. Review of reviews and world's work . ed States. To our readers whoare already familiar with Professor Steinersvivid style we need not say that the interest ofthe narrative is sustained from beginning to is a capital book to put in the hands of youngAmericans of European descent. Woodrow Wilson: An Interpretation. ByA. Maurice Low. Boston: Little, Brown & Com-pany. 291 pp. 111. $2. The time is yet far distant when a defini-tive life of President Wilson can be writ-ten; but a book likeMr. Lows will be agreat help to thebiographer when hecomes to his task. Itmakes use of the Presi-dents
. Review of reviews and world's work . ed States. To our readers whoare already familiar with Professor Steinersvivid style we need not say that the interest ofthe narrative is sustained from beginning to is a capital book to put in the hands of youngAmericans of European descent. Woodrow Wilson: An Interpretation. ByA. Maurice Low. Boston: Little, Brown & Com-pany. 291 pp. 111. $2. The time is yet far distant when a defini-tive life of President Wilson can be writ-ten; but a book likeMr. Lows will be agreat help to thebiographer when hecomes to his task. Itmakes use of the Presi-dents writings and of-ficial acts in so far asthey reveal the mo-tives and mainspringsof his career. The au-thors analysis of theseis impartial, clear, andconvincing. Twentyyears observation ofAmerican politics hasqualified Mr. Low towrite wisely and judi-ciously concerning theremarkable place innational leadershipnow held by Woodrow a. Maurice low Wilson. As an Eng-lishman he writes with a certain detachment impossible for an HISTORY AND REFERENCE The Development of the United States. ByMax Farrand. Houghton, Mifflin Company. 355pp. $ Professor Farrand, who holds a professorshipof history at Yale, gives in this volume an in-terpretation of American history which, while itpresupposes a general knowledge of the subjecton the part of the reader, is yet sufficiently sim-ple and elementary in its methods of treatmentto meet popular needs. A single introductorychapter is devoted to the period of rest of the book is concerned with the growthand welding of the nation from a loose federa-tion of States to the compact, well-organizedworld power that it is to-day. The authors in-debtedness to the modern historical school forits explanation of the rapid western expansion ofour American democracy is, generally acknowl-edged and in reality forms the keynote of thebook. The People of Action. By Gustave Rodri- gues. Charles Scribners Sons. 250 pp. $ A study and
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