SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.]
Peacemakers—Blessed and Otherwise. By Ida M. Tarbell. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.)—Miss Tarbell, one of the ablest of American journalists, has reprinted the articles which she wrote week by week on the Washington Conference of last winter. Her vivid impressions of a, memorable assembly are well worth reading. She gives warm praise to Mr. Hughes, Lord Balfour and Baron Kato, and she deals very sympathetic- ally with the French delegates, whose difficulties, she thinks, did not at first receive sufficient attention. In her account of the sitting at which Mr. Lodge produced the four-Power Pacific Treaty she remarks whimsically : " All I could see was the United States climbing into the League of Nations through the pantry window, while Senator Lodge held up the sash," and adds, " But it was a fine climb for the United States ! " Miss Tarbell concludes by affirming that nothing is impossible in the way of removing international differences if there is good will, such as was shown by all parties at Washington.
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