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Professor Hart presents an unusually broadminded, impartial treatment of great issues in this new book for secondary schools. Its study cannot fail to inspire the right ideals and foster patriotism.
Emphasis is laid on the social and economic development of the nation rather than upon its wars. Balance, clearness, vividness and human interest are strong characteristics of this book.
Lewis and Hosic's Practical
This book emphasizes English for work instead of English for leisure. By constantly providing material which makes English a live part of the student's life, it succeeds in doing away with self-consciousness and artificiality. In its thorough teaching of construction it leads the pupil to organize his ideas. He quickly understands what he is to do, how he is to do it and he is made to feel that it is worth doing. The result is therefore efficiency.
Méras' Le Premier Livre and Le Second Livre Each of these books is an elementary grammar and reader combined, presenting the work for a single half-year of high school. All the work in reading, grammar, conversation, and composition is based on two delightful stories, Sans Famille and Tour du Monde en Onat Vingts Jours. In both books a truly Frenc mosphere is created and French is provided that is natural, attractive and interesting.
Bolenius's Everyday English
The way in which this book combines originality with practicality, and comprehensiveness with conciseness is most unusual. Its thorough organization and its wealth of material make. the teacher's work easy. It definitely stresses clearness and order, and interweaves English work with all the activities of the school.
Oral composition is one of the chief features of the book and is preceded by work in getting information. Throughout, the pupil is taught, first, how to think; then, how to express himself.
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
A HEADLONG RETREAT. The ill-starred Austrian offensive on the Italian front ended in a headlong retreat. The impetuous attacks of the Italians rendered untenable the positions which the Austrians had taken They were in their first advance. forced to evacuate the Montello plateau, and were driven back from the Piave river, western bank of the which they had incautiously crossed, in full expectation of making their The way to the Venetian plains. sudden rise in the Piave river under heavy rains and the destruction of nearly all of the bridges which they had thrown across, made their hasty exit imperative, and they fled in such haste that they left large supplies of guns and stores behind them. Fortyfive thousand prisoners were taken by the Italians, and the total losses of the Austrians are estimated at 180,000.
AMERICANS "OVER THE TOP."
fighting for seven hours hand to hand
It was just a year ago on June 26 that the first division of the American army landed in France and was received, with rapturous
for service. Those who are assigned
GERMANY'S "WAR AIMS." The world has grown somewhat weary of shifting official German statements of war aims and policies, couched in ambiguous terms and leading nowhere. The latest is that made by the German Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann, in a speech to the Reichstag on June 24. From this it appears that the chief culprit in the beginning and forcing of the war was not Great Britain-as usually charged by the Germans-but Russia, aided and abetted however by France and England. As to Belgium, Von Kuehlmann declined to give any promises or make any concessions, because they would not be binding on the enemy. The positive desires of Germany and her allies are "a free, strong, independent existence, within the boundaries drawn for us by history, overseas possessions corresponding to our greatness and wealth, the freedom of the sea, carrying our trade to all parts of the world." Von Kuehlmann modof estly disclaimed any intention world domination, based his hopes of complete German victory on the German position on the battlefields and her "enormous military resources," and described the idea of victory for the Entente as a dream, an illusion. Von Kuehlmann's statement only strengthens the conviction that there can be no world peace until Germany is completely beaten on the battlefield.
TURKEY AND THE UNITED
The average American finds it hard
tions of enthusiasm by the French
WHY THERE ARE NO AIRCRAFT.
revised by Americans, who, in their
A TROOPSHIP SUNK.
The latest exploit of the German submarine raiders off the Atlantic coast is the sinking of a British transport, which was under charter by the United States and had been used for conveying troops to the other side. Happily, the ship was westward bound, and there were no troops on board. Of the crew of 148, sixtyseven are missing. The torpedoing occurred about 700 miles east of the Delaware capes. The submarine was not seen until a torpedo had struck the ship. Afterwards she rose to the surface and fired nineteen shells into the sinking vessel. Nothing had been heard of the operations of the submarines for four days before the torpedoing of this ship, and it is uncer-tain whether this attack was the work of a homeward bound U-boat, or of to re-enone that was on its way force those previously sent. One result of the U-boat raids which the Germans could not have anticipated has been a great boom in the recruiting for the American naval service. In the first week in June 14,400 men were enrolled in the naval reserve broke alone-a number which second records-and in the there were 12,308 recruits.
A WISE DELAY. The British Government has reached the wise decision to postpone for the present both the question of home rule for Ireland and that of conscription in Ireland. It has thereby exposed itself criticism from both sides, but it can well afford to face that rather than force to the front, at this critical stage in the war, questions which must inevitably create bitter dissension. Any re-enforcement of British arms which might be secured by drafts in Ireland would be more than offset by the necessity of maintaining in Ireland a military force strong enough to put down inevitable revolt, and the home rule question, with the attendant problem of the government of Ulster, may well than wait for quieter times these, since it already has waited so long. It is not impossible that the measures which have been taken to stimulate voluntary recruiting in Ireland may make both questions less acute than they are now.
We can better appreciate why we should now buy only the things we need when we stop to think that in the past the supply of labor and materials has been chiefly consumed by ordinary civilian needs while now a large proportion of it must be devoted to the needs of the army and navy. It is self-evident that the labor and materials, the supply of which is limited, now used by the Government cannot be used also for unnecessary civilian wants.
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