A Working Library for Students of International Relations Selected by Charles H. Levermore Timely Books Worth Reading, Representing Different Points of View James Francis Abbott: Japanese Expansion and American Policies, Pp. vii, 268; New York, Macmillan, 1916; $1.50. Norman Angell: The Great Illusion ($1) and Arms and Industry ($1.25), published by Putnam, New York, in 1918 and 1914, respectively. The World's Highway, 861 pages; New York, George H. Doran Company, 1915; $1.50. A discussion of possible internationalization of the seas, and of the power of economic pressure in support of international law. Roger W. Babson: The Future of World Peace, 142 pages; Boston, Babson's Statistical Organization, 1915; 75 cents. James M. Beck: The Evidence in the Case in the Supreme Court of Civilization as to the Moral Responsibility for the War, Pp. xxiv, 200; Putnam, New York, 1915; $1. General Von Bernhardi: Germany and the Next War; 288 pages; Longmans, 1912; $1. A paper-covered edition was issued for 25 cents. A noteworthy book written from a militarist standpoint. Hiram Bingham: The Monroe Doctrine: an Obsolete Shibboleth, Yale University Press, Pp. ix, 154; New Haven, 1913; $1.15. Henry N. Brailsford: The War of Steel and Gold, 317 pages; London, G. Bell & Sons, 1915; 50 cents. Another study of economic causes of war. Georges Bourdon: The German Enigma, Pp. xiii, 357; London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1914; $1.25. An inquiry among Germans as to what they think, what they want, what they can do. American edition, Pp. x, 152; E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1914; $1. A suggestive work written from a militarist standpoint. George W. Crile: A Mechanistic View of War and Peace, Pp. xii, 105; Macmillan, 1915; $1.25. "The brain patterns that dominate at the close of the adolescent and at the beginning of the adult period fix and determine until death the life reactions of the individual." L. Curtis: The Commonwealth of Nations, an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereof. Part I, Pp. xix, 721; Macmillan, 1916; $1.50. W. Evans Darby: International Arbitration, xii, 927 pp., 4th edition; London, J. M. Dent & Company, 1904; $3.50. An encyclopedia of arbitration, projects and actual cases. G. Lowes Dickinson: The European Anarchy, 144 pp.; Macmillan, New York, 1916; $1.00. C. Ernest Fayle: The Great Settlement, American edition, 309 pp.; Duffield & Company, New York, 1915; $1.50. All the problems of the war and their possible solutions at the time of peace. Guglielmo Ferrero: Militarism, 320 pp.; L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1903; $3.50. A historical review of international domination. Carl Russell Fish: American Diplomacy, Pp. xi, 541; Holt, New York, 1915; $2.75. The best single volume on this subject. Alfred H. Fried: Europäische Wiederherstellung, 189 pages; Orell & Füssli, Zurich, 1915; 50 cents. Suggests formation of a European cooperative union. An English translation by Lewis S. Gannett is pub lished by Macmillan, New York, with the title, "The Restoration of Europe," 157 PP.; $1. Jidney L. Gulick: The American-Japanese Problem, Pp. x, 849; Scribner, New York, 1914; $1.75. The Fight for Peace, 192 pp.; Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, 1915; 75 cents. America and the Orient, Outlines of a constructive policy, New York, 1916; 100 pp. Advocates impartial immigration laws as an aid to peace. Norman Dwight Harris: Intervention and Colonization in Africa, Pp. xiii, 384; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914; $2. Albert Bushnell Hart: The Monroe Doctrine, Pp. xiv, 445; Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1916; $1.75. Includes a good bibliography. An excellent history and discussion of the doctrine in all its phases. Carlton J. Hayes: The Political and Social History of Modern Europe, 2 vols.; I, 581 pp.; 11, 725 pp.; Macmillan, New York, 1916; $4.25. Charles D. Hazen: Europe Since 1815, 830 pp.; Holt, New York, 1911; $3. Brings the story down to 1909. The books by Profs. Hayes and Hazen were prepared for use in college classes, and are both excellent introductions to the study of modern international relations. David Jayne Hill: World Organization as Affected by the Nature of the Modern State, IX, 241 pp.; Columbia University Press, New York, 1911; $1.50. Francis W. Hirst: The Political Economy of War, 827 pp.; E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1915; $2. Economic history of wars during the last two centuries. John A. Hobson: Towards International Government, 216 pp.; American edition, Macmillan, 1915; $1. Constructive proposals for world-organization. John Haynes Holmes: New Wars for Old, 869 pp.; Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1916; $1.50. Advocates a policy of non-resistance as a Christian duty. William I. Hull: Preparedness, the Ameri can vs. the Military Programme, 271 pp.; Fleming H. Revell & Company, New York, 1916; $1.25. Sir Harry Johnston: Common Sense in Foreign Policy, Pp. viii, 119; Smith, Elder & Company, London, 1913; American edition, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1913; $1.25. A discussion of the white man's burden and duty. Herbert Kraus: Die Monroedoktrin, 479 pp.; J. Guttentag, Berlin, 1913; unbound; 9 marks. An exhaustive investigation. Edward B. Krehbiel: Nationalism, War and Society; Macmillan, 1916; $1.50. An introduction to the study of the movements toward world-organization for peace. William Ladd: An Essay on a Congress of Nations for the Adjustment of International Disputes Without Resort to Arms. Published for the Carnegie Endowment by the Oxford University Press. Introduction by James Brown Scott; Pp. xlv, 162; New York, 1916; $1. Henri La Fontaine: The Great Solution, Pp. x, 177; World Peace Foundation, Boston, 1916; $1.25. Project for world organization. Walter Lippmann: The Stakes of Diplomacy, 235 pp.; Holt, New York, 1915; $1.25. The relations between diplomacy and "big business." D. S. Marvin: The Living Past, a sketch of western progress, 288 pp.; Oxford University Press, New York, 1913; $1.25. Lucia Ames Mead: Swords and Ploughshares, Pp. xii, 249; Putnam, New York, 1912; $1. A historical review of the movement to substitute Law for War. John Bassett Moore: American Diplomacy, Its Spirit and Achievements; xiv, 286 pp.; Harper, New York, 1905; $2. J. H. Morgan: The War Book of the German General Staff, Pp. xv, 199; McBride, Nast & Company, New York, 1915. Contains a translation of the regulations concerning war on land, issued by the German "Grossgeneralstab." Philip Van Ness Myers: History as Past Ethics, Pp. xii, 387; Ginn & Company, Boston, 1913; $1.50. George W. Nasmyth: Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory, Pp. xxiii, 417; Putnam, New York, 1915; $1.50. A study of Force as a factor in human relations, and a demonstration that the phrases, "struggle for existence" and "survival of the fittest" have been used to deliver a message which is the precise opposite of Darwin's meaning. Darwin based his theory of social progress upon justice and the moral law. Jacques Novikov (Novikow): War and its Alleged Benefits, 180 pp.; Holt, New York, 1911; $1.20. George H. Perris: The War Traders, 168 pp.; London, S. W., National Peace Council, 167 St. Stephen's House, Westminster. Can be obtained from the American Peace Society, Colorado Building, Washington, D.C.; 30 cents. Influence of armament firms and war scares. Edith M. Phelps: Selected Articles on the Monroe Doctrine, 2nd edition, Pp. xxxiii, 337; H. W. Wilson Company, White Plains, N. Y.; $1. Arthur Ponsonby: Democracy and Diplo macy, a plea for popular control of foreign policy, 198 pp.; Methuen & Company, London; $1. Mary Katherine Reely: Selected Articles on World Peace, including international arbitration and disarmament, 2nd edition, Pp. xxxiv, 256; H. W. Wilson Company, White Plains, N. Y.; $1. Outlines of debates, excellent bibliographies and articles representing all varieties of opinion. Josiah Royce: A Short History of War and Peace, vi, 256 pp.; Holt, New York, 1911; 50 cents. War and Insurance, Pp. i, 96; Macmillan, New York, 1914; $1. An application of principles of mutual insurance to international relations. Charles Sarolea: The Anglo-German Problem, 884 pp.; Thomas Nelson & Sons, London and New York, 1912; 1 shilling. Stanley S. Sheip: (Editor) Handbook of the European War, vii, 334 pp.; H. W. Wilson Company, White Plains, N. Y., 1914; $1. This volume in the Handbook Series contains the important facts about the great war, sifted out of a great mass of materials; and a bibliography of the best books on the war by Corinne Bacon. William English Walling: The Socialists and the War, 500 pp.; Holt, New York, 1915; $1.50. R. W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern, Arthur Greenwood: The War and Democracy, xiv, 390 pp.; Macmillan, 1915; 80 cents. An admirable historical and critical study of the political causes of the war. William E. Wilson: Christ and War, Pp. 212; James Clarke & Company, London, 1913. A peace-study text-book. L. S. Woolf: International Government, xxiii, 412 pp.; Brentano, 1916; $2. A work on the prevention of war, prepared for the research department of the English Fabian Society, with the project of a treaty for the establishment of a supernational authority. Current History, a monthly magazine published by the New York Times Company, Times Square, New York, at $3 a year, is a good chronicle of the great war, and of varying phases of many problems. AUTHORITIES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE A Digest of International Law, by John The American Statesman's Year Book; Mc- Hazell's Annual Cyclopedia. Begun in 1885. Scribner (importer), New York; $1.50. Contains an admirable account of all the important events of each year in each country on the globe, with summaries of Prof. George H. Blakeslee, and published The Naval Annual. By J. A. Brassey. J. Navy League of Great Britain, 11 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., London, pub- Navy Year Book. Compilation of Annual Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, NOVELS AND PLAYS Among the recent plays and novels which have depicted various phases of international relations, especially the use of war as a method of settling international disputes, the following deserve especial recommendation for dramatic power and psychological insight: Sorrows of Belgium, a play, by Leonid The Unseen Empire, a play, by Atherton The books listed above may be ordered The Impeachment of President Israels, a Across the Border, a play, by Beulah Marie Moloch, a play, by Beulah Marie Dix; 1915. Makers of Madness, a play, by Hermann $1. Pride of War, a novel, by Gustaf Janson; Cease Firing, a novel, by Mary Johnston; The Terrible Meek, a play, by Charles Rann War, a novel, by W. Douglas Newton; Dodd, The Last Shot, a novel, by Frederick Palmer; Scribner, New York, 1914; $1.35. Swords Reluctant, a novel, by Max Pemberton; Dillingham, New York, 1912; $1.25. Press Cuttings, a comedy, by G. Bernard Shaw; a Shavian skit upon war and woman suffrage. Young Medardus, a drama, by Arthur In the Vanguard, a play, by Katrina Trask; Mr. Britling Sees It Through, a novel, by The War Brides, a play, by Marion Craig The War God, a play, by Israel Zangwill; SHALL THE NATION SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT? THE 'HE general verdict concerning the President's message to the senate is, that it is conceived in a tone of high idealism and that its intimations are not wanting in practicality. Mr. Wilson has voiced what sincere people the world over have been thinking and praying for, not only during the great war but for many decades. It can hardly be expected that nations at war will readily assent to the possibility of "peace without victory." Neither will neutrals whose sympathies are strongly on one side or the other, find it easy to endorse that view. But the message, as a whole, is so lofty in tone, so vital in its grasp and so candid in its statement, that it compels respect, and the more it is read and studied, the more it will appeal to the conscience and the reason of thinking men. The President has undertaken to speak for America, to formulate a program, to set his countrymen thinking along constructive lines. What a pity if members of the senate divide on party lines and degrade this great humanitarian program to the level of partisan politics. Some things in the message will be criticized. But the men of the senate, democrats and republicans alike, should stand with the President, should recognize the spirit of his endeavor to lead the nations out of darkness into light, and his desire to employ potential force-the power and the authority of the United States, in leading the world in the accomplishment of this high task. The President's urgent plea for the limitation of armaments by all nations is most sagacious. Here the United States would have a chance for glorious leadership. A world wearied and sickened by slaughter and devastation will listen to this proposition as never before. Those who have urged greater and more efficient means of national defense will, if consistent, be ready to endorse a plan of international disarmament. It is evident that the President in speaking of the "power and authority" of the United States means much more than the sanction of military force. He would invoke the conscience, the righteous purpose, the civic high-mindedness of statesmen, publicists and men of faith the world over to stand for a new order founded upon the majesty of justice, the sacredness of treaties and the conciliatory power of Christianity. Military power and authority? Yes, but not in competition; limited to cooperation as in the time of the Boxer rebellion. It must not be so arranged that upon the lapse or flagrant act of some nation a world war shall ensue automatically, but so that an international force, duly organized under the authority of an international commission or other executive, shall act as police force to prevent violence, to restore order and to restrain the less civilized and less |