AMONG OUR AUTHORS LIKE many Frenchmen with German names, Jules Sauerwein leans to chauvinism rather than away from it. He is one of the most distinguished of French journalists, having been foreign editor of the Temps, and is now the editor-in-chief of the Matin, one of the most widely circulated Paris dailies. Angelica Balabanoff has been prominent in the Italian Labor movement for twentyfive years. After receiving her doctorate and studying at Berlin and Leipzig, she went to Rome to study with Antonio Labriola, and there entered the Socialist movement and became one of its most eloquent speakers. She was for a time on the editorial staff of Avanti. C. F. Lehmann-Haupt is Professor of Archæology and Ancient History in the University of Innsbruck, and a leading figure in the German Philological Association. We have reason to believe that the author of Interviewing Mussolini' is as little open to the charge of being an English Fascist as the author of "Trade-Unions in Russia' to the charge of being an English Communist. If no man is a hero to his valet, an emperor is probably no demigod to his cook, and Wille Buenger clearly regards the late Kaiser from a peculiarly ironic angle. But what an exact memory he must have for culinary statistics! Or did he keep a notebook? P. V. Shkurkin is a distinguished Russian ethnologist who has spent most of his life in Eastern Siberia. On the basis of an intimate acquaintance with Chinese and Mongolian life, history, and folklore, he has written several volumes on Oriental topics. The Living Age has already published two tales from his Kitaiskia Legendy, a collection of Chinese and Central Asiatic legends. Léon Krajewski was until recently French Consul-General to the Hejaz, and is at present Honorary French Representative on the island of Corfu. He is a recognized authority on Near Eastern affairs. Cecil Roberts was for a long time better known as a poet than as a novelist, having had six separate volumes of verse and a Collected Poems to his credit. During the war he acted as a special correspondent with the Grand Fleet and the Dover Patrol, and afterward became Assistant-Director of Overseas Transport, correspondent with the Royal Air Force, and finally official correspondent on the Western Front. After the war he turned his energies to novelwriting, and produced two novels, Scissors and Sails of Sunset, which show the influence of Conrad, as might be expected, but not to the point of servility. Joan B. Proctor, F.L.S., F.Z.S., who writes about snakes with so little of the contumely obligatory to the daughters of Eve, is curator of reptiles at the Zoological Gardens in London. A generation younger than Mr. Hardy, Eden Phillpotts has done for Devonshire in his long series of Dartmoor novels — very much what Mr. Hardy has done for other parts of the West Country, and in a vein not entirely remote from Mr. Hardy's. Though he has written nothing on quite so high a plane of tragic austerity as Jude the Obscure, Mr. Phillpotts has demonstrated a versatility of treatment superior to his elder's, and is in some senses undeniably a more accomplished writer. He too is a poet as well as a novelist a dramatic poet rather than a subjective lyricist. Edouard Combe is a regular contributor of articles on music to La Semaine Littéraire and other periodicals. As a younger contemporary of men like Tennyson and Browning, Mr. Thomas Hardy no doubt finds nothing extraordinary in the fact that he continues to write verse well into his ninth decade. What differentiates him, however, from those elders of his is the fact that his poetical output is a phenomenon of his old age: it can hardly be said to be a lifelong habit, as it was with them. He is the only poet in English literature whose reputation as such was made after his sixtieth year least the only one we can remember. And how much youthful energy there is in the irony of a poem like 'A Leader of Fashion'! or at RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD Announcing "AN ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS NOVEL" THE HOUNDS OF SPRING By SYLVIA THOMPSON This novel marks, we believe, the dawn of a new reputation. It is the full expression of the interests, the passions, the exaltations of the new generation now laying hands on the levers of the world. 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Illustrated. $3.50 The Atlantic Monthly Bookshop 8 Arlington Street, Boston Have you read this Barrett Wendell and His Letters By M. A. DeWolfe Howe READE EADERS of Barrett Wendell's letters, like the readers of the letters of Walter Hines Page, know that the age of the great letter-writers is not yet over. Barrett Wendell was famous to forty classes of college men. But the letters reveal him as letters sometimes do as something more than a great teacher. Written to many sorts and conditions of men they are chiefly the records of a vivid personal life, a life which he gave freely to others. - The Outlook. Illustrated, blue cloth, gilt top The Atlantic Monthly Bookshop 8 Arlington Street, Boston (17), Mass. STUDY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CLASS-ROOM February 13, 1926 MR. BALDWIN. Why was Lord Beaverbrook in sympathy with Bonar Law as Premier? What were the views of Lord Balfour, Lloyd George, and Bonar Law on the American Debt? Give Lord Beaverbrook's version of the circumstances under which the British settled their debt to this country. TROUBLE IN MUKDEN. Locate Pekin, Tientsin, Mukden, Dairen, Port Arthur. What were the causes of the fighting around Mukden? What seem to be the aims of Japan in Manchuria? THE CRISIS OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT. What are the "two great problems of parliamentary democracy" in Europe? What new conditions have arisen that make Parliaments to-day different from Parliaments in the past? Why is Europe turning to dictatorships? UNHAPPY RUMANIA. Locate Rumania, the Dniester, Bucharest, Bessarabia. What insight does this article give you into the conditions in Rumania to-day? SMOLLETT. Give a brief account of Smollett's life. What are some of the points of resemblance that Professor Saintsbury points out between the lives of Smollett and Fielding? The purpose of these suggestions is not only to assist the teacher in adapting the Living Age to the class-room, they are also intended to show our more casual readers how readily the magazine lends itself to a systematic study of the world we live in. THE LIVING ACE VOL. 328-FEBRUARY 13, 1926-NO. 4258 THE LIVING AGE. BRINGS THE WORLD TO AMERICA A WEEK OF THE WORLD COAL THE INDUSTRIAL CRIPPLE GREAT BRITAIN is having more trouble over the coal question than the State of Pennsylvania and our anthraciteconsumers combined. Her Coal Commission, upon whose report measures to relieve the Government of the burden of its present subsidy will presumably in a measure depend, seems to be obtaining more light upon the pigheadedness of the parties to the dispute than upon the economics of the industry. Representatives of the operators argue that the whole trouble with coal-mining in Great Britain was 'the result of a deliberately planned attempt by the miners' leaders to prevent the reconstruction of the industry under private ownership.' The remedy they propose is simple and easy to comprehend - namely, that the miner shall work longer hours for lower wages than hitherto, and that lower wages shall be paid in all other industries connected with the production or distribution of coal, as for instance to the railway employees who haul it. The owners also object to the official grading of coal, of course on the ground that it will interfere with the reputation built up by private collieries, and to public control of the allotment of railway coal-cars, which is recommended in order to save the unnecessary haulage of empties and to ensure other economies in handling. Meanwhile the representatives of the mineworkers see no remedy for their ills short of nationalization, or statutory standards of employment established by government authority- and of course ultimately determined by the organized voting-power of the miners' unions and their allies at the ballot box. An English contributor residing in America points out, in an article in the Spectator, what all serious students of the question in Great Britain knew abundantly well already — that ‘nationalization and subsidization, or control directly by mine-owners or workers, would be equally unsatisfactory.' The real trouble with the British coal industry goes deeper. New fuels like oil, and other sources of power like the hydroelectric current, now compete with coal. Pulverization and scientific stoking are reducing coalconsumption in proportion to the Copyright 1926, by the Living Age Co. |