THE STTXDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 2, 1917,
II
The Rebuilding- of Europe, by David Jayne
him. si.ou. The Century Co., New York
City.
Amid reading about marching: of
armies, sailings of navies, sackings of
cities and other events which are
summed up in describing the present
v.-ar in Europe, it is profitable to think
of the reconstruction of nations whose
future is now in peril.
In the nature of things, there must
be a rebuilding process.
Our author, a former university pro
fessor and one of the most experienced
American diplomatists, writes out of
the fullness of Intimate study of the
political ideals of Europe. He has
served as Minister to republican Swits
erland and democratic Netherlands and
as Ambassador to the German empire.
He traces the development among
European races of divergent philoso
phical ideals of government and their
relation to the present world confla
gration. It is at once a. scholarly
presentation of past faiths and a fore
cast of the internationalism which may
come after the war.
Mr. Hill points out also the gradual
transference of sovereignty from state
to people, and its effect upon the peo
ple's relation to the war. "Not since
the Crusaders battled for the Christian
faith has there been waged a war so
1 undamentally abstract in its goal. Two
conflicting philosophic principles im
perialism and democracy are engaged
in a life and death struggle." With
brilliant reasoning and a wealth of
philosophic authority. Mr. Hill analyzes
the strength and weakness of both
causes.
The point Is emphasized .generally
that "the world Is passing through the
birth pangs of a new historic period.
"Europe, because it controls the des
tiny of the greater part of the earth,
the first to feel these convulsions,
but the transformation taking place is
essentially a world movement. What
has been most completely overlooked
Is the fact that the great war was not
in its beginning, and is not now, so
much a struggle between different
forms of government as it is a ques
tion regarding the purpose and spirit
of all governments. The truth is: The
igreat war is a revolution against the
alleged rights of arbitrary force, ren
dered necessary by the failure to reach
the goal of a secure international or
ganization by an evolutionary process.
"Great powers, appealing to the In
famous dogma of unlimited right on
the part of the state, have placed their
wicked 'necessities' above all law,
above all morality, above all humanity,
and have plunged Europe and a great
part of the world into a yawning gulf
of death and devastation. It is the
making of a new world; but there can
be no new world until there is a new
Europe in which the dogma that the
state is a licensed dogma is smitten
dead.
"It is the purpose of this volume to
fhow that this dogma, and not any
particular form of mere state organi
zation, is the real enemy that must be
destroyed. The incidents of the great
war are well known and require no
mention here. It is to the deeper prob
lems that attention should be directed.
Nor is it the intention, of this little
book to add to the array of purely sub
jective solutions of these problems
for the true solution can be found only
by the united efforts of a preponder
ance of the great powers but rather to
point out what are the really funda
mental issues Involved in the great
war. and to take account of the forces
end conditions which may aid or hin
der the solution.
"Six of the chapters contained in this
volume were, in substance, first pre
sented to the public last March in the
form of lectures on the Schouler foun
dation at the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity; five of them were in part printed
ln the Century Magazine for May, June,
July, ocpirni uci m-iiu uviuuvr 01 wie
present year."
All the eight chapters In the hook are
thoughtful, but the most significant of
thom nil la A movlrtn'a Tntarct t tt.a
I New EuroDe."
The Major, by Ralph Connor. Illustrated.
Jfl 40. George A. Conn Co., New York
City.
Ralph Connor is the nom-de-plume
n f n Ptltl9fin Tl-.rKlTt.pi. minis.,.
jriamed Rev. Charles W. Gordon. He is
now an officer chaplain in the Forty-
ers of Canada, and is a well-known.
active and esteemed figure, especially
in uanaaian war front trenches.
Our author has written numerous
stories, among them being: "The Sky
Pilot." "The Man From Glengarry."
''Corporal Cameron," etc.
The present novel under review, "The
Major," consists of an able series of
Canadian character sketches, in which
"Canada as a nation" a component
part of the British empire is por-
jtrayed. After one reads 100 pages or
so, one of the characters, Jack Ro-
'xnayne, a young veteran of the Boer
nar, voices his opinion that Germany,
bent on universal dominion, is about
to attack the British empire. Gradu
ally war sentiment grows.
I The hero is Larry or Lawrence
Gwynne. a young Irish Canadian. We
first meet Larry, the son of a Quaker
mother, playing "hookey" from school.
i-ie is cnauengea to fight by one of
his schoolmates, and he refuses. Not
until he hears his mother also called a
coward does his fighting blood boil at
battle heat. Ha takes, lessons In boxing
ana nas tne satisfaction of defeating
Sthe bully who had insulted him.
Another badly-drawn character, Ern
est Swjtzer. a young German, comes out
'with assertions that Germany is the
ne savior of all other nations that are
iicpelessly inefficient. Switzer hints
that the "German day" is about to
dawn.
Love Interests brighten up the re
cital. Just as the reader wonders who is
The Major." we come toward the end
of the story, and discover that it is
Larry Gwynne. who has been commis
sioned a Major in .the Canadian army,
which la about to prc.eed to France,
( My German Correspondence, by Professor
Douglas V. Johnson, no cents. George H."
' oran Co., New York City.
A curious, thoughtful book showing
the differences between the two diverse
' ways of thinking German and Ameri
l can with reference to the question:
jwiio started the present big European
war?
1 We have here two letters. One let-
) ter is from a German professor name
.unknown who gives the German view
The other letter is from Professor
Johnson, of Columbia University, who
gives the American view.
It seems that before August, 1914
Professor Johnson had frequent corre'
spondenee with different German edu
! cat-ors and friends in Germany, and
that alter that date he began to re
celve letters from them in "which the
1 so-called righteousness of Germany's
cause and the iniquity of her enemies
conduct were vigorously asserted. These
letters stated that the American peo
ple were "drowned in English lies"
and the American press "bought with
English gold.
The German professor's letter re
ferred to, boldly avows the doctrine
that the people serve the state, that
) might is all in all, etc. Our author
ishows that the state exists for the i
(dividual, and that "Germans who have
,left here to go to fight for the Father
land, admitted to me in private con
: versati,on. that they - knew Germany
By-Joseph Macoueen.
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forced the war. and that the Kaiser
and the military party were alone to
blame."
The two diverse positions are calmly
and dispassionately presented. Ninety
seveni pages.
Fifteen Thonsand Vseful Phrases, by Gren
ville Kleiner. J1.H0. Funk &. Wagnalle
Co., New York City.
Mr. Kleiser is an acknowledged au
thority on proprieties of speech. He is
one of the best public readers Canada
has thus far produced, and he was late
ly instructor in public speaking in
Yale Iivinity School, Yale University.
He has relatives in this city.
As an author on speech construc
tion, public debate and kindred topics.
Mr. Kleiser's work is much esteemed.
The present volume is a valued helper
to those who work in words. It ia a
practical handbook of felicitous'
phrases, striking similes, and literary.!
commercial and conversational terms
for the embellishment, of speech and
writing.
Mr. Kleiser has- designed the book for
the convenient use of business mem
public speakers, writers. lawyers,
clergymen, teachers, students and all
persons who wish to write and speak
the English language with facility and
power. Iru gathering the material for
this book, Mr. Kleiser has drawn freely
from the great master of English, in
cluding Shakespeare, Milton, Scott,
Goldsmith, Lamb, Macaulsy, Browning.
Carlyle, DeQuincy, Newman, Ruskin,
Pater. Stevenson. Tennyson, Arnold.
Kingsley, Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot,
Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne, Emer
son, Irving, Longfellow, Lowell. Mabie
and others. There is an Interesting In
troduction, by Frank H. Vizetelly, Litt.
D., LL. IX, and a practical plan of study
by the author.
The publication will fill a distinct
and valuable need. It will be a useful
supplement to the dictionary and reg
ular book of synonyms,.
Fighting for Peace, by Henry Van Dyke.
1.:5. Chang Scribner s Sons, New York
City.
Henry Van ryke"s distinction as an
author and diplomatist speaks for his
book a respectful hearing, amid dozens
of other books whose text is practi
cally the same subject. He is eminently
qualified to write about the origin,
condition andj conclusions of the big
war in Europe, for he was Minister of
the United States to Holland, for the
first three years of the war. -
Mr. Van Dyke produces evidence that
early in the Summer of 1914, Germany
prepared for war and made war. with
deliberation. It need scarcely be added
that our author is with the entente
allies.
The Story of Sugar, by Sara Ware Bassett.
Illustrated by C. P. Gray. T5 cents. Fenn
Publishing Co.. Philadelphia.
Although this book is in th form of
a story, with questions and answers; it
tells the wonderful story of sugar.
TWo boys. Bob Carleton and; Van
Blake, are at Colversham. a boys'
boarding school located in New Eng
land Their fathers, who are both
rivals in the sugar business, had been
frienda in boyhood, but had stopped
speaking or writing to each other when
business differences arose.
The two boys are shown through a
sugar refinery, a candy factory, etc.,
and the amount of sugar-knowledge
imparted in the story is surprising.
The Emerald of the Ineas, by Charles Nor.
mand. fJ. Illustrated. DuIIleld Co.,
New York City.
Here we have a romantic, engrossing
story of the Peruvian Siarras- The
book is clearly printed and the story
is a translation, from the French by
S. A. B. Harvey. Illustrations are by
I H. Smith and S. B. Kite.
A smart holiday gift-book for young
pejople.
The Cambridge History of AmeHcmo Liter
ature, edited by proressor Trent and
others. $3.00. Q. P. Putnam's Son. New
York City.
Our editors are "William Peterfeld
Trent, professor of English in Colum
bia University: John Erskine, professor
of English in Columbia University
Stuart P. Sherman, professor of Eng
lish in the University of Illinois, and
Car! Van Doren. headmaster of the
Brearly School.
The book is part 1 of three volumes,
and takes as its special message "Colo
nial and Revolutionary Literature and
Early National Literature." The entire
presentation is exact and authoritative
and begins with "The Historians, 1607-
1783."
Other admirable tutetcnea review:
The historians. Puritan divines, Ed
wards the Mystic, Benjamin Franklin,
Colonial newspapers and magazines,
early American political writing." be
ginning of our verse, early nature
poets, patriotic poems, .travelers and
observers, early drama, Bryant and the
minor poets, fiction, Emerson, and
bibliographies. The index is exhaust
ive and also conveniently arranged.
Other parts of the series will be
awaited with much interest.
Main Street and Other Verse, by Joyce Kil
mer. l. t;-org 11. Ooran Company,
New York City.
Twenty-eight poems, reflecting love
of one's kind, humanity, and ways of
pleasantness. This is the third volume
of our young author's poems. Well
done.
Verses of Idle Hoars., by O. Chester Brod
hay. 1. Frederick C. Browne, Chicago.
Nearly 80 poems, of superior merit,
calm, quiet, restful. Mr. Brodhay. it is
stated, is a busy man. who has written
these poems in his "idle hours," taken
from his more active duties in the busi
ness world. Consequently, the title he
has chosen might have been more com-
RESTORATION OF CZAR HELD
TO BE OBJECT OF GERMANY
Professor Drucker, of University of Oregon, Believes That With Proper
Handling Russia May Still Be Saved to Allies.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene.
Dec. 1. (Special.) Extreme care
in handling the Russian situation
is advised by Professor A. P. R. Druck
er, dean of the School of Commerce of
the University of Oregon, himself Rus
sian born.
"The Russian game." said Professor
Drucker. "is a delicate one. and the
Kaiser is really playing it with stacked
cards. He, however, has not yet won.
by any means, and we still have a
chance to beat him at his game, pro
vided we are carefuL We can beat him
if we force him to lay his cards on the
table ao that the Bolshevik!, his pres
ent co-operators and tools, will see his
real purpose ana leave aim in tne
lurch."
Dean Drucker keeps In close touch
with affairs in Petrograd through pri
vate correspondence, and he has been
studying the present situation closely.
He is greatly concerned over the recent
move of the United States in cutting
off exports to Russia.
"We should stay with Russia no mat
ter what she does now," he declared
emphatically. "Her moves at this time
are under the direction of the Kaiser,
and it will be to his interest to have
the allies sever diplomatic relations
with Russia. We will hurt ourselves
now and ruin Russia for all time if we
do not move carefully in this most deli
cate situation.
"This, in fact, is what the Kaiser is
now striving to attain. He wants the
allies to break with Russia since he
could not get Russia to break with the
allies.
Kalser'a Control Noted.
"It is evident that events in Russia
are now under the control of the Kai
ser." Mr. Drucker explained. "This
nsan Lenine, leader of the Maximalists
or Bolsheviki. was a refugee in Switzer
land and wai allowed to pass through
Germany free of all expense to head the
party in Russia. Kerensky would not
consent o a separate peace, so Keren
sky must go. and the Bolsheviki were
set up in power in order to carry out
the plans of the Germans.
"The Kaiser has three main designs
on Russia:
"In the first place, under the Kaiser's
plan. Russia gradually must break with
the allies and make a separate peace
with Germany.
"Secondly, as soon as Russia should
sign a separate peace with Germany
the Bolsheviki government, which the
autocratic Kaiser despises, must be
overturned and the Romanoffs returned
to the throne. (The Kaiser is not so
much interested in the Czar personally
as in the Romanoff family.)
"Thirdly, the new Russian
ment must put Russia under
dustrial control of Germany.
Officers Are Imported.
govern
the in-
"These plans have been worked out
carefully and with the usual German
thoroughneca In the first place. Lenine
and TrolzKy were selected to carry out
prehensive. Two notable poems of
sterling excellence are " 'Thanatopsis'
Transposed" and "The Invisible Army."
None of thes poems reflects the war
spirit.
The Soldier's Service Dictionary, edited by
Frank H. Vlxete'.ly. LL. E. 1. Funk 4
Wasnalls Co., New Y'ork City.
Here we have a short cut to French
and also Belgian in a little book
that ought to be mastered or one like
it by all American soldiers going to
France, and may there be enough of
them to bring us and our allies vic
tory! The book la designed specially for
instant use Jn the United States serv
ice, and containing about 10.000 mili
tary, naval, aeronautical, aviation and
conversational terms used in Belgian,
British or French armies. Illustra
tions axe given with topographical
symbols used in official charts.
Faulkner's Folly, by Carolyn Welle, tl.25.
Oeorse H. Dran Co.. New York OKy.
Eric Stannard. portrait painter and
flirt, is stabbed to death with an etch
ing point or needle, apparently. His
murderer is unknown. His house is
that expensive house of mystery and
waste of money known as Faulkner's
Folly.
Out of these and other materials our
author has evolved a firstrdass detec
tive story of nearly breathless ap
peal. The interest is kept up skill
fully. As for th murderess who
Tould have thought it was she?
Berret Bread, by F. Tennyson Jess, f 1 B0.
Geo. 11. Koran Company, ivew York City.
This strong novel of realism In Eng
land is not for babes, but for mature
men and women. Some portions of the
family life detailed in the story are
unpleasant, frankly, bnt most of the
novel is decidedly worth reading. "Se
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( Speiicr Fieke. l- Illustrated. The
Stratford Co., otun.
Here we have a email, elegantly ap
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his town, SJtratf ord-Upon-Avon, Eng
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famous actors and actresses, 'who have
won renown in interpreting .charactere
created by -Shakespeare.
A charming gift book for Christmas.
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$1.S0. Uotld. Jtfead ec Co.. New Y'ork City.
Told In Mr. McCutcheon's roost ro
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more than exciting i enthralls, and
ms a plot connected with interna
tional conspiracy, starting -in New
England. OS course, a royal bouse is
Inv&ilved,
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this first plan to make a separate peace
because they have no power of their
own, depending rather on what is lent
them by the German influence in Rus
sia. That their followers, a rabble com
posed mainly of men and women with-
out military training, should be able to
annihilate Kerensky's Cossacks at
Tsarskoe-Selo proves at once that these
men were led by well-trained, veteran
officers, of whom there is now a short
age in Russia.
"Whence e&me these officers? They
were not Germans. They were the old
officers of the Russian armies captured
in the opening months of the war. in
191.4. These officers were taken over to
Finland during the month of October to
fight for the Czar, On that condition
Germany released them to go home and
do the bidding of the former Emperor.
In Finland, however, they were in
formed by an emissary of the Black
Hundred, now co-operating with the
Kaiser, that these officers must first
lead the Bolsheviki hosts against Ke
rensky and co-operate with Lenine until
a separate peace should be declared.
This they are now doing."
Separation Xezt 3Ive.
The next phase of the German game
is to separate Russia from the allies.
Dean Drucker believes.
"This will be accomplished." he said,
"if the allies act in accordance with the
hope of the Kaiser, becoming disgusted
with Bolsheviki. ,
"Germany intends." he continued, "to
bring this about flrst by having Lenine
and Trotzky send a suggestion for an
armistice. If the allies refuse to an
swer the note, or decline to accept the
suggestion, another Bolsheviki note will
be issued, setting forth that if the al
lies are not tired of bloodshed. Russia
is a threat of a separate armistice.
"If the allies still refuse a conference,
then the Bolsheviki will put forth a
claim that it Is the capitalists who con
trot the allied governments and to this
will attribute their deafness to the call
for peace.
"Meanwhile Germany will hoodwink
them in various ways, seeking to con
vince them she is ready to open nego
tiations for an armistice with whoever
wants it. Thus an armistice would
slowly be declared between Russia and
Germany. The Russian armv would be
demobilized and Russia taken out of
the fighting line for good.
Re-Establistunent of Csar Aim.
"It will be then that the old-guard
officers will turn against Lenine and
Trotzky, who have no real personal fol
lowing in Russia, and re-establish the
Czar on the throne.
"Is there any way In which the allies
can, check this conspiracy?" Professor
Drucker was askedi.
"Yes," he answered, thoughtfully.
"We must continue our good relations
with Russia and the Bolsheviki lead
ers. But we must open their eyes to
the use the Kaiser is making of their
services.
"ilow; .can wa convince them," be
ATHLETE, RAILROAD MAN, EDITOR, MUSICIAN
HAVE SPECIAL WAR WORK ASSIGNED .TO THEM
Major Kendall Banning Is in Charge of Distribution of Official American War News Photographs Colonel J. S.
Dennis Tours United States to Stimulate British Recruiting.
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COLONEL. J. S. DENNIS was assist
ant to the president of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway when the war
broke out, but resigned bla position
to enlist. He is one of the organisers
of the Canadian Red Cross and has
been in the X'nited States with til
kilties to stimulate recruiting.
Ex-Premier .Georges Clemenceau was
chosen .by President Poincaire to form
a new cabinet for France. He said that
he needed only 48 hours for the task
of getting together a new group of min
isters with himself as Premier. Pre
mier Clemenceau initiated the cam
palgn against German propagandists,
the issue on which the Pain lev e cabinet
fell. Despite his 70 year he is still
vigorous and exhibits many of the
characteristics that earned him, the
title of rthe "tiger."
' a
Major Kendall Banning, Signal Corps,
U. S. JR., is In charge of the distribu
tion of .the official American news
photographs, which will be released
through the committee on public in
formation, Washington, in which he
was asked, 'that they are working for
the Kaiser instead of for peace, as they
appear to believe?"
"By Instating." he replied -"that the
allies &.Uk -want an armistice, and that
they are entirely willing to grant it
juat aa o,on as the centra powers re
tire to their own borders. The Bol
tVtevlkl will see the justice of this; and
if not all of them, at least a great nuin
beV Pf them will agree with the justice
of t.hl demand. If made by the Bol
shevli. this demand will at once show
the l aiser'a real cards and spoil his
plans. -
"In sV ort," the professor summed up.
"The Rii'sian situation is in the hands
of the Ka iser. One false move now by
the allies'- and they are lost, with re
spect to Rilss'a! and If the Germans get
complete control of Russia she is lost
for all time.'"
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tnents will have Jn their official equip
ment hereafter a football. This an
nouncement, made by the War Office,
shows the popularity in the French
Army of the game of occr. While 20
The M exican Problem
By
C. W. Barron
Author of "THE AUDACIOUS WAR"
In 1914. Mr. Barron went to Europe soon after the breaking
out of the war to find its causes and probable duration. His book.
"The Audacious War." was the first to clearly set forth the Hohen
zollern ambitions and the world peace that must ultimately result
from their defeat.
When the allies' fuel oil base In Mexico seemed endangered,
Mr. Barron went to Tampico to investigate the oil situation. He
found a larjrer problem and devoted himself to a eludv of the ques
tion of what would redeem Mexico. The result in his book, "The
Mexican Problem."
Don't miss the strong; peers, the clear forevrora sad
the lllnminatlaa latrodajctlea ef Dr. Tsleott Wlllisms.
Krom these yeu will Irani hlstery and the causes ef all
ware as yen sever found them set forth elsewhere.
Edwin Markham, the poet, writes the author as follows:
7 have read rilh interest your volume, 'The Mexican
Problem.' It gives a large vicn of the struggles, the needs and
the possibilities of this sister-land. It is an immense cosmic enter
prise this amalgamating into one nation a people of so many
races and tongues, a people that has never got into step with mod
ern progress, a people with no security of life, labor or liberty.
You have thrown light upon some of the dark problems to be
Worked out by destiny! and you have given an exhilarating
vision of rvhat Mexico could be, if rightly ordered, protected
and educated she took her true place in the sun.
Y agree with you that her salvation must be through the
redemption of 'the man with the hoe' and in the practice of the
brotherhood of man. You will agree with me, I know, that life
is now left loo much to the direction of chance and chaos. Out
of the earth comes all our sustenance, and each one should have
acccM fa the bounty of this our common heritage. Be the medium
the gi?ld, the wheat, the oil, still they are in the ground and labor
must Ltrn the product into human use. And when men finally
organise: a, providence in human industry as they have in war,
we will discover the Colden Rule as the working principle of
life, and Cod will then have a working form on earth.
"Yon hX)e done a distinguished piece of work in giving us
this view of Mexico lose up.' I wish with you thai these
United States vighl be to Mexico as France once was to us, an
arm to lean upoxt and a heart to trust. Our brother-love, belter
than our bayonets, can help to guide Mexico toward the march
,o civilization,
"Again my nrn for your writings."
EDWIN MARKHAM
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Georges 'CSexrrerrce&iz.
JZz'ezzZ. Col. C J. Jfarisnssx
was formerly director of the division
of pictures. Major Banning was for
merly associate editor of System Maga
zine. Lieutenant Richard Norris Williams,
tennis champion, is only one of the
great number of athletes who have
joined the colors. They are in every
oranch of the service.
Lee y. Hammer has been delegsted
by the Government to systematise the
music of the Army camps so that the
same airs and the same words will be
used in all of them. Then a soldier
who has been trained in the West
meeting in France a soldier of a train
ing camp in the East will be able to
lilt up his voice with him In song. The
helpfulness of song in war was illus
trated to us in the Spanish-American
War. when "A Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" became popular as a
marching tune.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Carl F. Hartman
is in charge of recruiting for the Army
Signal Corps in the Department of the
East. lie has established a training
camp at Monmouth Tark. N. J where
there are S81 acres of land available.
It is intended to recruit 6000 men for
the Signal Corps for the first Army.
years ago football' was hardly known
in France, there i hardly a town to
day which does not possess one or more
elevens, and the game is played all
vr the front.