Views & Reviews THE PEACE PACT OF PARIS. By David Hunter Miller. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. $3.00. INFORMATION ON THE RENUNCIATION OF WAR. By J. W. Wheeler-Bennett. London: Allen & Unwin. 1928. W THEN this review is published, the fate of the anti-war pact will probably be known. Simple and innocent in its terminology, this document has revealed, upon study, implications and meanings which have alarmed its opponents and brought satisfaction to its supporters. The anti-war pact has assumed importance because of its setting and its history. And it is this background which Mr. Miller, who was legal adviser to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris, sets out in his book to give. In sixteen chapters, he traces the course of the negotiations of the pact, and subjects each diplomatic note to an acute analysis. He then proceeds to a discussion of the general meaning of the treaty. He points out that the French formula of wars of aggression is similar to the American formula of war as an instrument of national policy. All war is either aggression or self-defense; and Mr. Kellogg's refusal to allow the use of the term, 'wars of aggression,' was of little importance. It may be undesirable and difficult to frame a complete and perfect 'juristic conception' of self-defense; but, as Mr. Miller says, it does not follow at all that mention of self-defense in the anti-war pact is undesirable. When Mr. Kellogg calls self-defense ‘an inalienable attribute of sovereignty,' he puts forward a juristic conception of his own. Mr. Miller disagrees with Mr. Kellogg's statement that each state alone is competent to decide whether or not circumstances require recourse to war in self-defense... 'This conception' is sufficiently wide 'to well wrap up the Monroe Doctrine and at the same time to keep comfortably warm in the same bed the British Regional Doctrine.' Mr. Miller also argues that the 'interpretations' of the treaty given in diplomatic correspondence are as much a part of the meaning of the agreement as is the text of the Treaty proper. 'Whether it be called explanation or interpretation or qualification or reservation, everything that the Parties themselves agree that the Treaty means, it does mean.' The silence of the United States is a tacit recognition of the British Monroe Doctrine. Every state is bound by these interpretative notes unless they take exception to them, as did Russia, Egypt, Turkey, and Persia, in becoming a party to the pact. While Mr. Kellogg was anxious to exclude interpretations from the body of the treaty, he satisfied his conscience by inserting some of them into its preamble. Such drafting, says Mr. Miller, could not be more 'inartistic.' In its main results the anti-war treaty is nevertheless a 'very real and very great triumph for Mr. Kellogg.' While the initiative came from M. Briand, the United States was more free to press the negotiations than France, which was already committee to a peace structure in Europe. Mr. Miller attaches great importance to the second article of the treaty, in which the parties promise not to seek the settlement of disputes except by pacific means. He argues that this is a positive covenant on behalf of pacific settlement. His argument, however, is not entirely convincing. The obligation of the antiwar pact simply binds the parties not to seek the settlement of disputes by force; it does not bind them positively to settle a controversy. They may simply do nothing about it. Mr. Miller makes an important statement when he says that a breach of the anti-war pact will be more important than a breach of customary international law. For example, if a state should violate a universally accepted rule, such as that in regard to the seizure of a neutral ship, the United States could not complain unless the interest of an American were involved. But, if a state violates the anti-war pact, the United States has a ground of protest, even though she has not been attacked, because she is party to the treaty. The anti-war pact, according to Mr. Miller, will lead to the disappearance Miller, will lead to the disappearance of a diplomacy of threats, and it will add 'enormously to the prestige and solidity of the League of Nations.' In his opinion, one should not take too seriously official statements that the treaty does not tie up the United States to the League. When a contingency arises in which one state violates or threatens to violate the anti-war pact, the League will inevitably consult Washington, and no government here could be indifferent to the appeal. The Treaty links the United States to the League as a guardian of peace. Mr. Miller even says that the pact in fact is a treaty between the United States and the League. Moreover, this agreement brings to an end the old-time ideas of neutrality, and hence will solve the troublesome question of the freedom of the seas. The most striking feature of the treaty, he says, is that it is perpetual in duration. It is not possible to withdraw from this treaty, as it is possible to withdraw from the League Covenant; once ratified, we are bound forever. The author argues that the treaty amends the constitution of the United States. Hereafter it will be illegal for Congress to declare war an instrument of national policy. Mr. Wheeler-Bennett, who is Honorary Information Secretary of the British Institute of International Affairs, also traces the history of the anti-war pact in his book entitled Information on the Renunciation of War. He not only summarizes the diplomatic correspondence, but also traces the political background of these negotiations. It is interesting to note from his account that the British Monroe Doctrine was subject to rather hostile criticism in the parliament of Canada and the Irish Free State. The author believes that the British reservation will be a principal stumbling block to American approval, and he is doubtful of the treatment which the United States Senate will accord to the engagement as a whole. While there are many implications of this treaty which neither author attempts to explore, both of them have written admirable histories showing how the anti-war pact came into existence. Both books contain the diplomatic correspondence and important addresses preceding the signature of the treaty. R. L. BUELL THE SOUL OF CHINA. By Richard Wilhelm. Text translated by John Holroyd Reece, poems by Arthur Waley. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1928. $3.75. TO ATTEMPT to imprison the soul Tof of a nation between the boards of a single volume is a Herculean task that few have ever dared attempt, yet Dr. Wilhelm in The Soul of China has depicted, albeit through rose-colored glasses, much of that glamorous life that goes to make up the warp and woof of the national existence of Cathay. Dr. Wilhelm has spent the last quarter-century of his life in China has lived and traveled extensively there during one of the greatest periods of change and transition ever experienced by the Middle Kingdom during its four thousand years of recorded history. To quote from the preface:— 'I saw the old China which seemed destined to last for centuries and centuries. I witnessed the collapse and saw the old life budding from the ruins. In the old and in the new there was, nevertheless, a common element: the soul of China in the course of evolution; that soul which had not lost its gentleness nor its calm, and will, I hope, never lose them.' If this be the soul of China, then Dr. Wilhelm has achieved an outstanding success, because the leitmotiv of his distinctly erudite thesis is gentleness and calm. The author is both blind and deaf to suave cruelty and ear-splitting recriminations; he sees neither aching poverty, pitiful disease, nor unrestrained licentiousness; he hears and records only those rose-petaled compliments exchanged between the scholars of one nation and those of another. Undeniably, it is a moot point whether these unlovely patches should be included in a discussion of 'soul,' but, if 'soul be the reflection of life,' and Dr. Wilhelm seems to agree that it is, since he enters upon detailed descriptions with true Teutonic zest and fervor,--then distinct omissions have been made. VIEWS AND REVIEWS The chapter entitled 'The Web of Life' is undoubtedly the most colorful, since here the author has portrayed the festivals, feasts, and the ritual of enjoyment. It is a true insight into the lives of many millions of our fellow men whose hopes and fears of a thousand years' are extremely interesting from a personal as well as a psychological viewpoint. To the student of things Oriental The Soul of China offers much exact information. The lay reader will find much of it dull and hard reading, particularly, I imagine, as the result of the translation, which is barely adequate - always excepting, of course, the translations of the fragments of poems, which Arthur Waley has done into English with his consummate skill and lyric artistry. 467 a body alien and hostile to the majority stages through which they went before PHILIP KERBY HOUSE. VOL. III: INTO THE WORLD The single chapter wherein he de- THE INTIMATE PAPERS OF COLONEL scends to almost grim actualities is entitled 'Missionaries in China,' and is a scholarly exposition of the work achieved by foreign missions in their desperate attempts to further the cause of Christianity. The author castigates roundly those alleged 'teachers' whose sermons only too often reflected the letter and not the spirit of Christianity - those selfish exponents of the 'do as I say, not as I do' school, whose ability to confuse civilization with religion seemed past belief. The author summarizes this attitude as follows: Religion is primarily only concerned with the relation of the soul to God and secondarily with man's relation to his neighbor; but it has nothing whatever to do with power and wealth, possessions, machinery and inventions. When the purely religious revelations did not prove to be as effective as had been expected the mission did not evade taking 'the flesh into its own arms,' which means to say that it dragged all these things into its sphere of activity. As proof of the truth of Christianity, they proclaimed that the Christian states became more civilized, powerful, and rich as they became more Christian. They told of the excellence of the school system in Europe, of the splendid police, of the strength of armies and the fleets, of the electric light and machinery. . . . All this was before the War, which in glaring contrast to the former songs about culture presented rather an impediment to the missions. The author declares, however, that of recent times the standards of the missionary personnel have been raised, that no longer does proselytizing play such an important part as it did between the various Protestant sects, and that the Christian Church in China is no longer THERE HERE are two ways of regarding The passage of deepest human interest in the book is that with which it closes - Colonel House's own story of the break between himself and Wilson: 'And now you, who have had access to my most intimate papers, ask me to unlock the innermost door, a door to which I have no key. My separation from Woodrow Wilson was and is to me a tragic mystery, a mystery that now can never be dispelled, for its explanation lies buried with him. Theories I have, and theories they must remain. These you know. 'Never, during the years we worked together, was there an unkind or impatient word, written or spoken, and this, to me, is an abiding consolation. 'While our friendship was not of long duration it was as close as human friendships grow to be. To this his letters, and mine, bear silent testimony. Until a shadow fell between us I never had a more considerate friend, and my devotion to his memory remains and will remain unchanged.' JOHN BAKELESS Books Abroad ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Albert J. Beveridge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company. 2 Vols. 1928. $12.50. (John Drinkwater in the Manchester Guardian) NENATOR BEVERIDGE had al ready established a wide literary reputation in America by his Life of John Marshall, a comprehensive work in four volumes, when he undertook to follow up his study of American history with a life of Lincoln on the same generous scale. His sudden death left the work uncompleted, but in these two ample volumes, amounting to thirteen hundred pages, we have his investigations as far as he had taken them, which was to the period of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858. We say investigations, because Senator Beveridge's book is based throughout on original and immensely painstaking research. It is a story that has been told often before, notably by Mr. Carl Sandburg two or three years ago, but it is here told again with a freshness that we should hardly have believed to be possible. At great length, though hardly ever tediously, Senator Beveridge takes us over the familiar ground of the Kentucky and Illinois pioneers, the Springfield law circuit, the political campaigns that shook the Middle West during the violent quarrels on slavery and State rights, and so intimately is he in touch with the detail of his narrative that we never complain that we have heard all this before. The truth is that Lincoln is so large a theme that scholarship and perception such as Senator Beveridge's could not fail to expound it with an individuality that makes us feel that, after all, we have not heard just this before. To any reader, indeed, who has not himself examined the vast Lincoln literature listed in Senator Beveridge's bibliography a great deal in these volumes will have been hitherto unknown. This amounts to saying that everyone who has any interest in the subject will find here much to reward his labors. And very pleasant labors they will prove, for Senator Beveridge writes a distinguished if somewhat Quakerly style, he arranges his material with the clarity possible only to complete understanding, and he brings to his task a wide experience of his own in American public life. These volumes have the stamp of authority on every page. It is, moreover, an authority that is never labored. A great charm of the book is that the facts of Lincoln's life are left to make their own impression, and that the narrator seldom allows himself to point a moral or adorn a tale. This is not the only way of writing biography; it may not even be the best way; but it is an extremely good way, and Senator Beveridge does it to perfection. He is particularly happy in his account of the time when, in the sometimes incredibly narrow conduct of State politics in Illinois, Lincoln, who was frequently no better than his rivals in that unimpressive school, was slowly maturing toward the heroic statesmanship of his great years. In this section of his book Senator Beveridge presents the growth of Lincoln's mind in what will be for most readers a new and somewhat unexpected light. But he does so with easy conviction; and, if possible, we like Lincoln the better for the ordeal that he survives. We see more clearly than ever before that not only was his victory difficult but that it was won only after many temptations and some lapses. Lincoln's moral decision was not a quality that he came by easily; he had to shape it slowly, and with frequent hesitation, from a web of dangerously seductive circumstance. He might, with small blame to himself, have become — or remained than an astute politician with a natural gift for leadership. Instead, he became one of the two or three supreme examples of the prophet in action. There has perhaps never been a more notable triumph of character. no more Travel Books To anyone addressing himself to the Travel Editor, THE LIVING AGE, 280 Broadway, New York City, any desired information about travel books and travel bibliographies will be gladly given. DENMARK. By H. Clive Holland. 32 illustrations in color by A. Heaton Cooper. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1928. 3/6. Most of the books hitherto written about Denmark, as the author points out in his preface, treat of her commercial interests and systems of agriculture and education. The present work is a thorough view of Denmark from the holiday-maker's standpoint. Though lacking the spectacular scenery of the Scandinavian peninsula, this country of islands and canals has many a forest, lake, and fishing village of authentic charm. Jutland, the only 'mainland' of Denmark, is chiefly attractive for its deeply indented eastern seacoast. Picturesque and characteristic towns, notably Fredericia, Aarhus, and Jellinge, reveal castellated ruins and delightful half-timbered houses unexpectedly containing the full furniture and fittings of centuries bygone. Fünen and Zealand, the two largest island' provinces, are surprisingly fertile and beautiful. Castles and manor houses, many of them surviving from mediæval times, stand encircled by moats, parks, and well kept gardens. Kronberg or Elsinore Castle, at Helsingör on the northeastern tip of Zealand, is a famous place of pilgrimage. Tradition fixes this as the home of Hamlet. The Danes, says Mr. Holland, rather smile at Elsinore as a veritable literary shrine; but they have made of the castle Denmark's best museum of antiquities. Copenhagen, whose charm and rich collections of art are all too little known, occupies a good half of Mr. Holland's book. Nothing fails of entertaining description, from the city's earliest origins as a herring fishery to the modern dinner party where ladies smoke a prodigious number of 'whiffs,' or short black cigars. The author appraises Danish painting, porcelains, novels, folk songs, for in Copenhagen one has opportunity to see Danish life truly represented, in all its varied aspects. Good theatres and orchestras are the rule, while half a dozen distinct art galleries represent every phase of Danish painting. The concluding chapter, 'Life in Town and Country,' describes most of the Danish customs and superstitions still current. The Danes appear a most hospitable people, to strangers no less than to friends and relatives. Their family ties are strong. Children, upon finishing a meal, kiss their parents in turn and say, 'Thank you for the food.' Holidays and festivals are made much of, though with less abandon than in olden ceremony. A. Heaton Cooper's illustrations, as in all Black's Popular Colour Books, are fully as alluring to the tourist as the text. W. W. COMMONS MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. By Maurice Raynal. Translated by Ralph Roeder. New York: Brentano's. 1928. $7.50. Although one might quarrel with M. Raynal's omissions in this volume, one must grant that, exactly as it stands, it is exceedingly useful. It consists of short chapters on 'movements' since 1906; short biographical notices on nearly fifty outstanding painters, representing all schools; and reproductions of from one to three paintings from the work of each artist. The quality of printing, binding, and engraving is excellent. To the tourist who wishes to be posted on modern painters as well as on the masters, nothing could be more serviceable than a series of such volumes. For the person desiring to keep himself informed on contemporary art and artists, such a series has long been lacking. One hopes that M. Raynal's volume will be so successful that it will induce the publishers to bring out other volumes dealing similarly with the art of other countries. One cannot but recommend Modern French Painters to any traveler who is interested in painting and who plans to visit France. SPANISH SHORT STORIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. (THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, VOL. CCCXXVI.) London: Oxford University Press. 1928. 80¢. Travelers to Spain will be interested in this edition of several of the best tales of the 'Golden Century.' Its early English translations have been well selected to give the flavor of a country whose spirit has changed little since its classic period, and the small size of the World's Classics series makes it an excellent volume to read on the way. UNDERSTANDING SPAIN. By Clayton Sedgwick Cooper. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1928. $2.50. Mr. Cooper's fluent essays on Spanish culture and education are sketchy but generally THE LIVING AGE ATLANTIC MONTHLY BOSTON The Second ATLANTIC PRIZE NOVEL COMPETITION $10,000 in addition to BOOK ROYALTIES for the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description, submitted before January 15, 1930 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS 8 Arlington Street Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A. The first Atlantic Prize Novel Competition, in 1927, was won by Miss Mazo de la Roche with her novel "Jalna" which was received with enthusiasm by critics and public, became the novel of the autumn, and enjoyed a sale exceeding 125,000 copies. "Jalna" is a novel of permanent value, and has been translated into several foreign languages. To secure a novel that will attract attention, to secure the best, and to make of it not only the serial, but the story, of its year, the Atlantic Prize, Ten Thousand Dollars, is again offered for the most interesting novel of any sort, kind or description by a living author. This sum will be paid to the winner for the right to serialize the story in the Atlantic, and to publish it in book form, and will be in addition to all royalties accruing from book publication. Cinema or dramatic rights remain with the author. We desire that authors of all nationalities compete, stipulating only that, whatever the original version, the final manuscript must be submitted in English. We do not care whether manuscripts have pseudonyms or not. This is not a competition for this or that kind of story. The author is absolutely free to write the book he likes. Our sole criterion will be the interest of the novel. We hope to print in book form several novels beside the winning serial, but we reserve the right to reject any or all the manuscripts submitted. Every novel published as a result of this competition will be given wide and continued publicity. No effort will be spared to make each an outstanding individual 469 readable. It has been his exacting object to reveal the principal features of the transition in Spanish life and civilization 'in terms of the people themselves rather than by means of the many monuments and works of art and architecture, all of which have been treated at length in many books.' Curiously enough, Mr. Havelock Ellis magnificently fulfilled this very object just twenty years ago in The Soul of Spain. With such a model, Mr. Cooper might well have succeeded in bringing his reader nearer to an even superficial understanding of Spain. Mr. Ellis's study remains more modern to-day than does Mr. Cooper's volume written a few months since. CRISES IN VENETIAN HISTORY. By Laura M. Ragg. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. 1928. $5.00. In direct contradistinction to the aim of Mr. Cooper's essays on Spain is the aim of Mrs. Ragg in her history of Venice. It is her purpose to connect 'each outstanding and critical episode or group of events with some building, picture, or object which may be viewed easily by the tourist.' The result is a painstaking study which is admirable for accuracy and detail but would offer difficult reading, even for the scholar. The bibliography of authorities consulted appears to be a very complete one; of especial comfort to the prospective student of Venetian art is the section on 'Authorities for Special Periods and Chapters,' in itself a valuable little source book. The lengthy volume has but eighteen illustrations; the subject-matter calls for at least a hundred. THE HAMMER AND THE SCYTHE. By Anne O'Hare McCormick. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1928. $3.50. This very readable volume by Mrs. McCormick does not pretend to be a study, economic, social, or political, of Russia or of Bolshevism. It constitutes the unbiased record of an American newspaperwoman, made during a summer's stay in the cities, towns, and hamlets under Soviet rule. The picture she presents is an absorbing one, wisely conditioned by the principle that today, ten years after the Revolution, 'nothing in Russia is fixed enough to hang a judgment on.' WHEN IT'S COCKTAIL TIME IN CUBA. By Basil Woon. New York: Horace Liveright. 1928. $2.50. Mr. Woon calls his book an 'impression'; he has set down in informal manner what the fashionable tourist to Cuba will see, do (and drink) in a land 'where personal liberty and climate are blended in just the right setting of beauty and romance.' The result is a sort of Cuban Vanity Fair or American Sketch between book covers. To the serious student of the island's affairs, he recommends on more than one occasion Terry's Guide to Cuba; but it is to be doubted if any traveler can fully appreciate Havana on his first visit without recourse to Mr. Woon's gay and timely volume. LADIES THIRD. By Mary Lena Wilson. New York: Duffield & Company. 1927. $2.50. If you are a young woman in good health who contemplates a short trip abroad at very small expense, this book will be the 'find' of the season for you. Miss Wilson describes her six weeks' trip through France, Switzerland, and Italy, comfortably made at a cost of less than six hundred dollars including steamer passage. She has planned a remarkable route for so short a period, and with it she interlards travel experiences and a detailed schedule of expenses. Even should you prove to be a gouty bachelor who seldom journeys farther than a few blocks from his club, her lively book is guaranteed not to bore you. SAILS AND SWORDS. By Arthur Strawn. New York: Brentano's. 1928. $3.50. Hitherto there have been but three fulllength biographies of Balboa: that of Gaffarel published in Paris in 1882, and the two in Spanish by Altolaquirre (1914) and by Urretia (1916), which are better known to historians. Mr. Strawn's life of the discoverer of the Pacific claims consideration as the first to appear in English. For the present, English and American readers must content themselves with his semi-fictionized account of "The Golden Adventures of Balboa and his intrepid company, freebooters all . . .' It is an agreeably written narrative, adequately documented with historical notes. The definitive biography of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa remains to be written in any language. THE NEW WORLD. By Isaiah Bowman. Fourth Edition. Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company. 1928. $4.80. Dr. Bowman's textbook on problems in political geography is now completely revised to conform with the events of the period since 1921. Its maps, of which there are more than 250, constitute a most convenient one-volume aid to the student of world politics. Its thirtyfive chapters deal regionally with international policies; an essay on the rarely comprehended subjects of mandates and colonies, minorities, boundaries, and disarmament, precedes each chapter. The New World can be recommended to statesmen for its fine maps and to high school students for its clarifying text; on occasion, vice versa. IN THE IMPERIAL SHADOW. By Mirza Mahmoud Khan Saghaphi. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1928. $3.50. This colorful account, the early chapters in the autobiography of Prince Saghaphi, presents the story of a Persian babyhood and boyhood at the court of the mad Shah, where his father was royal physician. Delicately conceived and charmingly written, it ends with the assassination of the tyrant in 1896. Both as a personal memoir and as a contribution to the chronicle of a reign that was perhaps the maddest since the days of Cyrus the Great, Prince Saghaphi's book deserves the attention of students of the East. CHINA'S MILLIONS. By Anna Louise Strong. New York: Coward-McCann. 1928. $4.00. This lengthy account of a journey across the interior of China from Hunan to Mongolia during the fighting in the spring, summer, and early autumn of 1927 covers one of the most critical periods in the national history of China. It is especially valuable for its discussion of the birth of the Nationalist Party. Unfortunately Miss Strong does not endow her most important material with the advantages of a concise style. THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. By James Boswell, Esq. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. 1928. $3.00. This entertaining chronicle of the unwieldy and unwilling Dr. Johnson traveling about the bleak Hebrides with the indefatigable Boswell has lost none of its freshness with the passing years. The Boswellian 'nose for news' tracked down details of the countryside with amazing accuracy, and a visitor to Scotland to-day could make good use of the journal for a faithful guide book. Its only defect in this respect is that Boswell, convinced that 'every thing relative to so great a man is worth observing,' naturally ignores the countryside and the Scotch people if his idol happens to be conversing or feeling ill or grumpy. Johnson was disconcerting as a companion in travel. Boswell records, for instance, how they passed through Glenshiel, 'with prodigious mountains on each side . . . Dr. Johnson owned he was now in a scene of as wild nature as he could see; but he corrected me sometimes in my inaccurate observations. "There," said I, "is a mountain like a cone." Johnson: "No, sir. It would be called so in a book; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other." Another mountain I called immense. Johnson: "No; it is no more than a considerable protuberance." We have our modern tourist counterparts of this debunker of nature. Johnson, like so many of his spiritual descendants, went to Scotland with a preconceived and profound prejudice against the country and its people. He had not the vision of Boswell, who delighted in the land of his birth and who reflected that, during one dreary ride, 'we were sometimes relieved by a view of branches of the sea, that universal medium of connection amongst mankind.' THE CARIBBEAN CRUISE: A HANDBOOK FOR THE TRAVELER. By Harry L. Foster. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 1928. $3.00. A GUIDE BOOK TO PORTO RICO. By M. S. Wolf and I. A. de Mier. New York: Brentano's. 1928. $1.00. Mr. Foster's volume adequately covers Porto Rico and in addition the entire Caribbean area, including Trinidad, the Spanish Main, and Central America. Thoroughly readable, trustworthy, and full in historical essentials, The Caribbean Cruise should be in the possession of every Caribbean cruiser. The Porto Rico guide is rather useless unless one has stock in a banana or sugar-cane plantation there. Outside of San Juan, there is little of tourist interest on the island. SHRINES OF THE GREAT IN EUROPE. By Edwin Robert Petre. New York: The Literary Digest (Funk & Wagnalls). 1928. $2.00. This Unique Tourist Guide is just that, although one may easily quarrel with Mr. Petre's idea of 'great' shrines - meaning places of birth, death, work, or allusion on the part of masters of literature, music, drama, science, and art. They are listed alphabetically by countries. Russia is included. Part II is an alphabetical identification of persons, with cross references to countries. Names range from Eschylus and Edward Bok to Freud and Xenophon. With Richard Halliburton and Marie Corelli in, one wonders at the omission of Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Cézanne, Paul Claudel, Eleanora Duse, and many another. An invaluable book for the traveler making a ‘litera-tour' or getting next to the life and times of E. Phillips Oppenheim. One anticipates with pleasure an equally accurate and detailed work on America. |