BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
MEssas. T. FISHER UNWIN tell us that in Poincare Mr. Sisley Huddleston states the case for and against the French occupa-
tion of the Ruhr so cleverly and so clearly that he should please all classes of readers. As a matter of fact, Mr. Huddles- ton has much stronger views than the publishers would like
us to believe ; he certainly shows the suavity and tact that he advises in international relations, but he allows that lie treats M. Poincare " more sympathetically than is customary to-day, either in England or in the United States." Mr, Ramsay MacDonald has reprinted his memoir of his wife, Margaret Ethel MacDonald (Allen and I7nwin), and no doubt it will now be read with heightened interest. Mr. Hilaire Belloe invades the troubled country of ceonomies, and as usual makes the problems he deals with seem very easy : Economics for Helen (Arrowsmith) he wrote for a child of sixteen, and the book will probably make many amateurs feel that they have a comprehensive knowledge of the subject. Two immense and impressive volumes for art collectors come from Messrs. Kegan Paul. Islamic Book Bindings, by F. Sarre, is printed in Germany, and German printing never seems as clean and beautiful as the best English work. In the past ten years our printers have advanced very far. Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan, by Louise Norton Brown, is printed in England, and contains forty- three very pleasant illustrations. Both books, however, limit their appeal to the serious and specialized collector.
The inexhaustible talent of Mr. Maurice Hewlett had lost none of its freshness when he died : Messrs. Heinemann send
us his Last Essays. Mr. James Agate, the loudest and liveliest of our dramatic critics, has collepted some of his weekly articles in The Contemporary Theatre, 1923 (Leonard Parsons). A volume which seems to contain much erudition very lightly borne is Social Life in Stuart England, by Mary Coate (Methuen).
It is strange that, though so many modern philosophers confess that Hegel's works have been their chief incentive in philosophical study, no single volume has been published which attempts an exposition of the whole system of Hegel, of his thought in logic, ethics, aesthetics, religion, psychology and everything else. Mr. W. T. Stace remedies this omission in The Philosophy of Hegel (Macmillan). The fourth and fifth volumes of Mr. W. S. Holdsworth's A History of English Law (Methuen) have at last appeared, and two more are projected.
TUE LITERARY EDITOR.
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