HE books in greatest demand are usu drama Tally those most discussed. The follow e. A ing list is compiled from the lists of the ten best-selling volumes sent us by wire by eight book-shops each week. These particular book-shops were chosen because we think that they reflect the tastes of the more representative readers. These shops are as follows: 1 expert e of the cer time urch cher and New York-Brentano's. Denver-Kendrick Bellamy Co. Fiction Remington "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," by Thornton a wise and moving account of the workings Doubleday, "Wintersmoon," by Hugh Walpole. Little, Cosmopolitan "Red Rust," by Cornelia James Cannon. "The Ugly Duchess," by Lion Feuchtwanger, "Strange Interlude," by Eugene O'Neill. Liveright. This, "the first successful attempt of drama to use the double voice," to carry on at once objective action and comment and subjective thought made audible, is a theft by the dramatist of some of the novelist's best thunder. as to see; perhaps better for students of The play is as good to read modern drama. Bellamy in "Lights Down," February 22. Reviewed by Francis "Mother India," by Katherine Mayo. of Indian society is not calculated to endear Harcourt, This account of some aspects us to India, but is providing lively reading for lots of Americans. follow it with "A Son of Mother India," by We suggest that they Dhan Gopal Mukerji, E. P. Dutton & Co. Reviewed June 22. I An Epic Unachieved T is natural that the immigrant agricutural communities of the West should be a popular setting for contemporary novels. Out of hardship and fortitude, humble aspiration and lusty pleasure, picturesque foreign custom, shadowy homesickness, and pioneer faith, fine stories can be made. The stuff is rich, but it demands skillful fashioning. Cornelia Cannon's novel "Red Rust" is an example of strong material in weak, if bravely well-meaning hands. The title is taken from a wheat blight. The story is that of Matts Swenson, Swedish immigrant's son in Minnesota, a mute, inglorious Burbank, who, with great natural gifts, vast perseverance, and the meager equipment of a copy of "The Origin of Species" and an agricultural journal, successfully dedicates his young life to the raising of rust-resistant wheat. Other people come in, but Matts is the core of the story. In his young manhood he befriends Lena, mistreated wife of Jensen, another immigrant, and mother of a brood which included an Let your to Foreign Missions a Life Income "All my life I have been interested in Foreign Missions. All I could devote to this work from my income seems so little, yet I dare not use my capital, for that is all I have to rely on for my support." Is that your problem? 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WORLD UNITY, 4 East 12th Street, New York NAME..... ADDRESS... so, it fails. The use of the epileptic boy European Liberalism By L. J. P. "The History of European Liberalism," by Guido Professor Ruggiero first traces briefly and restrained scholarship enlivened by a power of constructive analysis. Let no one think, because of the author's nationality, that here is merely one more broadside against Fascism. It may well be-indeed it could hardly be otherwise that the events of the past few years caused Professor Ruggiero to turn from a contemplation of the unhappy plight of his beloved Liberalism in Italy to a sincere and anxious inquiry into its nature, growth, history, and prospects in other countries as well as his own. Yet in that inquiry the scholar has triumphed over the patriot. Only in three places does a marked quickening of the literary pulse remind us of the author's nationality: in the concluding paragraphs of the history of Italian Liberalism (page 342), in the last paragraph of the effect of the conflict between class and party (page 386), and in the final paragraphs of the conclusions (page 442). Just what is Liberalism? That is perhaps the first question that many will ask, and it is not easy to answer. Profes sor Ruggiero's book is a comprehensive answer, being a continuous definition and analysis as well as a history. Probing for the kernel of the thing, it is perhaps permissible to define Liberalism roughly as that attitude toward organized society which recognizes that man is not born free, but becomes free through increasing self-realization and self-discipline, and which consequently favors the exer cise by organized society of only such power and control as will assist the individual in that process without either too much forcing or too much neglect. An illuminating contrast is brought out between the two chief types of Liberalism: the English type, which began with and clings to liberties in the plural and fears the abstract conception of liberty in the, singular; and the French type, which with the Revolution destroyed the traditional liberties in the name of "liberty" and then had to reconstruct particular liberties "in the face of a predominant democracy"-a task as difficult as "digging a trench in the presence of the enemy." But perhaps the clearest idea of practical Liberalism is to be gained from the chapters de scribing its present perils and contrast ing it with such wholly antagonistic conceptions as Socialism and Imperialism. It is here that Liberalism finds its pres ent crisis. The crisis is economic in that there has occurred a gradual "erosion" of the middle class (always the strong. hold of Liberalism) by heavy industry and high finance. The crisis is political in that the disappearance of the middle class has left the political field to the throughout the book that of seasoned skirmishings of factions of the prole est but courageous opinion of the future of Liberalism and the Liberal state. The interest even of the layman will be held by the author's lucid simplicity of style and his aptness for pithy statement. Author and translator both deserve the reader's gratitude, and the result of their combined efforts should be highly recommended, if not prescribed, as a model to most of our philosophical historians. The tone, however, is The Outlook KE tariat and of the bourgeois aristocracy, with the result that more and more the legal and administrative functions of the state (particularly among Latin peoples) become the object of contention of the various factions, each faction seeking to use them as a weapon in the struggle for its own economic advancement. Hence subordination of the play of truly political forces to the economic struggle and the farce of government by coalitionthat is, by deals among many factions, no one of which has a constructive political policy or could secure sufficient control to put it into effect. Yet notwithstanding the gloomy present, Professor Ruggiero looks hopefully to the future in the belief that economic currents are in process of producing a new middle class (the "particularized" industries as distinguished from the broadly organized "heavy" industries), and that the creative and constructive force of Liberalism will turn in upon itself and its own institutions and put its house in order to meet the perils that loom before it. London Time By P. W. WILSON "By the Clock of St. James's," by Percy Armytage, C.V.O. E. P. Dutton & Co. On every stage there is one man at any rate to whom, if to no one else, the play must be the thing. As the scenesshifter of the British Court, Mr. Armytage has had to take himself seriously. At weddings and funerals, at jubilees and coronations, it has been his duty to see that everything and every one is in the right place at the right time. In these vivacious pages he tells us how he managed so ticklish a galaxy of illustrious puppets. Suppose that pageantry be no more than a picture of power. Even so, the picture should be perfect. Nor is it enough that grandeur be gorgeous. It must be precise. In Westminster Abbey, thronged with notables, King Edward, with the Crown on his head, did not fail to notice that a judge had appeared without his collar of the Bath, and he inquired about it. He wanted to know the reason. The palette from which the picture must be painted is precedence. As Mr. Armytage puts it, "There can be no above if there is no below." At a presentation none but an earl's daughter or woman of higher rank might receive the kiss, and a bygone Princess Amelia was only prevented from saluting the wife of a knight by a gentleman usher shouting in her deaf ear, "Don't kiss her, your Royal Highness, she is not a real lady." For the coronation of King George the leading royalties of Europe had to be packed into two special trains and unpacked at Victoria Station in their correct order. Mr. Armytage fixed labels on their respective compartments and chalked their names on the platform of arrival. Each suite on alighting was thus greeted by the footmen assigned to it, and all would have driven away without a hitch if one minor potentate had not held up every one else by insisting that his wig-case be taken with him. Although there were complete arrangements for all the luggage to be delivered in time for dinner dress, he dared not take a chance on his bald pate. Into the mêlée there were plunged the Eastern princes. The Maharajah of Jaipur alone brought 200 servants, and, on religious grounds, he insisted on having a white cow, shorthorn, and also water that never touched a metal pipe. Happily, Campden Hill furnished a residence with a paddock and a well. The Shah of Persia rode a white horse with a pink tail and at the Albert Hall preferred the tuning of the orchestra to the concert that followed. Three hundred trays of tea were served to his suite before ten o'clock, with pickles and Gruyère cheese accompanying; and at lunch Nasser-ed-Din specialized on cherries, dropping the stones on the carpet. When, however, he saw that other of the King's guests put the stones on their plates, he groped on the floor in order to pick up his discarded kernels. With much presence of mind, a footman in red stooped lower than was his custom, rescued the stones, and handed them back to the Shah, one by one, on a sal ver. At Court there is thus a perpetual conflict between the human and the correct. So excellent was the Madeira at Osborne that officers of the Guards sent a petition to Queen Victoria that they be received in audience before dinner instead of afterwards. At the Balkan Conferences before the war eminent diplomatists "no honester than other folk!" walked off with the blotting books, the ash-trays, the sealing wax, and the candle ends as souvenirs. When St. James's Palace was furnished for President Loubet, King Edward saw that the bookcases were still empty. He was told that they were to be filled with French books. "The French literature," was his loud whisper, "not too loose-if you please," at which there was discreet laughter. Queen Victoria herself had her ways. Vanity of vanities-yes! But Mr. Armytage insists that it is more than vanity. Within this atmosphere of sus ceptibility and detail there rises a throne. MOTHERSIE SEASICK REMEDY I Could Write, if Only (Continued from page 463) cowboy ballads that were once a thoroughly despised and overlooked portion of our literature; and out of the plantation songs of Negro slaves that have since come to be regarded as some of our most precious National treasures. With the publication of Carl Sandburg's "American Songbag" we have just come to realize that we possess a racy store of the National folk-songs that underlie a National literature. For naïveté is quite as close to the springs of art as the now somewhat overestimated sophistication. Even the Ford car, that mechanical symbol of democracy, has lately risen in the æsthetic scale; and I see no reason for the pessimistic certainty that the confession, although the lowest form of literature in the Republic, may not also rise. It is more difficult for me to believe that any good thing can come out of the courses. I cannot believe in the magic efficacy of any of our master-keys. But this much may be said for all of them, from the trip to Europe to the use of yellow paper: that, while a finished literary art is not likely to be revealed by a single flourish of a single key, there is one important door which, through eager fumbling, may be opened. It is the door to consciousness. When that mysterious region is entered, we can do without our keys. A nation of doers can only learn by doing, and that may be some part of the thing which these people are about. Of all of them, the club woman seems to me again the most revealing. I think of her as even more stridently characteristic of our mass attempts at culture than the manicurist who writes her confessions in a sprawling hand, or the newly made millionaire who, trying out his master-key, buys an ancient castle complete to the ivy on the walls, brings it home, and planks it down in Nebraska. "I have been taking a course at the university," cried one of these, "and I've learned all about how to write short stories! The only trouble is that I can't seem to think of anything to write." A Grand Old Man (Continued from page 476) the affairs of the Sudan will ever be reversed. That verdict has been distinctly unfavorable. "Les fautes de l'homme puissant," said an eminent Frenchman, "sont des malheurs publics." Mr. Gladstone's error in judgment in delaying too long the despatch of the Nile expedition left a stain on the reputation of England which it will be beyond the power of either the impartial historian or the partial apologist to efface. 1 None of the political critics of Gladstone was half as severe as Queen Victoria, the third volume of whose remarkable letters has just been published. Apparently Queen Victoria was as terrified by the specter of Democracy as we are by the specter of Bolshevism, and regarded Mr. Gladstone with as much. abhorrence as if she were an American capitalist and Mr. Gladstone were Trotsky or Lenine. For example, in September, 1879, she wrote to a friend as follows, the mid-Victorian capitals and italics being her own: In the same way I never could take Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Lowe as my Minister again, for I never COULD have the slightest particle of confidence in Mr. Gladstone after his violent, mischievous, and dangerous conduct for the last three years, nor could I take the latter after the very offen Second Series, 1 The Letters of Queen Victoria. Edited by George Earle Buckle. 3rd Volume. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. sive language he used three years ago In 1882 she wrote to Lord Granville: Mr. Gladstone unfortunately lives And as late as 1885 a detestation of You must keep Lord Hartington up It would not be difficult for a psychoanalyst to explain Queen Victoria's antipathy to Gladstone. They both believed, either consciously or subconsciously, that they were vicegerents of God. They were both inclined to be severe and uncompromising in maintaining and asserting their moral principles. They therefore, as so often happens in human intercourse, repelled each other. Disraeli, on the other hand, had not only paid compliments to Victoria, but was her complement. He supplied that yearning for gayety and glory which was repressed in her by her evangelical principles or, what we should call in this country, her New England conscience. Mr. Gladstone's bitterest political opponents did not belittle his intellectual power, his parliamentary skill, or the influence of his magnificent person and countenance. The brilliant but erratic Lord Randolph Churchill once said to Prince Bismarck when they were discussing some questions of political give and take: "The English people would cheerfully give you Mr. Gladstone for nothing, but you would find it an expensive present." Yet on another occasion he remarked to a friend that when with Gladstone he felt as if he were "in the presence of a superior being; I could argue, but before the man himself I bent." Lord George Hamilton, a loyal adherent of Disraeli and Salisbury and an opponent of Home Rule, describes Gladstone's masterfulness as a parliamentarian in one of the great Home Rule contests of the eighties: Gladstone faced the serious position so largely created by his own thoughtless words and acts with commendable courage, dignity, and resource. All the finer qualities of his complex personality asserted themselves in the terrific Parliamentary contest of the ensuing ten months, and at the end of the session he emerged a temporary victor over a rare combination of disorderly and dangerous influences. His patience, endurance, and the quickness and audacity with which he seized upon every mistake made by his adversaries were a real lesson in Parliamentary tactics, and the constant exhibition of these great powers made one deplore that prescience and sound judgment were not, to an equal extent, a permanent part of his politi cal outfit. It is as an unsurpassed parliamentary leader, a leader in representative government, in which no one ever accused him of dishonor or corruption, that Glad stone has his greatest claim to enduring fame. He entered his legislative career at twenty-two and ended it at eightyfive, when he laid down the office of Prime Minister, to which he had been chosen four times. Thus for more than sixty years he was a tireless lawmaker and administrator-a longer period of continuous service in the public interest than has ever fallen to the lot of any one man in the history of representative gov. ernment. 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