This department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comment, about all books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION Bonnie May. By Louis Dodge. Charles Scribner's The story of an exceedingly (and a bit excessively) precocious little girl brought up on the stage. Found in a box at a theater, alone and without visible friends, she is taken by a young man into his mother's home, with somewhat peculiar consequences. Johnstone of the Border. By Harold Bindloss. The Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.35. A stirring tale of the North Sea and the Solway coast in war times. A Canadian and an American join forces in thwarting the enemy, and carry a strange adventure through to a satisfactory conclusion. HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS American Plan of Government (The). The Constitution of the United States Interpreted by Accepted Authorities. By Charles W. Bacon, A.B., Assisted by Franklyn S. Morse, A.B., A.M. Introduction by George Gordon Battle, M.A. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.50. This book covers much the same ground as the more elaborate works, in two volumes each, one by David K. Watson, the other by W. W. Willoughby, on the Constitution. For the legal student it will not take their place, but it can be read and understood by the non-professional student, and will find a very useful place for ready reference in the library of the editor. Modernizing the Monroe Doctrine. By Charles H. Sherrill. Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.25. Witte Arrives. By Elias Tobenkin. The Fred"Modernizing the Monroe Doctrine " is a wellerick A. Stokes Company, New York. $1.25. The story is of a family of Jewish immigrants, national problems, including the administration of written and intelligent discussion of various interespecially of the youngest, Emil, who works his the Panama Canal, the Mexican situation, the purway through hardship and suffering and-at last-chase of West India islands, the Open Door in "arrives." Professor Phelps, of Yale, points out that it really is a companion book to Mary Antin's "The Promised Land," and one that every American should read. BIOGRAPHY Joseph Fels: His Life-Work. By Mary Fels. B. W. Huebsch, New York. $1. China, and the abandonment of the Philippines. The writer seems to us to assume that we have no interest in or concern for the affairs of the civilized world outside of the two American continents. To those who wish to get this view ably presented we commend the book. It is not our view. TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION Page Company, Boston. $3.50. A finely printed and illustrated narrative of the romantic history of Texas, from its Spanish settlement, during the short-lived Republic of Texas, and in its marvelous development since it became a State. This is an excellent work, eminently attractive in form, and in every way a credit to author and publisher. The story of Joseph Fels is thus told by the pub-Texas the Marvelous. By Nevin O. Winter. The lishers of this biography: "Joseph Fels was a shrewd and keen business man. He recognized opportunities, seized them, and made the most of them. But as soon as he realized that there was something bigger than merely accumulating money and redistributing it planlessly he made for the bigger thing. 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Fighting of an unimportant character instantly followed-if it did not, as some say, precede the actual issue of the declaration of war. It was well known in advance that Rumania had her forces fully mobilized both along that portion of her border which lies south of Transylvania in Hungary and that portion which lies directly north from Bulgaria. The clash of arms took place near the Transylvanian frontier. The importance of Rumania's final decision is great both from the military and the political point of view. It is a diplomatic victory for the Allies which atones for former blunders in their Balkan diplomacy. A glance at the map on the next page will show how the new situation involves a combined attack by Russia and Rumania in the Bukowina region. Russia already holds Czernowitz, which is all but on the border of Rumania. There are indications that Russia is gathering large forces in this vicinity; and without difficulty she can here act in unison with Rumania, while the latter nation can push forward an army from the south over the mountains into Transylvania, thus leaving that province, which it is Rumania's ambition to possess after the war, in an angle between two danAs to Bulgaria's position, gerous enemies. again a glance at the map shows how dangerous to Bulgaria's safety is the threatened attack by Rumania from the north, at the very time when the five nations represented in the armies north of Salonika threaten Bulgaria on the south. Austria-Hungary, and particularly Hungary, are now in what seems to be almost a Austria has to fight eneprecarious state. mies on several fronts; Italy's recent capture of Gorizia and repulse of the Austrian offensive from Trent shows that heavy forces must be used to hold that part of the Austrian line; the Austro-German armies which swept through Servia are facing the impending advance from the Allies now in Greece; on the Rumanian border the third battle-line is of no little importance; farther north the Russian attack in Galicia and the other Russian attack in the vicinity of Lemberg are still to be stopped or held in check. It is no wonder that great agitation and discontent exist in Hungary, nor that there are again rumors that Bulgaria may withdraw from her alliance with the Central Powers, while the situation of Turkey is hardly less desperate. One recent serious blow to Turkey has been the reoccupation of Bitlis, in Asia Minor, by the Russian troops operating in that vicinity under the general command of the Grand Duke Nicholas, as also the recapture of Mush; both of these places have changed hands twice. A general advance of Russia along its Asian front is supposed to be in progress. The political and moral significance of Rumania's participation in the war, combined with the declaration of war made by Italy on Germany on August 27, are evident. The mere fact that a new body of troops of perhaps half a million men enters the field on the side of the Allies must have an effect on the situation. That Greece, after its long period of hesitation and uncertainty, may declare war is probable, and the more so because of Bulgaria's recent invasion of Greek territory. Venizelos, speaking in Athens to an enormous demonstration in favor of the Allies at which fifty thousand persons 1 |