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to strengthen that group towards a final triumph will be most helpful to China, to America, and to the world. I do not mean interference. That would do more harm than good. I mean strategically directed sympathy. I take it that there is no doubt that China is going to break away from foreign interference; the whole country, as well as all factions, are a unit on that. The simple question is whether China is going to be American or Russian. The real right wing Nationalists seem to be imbued with the best American ideals. They appear to be Lincoln men to the core.

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HE Japanese representatives at the Conference brought word that the Japanese people still feel keenly about the manner of their exclusion from America by the Congress of the United States, but they have no wish to emphasize further at this time the issue between two friendly nations. They admit fully the sovereign right of every nation to determine who shall live within its boundaries, and they declare that they would never think of going to war over such an issue. But it was possible still to detect a wistful desire that friendly the America might find a formula consonant

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with the dignity and equality of races. In other words, they believe that Root and Roosevelt understood the psychology of international courtesy as they understand it; they believe that Lodge had no appreciation of it. There is a faithful missionary whom I know in a city in a far western Japanese province, eight hours by rail from a white face. She is widely known in that community for her distinctive service to Japanese young men and women. When the blow le of discriminating indignity, as Japan views it, fell on that nation in 1924, the newspapers of this provincial city refused even to comment upon it because, as it was learned afterwards, they felt that it might injure the feelings of this American woman, who had done so much for their sons and daughters, if hostile comment were made upon the new American Immigration Law. It is difficult for our hard-boiled politicians and diplomats to appreciate that there is a nation in the world with so sensitive a psychology of courtesy.

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A vital problem in Japan to-day is the pressure of population upon the means of subsistence. Where is their necessarily mounting food supply to come from, and how by their own industry will they pay for it? They have a difficult rôle to play with China. They need

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STILL believe that America can do more good outside the League of Nations than inside. Britain runs the League of Nations and runs it pretty well, but, standing outside as we do, Britain is not likely to go far in the major matters of the world without our moral support and the prospect of our financial and economic backing. She indicates it in her about-face with China when we refused to follow with the second identic note about Nanking not long ago, but if we were inside the League, and our armed forces and financial resources were morally pledged to the League, I am not so sure that our influence would be as great as it now is.

Nevertheless I am constantly coming upon evidence of the good that the League of Nations is doing throughout the world. West and south of Hawaii, in the South Seas, are great groups of islands the Micronesian, the Polynesian, and the Melanesian. With the eye of the League of Nations upon them, important Governments have supervision important Governments have supervision of these island groups under what are called mandatory powers. For example, the Japanese supervise in Micronesia, the Australians in New Guinea and Papua, the New Zealanders in western Samoa. The South Seas peoples seem to be of different qualitative gradations of human stock, the Melanesians being reckoned more primitive and less susceptible to high development than the Polynesians. The Maoris of New Zealand are Polynesians; so are are our

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wards, the Hawaiians. The Polynesians have a sunny, care-free nature, and are capable of advanced intellectual development.

Civilized musical man has made out of their strains of melody some of the most beautiful songs of the world, as witness "The King Serenade," and the haunting "Aloha," "Old Plantation," and "The Song of the Islands."

When the whites found these South Sea Islanders, they were making their own clothes from bark; their chief industry was the taking of fish, which they dived for and snared in the coral reef waters. They had root crops, and their storehouses were of no use save for one year. As they had no need for permanent storehouses, they had no conception. of wealth accumulated for the long future. They were warlike, particularly the Maoris. They kept up their physique by the martial dance. The Maoris, for example, lived on hills in order to be on the watch for their foes, and their natural sanitation and health were protected thereby. The earlier inroads of the

white trader and the missionary were not an unmixed good. The trader brought whisky and venereal disease and gunpowder. The missionary of the middle period, not the great pioneers, taught the natives to be ashamed of their past, and from the beginning preached the end of intertribal wars. With the close of armed conflict, the tribesmen moved down from the hills into the low, swampy ground, and, not understanding the principles of sanitation and hygiene, they were decimated by typhoid and measles. They began to buy cheap prints for their clothing and canned food at the stores. Their initiative was gone, their spirit was broken. Some peoples have faded out, others have adapted themselves to new conditions and are now increasing in population under far better management -economic, social, and religious. Choking Western civilization down the throats of the natives of the South Seas is giving way to a development and a culture. based more truly upon a study of the psychology, the native institutions, the anthropology, of these primitive peoples.

Particularly is it true that the new mandatory powers under the League of Nations no longer look upon the inhabitants as goods and chattels. The first thought is now of the people rather than of economic exploitation of the resources. The mandatory governments must account every year to the League of Nations, which has no direct authority to enforce its will, but in such matters controls the public opinion of the world.

Mr. Davenport's next and final article on the Institute of Pacific Relations will appear next week

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THE MYSTERY AT LOVERS' CAVE. thony Berkeley. Simon & Schuster, New York. $2.

This novel, with a not too clever title, heads our list this week, and takes precedence over some books by more celebrated writers-some books which most critics would find more "significant," and far more important. It is one of that great flood of detective novels (this one comes from England) which is perpetually swelling the stream. It begins with a murder, and it makes the common mistake of letting the murdered person (both of the murdered persons) be so worthless as to leave no regrets behind. Why do the novelists spoil our interest in the detection of a crime by this frequent blunder?

This has the usual newspaper man, and the Scotland Yard (but not the usual Scotland Yard) detective. It has humor, and is not pretentious. Its merits are that it is constantly entertaining, and its tamest pages are in the middle, and not at the end. The climax is legitimate surprise. In fact, its solution is one which we have often wished to see employed. Only once, and in a novel by A. E. W. Mason, has a novelist had so much originality. In some respects the thing is even better managed than by Mr. Mason. "The Mystery at Lovers' Cave" is cordially recommended for a long railroad journey or for two evenings' enjoyment.

The George H. $2.

MEANWHILE. By H. G. Wells. Doran Company, New York. This is classified as a novel merely because the author says it is a novel. It would be almost as correct to label it "Sociology" and add "and pretty dull at that." Mr. Wells's book of last year, "William Clissold," was long and discursive-an autobiographical treatise of a man and his opinions. It wandered all around Robin Hood's barn. But it had the great merit of being readable.

This book, "Meanwhile," is much briefer -one short volume, instead of two long ones. In it there is a little about a house party of some English folk in Italy. Mostly, however, it is a pamphlet to allow Mr. Wells to tell his opinions about the general strike in England, and especially to sing his hymns of hate against Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Baldwin. Some parts of it are devoted to the price of coal, and look almost like a statistical table. To sell it as fiction comes close to a violation of the pure food law and the regulations about honest labels.

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BLUE VOYAGE. By Conrad Aiken. Scribner's Sons, New York. $2.50. This strange book is one of the legacies of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and is written under the influence of that ponderous farrago, which has so impressed many writers. It is the record of a man's voyage across the Atlantic on an ocean steamer, his love affairs en route, and his impressions and conversations with other passengers. Only those skilled in the method of Joyce will be able to determine which are conversations, which are thoughts, which are thoughts about conversations, and which are thoughts about thoughts. All of the oldfashioned guide-posts, such as "said he" or "Miss Fitch replied," are omitted. The oldfashioned reader of novels will put it down as 65 per cent lunacy; the more modern and (self-styled) sophisticated reader will find much to delight, fascinate, and perplex him. Undoubtedly it is often interesting; undoubtedly it is sometimes a bore; un

doubtedly (except in the eyes of the ver old-fashioned) the method occasionall justifies itself-just as cubism, in painting dres for certain subjects. Emancipated a the author tries to be, he is under the sam old restrictions and has to conform t many of the same old rules of his grand fathers. The climax is that of "Don Juan. Like many other ultra-modern production: it occasionally flirts with indecency, an seems to out-Cabell Cabell and out-Vechte Van Vechten in getting unprintable thing into print. If Mr. Aiken prides himsel upon this, however, he must make haj now. He will probably be beaten at th game inside of six months.

THE MURDER AT CROME HOUSE. By G. D. H and Margaret Cole. The Macmillan Company New York. $2.

It is a little hard to work up interes about a murder which is a year old wher the novel begins. When, moreover, ther has already been a trial and an acquittal When, in addition, the murdered man is a rascal who should have been murdered The authors of "The Murder at Crome House" do their best against all these selfimposed handicaps. In the end, as it seems to us, they fall short of success. DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN.

By W. L. River $2.

Simon & Schuster, New York. "What's the 'Death of a Young Man about?" said the girl.

"Oh, it's too wonderful!" said the other girl. "It's the diary, or impressions, of a young man who has only got a year to live. All about his thoughts, you know. So modern! It's wonderful!"

"Is there any story to it? Any plot?" said the old man.

"No, no. How reactionary you are! Modern novels don't have plots. Just thoughts, you know. What he thought about Spinoza and Neet-she and about love-and life. So much more modern, you know."

"I see," said the old man. "And so much less trouble to write."

WOLF SONG. By Harvey Fergusson.

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Knopf, New York. $2. Primitive and brutal were the "mountain men" of our Southwest eighty years ago. In what is now New Mexico a restless Tennessee lad, Sam Lash, grew into manhood among trappers, hunters, Indians, and Spanish-Americans. He was as wild as the worst; orgies of feasting, drinking, women, and fighting followed months spent in killing beaver-every well-to-do American then wore a real beaver hat. If the readers expect to find Sam and his fellows talking with genteel reticence, they will get a severe shock. Morally these chaps are naked and unashamed. Sam's life had one gorgeous romance, but his Spanish maiden. stolen away Lochinvar style, gets Sam into the toils of matrimony, church, and ranch. It seems almost a pity! The tale has passion and is as vivid as a scarlet hibiscus. WITCH WOOD. By John Buchan.

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Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.50. John Buchan is one of the best tellers of tales among the modern Scottish writers. "Witch Wood" is no exception. When we find a young Scottish minister, in the days of Montrose and Charles I, faced with sacrifices to Satan, and worse, among his own flock and with his leading elder as bell-wether of the devilish clan, we get the nucleus of a situation bound to breed tragedy. The evil is ancient, and the worship centers around a Roman altar to the evil gods, which has stood in the dark "Witch

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Wood" of Woodilee from Cæsar's day. The elder who leads the devilish cohort reasons that his orthodox salvation is perfectly sure, anyway, because he believes in predestination and knows that he is saved, so he can worship both God and Satan with impunity!

The romance has not only originality, but vigor, character depiction, and a moving love story. It is only fair to warn readers that they may at first find impediments in the not too easy Scottish words and phrases and in the assumption that readers do not need to have the theological and political situation explained to them. will amply repay them to have a little patience; as the story possesses them-and it certainly will-they will forget all that.

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THE BACCHANTE. By Robert Hichens. The Cosmopolitan Book Company, New York. $2.50.

This otherwise excellent novel has a fatal rift in its psychology. The reader simply declines to accept Valentine Morris's alleged dual nature as at once sense-driven and of a fine and strong cultivation. She asserts it, and the author asserts it; but one just doesn't believe it. As an actress she has the power and subtle charm of a Duse; but after having made one great success in a delicately wrought part she descends to a vulgar, clap-trap play, because of her physical longing for a brainless, handsome actor whose mistress she had been long before. This was, we believe, her only dereliction from moral conduct. But, after she has discarded this worthless chap, she continues to be so distressed by her lower sensual nature that in the end she goes into a convent, instead of marrying a thoroughly high-minded dramatist who has been instrumental in bringing about her artistic fame-and chiefly, one gathers, because his legs are too short! There is really little of the "bacchante" about Valentine, and what there is the author is responsible for, rather than her true nature. The dual motif simply doesn't jibe. In its description of theater life, and especially of the production side, the novel is extremely interesting.

LOVER'S STAFF. By Sibell Vansittart. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.50. "Hope is a lover's staff," says Shakespeare, but there were times when for charming Nancy Bowring and the faithful Cosmo Standish of Miss Vansittart's novel the staff came near to breaking under the pressure of despair. Their story is interesting and so are they, but it is Mary Grant, homely, brusque, common-sensible, and loyal, who is much the most likable person in the book. A girl would-be golf champion for confidant and a shell-shocked major for hero certainly strike a sufficiently modern note; nevertheless there is something rather agreeably suggestive of the old-fashioned Victorian love story in this English tale where caste, county families, social upstarts, scheming mammas, petty scandals, and a happy ending figure in a manner which may well prove, if only by present contrast, as acceptable as of old. MISS BROWN OF X. Y. O. By E. Phillips Oppenhelm. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $2. There are two errors in the technique of mystery tales into which seasoned and competent writers of that variety of fiction sometimes fall. One is to take their work not seriously enough, so that a good plot is set forth with so little care to make the human puppets credible that the resentful reader finds the illusion spoiled; the other is to take it too seriously. It is into this latter error that the able and experienced Mr. Oppenheim not unfrequently slips, and it is especially in evidence in "Miss Brown of X. Y. O." The mousy little stenographer with an unsuspected capacity for hairraising adventure and desperate devotion is an appealing heroine, and the story

opens with a good situation, promising more thrills to come. They do, to some extent, but their intensity is sadly diluted by an excess of international complications, mysterious committees, labor troubles, and parliamentary problems and procedures, even to the peroration of an address in the House of Commons. And then the absurd Prime Minister Marabels, a dim British shadow of Mussolini! The solemn pseudoimportance of it all becomes positively annoying. As an ingenious background, kept properly subordinated, for a tale of action Mr. Oppenheim's impossible political situations are all very well; thrust into the foreground and elaborately argued about, they are a bore. Nevertheless, even though the last half of the book is much inferior to the first, whoever begins it is not likely to lay it down unfinished.

THE WIND THAT WOULDN'T BLOW. By Arthur Bowie Chrisman. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2.50.

Mr. Chrisman's sixteen Chinese stories, humorous, flavorous, and quaint, wrought from his own delightful fancy and the ancient story stuff of "the Merry Middle Kingdom," are, as he states on the titlepage, designed for children and himself. Himself, he certainly has a right to enjoy them; indeed, if he had not done so as he wrote they could scarcely possess the delicious offhand, bubbling simplicity and spontaneity which constitute so large a part of their charm. As to the children, of course nobody will grudge them their share, and to read the book aloud to a responsive child can but increase a grownup's enjoyment; but that is no reason why unfortunate grown-ups with no child handy, even the most sedate and settled of bachelors and spinsters, should feel themselves warned off. Not at all. Let them buy, read, and chuckle. All readers will cnjoy also the charming illustrations in silhouette by Else Hasselriis which add greatly to the attraction of a volume in every way attractive.

Humor

HEAVENLY DISCOURSE. By Charles Erskine Scott Wood. The Vanguard Press, New York. 50c.

These are dialogues in heaven. Their humor is mingled with biting satire, and their irreverence toward the old theology would make them seem shocking to many modern readers. Dayton, Tennessee, would find them blasphemous, but the monks of the Middle Ages, who performed the old mystery plays, would disagree. As these dialogues appeared in "The Masses," they have something of the snobbery of that paper, which presupposes that if God and the souls of the great dead could speak to us, it would be to say that the political crotchets of "The Masses" are 100 per cent pure and wise. There's no such bigot as the professional liberal.

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A New Biography

By Shirley Jackson Case

The newspapers say, "blasphemous," "silly," and "heretical." The Christian Century says: "not the Jesus of the stained glass window, but the Jesus who lived and walked with men."

The thoughtful reader will find it a straight-forward, stimulating account of the real Jesus of history. $3.00

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ing, piracy, cannibalism, and assorted deviltry in the South Seas-in the "old days," before the writers of fiction had spoiled it all. The descriptions of anthropophagiastic feasts are not to be recommended as an appetizer. Say Messrs. Payson & Clarke, the publishers, "It is a sea-romance that bears the undeniable impress of truth." Maybe, to Messrs. Payson & Clarke. We wouldn't doubt that Captain Raabe had these adventures, but it seems that he must have hired some literary feller to fix them up. And, in the interests of science, if there are any United States marines stationed near Jersey City, we suggest that the tales be tried on them.

Education

EIGHT O'CLOCK CHAPEL. By Cornelius Howard Patton and Walter Taylor Field. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $3.50.

A charming book for college men, or others with college interests. It is about the New England colleges of the 1880's, and will perhaps be enjoyed best by those whose memories go back thirty or forty years. Anecdotes of the best-known and best-loved professors; chapters on college religion, student life, and athletics.

Books for Children

THE BOY'S BOOK OF EXPERIMENTS. By A.
Frederick Collins. The Thomas Y. Crowell
$2.
Company, New York.

This is intended to show boys and young men how to perform experiments that test and prove principles of time and force as related to mechanics, heat, sound, light, electricity, the radio, and other applications of those principles. It offers a chance for individual work and might well supplement school and even college instruction. EMILY'S QUEST. By L. M. Montgomery. The

Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $2. Having carried Anne (her of Green Gables) through a most successful series of girls' books, the Canadian author is now doing the same for Emily. A story that is quiet and gay in turn and that leads its young girl readers to the verge of love is pretty sure to be acceptable.

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INNER WORLD OF CHILDHOOD. Study in Analytical Psychology. By Fran G. Wickes. Introduction by Carl G. Jur D. Appleton & Co., New York. $3. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOUTH. By Edg James Swift. A New Edition of "Youth a the Race." Charles Scribner's Sons. N York. $2.50.

The great number of books on sociolo and the great number on psychology especially child psychology-which are b ing published must be appearing in r sponse to a demand. The publishers a not doing it for exercise. The books child psychology-like these two-are oft conscientious, sensible books, whose thors have not surrendered unconditional to the most extreme of the Freudian do trines. But the flood of books on the su ject is making each addition seem rath repetitious.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MENTAL DISO DERS. By Abraham Myerson, M.D. T Macmillan Company, New York. $1.40. Here is a psychologist who can wri clearly and simply. This is a brief bod on the mental disorders, on psychiatry, an upon the doctrines of Freud, his opponent his devotees, and his apostates.

He explains, briefly and with apparer fairness, the strength and weakness Freud, whose teachings, he says, are no understood by one in ten thousand of th folk who glibly repeat his terminology The German neurologists, writes Dr. Mye son, for the most part reject Freud; th French almost totally do the same; while small but very eloquent group of Englis and American neuro-psychiatrists const tute the bulk of his followers.

"These men and women are in the mai an honest, cultured, exceedingly, almos painfully, earnest group, seeking to cur the sick and to advance knowledge. Bu in the periphery of the Freudian movemen is a host of the half-baked, seeking the new sensation, and avidly swallowing the eroti phases of psychoanalysis, and there is th inevitable army of the partly respectabl seeking to exploit the half-baked."

Politics and Government

THE OUTLAWRY OF WAR. A Constructive Pol icy for World Peace. By Charles Clayto Morrison, with a Foreword by John Dewey Willett, Clark & Colby, Chicago. $3.

Dr. Morrison, who is editor of the "Chris tian Century," puts himself behind Senato Borah's resolutions to outlaw war, stil lying unacted upon in the United State Senate, and uses Mr. S. O. Levinson's draf of a proposed international treaty as a basis for proceeding to unite the people of the world against appeals to arms. H points out that the people have never been consulted about engaging in war. States men and rulers have always proceeded without regard to the popular will. Dr Morrison would have a real world court to deal with provocative problems, such as Mr. Levinson proposes. He sees "a world court adjudicating disputes between nations by the application of law which the nations recognize themselves as law." This, of course, depends upon international willingness-something yet to be brought Such a plan would not be one of about. arbitration but of positive jurisdiction, with a world code that could be enforced. Dr. Morrison observes that "a world court without a world code is not a real court." When such a code is ratified, and not until then, he holds, war will be finally outlawed. The nations, it is needless to say, must

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Miscellaneous

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TRISTRAM SHANDY. By Laurence Sterne. troduction by Wilbur L. Cross. THE TESTAMENTS OF FRANCOIS VILLON. Translated by John Heron Lepper. THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO. Introduction by Manuel Komroff. THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO. Selections from the Translation of Benjamin Jowett. Edited by William Chase Greene. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE. By BrillatSavarin. Preface by Frank Crowninshield. A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. By Laurence Sterne. All published in the "Black and Gold Library" by Boni & Liveright, New York. $3.50 each.

These books form part of the "Black and Gold Library," so named from the bindings. With other works, classic and other important books of the past, they are reprinted from standard editions or translations, and presented in handsome format. They make a very desirable collection, and are printed in large, clear type. The introductions, as, for examples, Professor Cross's to "Tristram Shandy" and Mr. Crowninshield's witty preface for "The Physiology of Taste," are an attractive feature.

Notes on New Books

FOOTSTEPS IN THE NIGHT. By C. FraserSimpson. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2. A novel of plot, intrigue, and adventure in present-day England. The author, we surmise, is a woman. She has written a good tale; not too many characters; not too many complications; entertaining, fairly exciting, and plausible.

THE HUMAN BODY. By Trevor Heaton, M.D. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $3. Intended as a readable description of the parts of the human body, their functions and diseases. It is exactly that; clearly written, and marked by knowledge and good sense.

TRAGIC MANSIONS. By Mrs. Philip Lydig. Boni & Liveright, New York. $2.50. Gossip about the fashionable families of New York. As they are only mentioned under altered names, it is not very exciting. Even an inveterate reader of the society pages of a Sunday newspaper could hardly get a very big kick out of the book.

$2.

HURDY-GURDY ON OLYMPUS. By Berton Braley. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Humorous poems collected from many magazines.

THE BOOK OF FAMOUS QUEENS. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer. The Thomas Y. Crowell Com$2.50. pany, New York.

First published in 1887 as "The Girls' Book of Famous Queens." Biographical chapters on famous queens, from Semiramis and Cleopatra to Victoria and Tzu Hsi. Simply written, but not solely for children.

THE STORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Algernon Tassin and Arthur Bartlett Maurice. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2. Capital history of American literature and its makers. For young readers, but so well written as to be interesting to anybody. New edition.

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"Twenty Questions"

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Answered in this issue of
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Give yourself 5 points for each question correctly answered. One hundred points is a perfect score. You can find the correct solution on the pages cited.

1. Who is President of France? (P. 19.) 2. In what country is the University of Louvain? (P. 20.)

3. Where are the Olympic Games to be held next year? (P. 23.)

4. Where are the Polynesian islands? (P. 25.)

5. Who wrote the "Knickerbocker History of New York"? (P. 7.)

6. Of what journal was John St. Loe Strachey editor? (P. 9.)

7. Who is Prime Minister of Hungary? (P. 9.)

8. What was the reigning house of Hungary at the time of the World War? (P. 9.)

9. What great conference was recently held on an island? (P. 25.)

10. Who is the nominal ruler of Egypt? (P. 8.)

11. What country has a mandate from the League of Nations to govern Papua? (P. 25.)

12. What national factory of fine arts is at Sèvres? (P. 19.)

13. What new faction did Eamonn de Valera form? (P. 11.)

14. In what year was the earth first circumnavigated by a plane? (P. 4.)

15. How is malaria transmitted?

(P. 4.)

16. What is the only major golfing trophy still to be won by Robert Tyre Jones? (P. 6.)

17. What is the name of London's airport? (P. 4.)

18. In what country is the Delta of the Orinoco River? (P. 4.)

19. Who composed the music drama "Parsifal"? (P. 32.)

20. Where is Kilauea Volcano? (Inside back cover.)

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