“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia, and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.
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“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S. Gorman
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“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in ‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”
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HILL, DAVID JAYNE. American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1
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As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters, which are reprinted from the North American Review are: Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League; The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s “points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is indexed.