Americanism: Woodrow Wilson's Speeches on the War Why He Made Them and What They Have Done; The President's Principal Utterances in the First Year of War; With Notes, Comments and War Dates, Giving Them Their Historical Setting, Significance and Consequen

Excerpt from Americanism: Woodrow Wilson's Speeches on the War Why He Made Them and What They Have Done; The President's Principal Utterances in the First Year of War; With Notes, Comments and War Dates, Giving Them Their Historical Setting, Significance and Consequences, An

To name the best book of a given period is a serious matter. In these iron years imaginative literature is bound to suffer. There have been good novels in the past twelve months, but none that may be classed with the books of all time. There have been good poems, but no single poem has sprung to the front rank. There have been admirable essays, but this department has not been greatly enriched by the addition of volumes that will carry far into the future. And we are making history, not writing it.

Great novels and great verse interpreting these clang ing times must wait a little. In scanning the shelf of newest books for a candidate for immortality my eye falls upon one volume that will, I believe, outlive every other book of the past year. Its literary merit is the highest; it is addressed to the minds and the consciences not only of the American people but of every Civilized man and woman on the globe.

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