Common Sense

The following books, economically, politically, historically or biographically related to Foreign News, have recently been published in the U. S.:

Common Sense

PEACE AND GOODWILL IN INDUSTRY-- Stanley Baldwin--Dial Press ($.75). In this small book are three of Premier Baldwin's recent speeches on industrial questions. They not long ago created much favorable comment as marking the divergence of "social" Conservatism from "Imperial" (or imperious) Conservatism; as being oratorical efforts of high merit and, lastly, as injecting undemagogic appeal and simple common sense into the field of politics.

Vaticination

THE LOST DOMINION--"Al Carthill" --Putnam ($3.50). Under the title of this book, a florid classicist--an Indian civil servant--whose pseudonym does not hide the fact that at the best he came from Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions.

An Arctic Isle

THE ADVENTURE OF WRANGEL ISLAND -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Macmillan ($6.00). Wrangel was an explorer; and an Arctic island off Siberia, according to Mr. Stefansson, was named after him by U. S. Whaling Captain Thomas Long.* This book, highly entertaining, contains accounts of several visits made to the Island and ends with uncertainty as to which country owns it --Russia, Britain or the U. S. Mr. Stefansson, who in 1914 took Wrangel Island for the British and later offered it to the U. S., seems, according to Russian advice, to have been beaten by the Bolsheviki. More certainly, nobody-- except the aerophile scientists--believes that Wrangel Island is of any value.

Yellow Peril

THE CHALLENGE OF ASIA--Stanley Rice--Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity--a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow as an equal or of fighting him.

* It is popularly asserted that Baron Wrangel discovered the island.