This volume is a revision of the book issued in 1913 with the title “Europe.” It has been revised and partly rewritten to conform to changes growing out of the war. New chapters have been added on: Ireland and the linen industry; The brave little country of Belgium; Finland and Lapland; The country of Poland, and The countries of the Balkan peninsula.
Booklist 17:79 N ’20
ALLEN, STEPHEN HALEY. International relations. *$5 Princeton univ. press 327
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“The reader will find here in outline the ancient and modern conceptions of a nation, and especially a clear statement of what has been done to regulate international intercourse by conventions, efforts to prevent war by arbitration and mediation and to mitigate the barbarities of war when it does come. Included in the volume are the documents representing the important general conventions that were in force at the outbreak of the great war, and in conclusion the peace treaty itself and the constitution of the League of nations are presented.”—R of Rs
Booklist 17:8 O ’20 + R of Rs 61:669 Je ’20 120w
ALLISON, WILLIAM. My kingdom for a horse! *$8 Dutton
“The recollections of one who has had so varied a career as Mr William Allison cannot fail to be interesting. His pages cover a great variety of ground, life in Yorkshire in the middle of the last century, Rugby in the ‘sixties, Balliol in the ‘seventies, the bar, horse racing, and the selling of blood stock, breeding of fox terriers, political and society journalism, editorship, and special commissionership in the Sportsman—a multitude of memories, in fine, with fluctuations of fortune to give a savour to the whole.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup