Politics
Reviving interest in the problems of war and peace has recently brought forth an elaborately documented attempt to upset the theory of German War guilt*; and the strife-pregnant though thus far peaceable post-War development of Turkey and Egypt has just been set forth by the much heeded oracle of the London Westminster Gazette.*
China and India have recently been made the subject of excellently clear, concise and interest-compelling histories,* *while a similar service has been done with judicious compression for Asia as a whole.*
Finally England and the U. S. are being diverted by an anonymous "hoax book,"* in which the late King Edward VII receives praise for his high living and higher diplomacy, and almost everyone else from Cecil Rhodes to Margot Asquith and from Lord Kitchener to Lord Northcliffe is flayed and tittle-tattled about.
6THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD WAR -- H. E. Barnes--Knopf ($4.00). 7THE CHANGING EAST -- J. A. Spender -- Stokes ($3.00). 8AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF CHINA -- Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall --Appleton ($4.00). 9India-- Sir Valentine Chirol -- Scribner's ($3.00). 10Asia -- Herbert H. Gowen -- Little, Brown ($3.50). 11THE WHISPERING GALLERY -- "An Ex-Diplomat" -- Boni & Liveright ($3.00). John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., the London publishers, have withdrawn the book and caused the arrest on a charge of fraud of one Hesketh Pearson who sold them the manuscript and assured them that it is by Sir Rennel Rodd, onetime (1908-1919) British Ambassador to Italy, who has denied writing it. Last week the Manhattan publishers refused to withdraw the U. S. edition which is proving a "best seller."