This book is not one of them; it deals specifically with the first phase of the War—from the murder of the Austrian Archduke to the fall of Antwerp. It traces the course of the different armies—English, German, French, Austrian, and Belgian—in language at once simple, clear, and vigorous; shows you what moves they have made and why they have made them; by what plan of campaign each hoped to achieve success and what the measure of that success has been. There are numerous simple maps specially prepared to make clearer the military operations.
Frank H. Simonds’ editorial comments on the War, as they have appeared in The New York Evening Sun, have attracted nation-wide attention. No one has better succeeded in showing people what the fighting is all about. Here is his book. The publisher hopes to follow it later with other volumes dealing with succeeding phases of the War.
DRIFT AND MASTERY
AN ATTEMPT TO DIAGNOSE THE CURRENT UNREST
AT ALL
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By WALTER LIPPMANN
Author of “A Preface to Politics”
This is a book at once comprehensive, shrewd, vigorous, searching, and interesting—with always a saving humor. In the course of sixteen chapters, Mr. Lippmann discusses practically all the more important problems of our political, social, and economic life, and the factors that have brought about that curious unrest everywhere so noticeable.
In one paper he shows that we are accustomed to methods in business that we would not for a moment tolerate in politics. In another he submits Woodrow Wilson to an analysis that seems to get under the man’s very skin. He analyzes proposed panaceas for our ills (as well as the ills themselves) and show why they won’t work. In “A Note on the Woman’s Movement” he explains with crystal clearness what it is all about.
But Mr. Lippmann is a great deal more than a brilliant iconoclast—he deals not only with the signs and cause of the present unrest, but with the order which is emerging from it.