" MILTON. By John Bailey, M.A, Home Uni- "versity Library. 256 Pages. and Williams & Norgate, London and William Toronto, Publishers. imes may change, 0c. na 1d, the one versifier sapeare who has caught the not only of the devotional clas: but of all who love sonorous litera- Milton lived in a time of strife wrote under the in- rmoil and » of the prevading emotions. stier interpreter could be desi han the author of "Dr. Johnson for he commands a Milton high eternal, on uman existence ought to be There is no this so The learn- of pure English is best acquired hig Circle," arly and eloquent pen. some sense of the immediate and YEGESE6S 5 that it hangs. ) in England who voices imperiously as he did. m the pages of this writer poet he ranks as the long as our . Lost deserves to be read than quoted. A stimula- ; volume like this by Mr. Bailey to send the cas the fountain-head Paradise Paradise Lost, gays the author of the present book, is in several ways one of the most wonderful works of man. the effort of a blind poet, and it ob- tained recognition at ' once. this day, if an ordinary man is ask- ed to give his y of Adam. and ut Milton 'ae well as For, instance, the almost sure to take ..the seriptural serpent." iley \cPystallises a gen- out a rare work of hu 18 He 'has produced an able short volume with ex- tory suggestive outlines, wholly from -pedantic scholarship. POETICAL THOUGHT FROM SPEN- CER TO THE PRESENT DAY, Genesis free By Prof. Ernest Barker. Home Uni. Library. .. 256. Pages. Price, 35¢ and 75¢. Williams & Norgate, London, and William Briggs, Toronto, Publishers. A time of political rdconstruction is approaching in Europe, and it is the duty of every man and woman to think eof what should be .done. The thinking and the .acting should not be left to the politicians alone. No serious man can consider that the whole political past was buried in the trenches. Yesterday telleth to-morrow, and to be able to judge ef to-morrow it is essential that Something should be known -about yesterday. Evolution and heredity are as potent in history and polities as in nature. Therefore it is im- possible. not to felicitate the editors . of the fine Home University Library on providing such a helpful guide to thinkers as Mr. Barker's pregnant little book. It is a sequel to G. P. Gooch's "English Political Thought from Bacon to Halifax." Mr. Barker starts from that year of revolution, 1848, and shows us #& world less in turmoil than it is sto-day. But with cataclysms around, men were then :teydm@ to solve the . problems ahead just as they are to- day. Political thought has permea- ted modern men iby many writers "Epreading their ideas broadcast, so that even the man buying cheap books can learn more than a philos- opher of old in his costly library. Besides giving the gospel of (he modern writers, Mr. Barker ably sets forth the tenets of their pro- genitors, We are shown the pros- of the idealistic school, the ntific school and then borne te lawyers, Maine, Stephens and the rest. So we reach the political theory of literature, with Carlyle and Ruskin. The wonderful figure of William Morris then looms large in "its titanic comprehensiveness, while the influence on politics of 'Trade Unionism has to be estimated. All these things are contained in this versatile little volume, bulk of which is in the inverse ratio to its value. i ------------ versity THE SPELL OF SOUTHERN SKIES. | 'By Caroline Atwater Mason. The Page Co., Boston, Publishers. 428 Pages. Ilustrated. Price, $2.50. R. Uglow & Co; City. "The Spell of Southern er of the books published by the pany. In point of letterpress, binding done show with lamentable clearness | . < illustrations, they are that all the peace congresses of the Sreatest ever written Sn any language, and colored above criticism. Just at present, Italy is much in the public eye, and 8 book descriptive of the country will doubtless be welcomed by many. who seek enlightenment herve, will find pleasute also, as the hook #8 charmingly written. Much of the 35¢ Briggs, but John Mil- 1ains the poet of thoughtful since 3 better | understanding of the Italians English language , ful waiting." 1al reader to It was "To: sundry who have dared raise recollections of the Eve he is sure Miltonic Pi a 220085 od presented, niliar places, ré} with their individual charm, are \n troduced to the reader. It would be impossible here to follow the author in her rambles throughout this sunny land, or to touch upon the great historical fact and legend she Suflice to say the delight for many a help one to a* & is pieturesquely while quaint apd uni t mass of has accumulated. book will furnish passing hour and wil country. Uol- many illustrations special and their ored plates and from original "drawings or photographs illuminate the text. interesting AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR. By Theodore Roosevelt. McLeod & Allen, Toronto, Publishers. R. Uglow & Co., City. : The press has given a very clear report of ex-President' Roosevelt's attitude towards the present war, as forcibly expressed by himself, aud es- pecially as touching the violation of the neutrality of Belgium. If he had been enthroned at. the White House when the modern Huns began their march into Belgium--well, there would not have been any policy of '"watch- I'he big stick would have been swung. In his recent hook, "America and (the World War," Mr. Reosevelt am- plifies his attitude on the question of neutrality, and in vigorous language assails the peacemakers and all and their voices against preparations for war. As to the United States' attitude to- ward the belligerants- he takes a de- cided stand : "The kind of 'nen trality' which seeks to preserve 'peace' by timidly refusing to live up to our plighited word ".and to de- nounce and take action against such wrong as that committed in the case of Belgium," he declares, "is un- worthy of an honorable and power- ful people." A nation, he holds, should always be prepared to defend itself and to ! protect the helpless. Thus, prepara- tion for war is au necessity and a duty; unpreparedness, a crime. Great Britain's fate, he points out, would now have been the fute of Belgium if she had not possessed a first-class navy. That navy has done a thou- sand times more for her peace than all the arbitration treaties and peace treaties of the type now existing that the wit of man could invent. England's attitude in going to war® in defence of Belgium's rights, ac- cording to its guarantee, was ngt only strictly proper but represented the only kind of acticn that ever (will make a neutrality treaty or peace treaty or arbitration treaty worth the paper on which it is writ. ten. - Neither would she be honor- ably justified in making peace unless this object of her going to war was achieved. The hearty sympathy of the United States should go out to her in this attitude. The one permanvat move for taining peace, which has yet suggested with any reasonable chance of attaining its object, is by an agreement among the great powers, in which each should pledge itself not only toiabide by the decisions of a common tribunal but to back with 'force the decisions of that common tribunal. The great civil- | ized mations should combine by sol- ema agreement in'a great World | League for the Peace of Righteous- mess. Not peace alone, but peace with righteousness, > should be the aim in view. In a chapter devoted to this sub- ject Mr. Roosevelt takes a fall out of the present Wilson administra- tion. To" quote: "A policy of blood and iron is sometimes very ob- wickedy but it rarely does as much | harm, and never excites as much de | rision, as a policy of milk and water! {--and it comes: dangerously near flattery to call the foreign policy of the United States under President | Wilson and Mr. Bryan merely one of | Strength at least | i milk and water. commands reapect; whereas the prat- { tling feebleness that dares not we: | buke any concrete wrong, and whose | sheer tuity, is fit only to excite weeping among angels and | men the bitter laugh of scorn." | Self-defence is discussed at some | length in another chapter. The | nation that waits until the crisis is | upon it before taking measures for {its own safety, he declares, pays | heavy toll in the blood of its best {and its bravest and in bitter Shame {and humiliation. This war and the Skies, or fact that no neutral nation has ven- | From Sea to Sea in Italy," is anoth-# tured to make even the smallest ef- | beautiful -. Spell series of fort to alleviate or even to protest! Page Com- | 28ainst the wrongs that have been been | THE DAILY BRIIISH WHIG, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1915. Will You ous scathing criticisms of the policy of President Wilson, both as to land and naval. forces. These rather fierce atfacks suggest that the writ- er has allowed his political animosi- 3 to triumph. He also pays his npliments not infrequently to the 'professional peace prattlers, the yltrapacificists, who, with the shrill clamor of eunuchs, preach the gos-| pel of the milk and water of virtue and scream that belief in the efficacy of diluted moral mush is essential to salvation." Universal military train- ing, something resembling the Swiss tem, is advocated for the United States by Mr. Roosevelt: His sug- gestion of a world league of natious to enforce peace and justice is not at all a new one. It has much, how- ever, to commend it. While there is in this book considerable that is sound and sensible, as we should ex- pect from such a. writer, still one finds a great deal of totally unnec- essary repetition. A careful revis- ion of the contents could have com- pressed them to at least half their extent--and still omitted nothing of value. Which being interpreted means that had the book been writ- ten by some obscure author rather than by a strenuous ex-president it would pass comparatively unnoticed AMONG THE BEST BOOKS. Dr. Andrew D. White, the noted diplomat and statesman, and the first president of Cornell University, has compiled a list of the books which have given him the most profit and abiding pleasure. The. list was made at the request of the Cornell Kra for the purpose of stimulating' the interest of students at Cornell Uni- versity to good reading. Among the books which have in fluenced jie life he places first the ible. - Among the passages of the Jible which he especially recommends are the grander Psalms, the nobler portions of Isaiah, and, above all, the sixth chapter of Micah; and in the New "Testament, the utterances as- cribed to Jesus Himself, of which the Sermon on the Mount is supreme, with Saint James' definition of Fpure religion and undefiled," and Saint Paul's deseription of charity. He says that in perfection of English diction there is in the whole: range of literature nothing to surpass the story of Joseph and his brethren As to classic writers, Dr. names in Greek the more striking | | White | parts of the Iliad and. of Thueydide, | and in Latin Caesar, Virgil, and, above all, the Odes of Horace, the Agricola and Germania of Tacitus and the letters of Cicero. Ih English he names from Shake- speare's writings Hamlet, Julius Cae sar, Macbeth, Henry IV, Henry V., A Midsummer Night's Dream, and, on a lower plane, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor. From Milton he names Comus, Al- legro, Penseroso, Christmas Hymn and, above all, the Sonnets. He also recommends certain passages from Paradise Lost and from Samson Ag- onistes. From Milton's prose he re- commends Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. Aiter Milton he suggests Words- worth's Intimations "of Immortality and especially his Sonnets. Next he names Tennyson's. Memoriam. Among other English writings he suggests Sir Henry Wotton's Happy Life, Grey's Elegy, Goldsmith's Deserted Village, Burns' Cottar's Saturday Night and Tam o' Shanter, Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn, Brvant's Than- otopsis, Lowell's Massacio and his Biglow Papers. As to oratorical writings, Dr. White says that the three greatest speeches in the Fnglish language are: Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne, Burke's plea for The Conciliation of- America, and Abraham Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg. ' In "fiction he gives the foremost place to Walter Scott's Quentin Dur- ward, Ivanhoe, Guy Mannering, Peve- ril of the Peak, Rob Roy, Kenilworth, The Monastry, The Abbot, Count Ro- bert of Paris and The Talismam. In the list of modern English fic- tion he selects Thackeray's Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, and 'Henry Ks- mond; ° Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Charles Reade"s The Cloister and the Hearth; Eggleston's Hoosier School- master, Kingsley's Westward Ho, and in present fiction Kipling's books, Zangwill's Jewish novels, Countess | Arnim's Elizabeth in Her German Garden, and her other stories and two or three recent publications of W..D. Howells and Winston Church- ill. 4 The best short stories in + English Dr. White says are: Mark Twain's { Jumping Frog and Bret Harte's Luck {of Roaring Camp and Outcasts of the | Proposals for right are marked by, Poker Flat. | In French fiction he picks Victor 's-- Hunchback of Notre Dame and as the best short story Atatole {France's Crime de Sylvestre |nard. | | The most profound and penetrating | historical novel in any language he {considers Anatole France's Les Dieux | ont Soif, sre i German he picks Lessing's Na- | than the Wise, Goethe's Faust and Schiller's great plays. In the, whole realm of historical fio- tion, he says: "I w name one | rorrance. which has seemed to me ~ the J | past fifteen years have accomplished Manzoni's Promessi Sposi. | precisely and exactly nothing so far 'as any great crisis is concerned. | Military preparedness meets two | ends. In the first place, it is a | partial insurance against war. In | the next place, it is a partial guaran- Dr. White also recommends Macau- {lay's Essays, Carlyle's writi and | Sydney Smith's Essays. Eo field | of biographies he favors Stanley's Life {of Thomas Arnold and the = writings lof Goldwin Swith, and also suggests istorienl and descriptive matter is | te@ that if war comes the country 88 essay writers James Anthony Presented = vy og ihe | will certainly escape dishonor .and | Froude and Matthew Arnold. author has delved deep into Italy's only history and has also carefully ied present conditions. Its na- tural grandeur . for the descriptive writer. ¥) the | It does greatly diminish and may _In conclusion, Ligurian Riviera No phi and Sic | completely minimize the chances for | David Starr Jordan's lian Seas and thence to: the Adriatic 38 the course of the journey scribed, with many loiterngs for ex- | Suffered through unpreparedness are ance. of Ti and study along the way. Rerine life in all it a i aspects | probably escape material loss. A | fire department, which means pre- | paredness against fire, does not pre- | wholesale destruction by fire. Cons | given in proof. Throughout the book are numer. .cedure American 'published, he says, Years of Peace, by | The best short book of history recent] lis The H affords a wide field | Vent occasional destructive fires, but | Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Dr, White war ented The Human Harvest, here de- | CTete examples of nations who have | the Rev. Henry Fosdick's The Assur. i Immortality and Moor! | Storey's Leg: The Reform of ak Pro- 2 WILL REDUCE WAGES, 'Pittsburg, Pa., April 17.--Reduc- tions in wages on the hot mill depart- of all the works of the Ameri-| w an important subsidiary of the Unit- ed States Steel Corporation, was an- nounced yesterday. 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