The Nation 1908-03-26: Vol 86 Iss 2230

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VOL. LXXXVI—NO. 2230. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1908. ‘New Macmillan Publications | BEARING ON QUESTIONS OF THE DEEPEST WORLD INTEREST | On the vital question of the relations of a Western nation to its Oriental dependenctes. On the vital question of the probable dura- tion of peace in the Far East. On the question of the workings of a: central government with many dtf- ferent depend- ences. On the part the United States has played as a world power, and its future. On the soctal development of the future. H. G. Wells’s Lord Cromer’s great history of Modern Egypt “The book is a model of what such a book ought to be. It is entirely temperate and modest in tone, but it is lucidly explanatory of the conditions which confronted Lord Cromer in Egypt, and . . his own conduct in the emergencies that arose from those conditions. To the equipment of the’diplomat and the financier generally conceded to him must now be added some of the best gifts of the historian—a broad outlook, a keen insight, a patient tolerance, and a remarkably vivid, strong, and nervous style.’’—New York Herald. Among the comments of the London press are: ‘It may be supplemented; it cannot be super- seded,’? Mr. SIDNEY LOW in The Standard. “‘A narrative that holds and a judgment that con- vinces.”,— The Daily Chronicle. In two octavo volumes, with two portraits, $6.00 net By B. L. Putnam Weale, the recognized authority on Eastern politics The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia Fulness of information, a power of keen insight, and an understanding born of long contact, are conceded largely to the author of ‘“‘The Re-Shaping of the Far East,” ‘The Truce in the East and Its Aftermath,” etc. In his new book Mr. Weale describes a journey in which he has thoroughly covered the ground over which three great powers—Russia, Japan, and China—are massing their forces and measuring their strength for a contest for the mastery of the Pacific. His closing chapter upon the relations of the U. S. to this coming struggle and the policy forced upon it by the possession of the Philippine Islands makes the book an exceptionally interesting one. The Worla’s Work for April will devote two or three pages to a discussion of the work. Cloth, gilt top, xiv.+-656 pages, map, illus., 8v0, $3.50 net Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell’s wor# on England It is doubtful whether any more important political study has appeared than this since Bryce’s American Commonwealth. Indeed, it seems hardly possible to avoid associating Mr. Lowell’s survey of the English political system at the present time with the illuminating book by the British Ambassador because of its aims and methods. This work is intended to be a comprehensive survey of the English political system. Having acquired her institutions, not by imitation, but by a slow process of normal evolution, the English political system, though presenting on the surface curious diversities and anomalies, is really a singularly harmonious result of popular government working under definite condi- tions, and it is this result, as manifested in the various forms of public activity, that this book attempts to portray. In two volumes. Ready in April By Dr. Archibald Cary Coolidge, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. of History in Harvard Univ. The United States as a World Power Professor Coolidge’s forthcoming work will be a critical study of the international position of the United States to-day. He discusses in detail and with many comparisons the situation arising from the Formation and Growth of the United States, the Composition of its White Population, the Colored Elements, the Monroe Doctrine, the Spanish War and the Acquisition - of Colonies, the Economic Status of the Country, the Relations of the United States with Con- tinental Europe and with England, the Relations with Canada, and with the Countries of Latin America, the presence of the United States in the Pacific and its relations with China and with Japan. Cloth, 12mo, Ready early in April New Worlds for Old . Mr. Wells seems able to combine clearness with breadth of view and to present Socialistic ideas without the usual contradiction of exhibiting effort toward their realization as being ‘‘a war of the classes.”” His statement of the bases of the idea of Socialism and its plan of the substitution of constructive design for haphazard social development is as interesting as any novel. One reader, thoroughly competent to judge, says of it in a private letter: “It is the wisest and san- est championship of extensive social reconstruction that I have ever seen.”” Another speaks of it as ‘written with a directness of language and a purity of spirit which make its reading a continuous delight.” Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net; by mail, $1.61 Published by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Ave. New York