things against him," he admits in his preface. "but I feel obliged to say emphatically that I never doubted his love for his country. I saw not in bad intention, but in a lack of understanding and in great political inexperience, the cause of his actions." In October, 1917, a commission was appointed to investigate the whole "Kornilov affair." Kerensky was the principal witness, and his book is nothing more than a stenographic report of his testimony, with later additions, comments, and explanations. Although it is merely an ex parte statement of his own case, it is entitled to fair consideration; but it should be read in connection with General Kornilov's orders, telegrams, and appeals, and with Robert Wilton's chapter on "Kornilov and the Cossacks." 1 In November, 1917, less than a month after Kerensky gave in the Winter Palace the testimony that he has now published, the Provisional Government was overthrown by Lenine and Trotsky and the Premier went into hiding. General Kornilov, who had vainly urged Kerensky to take severe repressive measures against the Bolsheviki long before this catastrophe occurred, made his way to southeastern Russia, where a few months later he was killed while fighting at the head of the Cossacks against Trotsky's Red Guard. The view taken by the Bolsheviki of Kerensky's attitude toward them and toward Kornilov was well expressed by Lenine, who, after he had come into power, said, rather contemptuously: "Kerensky is not a man of character, resolution, or force. He knew that General Kornilov was his friend, yet he ordered his arrest; he knew that Trotsky was his enemy, yet he let him alone." THE NEW BOOKS RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY Book About the English Bible (A). By Latest Evidence as to Communication with the Dead. By James H. Hyslop, Ph.D., LL.D. The Century Company, New York. Christian Approach to Islam (The). By James L. Barton, LL.D. Illustrated. The This book is of high importance for the reconstruction of international relations on an enduring basis. Dr. Barton, a Christian scholar and a statesman also, is doubly qualified by long experience to speak with authority on a thorny problem. He exhibits Islam historically as the militant religion of Mohammed bent on dominating the world, tracing its growth to imperial greatness and its decline to its present collapse as a government, but still strong as a religion held by one-seventh of the world's population. Next, approaching Islam critically, its merits and defects are impartially appraised, its common grounds with Christianity, its inadequacy when tested by life, and the consequent dissatisfaction of many Mohammedans, their revolts and ineffectual attempts at reformation. Concurrently with this disintegration a change of attitude toward Christianity is exhibited, auspicious for a constructive approach to Islam. Here Dr. Barton sets forth the difficulties to be overcome both in Islam and in Christendom, the concessions required in mere 1 See "The Birth of the Russian Democracy," by A. J. Sack, Chapter XV, and Russia's Agony,' by Robert Wilton, Chapter XXIV. matters of form, and the simplicity with which, avoiding points of controversy, the Gospel, in the life and teachings of Jesus, must be presented as fulfilling man's highest aspirations. In this way of approach to Islam he outlines a programme of evangelization and a reorganization for conquest by standardized and specialized missionary work. HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Armenians in America (The). By M. Vartan Malcom. Introduction by Hon. James W. Gerard. Illustrated. The Pilgrim Press, Boston. Commercial Policy in War Time and After. A Study of the Application of Democratic Ideas to International Commercial Relations. By William Smith Culbertson, Introduction by Henry C. Emery. Problems of War and Reconstruction. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Developing Executive Ability. By Enoch Burton Gowin. The Ronald Press Company, New York. German Empire (The), 1867-1914, and the Unity Movement. By William Harbutt Dawson. 2 vols. The Macmillan Company, New York. League of Nations Covenant (The). Edited by Samuel McCune Lindsay. Published by the Academy of Political Science, Columbia University, New York. A series of addresses and papers presented at the National Conference held under the auspices of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, June 5, 1919, discussing the new international obligations of the United States under the proposed Covenant of the League of Nations. The papers included in this volume are contributions from Senator Pittman, Dwight W. Morrow, George Wharton Pepper, George W. Wickersham, Abram I. Elkus, and ten others. Modern Japan: Social-Industrial-Political. By Amos S. Hershey and Susanne W. Hershey. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Politics of Industry (The). By Glenn Frank. The Century Company, New York. Reconstructing America: Our Next Big Job. Edited by Edwin Wildman. Illustrated. The Page Company, Boston. POETRY New Voices. By Marguerite Wilkinson. The Macmillan Company, New York. Poems and Prose (The). By Ernest Dowson. (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.) Boni & Liveright, New York. This convenient edition of Dowson's poems and prose has for an Introduction Arthur Symons's discriminating study of that poet and his works. Treasury of War Poetry (A). British and American Poems of the World War. 1914- WAR BOOKS Canada at War, 1914-1918. A Record of History of the Great War (A). By Bertram Story of the American Legion (The). By George Seay Wheat. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. This is a clear and eminently readable exposition of the history, the purpose, and ideals of the American Legion. It tells of the first inception of the idea among the A. E. F. and of its development to include all those who wore the American uniform during the great war. It should prove of great interest to any man who wore either gold or silver chevrons during the war. Throttled. By Inspector Thomas J. Tunney, as told to Paul Merrick Hollister. Illustrated. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. Inspector Tunney was head of the "bomb squad" of the New York Police. Exceedingly interesting is his account of German plots and their detection from 1914 on. Other than bomb activities are described; for instance, secret codes and how they were deciphered. The narrative is decidedly worth reading. Under the Bolshevik Reign of Terror. By Rhoda Power. McBride, Nast & Co., Ltd., New York. Way of the Eagle (The). By Major Charles J. Biddle. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. With the Yankee Division in France. By Frank P. Sibley. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Americans will more clearly realize what John Drinkwater has achieved with the London public if they imagine somebody putting on a play about the Crimean War at some unknown derelict theater round about Two Hundred and Fiftieth Street, and drawing all New York to Two Hundred and Fiftieth Street. The figure of Abraham Lincoln as shadowed forth by the author of this play is one of tremendous dignity and restrained power and in the main it is a figure recognizable as true by American readers. Mr. Drinkwater says of his play: I am an Englishman, and not a citizen of the great country that gave Lincoln birth. I have, therefore, written as an Englishman, making no attempt to achieve a "local color" of which I have no experience, or to speak in an idiom to which I have not been bred. To have done otherwise, as I am sure any American friends that this play may have the good fortune to make will allow, would have been to treat a great subject with levity. Mr. Drinkwater has, perhaps wisely, not attempted to write in the American idiom. But for those more familiar with our Civil War period than the average Londoner the introduction of an English housemaid into Lincoln's Springfield home and the introduction into the White House of the crudely drawn figure of William Custis, a Negro who talks very much after the fashion of a comic-opera Indian, does in some measure destroy the dramatic illusion which the author has sought to create. The fact that the play has been so successful in London affords an interesting comment upon the growing closeness of the relationship between England and the United States. It is also proof of the inherent worth of Mr. Drinkwater's conception. MISCELLANEOUS Alaska: Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity. By Agnes Rush Burr. Illustrated. The Page Company, Boston. Few people can read this book and look at its pictures without feeling a fervent desire to visit our wonderful Territory. The work is brightly written and contains a mine of information about the scenic, geographical, and commercial characteristics of Alaska. AN ANNOUNCEMENT to those interested in WITH the beginning of the curriculum year in September The Outlook will print a series of articles which, the editors believe, will be of vital importance to all those interested in the teaching of Civics throughout the United States. These articles-twenty or more, as they develop—will cover and parallel the new course in Community Civics recently arranged by the Department of Education of the City of New York as a requirement in High School study. The course itself, bearing the title of "The Government of New York City with State and Federal Relationships," approaches the teaching of Civics from an entirely new angle. The purpose of the course is not merely the imparting of information but the building of citizenship. Its primary aim is to make the pupil understand that he or she actually is a citizen, no matter what his or her age may be, and to inculcate through the means of practical illustrations the idea that the government belongs to the people and that good government depends fundamentally upon the individual's comprehension of this fact. The articles which will appear in The Outlook will follow the syllabus prepared by the Department of Education of the City of New York, and will be written in the main, if not entirely, by the teachers most conversant with the various topics to be taken up. The series will be begun with an introductory article by Dr. John L. Tildsley, Associate Superintendent in charge of New York City High Schools, outlining and explaining the aim, scope, and practical operation of the new course. The articles in The Outlook will be so arranged that every instructor or teacher of Civics in the United States may keep in close touch with the New York City High School Course through the use of The Outlook alone. It is the object of the editors to make The Outlook an authoritative, useful, and practical text-book upon this great subject which now, more than ever before, is of such importance in our National education. We must make our citizens intelligent citizens—and it is the sincere belief of The Outlook that this new High School course developed in New York City marks the most notable advance toward this end that has been made in the American Public School System in many years. OF CONSEQUENCE the teaching of Civics This is the list of subjects to be covered in the New York City High School Course in City Government with State and Federal Relationships." The Outlook will print authoritative articles by representative teachers of the New York High Schools covering this course and paralleling it, with an introductory article by Frank A. Rexford, in charge of Community Civics for the New York Department of Education. 1. Introductory and Explana- 2. The City's Water Supply 4. Protecting the Food of the 5. Clothing: A Subject of 6. Regulation of Buildings 8. Public Education 9. Public Regulation of Work 10. Public Provision for Recreation 11. Communication and Trans portation 12. Lighting and Heating as 13. Disposal of City Wastes 16. Care of the City's Wards 20. Paying the City's Bills An explanatory pamphlet containing an announcement of this course together with a summary of practical suggestions for the use of The Outlook in the teaching of Current History, Civics, English, and Rhetoric-a complete manual of instruction-will be mailed upon request to any instructor or teacher in the United States. This pamphlet also contains an announcement and explanation of The Outlook's special class-room rates. In writing for it, please give your school address. There is no charge and there is no obligation. Simply drop a line of inquiry to The Educational Director The Outlook Company 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City WEEKLY OUTLINE STUDY OF BY J. MADISON GATHANY, A.M. HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IN Based on The Outlook of August 27, 1919 Each week an Outline Study of Current History based on the preceding number of The Outlook will be printed for the benefit of current events classes, debating clubs, teachers of history and of English, and the like, and for use in the home and by such individual readers as may desire suggestions in the serious study of current history.-THE EDITORS. [Those who are using the weekly outline should not attempt to cover the whole of an outline in any one lesson or study. Assign for one lesson selected questions, one or two propositions for discussion, and only such words as are found in the material assigned. Or distribute selected questions among different members of the class or group and have them report their findings to all when assembled. Then have all discuss the questions together.] I-INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS A. Topic: The Mexican Situation. 1. What is the present Mexican situation both from a National and an international point of view? 2. Discuss whether the American Government should pay the ransom money demanded by the Mexican bandits. 3. Did Captain Matlack do right in escaping with the two American aviators after he had paid only half the sum demanded? Give reasons. 4. Tell somewhat at length what you think The Outlook means by saying that "the incident supplies its own commentary." 5. State and discuss what you consider the attitude of President Carranza toward the United States to be. 6. Find out all the facts you can about Carranza. Has the United States recognized him as the head of the de facto Mexican Government? If so, when? Would you recognize such a man as Carranza as the head of a Government in the twentieth century? Discuss. 7. What would it mean for the Government at Washington "to adopt a radical change in its policy with regard to Mexico"? Describe Mr. Wilson's policy toward Mexico since he became President. 8. Tell, with reasons, whether you approve of his policy. 9. Is it the duty of the United States to protect its own citizens wherever they may be? Is it true that "every failure on the part of our Government to protect its own nationals is simply an invitation to the Mexicans to go on killing Americans"? Give several reasons. 10. Discuss whether it is the duty of the United States to establish a stable government in Mexico? What would such a step by our Government involve? 11. What, in your opinion, is the basic trouble with Mexico and the Mexicans? B. Topic: England at Peace. Reference Pages 636, 637. Questions: 1. What impressions of England at peace do you get from reading this article by Mr. Nichols? 2. Make several comparisons between the effect of the great war upon England and its effect upon the United States. 3. The main theme of his article Mr. Nichols tells us is "an English-speaking fellowship." How much do you prize the friendship between America and Great Britain? Discuss whether there is any other country whose friendship the United States should prize more. Name a dozen or fifteen democratic contributions England has made to America. 4. Write up a brief account of the story of liberty and self-government in England. Estimate the world-wide importance of this story. 5. Explain how, in your opinion, still closer relations between Britain, America, and the English-speaking peoples as a whole can be maintained. 6. Discuss to what extent the future of civilization depends upon mutual kindly feelings among the English-speaking peoples. 7. You cannot afford to be ignorant of the contents of the following books: "British-American Discords and Concords," by the History Circle (Putnams); "Imperial England," by Lovell and Payne (Macmillan); "Explaining the Britishers," by F. W. Wile (Doran); "The EnglishSpeaking Peoples," by G. L. Beer (Macmillan). II-NATIONAL AFFAIRS Topic: A Significant Prophecy. 1. What, in your opinion, are the most significant sentences in the paragraph The Outlook quotes from Professor Schmidt, found on page 631? Say a few things about each one of the sentences you select. 2. The Outlook is sure that "the autocracy of the mob is proved to be as fatal to the community as the autocracy of kings," but it does not cite instances. Can you? 3. Explain why "the rule of the majority does not make a democracy." Had you thought that such rule did make a democracy? 4. In the course of civilization several different types of government have been tried and finally rejected. Do you think it possible likewise that democracy will be forced to give way to some other system of government? Reasons. 5. Discuss whether any other system of government could be productive of better results to mankind. 6. Do some of the interpreting The Outlook, in the last paragraph of this editorial, suggests ought to be done. III-PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION (These propositions are suggested directly or indirectly by the subject-matter of The Outlook, but not discussed in it.) 1. Military intervention in Mexico is the duty of the United States. 2. Great Britain is more democratic than the United States. 3. America is an industrial democracy. IV-VOCABULARY BUILDING (All of the following words and expressions are found in The Outlook for August 27, 1919. Both before and after looking them up in the dictionary or elsewhere, give their meaning in your own words. The figures in parentheses refer to pages on which the words may be found.) 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