Edited by Van Wyck Brooks The quality that touched and stimulated those who knew and talked with Bourne is between the covers of this book. $2.00 THE ENDOWMENT OF MOTHERHOOD Edited by KATHARINE ANTHONY Among those books that are sig- nificant for the next generation is this carefully formulated report of English sociologists. 50c ON AMERICAN BOOKS Five notable essays on as many phases of American letters by Joel E. Spingarn, Morris R. Cohen, Francis Hackett, Padraic Colum and H. L. Mencken. 50c THE LYNCHING BEE AND OTHER POEMS By WM. ELLERY LEONARD Like Wilde’s “ Ballade of Reading Goal” and Hood’s “Song of the Shirt,” “The Lynching Bee,” written in the fire of indignation over a social wrong, is the first genuine poem to picture the negro in contemporary America. $1.50 THESE THINGS SHALL BE By GEORGE LANSBURY A book of hope for those who be- lieve that the way out of the per- plexities confronting all classes lies through fellowship. $1.00 About The Freeman “The Freeman has a con- science and a sense of humor — two things rarely combined. We like The Freeman best among the magazines as re- gards literary comment.” — Keith Preston in the Chicago News. The Freeman has just rounded its first half year. Thoughtful people every- where have been quick to greet the new weekly. A former cabinet officer, for instance, writes: “ I want merely to say to you that for one, I am delighted with your publication, The Freeman. I am not making comparisons, but there is a spirit of independence com- bined with thoroughness of in- quiry that is well calculated to give confidence to those of us who have been made members of the great camp of unrest because we have not been trusted with facts.” From Israel Zangwill in England we have received another typical letter: “ I feel bound to tell you that, though I have only seen one Tiumber, The Freeman has already excited my enthu- siasm. In particular Mr. Deimel’sarticleon Einsteinand Mr. Patten ’son ‘The Failure of Liberal Idealism ’ are the best I have read on their respective subjects." Such contributions as the following will give you the flavor of The Freeman: Reminiscenses of Tolstoy, by Maxim Gorky. Psycho-Analysis and the Novel, by J. D. Beresford. Sir Auckland Geodes’ Handiwork, by George W. Russell (“ JE”) The Genesis of Huck Finn, by Van Wyck Brooks. Soviets and Social Theory, by G. D. H. Cole. An Experiment in Poetic Drama, by Walter Prichard Eaton.* The New Negro, by Geroid Robinson. The Spencerian Philosophy in 1920, by A. A. Goldenweiser : The Editors of The Free- man are Francis Neilson and Albert J. Nock. $6.00 a year, 10 weeks $1.00 THE FREEMAN, Inc. B. W. Huebsch, Pres. THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER “The frankest utterance which has come from either side of the struggle between capital and labor," according to the New York Globe. Cloth $1.75, paper $1.00 THE STORY OF A STYLE By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE When Buffon said “The style is the man himself," he gave the clue to the understanding of princes, potentates and presidents provided they commit the indiscretion of put- ting themselves into print. The man who failed at the Peace Conference for lack of straightforwardness failed, according to Mr. Hale, because he had failed to write for years in straightforward sentences. Psychoanalysis and common sense applied to grammar yield astonishing re- sults in the case of this examination of Woodrow Wilson’s published words. Probably $ 2.00 32 W. 58th street B. JV. HUEBSCH, InC. New York City 7 t When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 24 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS “Lancelot” surpasses the earlier poem but in its greater vari- ety of characters, and in the clashings and conflicts of stronger passions. Edward Bliss Reed. Yale University. A SHELF OF BOOKS ABOUT IRELAND The Kiltartan Poetry Booh , by Lady Gregory , $1.25, G. P. Putman's Sons. The Wild Swans at Coole, by W. B. Yeats, $1.25, Mac- millan Co. The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, $2.50, Brentano's. Irish Impressions, by G. K. Chesterton, $1.50, John Lane Co. Elizabethan Ulster, by Lord Ernest Hamilton, $6.00, E. P. Dutton & Co. The Life of John Redmond, by Warre B. Wells, $2.00, George H. Doran Co. John Redmond's Last Years, by Stephen Gwynn, $5.00, Longmans, Green & Co. New York. Rural Reconstruction in Ireland, by Lionel Smith-Gordon and Laurence C. Staples, $3.00, Yale University Press, New Haven. The Years of the Shadow, by Katharine Tynan, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 1919-1920. Of the making of books about Ireland there is no end. In the past year there has appeared a succession of volumes to explain the course of Irish politics. One of these, “Ireland and England,” written especially for Americans by an American, Professor Edward Raymond Turner, follows the tangled maze of Ireland’s relations with England from the earliest times to the present, and is a valuable survey of the situation. But the greater number of these new books are the work either of Englishmen or of Irish- men, and concentrate attention chiefly upon the political history of the past seven years. Belles-lettres, however, are represented among recent publications by a volume of prose “translations” made by Lady Gregory, by poetry from Mr. Yeats, and by a collected edition of the verse of Francis Ledwidge. “The Kiltartan Poetry Book,” by Lady Gregory, consists mainly of reprints from the author’s former volumes, “ Cuchulain of Muirthemne,” “Gods and Fighting Men,” “The Book of Saints and Wonders,” and “Poets and Dreamers.” Lady Gregory gives her new book the sub-title, “Prose Translations from the Irish”; the word “adaptations” would better have been used, since the author by her own confession possesses but slight knowl- edge of modern Gaelic and none of Old and Middle Irish. The THE YALE REVIEW Two Novels by An English Author of Extraordinary Promise ERIC LEADBITTER RAIN BEFORE SEVEN Mr. Leadbitter’s first novel, set in the temperamental world of music, is convincing proof that here is a master both as to story and style. “Readers of fiction who know fine work when they see it will watch his career with peculiar interest.’ ’ — London Times. “Mr. Leadbitter is a young English novelist who will pres- ently come before American readers in other stories already known and liked on the other side. His first effort shows a thoughtful student of character, with the art of relating action to impulse.” — Philadelphia North American . “A very good study of a youth who has not yet found himself.” — Detroit Free Press. Net , $2.00 THE ROAD TO NOWHERE A story of the development of the children of a small Eng- lish tradesman. The complications resulting from the associa- tions of the children with people of the aristocracy work out with a fine cumulative effect. “Mr. Leadbitter is admirably clear and terse, not in any sense an imitator, and describes with sure and true insight his characters.” — British Weekly. Net , $2.00 GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY Publishers PHILADELPHIA When writing to advertisers lcindly mention The Yale Review 26 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS public owes Lady Gregory a great debt for her service to Irish letters — as a writer of comedy, as one of the founders of a distin- guished theatre, as the friend and patron of an eminent poet; but her field is modern Ireland, and she should not venture into the past without the guidance of the most recent scholarship. Lady Gregory’s home, “Coole Park,” in Mayo, possibly sug- gested the title of Mr. W. B. Yeats’s new book, “The Wild Swans at Coole.” Long is it since this poet, flinging open the windows which looked out upon a Gaelic past full of forgotten but distinc- tive beauties, first delighted a world jaded by over-elaborate mediaevalism. In the course of thirty years he has completely altered his manner. Perhaps a “sea change” induced by his visits to the United States is responsible for Mr. Yeats’s new method. He has not enriched his verse; rather he has accentuated its quality of strangeness; irregularities which once soothed ears dulled by the overworked rhythms of the ’nineties are now too frequent, and he has sometimes found himself at odds with both rhyme and rhythm. Despite these differences between the poet of the earlier and the later years, the reader cannot but be con- scious of the magician playing with the objects of his creation; like a druid he brings before us sights and sounds over which he is master. “ The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge ” (with introductions by Lord Dunsany) includes verses published in three volumes during the war. It is impossible to read these again without realizing that Ledwidge is Ireland’s foremost poet of landscape, a poet who will undoubtedly win lasting recognition. That he was able, amid the turmoil of war, to describe the quiet beauty of the Irish countryside, is proof of real inspiration. One needs but read in this book to visualize Ireland, to know her pervasive spirit; distance is annihilated, and the Irish hills, rivers, and fields in all their color and charm are at hand. Although the poems have obvious defects, many of which would doubtless have been elimi- nated had the poet lived to revise his work, “The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge” should belong to everyone who prizes the poetry of earth. In her latest volume of reminiscences, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Hinkson) gives an admirable picture of Ireland during the greater part of the war. It is significant, that, although she is a Roman THE YALE REVIEW 27 iilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllM By William De Morgan THE OLD MAN’S YOUTH By Martin A . Nexo DITTE GIRL ALIVE! This new novel by the author of “The Old Madhouse,” etc., may by regarded as largely autobiographical. It is written with the De Morgan skill, delightful humor and patient attention to detail. Price $2.00 The story of a child and her struggle to rise above the poverty and the wretched- ness of her environments. It surpasses all of this famous author’s earlier works in its penetration of the child heart. Price $2.00 By Professor Albert Einstein RELATIVITY This is Professor Einstein’s own explanation of his epoch-making discovery. Professor Einstein's aim in this book has been to give an exact insight into his theory of relativity and to present the main ideas in the clearest and simplest form. Price $3.00 COAL, IRON AND WAR By Edwin C. Eckel A timely and enlightening discussion of modem industrialism and a forecast of the future in so far as industrialism necessitates war. Price $3.00 THE RUSSIAN PEASANT AND THE REVOLUTION By Maurice G. Hindus A thought provoking discussion of Russia’s fundamental problem, by one who was him- self a Russian peasant. Price $2.00 THE SYSTEM OF ANIMATE NATURE By J. Arthur Thomson Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews. 2 vols. Price $6.00 MIND-ENERGY By Henri Bergson The most important volume of philosophy that has been published since the same author’s world-famous “Creative Evolution.” Price $2.50 RECONSTRUCTION IN PHILOSOPHY By John Dewey Dewey’s first attempt to give to the world a view of his philosophy as a whole. Price $1.60 THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Frederick J. Turner An important and extremely interesting study of American expansion. Price $2.50 HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 19 West 44th St. New York City When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 28 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Catholic in faith and a Nationalist in politics, she never betrays any leaning towards the more radical Sinn Fein jxarty — and this in a book which contains a careful account of the Easter rebellion of 1916. Another book based upon personal experience is “Irish Im- pressions,” by G. K. Chesterton, which is characteristic of its author. It is the fruit of a visit to Ireland during the latter part of the war, when there was hope that Mr. Chesterton would be able to aid recruiting. The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures : sometimes the figure confuses, more often it has a penetrating truth which could be expressed in no other way. Mr. Chesterton begins with a description of two Dublin statues, one of King William the Third, and the other of the poet Mangan, as the visible signs of the inward and spiritual problem of Ireland. For all Mr. Chesterton’s Johnsonian balance, antithesis, the sparkle of epigram — and Doctor Johnson was one of the few eighteenth- century Englishmen who understood Ireland — “Irish Impres- sions” contains an amazing amount of true comment. Lord Ernest Hamilton’s “Elizabethan Ulster” fails, and par- tially for lack of the qualities which give especial merit to Mr. Chesterton’s book — imagination and felicity of phrase. For the mere historical investigator, it is probably unnecessary to have further ability than that of putting together the dry bones of history, but he who presents his material in book form for the general public must, like Ezekiel, have the power to make the dry bones live. For one reader who takes an interest in sixteenth-century Ulster, there are many who wish to know more of the history of Irish politics during the last six or seven years, particularly the history of the Irish Parliamentary Party in its connection with the Great War. This history is found justly presented in two recent books, “The Life of John Redmond” and “John Redmond’s Last Years.” Neither of these tells much of Mr. Redmond personally; both concentrate attention upon him as the leader of a political party. Of the two volumes, the “Life” gives the broader view; Mr. W. B. Wells sustains the reputation he has already gained as one of the co-authors of a book on the Irish rebellion and of “The Irish Convention and Sinn Fein”; he has assimilated a great amount of material and has chosen what is of most value. THE YALE REVIEW 29 REPUTATIONS By Douglas Goldring A volume of critical essays which — strange as it may seem, considering that it is a book of literary essays — has created a sensation in London. “Reputations” gained immediate attention and became the subject of a sharp, acrimonious controversy in the London press between the author. Miss Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. Goldring’s victory in this battle of the keenest wits of England was so decisive that Nott’s Journal and Express declared unqualifiedly: “The honours go to Mr. Goldring.” Among the authors the book deals with are H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, D. H. Lawrence, George Gissing, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh Walpole and Gilbert Cannan. The work includes several personal articles of unusual interest, and some letters from James Elroy Flecker, the gifted author of “Lines to a Poet a Thousand Years Hence.” “Calculated to flutter more than one sheltered dovecote .” — London Bookshelf. $2.50 The Creed of a Fighter By HENRI BARBUSSE Containing the most important utterances of Henri Barbusse, from 1917 to the present time, on vital ques- tions of the day. It is the intellectual autobiography of one of the noblest and most sensitive minds of our age; and gains special significance from the fact that it was written in the most critical period of man’s history. The World Tragedy By GEORG BRANDES This book by the world-famous writer deals with the tragedy of the peace and its disastrous consequences. It is a work that is certain to arouse great interest as one of the most important expressions on the events of the day, alongside those of Romain Rolland and Henri Barbusse. The Passing of the Old Order in Europe By GREGORY ZILBOORG This work is the first attempt at a general survey of the forces which have brought about the downfall of the old order in Europe. It is a masterly analysis of the factors which have contributed to the decay of the European institutions and a comprehensive presentation of the new order which is in the process of formation. $2.50 Our Great War and the Great War of the Ancient Greeks By GILBERT MURRAY A brilliant parallel between our Great War and the Peloponnesian' War which destroyed the civilization of ancient Greece. “Interpreted with vivid insight into the past that revitalizes it for the present .” — The N. Y. Evening Post. Almost uncanny in its felicity.” — London -Saturday Review. $1.25 Reminiscences and Reflections of a Mid- and Late-Victorian By ERNEST BELFORT BAX A unique sketch of men, manners and movements from the Sixties of the last century to the present time. Especially interesting to students of English intellectual and socio-political life and thought during the Victorian periods. $2.50 Master Eustace By HENRY JAMES The second and final volume of the early stories of James, first pub- lished in England in a three-volume collection entitled “Short Stories Revived.” $2.00 The Burning Secret By STEFAN ZWEIG (“Stephan Branch”) The whole of literature contains no such exquisite, sympathetic delineation of a child in whom childhood is struggling with dawning knowledge, and never before has the theme been attempted — a child innocently and nobly figuring in an adult drama in which he is uncon- sciously the hero. $1.50 Lancelot: A Poem By EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON "A beautiful poem, the biggest of the year.” — N. Y. Evening Post. “ The poetical event of the year . . . beautiful in its poignant revelations, perfectly shaped and handled .” — Sun and N. Y. Herald. $1.75 AT ALL BOOKSELLERS THOMAS SELTZER, Publisher, 5 West 50th St., New York When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 30 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Although from the two memoirs of Redmond one may turn discouraged by the lack of accord among Irishmen, yet hope will revive upon a reading of “Rural Reconstruction in Ireland.” Messrs. Lionel Smith-Gordon and Laurence Staples give an ac- count of the co-operative movement which in the past thirty years has done much to unite Irishmen. They point out that “on the Committee of the I. A. O. S. [Irish Agricultural Organiza- tion Society] and of the individual societies north and south alike, Catholics and Protestants sit in friendly discussion; Sinn Feiners and Constitutionalists, Unionists and Home Rulers forget for the moment their embittered differences. In the rising of Easter week, 1916, it w T as a noticeable fact that the co-operative societies were in no way involved, but continued their work undisturbed.” While “Rural Reconstruction in Ireland” will, naturally, be appreciated best by the student of economics or of agriculture, it is a book which cannot be neglected by anyone interested in the Irish question. The authors have made a thorough study of their subject and have viewed it in relation to allied problems. There is, however, a formalism that, to one who is neither economist nor agriculturist, becomes wearisome. In the books of reminiscence and of history it is worth noting that not one advocates either the stand-pat policy of Ulster or the complete independence that is the corner-stone of the Sinn Fein political programme. From these two groups, poetry and prose, it is possible to gain a just conception of Ireland’s difficulties and a sympathetic understanding of the Irish national spirit. To interpret the real spirit of Gaelic Ireland is the endeavor of contemporary Irish writers; the Irish literary revival has com- pleted a circle and has returned whither it started. Norreys Jephson O’ Conor. Boston. THEATRICAL CHRONOLOGY A History of the Theatre in America , by Arthur Hornblow , 2 vols. y $ 10.00 , J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia , 1919. This important and valuable work is exactly what it professes to be. It is a history of the theatre in America, clothed in facts and THE YALE REVIEW 31 HU As Bamum did it: a white elephant from trunk to tail The White Elephant of Siam O NE of the biggest fakes ever con- cocted — as laughable a story as ever has been told! P. T. Barnum perpetrated it, and an unsuspecting public, loving to be fooled, fell for it. You know the white elephant of the East — sacred keeper of the spirits of royalty — himself a dweller in regal palaces— with retinues of priests and servants! There was Barnum’s offer — $250,000 for the loan of the elephant for a year — priests, attendants, etc.! What happened, how a ruse was invented, its success, are told in the remembrances of Charles Mayer’s circus days, in ASIA The American MAGAZINE on the Orient More Than 60 Illustrations— Art Insert of 8 pages in Color This is the first of a series of adventure stories of the business of catching wild animals alive— the tale of the great python, for instance, for show purposes. ASIA en- tertains — but does much more. It widens one’s visions in a sweeping view of a conti- nent rich in new endeavor and beauty and in vital interest to the every-day American. SPECIAL OFFER - FIVE MONTHS for $1 OPEN TO NEW READERS ONLY Fill out the coupon and take a trip to Asia ASIA PUBLISHING COMPANY 627 Lexington Avenue New York City The real sacred white elephant ; from a sketch made on the spot Among other good features of the October Issue: The Story of Willard Straight The tale of a young American of vision and action in the fascinating life of the East, laying the foundation for today’s great International Consortium for loans to China which may solve the Far Eastern Problem. Louis Graves. The Way of the Farmer in Japan And how Japan’s victorious army and navy, and the smoking chimneys of Osaka, rest on the bent back of the farmer and his wife, standing up to their knees in their paddy fields, raising no less than 4,000 different kinds of rice. Robertson Scott. On the Trail of the Lord Tiger Huntingthebig animal inlndo-China. H. C. Flower Jr. Hero Hunting in Persia Meeting the Khans of Central Iran. Harold Weston. n ASIA PUBLISHING COMPANY Y - *• I0 *20 627 Lexington Avenue, New York City Send the next five issues of ASIA, the American Maga- j zine on the Orient, beginning with October, 1920. I en- I close $1.00. I Name. Address Business or Profession . Canadian $1.20 ; foreign $1.40 When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 32 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS figures and well shod with footnotes. Seven hundred and thirty tall pages of clear type, with the addition of nearly two hundred illustrations, will please the lover of the theatre and satisfy the student. It is so strongly fortified by names and dates, so good an example of honest and painstaking research, that it takes immedi- ately its place as a standard and authoritative history, not likely to be superseded. It does not claim to be a history of the drama, nor a work of literary criticism. It is an account, in chronological order, of the founding of theatres, in every locality in America, with the names of the plays first produced, the men and women in the cast, the financial success or failure of every undertaking, the subsequent careers of the more important artists. The buildings — stage and auditorium — are described in detail, and an accurate estimate can be made of local popular support. The enormous difficulties of presenting plays in primitive surroundings during the eighteenth century make a narrative that would seem fantastic if it were not true. Actors and actresses had to penetrate trackless forests and float along strange rivers — their indomitable courage, the courage of the pioneer, triumphed over apparently insuperable obstacles and dangers. Some of the most interesting chapters in this book describe the visits to America of the English stars, Edmund Kean and Macready, together with the riots that unfortunately made these excursions even more dramatic than was the original inten- tion. A great deal can be learned about mob spirit and mob psychology from these pages. Individuals may be educated, but you can never educate the mob — it is the same brute in all coun- tries and in all ages. Much pleasanter reading follows when we come to the golden days of theatre management in America — the days of the great three, Wallack, Palmer, and Daly. These men, as Mr. Hornblow justly observes, “belonged to that school of managers whom we find in control of the leading theatres in Europe — men of culture, refinement, and scholarship.” The modern theatre manager is a speculator, a “business-man,” as indeed many seem to believe a college president should be. William Lyon Phelps. Yale University. THE YALE REVIEW 33 The Weekly Review has, in my esti- mate, more than fulfilled the promises of its program. Aiming at sobriety rather than piquancy and epigrammatic point, it has steadily gained in vigor and interest without sacrificing to these desirable qualities its ideals of reason and modera- tion. Never was Emerson’s admonition more needed than to-day: — “It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected, but of much that the man be in his senses.” Even more than the general wisdom of its policies and the correctness of its judgments, do the temperateness of its rhetoric, the soundness of its logic, the fairness of its controversy make The Weekly Review a stabilizing and edu- cative influence in these days of irrespon- sible opinion and wild and whirling words . — Paul Shorey , Professor of Greek , University of Chicago. Twenty Cents a Copy Five Dollars a Year CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 140 NASSAU STREET NEW YORK CITY When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 34 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS A LABOR LEADER UPON LABOR THEORISTS A Short History of the American Labor Movement , by Mary Beard , $1.50; The Nonpartisan League , by Herbert E. Gaston, $1.50; Harcourt , Brace Sc Howe. Organized Labor in American His- tory , by Frank Tracy Carlton , $2.50, D. Appleton Sc Co. The New Industrial Unrest, by Ray Stannard Baker, $2.00, Doubleday, Page Sc Co. Current Social and Industrial Forces, by Lionel D. Edie, $2.50, Boni Sc Liveright. Social Theory, by G. D. H. Cole, $1.50, Frederick A. Stokes Co. The History of Trade Unionism, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, $7.50, Longmans, Green Sc Co. New York. 1920. Of late, the labor movement — and the advanced social move- ment generally — has suffered far more from its literary “friends” than from its literary enemies. Doctrinaire Liberals and dog- matic Radicals have agreed in preferring Bolshevism and all other post-war “isms” to the labor union movement and even to moderate Socialism. Current books which are largely from such Liberal pens illustrate — in widely different degrees, of course — this general tendency. Let us begin with one that is comparatively free from such a bias. Mrs. Beard’s “Short History of the American Labor Move- ment,” which is largely devoted to the present period, almost never lapses into the conventional and dogmatic misstatements of our so-called “Liberal” authors. While writing from a broad and philosophic standpoint, she is always well informed and remains sympathetic with her subject throughout. The book preserves an admirably sane and restrained tone to the end. Professor Carlton’s “Organized Labor in American History” is taken up largely with present-day movements and problems. The first half deals briefly and effectively with the relation of labor to early reform movements as brought out in the longer and earlier studies of Carlton, Commons, and others. It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters. Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable. THE YALE REVIEW 35 OUR RIFLES By Charles Winthrop Sawyer A comprehensive study, profusely illustrated, of our sporting and military rifles from 1800 to 1920, and those of our allies and antagonists in the World War. Lines of development in the future are suggested, and the manufacture and repair of present rifles are treated fully. In brief, everything one desires to know about our past, present and future arms. 34.50 net By Paul Claudel Christmas Eve, 1914 A poetic play of unusual beauty. 31.25 net By Angelina W. Grimke Rachel Never before has the pathos and tragedy of the black man’s burden been more vividly portrayed than in this play when in a modern Rama, again the voice of Rachel is heard be- wailing her children because they are not. 3L25 net By Anna Spencer Twitchell With Star and Grass A first book of poems of real signi- ficance. 31.25 net By Harvey Carson Grumbine Humanity or Hate? The only translated collection of the war poems of France and Ger- many. 31-50 net By Elizabeth Marsh Body and Soul The drama of a bodiless Soul in mortal battle with a soulless Body. 31.25 net By John Lawrence Waller Race Prejudice in America A brilliant, critical analysis of its motive, engenderment and develop- ment, intensely interesting both for its historical data and able analysis of the Negro’s situation here. 31.50 net By A. Louise Andrea Dehydrating Foods— Fruits, Vegetables, Fish and Meats Dehydration is the superior method of food preservation. No cans, jars or tedious canning processes are necessary and the wonderful progress made as a result of war time experi- ments has made it well called “The Modern Food Miracle.” 31-75 net THE LONE SCOUT By Edward Champe Carter With a foreword by William C. Gorgas, late Surgeon-General, U. S. A. In every way one of the best stories for boys that have been published in recent years, and deserving in every way the high praise bestowed upon it. 31.75 net \ Publishers THE C0RNHILL COMPANY Boston [a CORNHILL BOOK IS A GOOD BOOK — AND WELL MADE] When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 36 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Mr. Ray Stannard Baker was admirably equipped for the task of writing “The New Industrial Unrest” by his ability to gather and mobilize data, by his gifts as a writer, and by his long expe- rience in dealing with this vast complex of problems. His point of view, too, should satisfy the most critical. Asked “ What is the solution of the problem?” — he says he felt like asking in return, “What is the solution of the problem of life?” That he does not get very far, or contribute anything fundamentally new towards the “solution,” is then scarcely surprising or derogatory to his picture of the present situation — perhaps as comprehensive as his space permits. While, with his carefully balanced views, Mr. Baker does not offer organized labor any support, he does fully recognize its growing power — more fully it would seem than does the President* For he writes: “To any honest observer who surveys the devel- opments of the last twenty-five years it is clear that, while they have lost the battles, the workers are winning the war. . . * While the masses of American labor may not subscribe to the outright programme of the radicals that labor must rule, yet the whole drift of the labor movement is in that direction.” We cannot doubt Mr. Baker’s will to be fair to organized labor, but we must doubt his success when, as a distinct non-radical on the labor question, he throws his entire weight wholly to the radical wing of this radical movement. We can only say that other Liberals and even conservatives are doing the same thing* For the student of the radical and radical-liberal literature since the war “Current Social and Industrial Forces,” edited by Lionel D. Edie, is a valuable volume. It consists of over one hundred quotations, chiefly from the ultra-pacifist type of Lib- eral, though a few pro-war Liberals are quoted, and also a few conservatives, by way of contrast. Several of the more advanced war-time government reports are also cited, such as those of the Federal Trade Commission and the War Labor Policies Board. If the new radicalism of Great Britain were developing any profound and constructive social theory, Mr. G. H. D. Cole’s book on this subject would undoubtedly be the best place to look for it. As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social theories can be questioned. The critical and de- THE YALE REVIEW 37 READABLE— LAS TING Four Permanent Books of Interest from Putnam 9 s List DRAKE, NELSON and NAPOLEON By Sir Walter Runciman The fresh vigor of the author’s mental attitude, his freedom from prejudice, his sound sense, and his fearlessness in dealing with :the personal side of these three great characters, makes for an intensely interesting and illuminating volume. 8 ° Illus. $4.50 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY in FRANCE By Jacques Boulenger An engaging account of Le Grande Silcle from the accession of Louis XIII (1610) to the death of Louis XIV (1715). Though scholarly and painstaking, M. : Boulenger ’s history is drama, a pageant, and, says the London Observer, “ M. Boulenger is a master of pageantry.” 8°. $ 3.50 A SHORT HISTORY of the ITALIAN PEOPLE By Janet Penrose Trevelyan From the century preceding the barbarian invasion under Diocletian to the recognition of the Kingdom in 1870, Mrs. George Macaulay Trevelyan has traced the absorbing history of the Italian people. “ A model of sound thinking, wholesome sentiment and fine proportions.” — Manchester Guardian. 8° Illus. and Maps. $5.00 A FORTNIGHT in NAPLES By Andre Maurel In company with the author of “ Little Cities of Italy ” and “A Month in Rome,” the enchanted reader wanders through a Naples that, if he has seen it only with a guide book, will have gained a fascinatingly changed aspect. 12 0 Illus. and Maps. $ 3.00 NEW YORK 2 West 45th Street Just west of 5th Are. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Publishers LONDON 24 Bedford Street Strand The Books of James Branch Cabell “A talent as original and satisfying as anything our time has ever seen. ” — Hugh Walpole in THE YALE REVIEW DOMNEI A comedy of woman worship. (Revised edition with an intro- duction by Joseph Hergesheimer.) THE CERTAIN HOUR Dizain des Ecritures. FROM THE HIDDEN Uniform edition THE CORDS OF VANITY A comedy of shirking. (Revised edition with an introduction by Wilson Follett.) BEYOND LIFE Dizain des Demiurges. WAY Seventy-five poems fi Etheridge Townsend. Per volume, $2.00 net THE CREAM OF THE JEST A comedy of evasions. THE RIVET IN GRANDFATHER’S NECK A comedy of limitations. the private papers of Robert Postage extra ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE By LEO SHESTOV Bold and unorthodox comments upon literature, philosophy, politics, by one of the leading living Russian critics. $2.00 A TANKARD OF ALE Compiled by Theodore Maynard An anthology of the best con- vivial songs of English litera- ture. $2.00 At All Bookstores ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO., Publishers, New York When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 38 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS structive part of his work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and creative thought, whereas what we find seems, at first sight, to be nothing but a political theory corresponding to the economic theory of Guild Socialism. Like the other Guild Socialists, Mr. Cole is an anti-state radical. He presents the view held as radical in England, but common to American political thought from the beginning and a natural out- growth of our institutions, that “a state’s powers are strictly limited to the fundamental purpose of government.” Industries are to be governed by guilds. Mr. Cole’s new contribution is that a central representative body of all the guilds is to take over the most important functions of the present state, including production, and is alone to exercise coercion over person and prop- erty. The state loses sovereignty, though it continues to exercise purely political functions and to represent the consumer. Of course, something of this kind has always been an inevitable implication of Guild Socialism. The original “History of Trade Unionism” by Sidney and Beatrice Webb appeared in 1894. The new edition, with nearly three hundred additional pages dealing with the extraordinary development of the British labor movement in the last quarter- century, from the pen of these accepted authorities is an event of international importance. Not only has Sidney Webb written as an authority on all the leading phases of British political prog- ress but he has been among the half-dozen most eminent leaders of the new Labor Party. But a vital change is to be noted in his viewpoint. A quarter of a century ago he wrote primarily as a scholar, though from a frankly avowed moderate Socialist stand- point. Now he writes, equally frankly, as an avowed political partisan, as a statesman of the Labor Party. As a partisan of labor against the government, Mr. Webb is likely to mislead few readers, for his position is generally under- stood. But as a partisan of one school of labor doctrine and policy against all others he is likely to sow misleading views in all directions. To Mr. Webb the sovereign labor movement, which usually monopolizes that name in his writings, is the Labor Party, while the trades unions are necessarily concerned with narrower economic and craft issues. THE YALE REVIEW 39 MARSHALL JONES BOOKS NORTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY By Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph.D. In the Mythology of All Races Series, edited’, by Louis H. Gray and George Foot Moore. Price of set $91.00. Single volumes $7.00. THE LIBERAL COLLEGE By Alexander Meiklejohn, President of Amherst College The first published volume of THE AMHERST BOOKS prepared by the college in com- memoration of its 1921 centennial. Ready in October. $2.50 THE STORY OF JESUS Compiled and arranged by Ethel Nathalie Dana Forty reproductions in five colors of paintings by Italian Primitives. A very beautiful and valuable book. Price $16.50 to $100.00. RELIGION AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY By Rev. Walter S. Swisher The application of Pyscho-analytic or Freudian psychology to the problem of religion and the conduct of human life. $2.00 THE CROOKED AND NARROW STREETS OF BOSTON By Annie H. Thwing The author has given years of study to the topography of Boston and is the acknowledged authority. A unique book with valuable maps specially drawn and many illustrations. llReady in October. $5.00 THE STORY OF AMERICA! Prepared by Alberto Pecorini for the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames for a better understanding between the new Americans and the old. In English and Italian. $1.00 THE JOKE ABOUT HOUSING By Charles Harris Whitaker “One of the most significant and fundamental contributions to the current literature on the housing problem.” — International Studio. $2.00 212 SUMMER STREET MARSHALL JONES CO. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS EMERSON and POE POE: How to Know Him By C. Alphonso Smith Head of English Department, Naval Academy, Annapolis; formerly Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English, Uni- versity of Virginia. Professor Smith’s knowledge of Poe — his life, work, technique and philosophy — is profound and sincere. His book is logical, sympathetic and most illuminating. It is divided into six sections and is a scholarly arrangement of the best in Poe’s works. Portrait Frontispiece EMERSON: How to Know Him By SAMUEL McChORD CROTHERS, author of The Gentle Reader , etc., etc. It meets with the promise of the title; it really acquaints one with Emerson. There is a freshness about it that comes from the new approach it makes, and gives the reader the feeling that Dr. Crothers has got at the heart of his great subject. A valuable and delightful book. Portrait Frontispiece ARNOLD BROWNING BURNS CARLYLE DANTE DEFOE OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES STUART P. SHERMAN WILLIAM LYON PHELPS W. A. NEILSON BLISS PERRY ALFRED M. BROOKS WILLIAM P. TRENT DICKENS HAWTHORNE STEVENSON TENNYSON THE BIBLE WORDSWORTH RICHARD BURTON GEORGE E. WOODBERRY RICHARD A. RICE RAYMOND M. ALDEN GEORGE HODGES C. T. WINCHESTER ( IBSEN ARCHIBALD HENDERSON In Preparation 4 LAMB WILL D. HOWE ( WHITMAN BRAND WHITLOCK Each with Portrait Frontispiece Price $ 2.00 Net The BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, Publishers, INDIANAPOLIS / When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 40 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Written by one who was for three years employed on the pub- lications of the League, the volume entitled “The Non-Partisan League” could scarcely be expected to give an entirely unbiased view. Nevertheless, it is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to be frank and honest, with so little rhet- oric and apology, that we must accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from an insider adequately in- formed for his task. Mr. Gaston points out that the League stands with organized labor, and that such Liberal organizations as the Committee of Forty-Eight support the League. The League’s position as to defeatism will, then, soon be put to the test. If it stands with that organization in which Amos Pinchot and Frederick C. Howe were two leading Presidential candidates (according to the state- ment of its chairman) the League will prove that it has not re- pented of its past support of the Lindberghs and Le Sueurs. If, on the contrary, it stands with the American Federation of Labor in the present campaign, this will go far to show that it has ceased to seek support mainly from former pro-Germans and defeatists and is looking for a more substantial and permanent affiliation with an element whose Americanism cannot be questioned. There are strong grounds for believing that the League will be wise enough to take the second course. Townley has stated that the Non-Partisan League cannot endorse any party, not even a third party (such as the Farmer-Labor Party), except where its candidates happen to be preferable to those the League has been able to put through in the old party primaries. William English Walling. Greenwich. THE YALE REVIEW 41 Verner Yon Heidenstam who in 1916 received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and who is the great modern interpreter of Swedish nationalism. An English translation of his chief work in prose — THE CHARLES MEN In two volumes: $2.00 a volume. A group of stories of the heroic followers of Charles XII of Sweden, who even when leading his people to defeat led them to glory and honor. Translated by Charles Wharton Stork , with an Introduction by Fredrik Book. Jonas Lie An English Translation of his novel — the kindly realist of Norway, known over the world for his novels of the sea and of the Norwegian home, called by Brandes “The most amiable of geniuses.” THE FAMILY AT GILJE Price $2.00 A domestic story of the forties and of the changing order in Norway, — the best example of Lie’s realism. Translated by Samuel Coffin Eastman with an Introduction by Julius Emil Olson. These are the 14th, 15th, and 16th volumes of The Scandinavian Classics, published by THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION 25 West 45th Street New York City COLLECTED LEGAL PAPERS Oliver Wendell Holmes Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Legal opinions that touch every field of national activity; vigorous and often pungent expressions of one of America’s real personalities. $3.50 PROFITS, WAGES AND PRICES David Friday Professor of Economics, University of Michigan The story of the growth of profits, the increase in wages, and the rise in prices, showing the casual interrelations of these movements. $1.75 MODERN AMERICAN PLAYS George P. Baker Professor of Dramatic Literature, Harvard Peter Grimm, David Belasco; As a Man Thinks, Augustus Thomas; Plots and Play- wrights, Edward Massey; Romance, Edward Sheldon; The Unchastened Woman, Louis Anspacher. With introduction, and a short essay on each play, by Professor Baker. $2.25 SMOKE AND STEEL Carl Sandburg A book of underworlds and overtones, by the most American of American poets. $2.00 MAIN STREET: THE STORY OF CAROL KENNICOTT Author of The Job, Free Air, etc. Sinclair Lewis In this honest and intense novel, the problems of ten million people in ten thousand real towns are summed up. $2.00 OPEN THE DOOR Catherine Carswell “Far and away the best of recent first novels, indeed in a class by itself.” — N. Y- Evening Post. $2.00 HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE ONE WEST f S1w y tork NTH street When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 42 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Ho_ughjton Mifflin Company^ .Announces ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE By John Burroughs A book of the first significance, representing as it does the final conclusions of a long life devoted to the observation and study of nature, and a keen and independent mind. Illus . *$2.00 net. CHRISTMAS ROSES By Anne Douglas Sedgwick These stories of contemporary English life merit beyond anything Mrs. de Selincourt has ever done, the phrase applied by a critic to one of her previous volumes — “a perfection of the story-tellers’ art.” *$2.25 net. SHADOW-SHAPES The Journal of a Wounded Woman By Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant From the many prominent visitors to her hospital cot at Neuilly, Miss Sergeant obtained a singularly clear, inside view of the Peace Con- ference, and her journal makes a record of permanent and absorbing value. *$2.00 net. A STUDY OF POETRY By Bliss Perry A most readable and illuminating study of the whole field of poetry, its development in the Western world, its nature and technique, its different forms, its present status, etc. $3-25 net. PAWNS By John Drink water The brilliant dramatic talents of the author of “Abraham Lincoln,” have never found more effective expression than in these four one act plays. * $1.50 net. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION By G. W. T. Patrick A sane ana far-seeing analysis of modern social problems by the author of “The Psychology of Relaxation.” $2.00 net. CLOUDS AND COBBLESTONES By Hortense Flexner Poems of rich and haunting quality by a poet whose verses have attracted much at- tention in magazines. *$1.50 net. THE POSITION OF THE LABORER IN A SYSTEM OF NATIONALISM By Edgar S. Fumiss A suggestive and illuminating book by a Yale professor. Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize Essay in Economics. $2.00 net. History of the AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE in France. 1914 - 1917 Told by its members in three volumes of from 550 to 600 pages each, with 150 pages of plates (of which 24 are in color), and a prefatory note by Marshal Joffre. $12.50 net. * Ready later. Order now for delivery on publication. 3 When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review THE YALE REVIEW 43 I y \ Houghton Mifflin Company Announces A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS The correspondence, edited by Worthington C. Ford, of Charles Francis Adams, the American Minister to England, and his two sons, Henry Adams, his secretary, and Charles Francis, Jr., then serving in the Northern armies, gives an unequalled first-hand account of our social, military and diplomatic history during the Civil War. 2 vols., boxed. CROWDING MEMORIES By Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Charming pictures of the author's poet husband and of the many celebrities, American and English, who were their friends, will place this among the richest and most interesting American memoirs. Illus . $5.00 net. * $10.00 net. LETTERS TO A NIECE By Henry Adams The fascinating personality of Henry Adams, barely hinted at in his books, is here revealed in his own letters, and in an illum- inating sketch by his niece, Mabel LaF arge. * $2.50 net. The Autobiography of ANDREW CARNEGIE Mr. Carnegie’s own story of his rise from messenger boy to steel king and one of the richest men in the world, will take its place among the great human documents of American literature. Illus. $6.00 net . VENIZELOS By Herbert Adams Gibbons A notable contribution to international biography. Mr. Gibbons was in close touch with Mr. Venizelos during the Peace Con- ference. Illus. * $3.50 net. LINCOLN THE WORLD EMANCIPATOR By John Drinkwater An illuminating study of Lincoln as the supreme embodiment of the best qualities and ideals of the Anglo Saxon race. *$1.50 net. DIARY OF A 49’R By Chauncey L. Canfield An unusual volume that gives a most inter- esting and vivid account of the adventures and day’s work of a gold miner. Maps. * $3-5° net. LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON By Henry Cabot Lodge A new edition of this standard biography, with an able and pertinent introduction by Senator Lodge. Illus. 2 vols., boxed, $7.50 net. THE FIRST WORLD WAR By Lt.-Col. Charles a Court Repington Full of happy flashes of wit, quotable anecdotes, and engaging impressions of notable men and women, the diary of the famous military correspondent of the London Times will be fascinating to the general public as well as to the student of military history. 2 vols., boxed. * * Ready later. Order now for delivery on publication. 12.00 net. When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review 44 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Important New mm v STOKES BOOKS *<5 THE elfin artist By ALFRED NOYES Author of “ Collected Poems," etc. Mr. Noyes’ new poems written since the Spring of 1919 and a few older poems hitherto unpublished. A delightful volume representing the poet in his best vein of both fancy and interpretation. A few of the poems included are “ A Victory Dance,” “ Peter Quince ” and “ The Victorious Dead.” Net $1.50 AS THE WIND BLEW By amelie rives Author of “ World's End," etc. Princess Troubetzkoy in turning to verse writes with the same striking origi- nality that marks her novels. This collection of her poems has a richness of imagery, a flare of color, passion and pagan joy, with an ever-present touch of the true craftsman, holding fast to established forms. Net $1.75 LETTERS FROM THE KAISER TO THE CZAR These letters, copied from Government archives in Petrograd and unpub- lished before 1920, were found in the private correspondence of the Czar after his death. They were copied from the originals by Isaac Don Levine, an American journalist. “An historical document of the highest value, providing a key to complex European international policies during the ten years preceding the Great War. 1 ' — London Morning Post. Net $3.00 CHAOS AND ORDER IN INDUSTRY B y. G D .H- COLE Author of 11 Social Theory," etc. A well-reasoned, stimulating volume pleading for the gradual nationaliza- tion of certain industries not as an end in itself but as a step toward something totally different from national ownership and operation — the self-governing workshop. Net $2.75 The NEW CHILDREN By SHEILA RADICE This new Montessori Book, by a zealous disciple, is something better than a substitute for the volume the great Italian educator was prevented from writing herself by the stress of recent times. Mrs. Radice gives a luminous interpretation of Dr. Montessori’s aims and brings the growth of the new system down to date. Net $1.30 THE oil shale industry By VICTOR C. ALDERSON The president of the Colorado School of Mines writes this first American book of oil shale, covering all phases of the industry, stating scientific facts in a form acceptable to the expert and clear to the layman. Fully illustrated. Net $4.00 443 Fourth Ave. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review THE YALE REVIEW 45 New APPLETON Books MEMOIRS of the EMPRESS EUGENIE By Comte Fleury T HE intimate life story of the most romantic figure of modern times, pre- pared from reminiscences, documents, letters and personal material of the Empress; from conversations of the Emperor, Napoleon III, and from private papers, letters and interviews with Prince Victor Napoleon, M. Frances- chini Pietri, General Fleury and other famous historical personages. At the special request of the Empress, this work was withheld from publication until after her death. Two Volumes . 1050 Pages . Cloth Binding . 8 vo. #7.50 per set . Morale By G. Stanley Hall This noted thinker and writer defines morale as the supreme standard of life and conduct. In this timely book he shows how the morale created by the great war can be applied in the solution of the many vexing problems which now confront us. $3.00 net Contemporary French Politics By Raymond Leslie Buell This book describes and analyzes present and recent currents of opinion in France, political and economic movements, legislative and administrative activities, agitation in favor of re- form and the attitude of the French toward the League of Nations. $3.50 net The College and New America By Jay William Hudson A thoroughly comprehensive review and appraisal of the American College, with a new and definite program for American education. $2.00 net German Leaders of Yesterday and Today By Eric Dombrowski Illuminating estimates of the chief figures in Germany during the past five years. “Here we see faces and figures drawn with a power that makes them more than portraits — that presents the living man to us in each case. . . . Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.” — N. Y. Times. $2.00 net French Literature in the Great War By Albert Schinz An accurate and scholarly appreciation of literature and writers brought into the public eye during the war, handled with a delicate understanding and fine authority. The first book in the field on the subject. $3.00 net Notable Appleton Fiction The Age of Innocence The Adventurous Lady Miss Lulu Bett By EDITH WHARTON By J. C. SNAITH By ZONA GALE An absorbing novel of New York A sparkling social comedy brimming A novel that has been hailed by the society in the late seventies. Not over with delightful situations, quiet critics everywhere as the literary since “The House of Mirth” has humor and whimsical philosophy. A event of the year. William Lyon Mrs. Wharton written a story as worthy successor to the author’s former Phelps, the distinguished critic, says: strong and broadly appealing as this, great success, “The Undefeated.” “‘Miss Lulu Bett’ is an admirable $2.00 net $2.00 net novel. A notable example of realis- tic art.” $i.7S net At All Booksellers These Are Appleton Books Send for complete descriptive list of Appleton books for Fall. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 35 WEST 32nd STREET, NEW YORK f When writing to advertisers Jcindly mention The Yale Review 46 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS DYNAMIC SYMMETRY: THE GREEK VASE BY Jay HAMBIDGE, Editor of The Diagonal The rediscovered principles of Greek design A contribution to the literature of Art more searching and revealing than anything published within this field during the last century . — The New York Times. Nearly two hundred illustrations in line and half-tone $6.00 FROM HOLBEIN TO WHISTLER Notes on Drawing and Engraving By Alfred M. Brooks An interpretation of the principles and processes used by the masters for engraving and etching, with many illustrations. $7.50 The list of Fall Publications from the Yale University Press will include: CONNECTICUT WITS. Essays by Henry Augustin Beers. SHADOW VERSES. A book of poems by Gamaliel Bradford. WHEN BUFFALO RAN. A story of Indian life by G. B. Grinnell. THE GARDEN OF THE PLYNCK. Fairy stories by Karle Wil- son Baker. PREACHING AND PAGANISM. By Dr. Albert Parker Fitch. THE KAISER ABDICATES. The story of the death of the German Empire and of the birth of the Republic, told by an eyewitness, S. Miles Bouton. And a book on REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA by William Adams Brown, Jr. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 143 Elm Street, NEW HAVEN 19 East 47th Street, NEW YORK When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review THE YALE REVIEW 47 EW HARPER BOOKS AUBAN By W. L. George reveals this brilliant, inconoclastic young English realist in his full power. It is the story of “Bulmer” — a man with a genius for success, with the power to control the destiny of a nation, but who was unable to regulate his own. And it was love which taught him his weakness. $2.00 THE VANITY GIRL By Compton Mackenzie retains the subtle, ironic comedy of “Poor Relations,” yet strikes into an even deeper problem than “Sylvia Scarlett.” A clever, middle-class actress “marries a title,” Tony, Fifth Earl of Clarehaven, weakling and gambler; and in the tragedy to which her husband drags them both, it is she who lives up to the aristocratic tradition. $2-00 THE THREAD OF FLAME By Basil King carries on that high tradition set by “The Inner Shrine,” in its convincing portrayal of life and its study of problems of the human soul. It is the story of a modern Enoch Arden who having “come back from the dead,” finds his wife strangely insistent that they bridge thei years of separation with silence. It is a searching novel. Illustrated. $2.0 THE VACATION OF THE KELWYNS By William Dean Howells was written at the time of the author’s greatest literary activity but for purely personal reasons was denied publication by him during his lifetime. The exquisite delineation of the New England character as effected by the Shaker faith, and the delicate love story set against the quaint rural background, will undoubtedly rank this with the most distinguished of Mr. Howells’ works. $ 2 ' 00 1 PEOPLE OF DESTINY By Philip Gibbs What does the greatest war correspondent think of us? He came, he saw and was conquered. In this delightful volume he tells why he believes we of America are the modern “ people of destiny,” marked to carry out the high desires of fate. Here are the conclusions of one of the keenest minds in Europe today, and being Gibbs’, they are written with rare charm. Frontispiece. $2.00 MEMOIRS OF LIFE AND LITERATURE By William H. Mallock For nearly half a century Mr. Mallock has been a leading figure in London life. This volume of his reminiscences of distinguished statesmen, literary lights, and leaders of every branch of thought and action for the past fifty years, is the most important book of its kind that has appeared for a decade. $2.50 THE UNITED STATES: AN EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY By Carl Becker In this timely and delightfully written book, Carl Becker, Professor of History at Cornell University, brings “democratic principles out of the haze, and reviews the beginnings and growth of democracy and what it has come to mean today not only in America, but in its effect upon the whole world. $2.50 Est. 1817 HARPER & BROTHERS New York IK When writing to advertisers kindly mention The Yale Review THE YALE REVIEW A NATIONAL QUARTERLY Ss o: CJl: O): 00 O' IOj 03 = OCTOBER 1920 Mr. Wilson and the Campaign Liberal or Reactionary The Great Game of Politics . The Children’s Ghosts. Verse The Bolsheviks in the Crimea Paying the Piper The Lord Speaks. Verse American Literature through French Eyes William Dean Howells Brief Life. Verse . Letters of Henry Adams Letters of Henry Adams Flood Tide. Verse . The Record of Henry James . Conversational Poetry Rattlesnake Mountain Fable. Verse A Plantation Revival Service . Among the New Books William Howard Taft . Norman Hapgood Wilbur C. Abbott . W. M. Letts . Ivan Petrunkevitch C. Reinold Noyes Karle Wilson Baker Charles Cestre William Lyon Phelps Katharine Lee Bates Edited by Frederick Bliss Luquiens Edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook . Stephen Vincent Benet Theodora Bosanquet Edith Franklin Wyatt Maxwell Bodenheim Howard Snyder SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO YALE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, INC; New Haven, Conn. OR TO YOUR BOOKSELLER DO a year 75 cents a cop”