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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PUBLIC LIFE-J. A. Spender-Stokes (2 vols., $10.00). Public life, as defined by the author for his purpose, is the profession of statesmen and politicians. This profession he exemplifies by some monographs on famous statesmen and politicians-Bright, Cobden, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, George-by analyzing the parliamentary duties of politicians, by contrasting the British parliamentary system with the systems of the U. S., France and Germany, by conducting a brilliant inquiry into the problems of statecraft, by examining the relations between people and press, press and government and by descanting on political ethics...
These books are to some extent a continuation of Bryce's Commonwealth. The author begins where Bryce left off and accounts succinctly for recent developments in U. S. politics. But more important is the service which has been rendered to the people, no matter of what nationality, who wish to understand the workings of the body politic in Britain, and there is much to be derived from that recital of body politics in general. These are no textbooks requiring a scholarly mind to disentangle their sense, but rather are they full of trenchant observation, clear analysis and an ofttimes...
...BISBEE'S PRINCESS-Julian Street - Doubleday Page ($2.00). When you know that Booth Tarkington is one of his major literary heroes, you know Author Street for a kindly, unpretentious person. When you know that he devotes months to the perfection of a type of story that most Saturday Evening Post writers concoct in a fortnight, you add conscience to his qualities. It is thus that you find him, and have pleasure in his work-a shrewd, painstaking etcher of his fellows, who dilutes the acid of irony with the milk of human kindness...
...William E. Rappard, member of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations; deliberate, scholarly E. F. Gay, onetime (1920-24) President of The New York Evening Post, now Professor of Economic History at Harvard; amiable Archibald Cary Coolidge, Editor of Foreign Affairs; Sir Frederick Maurice, equally an author and a soldier; Professor Arnold Toynbee, authority on the Near Eastern question; L. S. Rowe, Director General of the Pan-American Union; Professor Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister of the Irish Free State, and many another...
...farther than the Osler record. Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison papers of that day published the fact; and before me is a copy of The Colonel's Daughter, a novel by Captain Charles King, on the yellowing flyleaf of which the author-now Brigadier General Charles King the of Milwaukee-penned the following...