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HE REAL FRONT by Arthur Hunt Chute the only book about the war that tells of the iden things-the things our soldiers dream out-the thoughts they fear-the visions they e in moments of danger. Out of the mud and mire of Flanders-out of e winter's cold and rain-out of shell-swept enches-out of holes in the ground where men e amidst smoke and blood-out of all this woe d hardship comes the voice of the common dier-and Captain Chute has heard him ging! Because he knows and loves the common soler-because his sympathy has won for him the Hendship of the men whose lives ring with high Aventure, he has made a book of great spiritual eauty-of real insight into the souls of men. Get it to-day at your bookseller's. It is one the few really great books that the war has $1.50 ven us. Emergency Course for Industrial Secretaries in L Y. W. C. A.'s ECTURES on the present industrial situation among women will be given at the National Training School-September 6 to 27-to be followed by assigned practice work in industrial centers. Address: SECRETARIAL DEPARTMENT, 600 LEXINGTON AVENUE, Telephone:-Plaza 47000 Full graduate courses for 1918-1919 open September 11 EVERY INTELLIGENT AND TRULY PROGRESSIVE Fundamental Laws (1) The Law of Unity and Cure of Disease WHY?-Because they are the Foundation upon which a new and true Science of Healing and Natural Living has been built-which YOU can apply. The operation of these basic Laws in their relation to Health and Disease was discovered by Dr. Lindlahr-a genius of the present age. The operation of these Laws is fully explained in the wonderful book. "Nature Cure Philosophy" --MAIL THIS COUPON- NATURE CURE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 525 South Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. Gentlemen:-With no obligation on my part to keep it, send me a copy of your 438 Page Book-Nature Cure. If at the end of five days I decide to keep it, I will send you $2.15; otherwise I will ask you to tell me where to send it. Name Address.. ....... GIRLS' CLUBS: Their Organization and Management By HELEN J. FERRIS With an Introduction by JANE DEETER RIPPIN. Net, $2.00 "What have other workers with girls found successful?" This is the question which confronts every leader of girls. The answer may be found in this book on Girls' Club work. Six years ago Miss Ferris started upon her work of organizing girls' clubs among girls of a large store. "What shall I do in my clubs? What would help me?" These questions confronted her constantly. To other leaders of experience she turned for help. To many workers with girls she wentworkers in large business houses, settlements, churches, schools, libraries and Y. W. C. A. All gladly co-operated in passing along" good ideas. From this experience of many workers with girls the material has been gathered and has been centered in a definite, practical way. MUNICIPAL HOUSE CLEANING By WM. PARR CAPES and JEANNE D. CARPENTER Introduction by HON. CORNELIUS F. BURNES. Net, $6.00 War accentuates-city waste problems-conservation and economy are supplanting loose methods and wastefulness in all municipal activities. No field offers greater opportunity for wartime economy and efficiency than the collection and removal of municipal waste ashes, sewage, garbage, rubbish, and street refuse. To eliminate guesswork and assist both the citizen and the city official in the solution of these problems "Municipal House-Cleaning" embraces in a small compass a fund of authoritative information about waste problems which the author has collected as Director of the New York State Bureau of Municipal Information. By ALISSA FRANC USE YOUR GOVERNMENT Net, $2.00 With an Introduction by ADELAIDE R. HASSE, Chief of the Economics Division, N. Y. Public Library. Dr. Frank Crane, in the N. Y. Globe, says: "The Government of the United States is not paternal, but it is fraternal. It can be of much more help to each one of us if we understand its activities better. In no country of the world and at no time in history has any nation undertaken more seriously and more efficiently the problem of assisting the individuals who compose it. The Government of the United States is of immense practical help to the people. This book goes at the matter in a concise and intelligible way." MAN'S SUPREME INHERITANCE By F. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER With an Introductory Word by Professor JOHN DEWEY, of Columbia University. Net, $2.00 In this book, which for its original and convincing argument and width of scope must arrest the attention of every thinking man and woman, the author claims that it is only by the extended use of the CONSCIOUS INTELLIGENCE that the human race can enter upon its SUPREME INHERITANCE. He concludes a brilliant analysis of the fundamental conditions of human evolution by the contention that the time has now arrived for man to renounce the supposedly infallible guidance of instinct and to replace it by the CONSCIOUS GUIDANCE AND CONTROL of the ENTIRE HUMAN ORGANISM, if he is to survive and adapt his life to the momentous changes of our ever-advancing civilization. MAIDS, WIVES AND WIDOWS The Law of the Land and of the Various States as It Affects Women By ROSE FALLS BRES Net, $2.00 With an Introductory Note by MARY WOOD, Chairman of the Legislative Department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States. N. Y. Tribune Says: "A singularly lucid and comprehensive conspectus of all the legislation in question, sufficiently detailed to serve the layman's needs and sufficiently suggestive to be of directing value to the professional reader. To our mind, every woman should systematically study law, as she does the three 'R's'; and to the multitude who have not done so, as well as to those who have, this volume will be a veritable treasure." By HELEN MAROT CREATIVE IMPULSE IN INDUSTRY Net, $1.50 Professor JOHN DEWEY of Columbia says: "It is a forceful and vivid presentation of a point of view with respect to education which is as novel as it is illuminating." How is the industrial efficiency necessary to America after the war to be produced and maintained without Prussianizing the workers? This is the question which Miss Marot answers in this forward-looking and stimulating book. She shows that productive force really depends (among free workers) on satisfaction of the creative impulsive, and that this impulse in the worker must be recognized and educated. Creative Impulse in Industry is the result of a survey of conditions specially made by the author for the Bureau of Educational Experiments, and is heartily endorsed by that body. By ERNEST J. P. BENN THE TRADE OF TO-MORROW Net, $1.50 A powerful argument, by one of England's soundest trade economists, for the definite admission of Labor to a place in the Constitution, and its organization upon a representative basis. The author offers a sane solution for some of our most confused industrial problems, and at the same time shows the way to a settlement of the difficulties of decentralization and devolution after the War. BRITAIN AFTER THE PEACE: Revolution or Reconstruction By BROUGHAM VILLIERS, author of "The Socialistic Movement in England, etc." Net, $2.50 It is here argued that the problem of reconstruction after the war is essentially a revolutionary one, in the sense that it implies the making of fundamental changes in a rapid manner instead of by the slower methods of reform and evolution. To attempt to show how this revolution may be carried out in a peaceful way, "in due form of law," avoiding violence, is the purpose of this work, which deals in a vigorous and independent way with the problems of demobilization, industrial control, taxation, agricultural reform and small holdings, the probable effects of the war in foreign countries, the foreign policy of the future and the reaction of European politics on British problems. The book sets forth no Utopian schemes, but is a sane effort at constructive imagination, and will be welcomed as an important contribution to the discussion of the Problems of the Peace. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 681 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK quills of the Mathers, the Cottons, the Sewells, judges, divines, college presidents and all the narrow, vivid, homogeneous community whose stamp was to bite so deep into the consciousness of these United States. But so long as our ideas about Puritanism are derived from the memories of the manners and morals of the small towns of the Middle West since the Civil War, from their ideas of Sunday observance, of theatre-going, of the-things-thatmustn't-be-talked-about, so long as we fail to grasp any of the springs of thought and action of the genuine Puritan, we are not going to be able to criticize him intelligently. Therefore the importance of Miss Hanscom's carefully edited book of extracts from diaries, letters, sermons and chronicles of Puritan life, from the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony till well past Jonathan Edwards. One will find perhaps that the reason why the Puritans burned witches is not so simple a problem in Freud as Walter Lippmann jauntily suggests. And one will find a lot of other things which will fill him with an uncomfortable sense that the Puritans weren't such a different kind of animal as he thinks. The wooings of Samuel, Judge Sewell, the Reverend Cotton Mather's struggle between romance and duty, or rather between scandal and respectability, that same Cotton Mather's blindness in his persecution of the witches only a few years before he dared disgrace and death to introduce inoculation into plague-stricken Boston, Jonathan Edwards expelled by his congregation because his doctrine of predestination was too hard for them, the same old intrigue and struggle against the "ring" ruling Harvard College, Cotton Mather's conception of a Montessori system tempered by religion for his children's education, and the eternal rebellion of the mob against the authority of king and church-it is not such a different world from the one we live in. People who do know something about the Puritans will want Miss Hanscom's book. Fragmentary as it is, it does give a bird's-eye view of Puritan ideals and character which is illuminating. But those people do not need it half as much as the writers, young and old, who try to build critical outposts against the age-old siege of the Puritan legions, yet have no straw wherewith to make their bricks, nothing but traditions, surmises and guesses as to what Puritanism is. Will some good conservative kindly buy up the edition for free distribution among our serious young writers under thirty-five who have never read anything American earlier than Henry James? It would be a profitable investment for a conservative. For, above all, the book shows that our forefathers had an intenseness about things which makes our intenseness seem half-hearted and indecisive. Which is probably the reason why our young moderns have not, as yet, ridden the Puritan spirit out of town on its appointed rail. It is far too alive and kicking. R. E. R. Contributors ELIZABETH SHEPLEY SERGEANT-A graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Author of French Perspectives. She has been in France for several months and is contributing a series of articles to the New Republic. STARK YOUNG-Professor of English at Amherst College. Author of Addio Madretta and other plays. LYDIA C. HEARD-Is a pseudonym. LEWIS MAYERS-A graduate of Wisconsin and Columbia Universities. Was formerly engaged in organization and civil service work with the New York City government, and was connected with the Institute for Government Research at Washington. H. G. WELLS. S. K. RATCLIFFE-A well-known London journalist and lecturer, now in this country. The English representative of the New Republic. Formerly editor of the Statesman, Calcutta. INSTITUTE of MUSICAL ART of the City of New York An endowed school. Frank Damrosch, Director. Provides a thorough and comprehensive musical education in all branches and equipped to give highest advantages to most exceptional talents. Address SECRETARY, 120 Claremont Avenue, New York City This is from the latest notice of Joseph Hergesheimer's work to come to my attention: "A new man has appeared on the literary horizon, one who is destined to go far, and, unless I miss my guess, to take his place among the great short story writers of the world. His short stories are so remarkable, that I am hoping that he will continue in this medium, although he has written several able novels.* He is not the usual slipshod American writer using careless English, but a careful, delicate craftsman that somehow has caught the ability to express himself magnificently. The name of this fortunate genius is Joseph Hergesheimer. Mr. Hergesheimer's latest book-Gold and Iron ' should be read by every short story lover in England and America. Its three stories are exquisitely written and intensely interesting, a rare and delightful combination. This new man has the art of long short story telling, and combines the New World freshness with the Old World technique." -The Graphic. Make your Dollars As a nation we've not been a saving people-we've lived up to the last cent. We've felt a pride in the luxuries of our table, our establishment, our manners of life. Then came the war and its merciless demands to give. 91 93 94 Editorial Notes... Leading Editorials Revolution and Dogma... Realpolitik in Business. Bureaucracy in the Making. General Articles American Commanders for the Army. Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant 97 A 109 P. L. 111 .F. H. 112 Robert H. Lowie 113 Edith Franklin Wyatt 114 MERICAN troops have not been conspicuous in the fighting of the past week, and the reason probably is that the smaller bodies which were cooperating with the British and French armies are being withdrawn and consolidated with larger American units. The net fighting experience of the American army up to date is pretty well summarized by Miss Elizabeth Sergeant in another page of this issue. American soldiers do better when they are brigaded with other American soldiers and are commanded by American officers. General Pershing is, consequently, organizing the first great American army which will just as far as possible conduct its own operations under the command of its own officers. It will be a long time before this army will be completely organized, equipped and munitioned, but in the meanwhile it will not be quiescent. Some time within the next six weeks this American army is likely to prepare for its work of next summer by starting an offensive on its own hook. By that time the French and British striking power will be waning and it will be up to the American army to carry on the work. Number 199 If the American army does attack on its own hook the sector selected for the American offensive is very likely to be situated somewhere east of Rheims. T took one hundred and thirty-three days to try one hundred and ten I. W. W.'s in Chicago. It took a jury of their peers sixty-five minutes to convict them of obstructing the American government in its conduct of the war. These facts give the best indication of the meaning of this extraordinary incident in the history of American law. Although the I. W. W.'s have had not only one but a good many days in court, their counsel was unable to convince the jury of their right to carry on a class conflict during war at the expense of American national success. The verdict embodies the feeling of an overwhelming majority of the American people, and is another proof of the enormous efficacy of the means which a democratic community, alarmed for the integrity of its national life, can employ in order to vindicate that integrity. Let revolutionary agitators take notice. The temper of public opinion has undergone a radical change since America's entrance into the war. will not brook opposition to the government which arises from enmity to the constituted social order in this country, and which advocates the use of violence in order to overthrow that order. The pugnacity of this feeling at the present time is the result in part of laxity in the past and in part of the threat which existed at the outbreak of the war of the collapse of American national unity under the strain of fighting so costly a war in Europe. It required a violent effort of the national will to pull the country together. |