BOOKS BRIEFLY
BOOKS BRIEFLY Ethics in Government, by Paul H. Douglas (Harvard. 114 pp. $2.25). A small book, in which the Illinois Senator comes to the conclusion that there is no real safeguard against...
...Willkie, by Joseph Barnes (Simon and Schuster...
...426 pp...
...This is the way a contemporary biography should be written...
...This Is Chicago, by Albert Hal-per (Holt, 489 pp...
...The World of Eli Whitney, by Jeannette Misky and Allan Nevins (Macmillan...
...After these insights, the articles on Mexico seem dated and fragile...
...346 pp...
...Highly recommended...
...Patrick Campbell: their correspondence...
...We have in this volume a unique and invaluable commentary on the literary life of the American twenties, as well as a private witness to the sensibility of its most gifted young poet...
...Campbell did not equal Ellen Terry in perception and intelligence...
...Few books have so graphically demonstrated the basic split within the Republican Party between the old guard isolationists and the growing liberal-internationalist wing...
...406 pp...
...The "terrible century" has taught us that is not so, but in our preoccupation with ideological conflict we should not forget how much the civic reformers have accomplished...
...His approach is to survey the hitherto neglected six decades between the Crimean War and World War I. He concludes that decisive for the Bolshevik triumph in 1917 was the interplay of two factors...
...350 pp...
...Neither emotional nor unduly academic, The Decline of Imperial Russia is the outstanding general survey to date of one of the most tantalizing questions of modern history...
...A half century ago many people thought all democracy's problems could be solved by improving governmental machinery...
...Tender and coarse, neurotic and sympathetic, selfless and self-centered, Crane made a painful and at times almost mystical effort to come to terms with himself and his world...
...The book is divided into the three sections of "critical," "personal," and "Mexican" writings, and they are presented in an appropriate order of importance...
...His techniques of mass production, applied originally to the manufacture of muskets, helped the North to win the war and prepared the way for the large-scale industry of the present...
...To a large extent this led to his defeat in 1940 and his failure to capture party support in 1944...
...For example, one learns that the much-publicized report of the American Bar Association against the draft international covenant on human rights was filed by a committee of only seven members, while another ABA body of 500 has written a more open-minded report on that covenant...
...Knopf...
...Campbell that, unlike the Shaw-Ellen Terry letters, these are not literature...
...213 pp...
...They do not equal the other volume, as Mrs...
...Chicago, it would seem, is more a place where things happen than a spot where beauty is created...
...405 pp...
...The cuts of lengthy cases have not excluded the humorous but only the dull or repetitious portions...
...The true idea of God," wrote Hart Crane, "is the only thing that can give you happiness—and that is the identification of yourself with all of life...
...Childs, a leader in the long struggle, describes the victories—like short ballot and council-manager government-—and the objectives...
...Documents on Fundamental Human Rights, pamphlet 3, edited by Zechariah Chafee Jr...
...Their work seems less vital than the pieces about events and persons of the city, especially the eyewitness accounts of the Chicago massacre, the great Chicago fire, or the Haymarket anarchists...
...But they remain a fascinating and dramatic account of a love affair between unequals...
...With almost no dull family history, Barnes plunges into the three most interesting phases of the late Wendell Willkie's career, of the TVA-Commonwealth and Southern fight, the 1940 campaign, and the "One World" issue which led to Willkie's eventual withdrawal from the 1944 Presidential campaign...
...Whitney's cotton gin fastened cotton and slavery upon the South and so led to the Civil War...
...A valuable source book...
...5.75...
...Civic Victories, by Richard S. Childs (Harper...
...Though not adequately relating the man to his "world," this fascinating biography gives—largely in his own words— the best and fullest account of his life and achievements...
...The Days Before, by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt, Brace...
...If his letters deal more with personal maladjustment than with achieved happiness, they nonetheless record a steady aesthetic growth, with its ecstasies as well as frustrations, and a superbly disinterested critical intelligence...
...The creative writers mainly represent a brief, hectic period when Chicago was a genuine literary center...
...These were wartime military reverses and the Czars' clinging to autocracy despite Russia's unmistakable political and economic progress...
...Shaw labelled this correspondence accurately when he wrote to Mrs...
...There may, however, be some dispute with his unstated assumption that money is always the root of governmental corruption...
...The Decline of Imperial Russia, 1855-1914, by Hugh Seton-Watson (Praeger...
...A small book, in which the Illinois Senator comes to the conclusion that there is no real safeguard against unethical conduct by legislators and administrators except their own consciences (Don't accept that first bottle of Scotch...
...385 pp...
...And it is always valuable to read Shaw's conscientious discussions of the problems of play-writing and the business of the theater...
...Barnes writes with great fluidity...
...The note on collateral reading which precedes each section gives spare but incisive comments...
...Their consciences are likely to bear more than a little resemblance to the community conscience, including that of business...
...124 pp...
...3.50...
...In her appreciation of Willa Cather and Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, her dissection of Gertrude Stein, and her comments on the craft of writing, she writes with quiet, light authority...
...An answer is attempted here by the University of London's professor of Russian history...
...Charters, constitutions, statutes, and court cases from the time of Charles I to the United Nations are edited so that a non-lawyer can understand legal materials...
...Douglas makes a number of suggestions, most of them apparently practical, for action to reduce the temptations of those who govern...
...His knowledge of Willkie and the growth of his personality and convictions is extensive...
...Willkie could never sell his brand of political medicine to the party regulars...
...The Letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932, edited by Brom Weber...
...An optimistic, good-humored book...
...Was Communism avoidable in Russia...
...In an admirable collection of her non-fiction pieces written over a 30-year span, Miss Porter shines in her judgment and taste, her rejections and affirmations...
...On a subject often noted for the high emotional content of discussions it provokes, Chafee has provided an imaginative selection of documents to nail down basic facts...
...Bernard Shaw and Mrs...
...This fine collection of poems, short stories, memoirs, and reports presents an understanding account of a real and exciting city...
...7.50...
...Hermitage House...
Vol. 17 • March 1953 • No. 3
