"Unquestionably the Best"

THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT: Of all the books that have come to our notice, works dealing primarily with the problem of Bagdad, Prof. Morris Jastrow's "The War and the Bagdad Railway," with its illustrative map, is unquestionably the best.

THE WAR AND THE BAGDAD RAILWAY

By MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., Ph.D., LL.D.

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Ex.-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey:

"My purpose was to congratulate you upon this excellent study and valuable contribution, to possible terms of peace.'

Prof. H. Morse Stephens, Head of the Department of History, University of California: "I regard it as one of the most valuable books that has appeared on the war.'

THE NEW REPUBLIC. "Hard to match for brevity and clearness. As an Oriental scholar, Prof. Jastrow is singularly well equipped to set forth in the light of history the conditions that have made Asia Minor such a disastrous breeder of strife, and this is, in fact, his most interesting contribution."

In the words of President Wilson, the Bagdad Railway is "the heart of the matter" of the present conflict. This is a war book of the utmost importance by an authority on Eastern civilization. It is the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict. 14 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP. CLOTH, $1.50 NET.

THE WAR AND THE COMING

PEACE

By MORRIS JASTROW, Jr., Ph.D., LL.D.

A companion volume to the author's "The War and the Bagdad Railway," which has taken its place among the valuable books called forth by the war. Prof. Jastrow in this book, carrying out the spirit of his other work and applying himself to the deeper aspects of the war, the "undercurrents," as the author puts it, shows how both the great conflict and the coming peace must be looked at from the angle of the moral issue.

The book will be found to be full of suggestion and stimulating in its thought, illuminated by the author's wide knowledge of the great movements of the world, ancient and modern.

It is written for those who wish to pass from a consideration of surface events to a deeper interpretation of the great conflict; it aims especially to provide a basis on which a structure of enduring peace can be directed.

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Restless Sex (The). By Robert W. Chambers. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.50.

A novel of New York's Washington Square and Greenwich Village, with the art and the alleged Bohemian side to the front. The title is justified by a tangle of engagements, love affairs, and marriages. There is, of course, a war connection. Thunders of Silence (The). By Irvin S. Cobb. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. 50c.

A clever bit of imaginative writing in which a disloyal, egotistical United States Senator is reduced to desperation and final suicide by a conspiracy of silence as to him and his doings and sayings by the press and people of the country.

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White. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50. Many years ago, when Charles Major wrote "When Knighthood Was in Flower," the critics laughed because, as they said, he made Queen Elizabeth talk like an Indiana country girl. But the author had the best of the laugh, for his book sold enormously, and largely because he made his people talk as if they were alive, and not stilted dummies. Probably he put modern slang and modern locutions purposely into his sixteenth-century characters' mouths. Certainly Mr. White in his fascinating story of old Rome purposely makes Emperor, Vestal Virgins, slaves, and every one else talk like the people you see at movies or meet on the railway. It is a bit surprising, when the Vestal Brinnaria saves the life of a gladiator in the Colosseum by turning down her thumb, to be told that the audience roared at her, "Good for you, Sis," or to hear the Emperor of Rome say, "When I took this emperor job," and remark that he is getting pretty tired of "emperoring." But for once we have a story of classical days over which we do not go to sleep. The same is true, of course, of "Quo Vadis," but that remarkable book is far less unconventional than this.

Mr. White's "El Supremo" was prodigiously long and full of minute detail, and yet it was curiously fascinating. This story is not prolix, and it is full of startling and stirring incidents. We get closer to social, every-day life in Rome than anywhere except in some of the Latin comedies, which not many people read—and for good reasons! Our idea of a Vestal Virgin as a sort of solemn nun is dissipated when we find Brinnaria running stock farms, driving fast horses, attending luxurious feasts, and acquiring enormous wealth. to say nothing of thrashing a high priest. At the end of her thirty years' service she marries the man who has waited for her

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Lemuel Shaw. Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1830-1860. By Frederic Hathaway Chase. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

Justice Shaw was one of the group of great figures that made the courts of Massachusetts notable in the first half of the last century. Among these were Webster, Choate, Story, Jeremiah Mason, R. H. Dana, and Caleb Cushing. He was a peer of these men and well worthy of the dignified appreciation which he receives in this book, his first adequate biography. The frontispiece portrait shows him to be a man of great power, but gives point to Choate's toast: "The Chief Justice. We contemplate him as the East Indian does his woodenheaded idol-he knows that he is ugly but he feels that he is great."

Irish Memories. By E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. $4.20.

Every one who enjoyed the humor of "Some Experiences of an Irish R. M." some twenty years ago will be glad to have this book of memories and glimpses of Irish country life, chiefly by Miss Somerville. Her account of her friendship and collaboration with Miss Martin (Martin Ross) and the tribute to her memory are not the least valuable part of the book.

POETRY

Toward the Gulf. By Edgar Lee Masters. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.50. Some of these poems are melodramatic and some deal more quietly with men and women's motives and actions in a direct, searching way. The form of several recalls Mr. Masters's strangely effective "Spoon River Anthology."

ESSAYS AND CRITICISM Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays. By Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S. Longmans, Green & Co., New York. $2.50.

Whitman and Traubel. By William English Walling. Egmont H. Arens, 17 West Eighth St., New York. $1.

Comments on and quotations from the work both of Whitman and of one of his biographers who has adopted Whitman's literary style. The work of the pupil is, as judged from these excerpts, like that of most pupils of great men-a disappointing reflection of genius.

WAR BOOKS

A. E. F. (The). With General Pershing and the American Forces. By Heywood Broun. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.50.

Lively sketches of the doings of our soldiers in France. They will amuse people who want to read about the bright side of war-if there is any.

Book of Artemas (The). Concerning men, and the things that men did do, at the time when there was war. The George H. Doran Company, New York. 50c.

This book talks about the war in the phraseology of the Scripture chronicles. This is an old device and one that never struck us as really humorous. But the book has had, it is said, an enormous circulation in England.

Escape of a Princess Pat (The). By George Pearson. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.40.

A story of life at the front, among the Huns, and of escape from captivity, that is so absorbing in its interest that the reader is compelled to finish it at a single sitting. Among the accounts of personal adventure brought out by the great war it is one of the most thrilling. Unlike many of these

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Comrades in Courage

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Cavalry of the Clouds

by Captain Alan Bott, M.C.

One of the true and lasting "Personal experiences" of the war. A message from the new race of men-the flying fighters. The beginning of the new literature of the air. Net. $1.25

Blown in by the Draft by Frazier Hunt

Breezy, unconventional camp yarns that tell the story of how the undigested ingredients of a wonderful melting pot were fused and unified into a National Army. Net. $1.25

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narratives, it ends happily, which is a pleasant thing in a war book.

Battering the Boche. By Preston Gibson. Illustrated. The Century Company, New York. $1.

This war narrative is noteworthy in that it describes the new methods of fighting clearly in addition to the relation of exciting personal experiences.

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Ladies From Hell." By R. Douglas Pinkerton. Illustrated. The Century Company, New York. $1.50.

The title is the singular nickname given the kilted soldiers of the famous London Scottish Regiment. The author was one of the "Ladies," and fought at the Marne, before Lille, and elsewhere. He tells his thrilling story with animation in a series of graphic pen pictures.

Over There" with the Australians. By Captain R. Hugh Knyvett. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.50.

Only a day or two after Captain Knyvett's book appeared he died in this country of disease incurred in the exposure incident to war. He was a gallant soldier and a man of high ideals. This book is the first to tell in a popular way of the camp life and the fighting of Australia's soldiers at Gallipoli and on the Somme front. It is eminently readable, and is already recognized as one of the best of popular war books.

To Bagdad with the British. By Arthur Tillotson Clark. Illustrated. D. Appleton &

Co., New York. $1.50.

There has been no better war correspondence than that of Mr. Clark from the Mesopotamian front. Those who read in the daily press his letters from and beyond Bagdad will want to read them again. The story of Mesopotamia and the British early failures and final success is romantic and thrilling. We take off our hat to Tommy Atkins and the Y. M. C. A. in the East.

MISCELLANEOUS

Art of Photoplay Making (The). By Victor Oscar Freeburg, Ph.D. Illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.

A thoughtful consideration of the subject which will interest both the serious devotees of the movies and the people who make the photoplays or who think they would like to make them.

Film Folk. By Rob Wagner. Illustrated. The Century Company, New York. $2.

Mr. Wagner has known the "movie game" from its start onward. He tells here not so much of the "stunt" side as of the human side-directors, camera men, actors and actresses, their training, methods, and whims. The book is emphatically readable. The scene is Los Angeles, where the movie world most centers.

Foster on Auction. A Complete Exposition of the Latest Developments of Modern Auction. By R. F. Foster. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2.

Every auction player knows that Foster is an authority and an expert. His exposition of good and bad bidding with illustrative hands is especially illuminating. If it is worth while to play cards at all, it is worth while to get at least some inkling of the real science and skill. There is as much difference between an expert like Foster and a novice as in chess there would be between Morphy and a beginner. Real Business of Living (The). By James H. Tufts. Henry Holt & Co., New York. The title scarcely brings out the thoroughly practical character of this book. While the author is Professor of Philosophy in the University of Chicago, he has in this

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Romance of Commerce (The). By H. Gordon Selfridge. Illustrated. The John Lane Company, New York. $3.

Although the author is the head of a great department store in London, there is in this book but little of his personality as such a head. It deals largely with the formal history of commerce and its great figures. In the last chapter, however, the methods of the "big stores" are well described. There are many fine illustrations.

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Comment and suggestions are invited.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND
FREIGHT CONGESTION
T is costing the manufacturers of this
country hundreds of millions of dollars
in goods and the workingmen millions
of dollars in wages to learn that our
transportation facilities cannot be stretched
indefinitely and still permit shippers and
consignees to follow their own individual
interests regarding the handling and deliv-
ery of goods in transit.

The chaotic condition in which we find our railways to-day-the fact that freight lines, express companies, and mail routes are swamped-is not due to severe weather conditions and the coal shortage alone, and a mere return of mild weather will not entirely remedy matters. This condition is due to a clogging of distribution channels -the laying up of cars which should be in transit, congestion at railway terminals. It will not be cured until some practical means is found to keep these channels clear and to route freight through the terminals rather than to them.

Under present conditions freight is delivered to the railway by the shipper, whose responsibility then ceases. This freight is transported by the railway to its destination, and is then held at the terminal until called for by the consignee. It may lie in the railway warehouse for a day, two days, or a week, and in the meantime additional freight is pouring in and overtaxing warehouse facilities. Cars cannot be unloaded, and must in turn serve as warehouses, thus bringing about a car shortage. Thus the whole railway system becomes congested; delivery of goods is delayed or entirely stopped, and the industrial welfare of the entire country is imperiled. Our business men must heed the general call from the Federal Government for help in this matter, which has now become extremely serious.

Railways have always delivered less-thancar-load freight to their own freight platform and let the individual consignee or an expressman call there for it. The National express companies, like Adams, American, Wells Fargo, etc., have their own express platforms, where their goods are classified immediately upon being unloaded from the express car and are transferred into their own trucks, which take them either to distributing stations or directly out on certain routes.

There is no more reason why freight should be stopped at the terminal than that express or mail should be stopped at the terminal; it is perfectly practicable to organize freight distribution beyond the terminal by means of regular motor truck delivery routes, and this could be effected to great advantage to all concerned.

Consider for a moment what would happen if Uncle Sam refused to deliver any mail in any first-class city. The post office building would have to be materially increased in size and would be obliged to have quite as many employees as now, if not

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more. Probably ninety per cent of the families in that city would have to send their representatives to the post office. They would use street cars and other public conveyances. Think of the trouble and cost and the extra tax on street-car lines and public service facilities. The cost to the Government on account of congestion would be considerably more than at present, and in all probability it would be

unable to handle the mail at two cents an ounce, or, now, three cents. Undoubtedly the cost to all concerned would be enormously increased. And any move on the Government's part in this direction would meet with public disfavor. Nevertheless that is the way railway freights are handled to-day. And they are handled that way simply because that is the way it has always been done and because the transportation and terminal facilities have been considerably more than adequate to take care of normal business.

Of course before the Government took control of the railways there might have been certain practical objections to an ex

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tension of their prerogatives; public sentiment probably would have been opposed to their undertaking to deliver even less-thancar-load freight to the consignee's door; but now any objections based upon the idea of private monopoly are dissipated, at least for the duration of the war, because of Government control.

From the practical standpoint, it is obvious that the Government has no organization to take over this work immediately, but it is so important from the country's standpoint that any movement on the part of manufacturers' associations, instituted to relieve the conditions, would be perfectly proper and would undoubtedly find government authorities, both Federal and civic, more than ready to co-operate.

While this plan has been promulgated by one of the leading truck manufacturers of the country, who has made a particular study of highway delivery, it is interesting to note that not only wasa similar plan in operation in the city of Baltimore for some years, but that this general method of freight delivery has been in operation in England,