Some League Books
SOME very useful books on the League of Nations must have this immediate brief mention. Later, we hope to give Mr. David Hunter Miller's Drafting of the Covenant (Putnam's, 2 vols., 15 dollars) the full review to which it is entitled. As Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler says in his preface, since the making of the Constitution of the United States there has been no undertaking of equal importance until the drafting of the League in 1919.
Sir Geoffrey Butler's Handbook to the League of Nations (Longmans Green. 10s. 6d.) is a reissue, with additions, and is a work no student of international affairs may neglect, An interesting account of the League, as seen by a Dominion observer, is Professor Alexander's From Paris to Locarno and After (Dent, 5s.). The appendices contain the Covenant, the Protocol, etc., and there is a sensible chapter in which the danger of expecting too much from the League in too short a time is emphasized.
That the peace of the world rests with its youth is one of those truisms which can often be repeated, for it is as frequently forgotten. Messrs. Robert Jones and S. S. Sherman have compiled The League of Nations Schoolbook (Macmillan, ls. 3d.), of which we may say, without exaggeration, that it is an invaluable and indispensable book for children who are to be educated in the modern attitude towards war. There is no mawkish " every country but my own " attitude here. (" Patriotism can be very splendid, and that is why its name is sometimes stolen to be worn as cloak on the shoulder of one of those ugly sisters, Suspicion, Greed, Hate and Fear "), but the authors keep true and sure to their purpose of advocating a sane internationalism, based on self-respect and sympathy.
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