.., 'yw4'; r d VW JJ i i ' 3 rtrJL'Mi ANDAJUTgSSi M a Wuo moon a .u,r" "'I Zho produce, a novel Si m real flB-, h 0 r ... or a rrme" nr'f.a lo the Queen' r&ii ft i iffs ""-j Wc ,'n L. whole world is more or less .I,rv Men's minds arc at- ,epa to revolution. "Social ujircst" tuned to reo.u acrobat t cr& with equal facility ! slrles of the -economic fonce. fht id? known proletariat it fo tho eii ' nttr)ry mm- C that prerogo tho storm. To .eTlled eovcrning classes it &ifor J, D. BERESFOKU ...v.n,it-'lit social unrest to its in stable fruition in highly dramatic Srfli I Ftrike in England. Ripe and renerai n , .? ... hor ready w ;;----" wk n'R We?., ".," u ," flin U8tiC0 of ffSuic, bring about nation-wide claos by seizing the reins of gov- n!?e ...- i-.l la n tnnn nf oowerful personality with that Jort of magnetism that attracts and holds men, but ho is not the hero of the storv. The out itandlng figure is Paul Lcam le, allied with, if not actually belonging to, the landed gen try Shell-shocked in the 7ar, v.' . knek to Entrland with , a horror of fiirhting in any form. A type oi super-paciiiBi, obsessed bv tho futility of all irmed conflict. REVOLUTION Ik. vim wnVinp dreams he has seen Bwo principal movements. 1J i 710 irtt was the infinitely slow eUnge of the wprld, apart from lit relation to humanity . . . $o, too, everything changed, tkggithly, imperceptibly. The itrueturc of the earth was fun famentallu unstable . . . it low passing through a phase, immeasurably vast by the test ef man's experience. Against this standard of the first move ment, the second, the movement tf humanity, appeared amaz ingly rapid . . . and tho whole dnft of it, as xt seemed to Paul, ivas toward a leveling, toward the genefsd ideal of what was currently spoken of as Dtmocracy." By J. D. BERESFORD iimocracyl That was it! Democ qr in England democracy overy i,te all over tho world! Paul euld make the world safe with tmocracy. He would bring capital nd labor together. m ihU hnnk i wnrnlnr n nronhee. ? Alp know? lV.li.st up ilo know l thitt It l I botm or irrmeTioeiiN sneei, mo inwcr, 'fwra'a aWrrltt ntiil truth nnil rnnvlrtlnn n H." Horni, nlmost every one will he ills. Mnr "Rrioliitlon." Krnil It mill Krt jntir nrn rrattlon. Alexander Woollcott, famous dramatic critic of the New York Times, says "Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victori ans' is just exactly the sort of book I wish I tvas able to write. It is a magnificent piece of work." i iincerely mcommend mue novels teLSS.A.DuB?.-fonl iin ,.Z. "' ' " aiiey PEHOUSE IN QUEEN ANNE uvfwui, a onnung mystery stnrv 1m W n T ..ii OSA MUNDI stories, bv Ethel Uell For thn. ..!... t.-.. .. ..... (..."' ""vc never inounni or mw camping, anil for those who regard mm .iI"prS,"r '" 'fovment. 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Xcw York livening Post- "Tho keen Insight, the brond and deep human ity, the understanding, forgiving ten derness of 'Josoph Vance" aro still warmly and vividly nlivo here, and the outstanding dramatic points In tho story have, perhaps, greator pos slbllltlfs than any In his earlier nofls." 2.on HENRY HOLT & COMPANY 10 WKST 44T1I ST. NKW VOIIK - ' f J . . r 1 ' ' ' ' ' " " " n ii i " f ' ' '""" "' ' ' '' " ' h '" r T-' ' ' " ' "rrr " " rr' " T 1 ' ",""' " JOSEPH CONRAD ON LIFE AND LETTERS Views of the Anglo-Polish Novelist Collected in a Book of Manly Thinking Without Prejudice or Sophistications Uv ITOI.IY K. A r.Mti .Vff","r of Ktmlluli Mtrrntnre I luAi.-M'ASUH with bookH Is much Jlkp ncqtmlntance with men: thp Wl(lfr OUT rlrclo. lin .r.nl.r ln lianeps of friendship, howevor, knowl odpo n,ny brln3 with It dlspnchanlmcnt iih noil ns cnclinntmrnt. After nil. we may know manv nn,i vn ., ... . tliouifh when wp think of thp variety lii niniiKinti and In bookklml, wo should rondlly boroino cnthollc. If nnf In nnr tastes nt lcnst in our discernments. I can like ahuost any book except a cash book, Which Is a tlllnir lo mnnv of us deceptive, troublesome to keep, and misleading In title. For. ns with men, In almost every book there Is hoiiip good. In these "Notes on I.lfo nmi r.etru " by the famous novelist, Joseph Conrad, uicrp seems to me only good, for their? In the (liscnntluiiiiiisnefiM. dm vm-lntv the' intimacy of good talk. In them Is neither thp formality of the essnv the Irrelevancy of letters written for .jornc specific purpose, nor the' limitation to subject which fiction demands nnd re- i elves from so conscientious a novel ist as Mr. C'onrftd. This book lets us Into the personality of a ninn who is nowhere obtrusive or given to attitudi nizing; It i like a letter of Introduction to him and he receives his render as a friend. TO THOSK of us who live content edly in one locality all our lives, convinced that any one born elKPwhcrp is rather to be pitied, if not mistrusted, a life such as thnt of Mr. Conrad's mtit becin not only strange but nil but miraculous. To be born within the confines of that shadowy designation of the ghost of a sometime country, lo land now once again a living, roman tic rrnJity to have ehocn deliberately the sen as n vocation Poland hnvlng no more sracoast than Shakespcuie.ip Itohpinin ; nnd then to have achieved the rank of n lrndinj writer In a tongue v itli which his young manhood found him wholly unacquainted ; these nrc marvelK to such of us as live nt home In our own buck yard nnd acquire with our milk teeth each his own provincial inisallty in the pronunciation of what Mr. Menken calls "the American lnn Riinge." IONCR knew a clever foreigner who nrgued thnt transplanting from one soil Into nnothcr, if the tree endures it nt nil, Is likely to beget n more vigor ous nnd luxuriant growth ; nnd thnt, by the sntne token, the man who enrly enough in his life chnnges his nation ality nnd even Ills language, if lie tnkes root and brings anything with hlin from the country of his birth, will have two pjes with which to behold the world instead of one. In two or three Inngunged men we often find a liberality of sprecli not characteristic nf him onlv to the manner born. Of this Mr. Conrad is nn example in the cosniopolitnii spirit which is his. a tqiirit, 'however, which hns not deprived him either of a fervent love for his mother Poland, nnr of devotion to his adopted mother Knglniid. The sevprnl papers on Polnnd in this volume nrc of a reve.iling worth and xcellence. Mr. Conrad knows his subject nnd loves his native country with a romantic passion, wliicii, however, lines not ou- SCHELLINO In tti university of Innjhnnln scare his comprehension. "The Crime nf Partition,'' a round, unvarnished tale, Is worth half the lengthy histories on this murder of a nation ; the "Note on the Polish Problem" sets forth with Ktrlklng brevity the plight of whnt was .,,111 , !, II. n nf Itu u'rlllnir (11)1(11 thp wraith of a remembered wrong. And ill "Polnnd Ilcvlsitcd" spenks in con centrated fervor the wanderer returning to what was once nn. IT IS in "Polnnd Ilcvlsitcd" that Mr. Conrad tells how In that fateful summer of 1014 hp accepted an invl tntion to visit Cracow, traversing the W.M. C3in ni.rl OflptMnnt tuiif tinfnrp fhp declaration of war, which caught him In Russia, nom which lie with (inncuiiy nt length escaped by way of Vienna to Italy and back to Knglnnd. It must be gratifying to Americans to know that the protection of the American eagle ,i.no nrti.tnleil over him 111 the process. something he forgets not to mention with tho nnme ot Mr. l-enneui. wnose many mpi-vIcph to those in likp plight will be long remembered. But the hold of this paper upon the reader Is for its remi niscences and Itrf descriptive touches of that great North Sen on which Mr. Conrad began his seafaring. As he sits in the ttain in the Liverpool station, about to stnrt, he recalls his first ar rival as a boy of nineteen In London on that spot. Up hnd come off of one ship and wns seeking another to ship before the mast to Australia. He had nothing but the fragment of a mup of London to guide him to an obscure "Dickenslike nook of London." he rnlls It, there to find the ninn who wus to plnce him. And he tells us thnt it nover occurred to him to seek his way In a conveyance. Strange contrnst be tween this foreign Ind, unknown to any one of the millions in the great ten of humanity, and the approved, successful author with Ids volumes of achievement, his hosts of friends, his family nnd tho place in the world which he has mnde his. Truly, some trees wax luxuriant in the transplanting. fTTWO or three absorbing papers nre J- those on vnriotis nsports of the los of the Titanic, in which the expert in the affairs of the sea, ns well ns the humanitarian, speaks out. Littlp could Mr. Conrad have known that what man Inflicts on mnn wns to sink this teirible disaster into insignificance within n year or two. But it is in such papers ns "Well Done" or "Tradition." In which the man who followed thp sen for twenty years tells of the quality, the simplicity, the courage of the British merchant service which he knew so well. It is in these that wp tnste the Conrad of "The Nigcer of the Narcissus." The former of these in its effort to explain "this unholy faseinntion" of the sou. with its story of the one thief whom the writer had ever met In the serv ice, n thief less through dishonest thnn adventure; the finding of the heart of the seaman's loyalty in service, nnd the essence of manliness in work, these are fine things, finely said. And there nic exhibits of richtnesH. if I may put it so, ns to autocracy, the censorship of nlnvs. the after life and whnt not. But the best thing nbnut the book nnd it Is the best thine that enn be snld about n book is to find in it the revelntlon of n mnn thinking manly without prej udice or soiihlsticntlons, liternry or so- clnl. If it is salt water that enn thus clear our cjef and our perceptions, would that more of us were Baptized In it. notbs os- urn and i.vrrrcns iiy Jo-ipph Conrnd. fi.irrten City Doublcilny, l'acd & Co. 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The jitory of the part thev touk in the French and Indian wnrs and the Revolution brings out their cournge nnd patriotism. But that which especially distinguished them wns their sen Uvea, ut first as fishermen and afterward as world navigators, Some Idea will be gained of the over- whelming attraction of the sen from the fact told of the town of Brewster that "nt one time no less thnn smj captains hailed Us little farms ns home. Slimt accounts of many nd venturous tnjngcs arc given. Inter mingled with these tributes to the men nre civen many sketches of tile home work of the women nnd the care felt for the children. The provision for schools ns enrlv ns mill is cspecinlly noteworthy. The profits from fishing should be improved, rends nn net of the Oeneral Court, "for and toward a free school," in which children should be tniiL'ht "due y to rend the scrintures the knowledge of the enpitnl Inws nnd the ninin principles of 'religion nccessan for snlvntion." The attractiveness of the book is increased by the hnlf-tone reproductions of photographs of scenery. OLD CAPn COD The Land: the Mm- lh fVu nv Miir Uncfrs llunus Boston: Hounhton Mlrllln Co. IlluntriCud. la.riU, A m ericanization .Inhii Daniels contributes nn impor tant nlunie to the "Americanization Studies" to which Superintendent Thompson, of the Boston public schools, nmi other authorities have added speciali.eil treatise, jir. Dan lels' book, "Americanization via the Neighborhood" is designed to hbnw the possibilities and the methods of eiiinmiinitj woik in the general welfare. This hoiiii'onatliic or nlecunieiil uuv ,,l procedure is by no means a negligible process, ns the author demonstrates. Political parties, dubs, conununlt councils, neighborhood organizations', labor organizations, all such groups inuj lie effcctlvel utilized in the nbsorptioiml and nssiiulliiitie process of welding unci moulding the immigrant and the liu mfgi nut's cliildicn into good nnd profit able citizens of these Culted States. The immigrant, it is pointed out, brings rich gifts of cnergj , enthusiasm and intellect to his chosen haven nnd he should be taught how to adapt these for the good of his adopted country, as well as for his individual behoof. The author nrguc that Americanization Is not itj au, means complete when the foicigncr has taken courses In civics, been nntuiallzcd, etc. It means ud hesioti to American principles nnd rev erence for Aliiericnu iileuls. This book shows the vu to both, AMIIItlCANIZATION VIA Tltll MUdHHim HOOD. ll John DiiiiltlH New York lliii. ln'r .1 Hum A Layman's Religion The vital essentinl elements of leal religion in the everyday life of man nit shown in direct and simple language in this book as the, are most clenrl tnught In tho sermon ou the Mount Dean Brown dewttes his "The Religion of a Ln.wnan" to Its interpretation. Ills aim is to prove that "all that a man Is wotth is to be found in hls'personal qualities of mind and lirurl " Through out Ills work he thiows light upon the sources of happiness, upon the vital nature of character and upon the siiu Illicit) of a good life. In it arc tributes to the woik of .(ienernl (iriint, "n great peacemaker," and to that of Jacob llils and .lane Addnms There is nls ,. stiong chniacteriitatlou of (iermmn's pan in me great war, nor "disregmd lor the rights of others, the open con tempt for moral principal and the Haunting of the spiritual values In human life." Then above all els0 ,m iihnsis is laid on the fact that "re ligion is n life to be lived seven ilin is NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE WEEK More Truth About Paris . Two weeks after Andre Tnrdleu'o book, "The Truth About the Treaty," was published, there nppenrs another version of the same story In "What Really Hnppenrd at l'arls" (Chnrlps Hcrlbner's Sons). These were preceded bv former Secretary Lansing's "The I'cace Xegntlntlons" nnd by several other books by different men on tho fame general subject. "What Really Happened nt l'nris" differs from the others In thnt It Is made tin of fifteen addresses delivered a't the rt'nt.ic LKixir.n Forum in the Aradcmy of Music Inst winter by tue experts attached to the American rence Commlsslon nnd one address, by General Bliss, a member of the commission. Another member of the commission, Colonel House, who has nsslstnl In editing the volume, writes n concluding ehnpter In which he tnkes n retrospec tive view of the Fence Conference. The book contains n calm nnd dispassionate exposition of whnt wnH done nnd why It was done. The spenkers nppenrcd fair-minded when they delivered their tiddrcsses. This state of mind mani fests Itself agnln when their remarKS nre rend on tho printed pnge. Colonel House's summary Is nn excellent Justin cation nf the work of the conference. He reminds us that It accomplished the formation nf nn nrirnnlzatinu for pre venting wnr, that it made n sincere, effort to give self-determination to ra cial entities nnd thnt it declnred a policy of trusteeship In regnrd to ninn dntcs. These things, he snys with truth, marked a distinct ndvnnce in interna tional morals and thnt if thev fall of their purpose "It will be because of the refusnl of the United States to ac cept the treaty In good faith and to give It her powerful support." The volume contains six maps show ing the dispositions of territory made by the Pence Conference and there Is nn nppendix giving the questions asked of the lecturers and the answers to them. The book is ndequately Indexed. It thus forms nn excellent compendium of Information mnde readily accessible to the person Interested In the subject. Mysteries A m erican Brand The one industry which seems to be suffering less thnn any other from the prevniiing business depression is that engnged in the production of mystery stories. The workers in it. both In Luglnud nnd in America, hae been flooding the market, which hns accmed ready to nborb the full output. Isnbel Ostrnnder nnd Arthur Crnbb. two comparatively recent invaders of the field, have each put forth n new de tective novel within n few days. "The Crimson Blotter" (Robert M. McBride & Co.) is Miss Ostrnnder's lntest con tribution townrd the entertainment of the tired business mnn. It deals with tile discover) of the murder of a rich and benevolent New York baebetor sixty years old. who is found in his librnr) dying from n stnb in his heart. The police hnd been win tied thnt his life wns in danger nnd they were gunrd ing his house on the night of the mur der. Yet the murderer entered the house nnd stabbed ills victim and es caped. Suspicion is directed in the wrong quarter at first This always happens in n detective story, and the render would miss it if the nuthor neg lected to observe the convention. When the 'real criminal Is disclosed it becomes evident thnt Miss Ostrnnder hns de veloped n plot as unusual ns it is sur prising. Atthur Crnbb, who hns written a number of short stories nbnut Snmucl L)le, has at last introduced him in n full length novel which he calls "Ghosts" (Tne Century Co.). The title has u dnuhle meaning, for Lyle suggests that the robbery, tho explana tion of which forms the basis of his in) story, wns done by spirits nnd the Heroine wnn Is wooed by the liero is haunted by the nieinor) of her dead husband. The book is n enmhlnntion of love story nnd in) story yarn, in which tile love stor) is developed to much greater length thnn Is usual in such ones. Besides it is nn mousing pic ture of life in n quiet summer resott. It is a most entertaining nnd restful bit of fiction. Mysteries British Brand Of a very different quality from the two American tales mentioned above are W. D. L) ell's "Tho House in Queen Anne Square" (G. P. Putnam's Sons), nnd Sax Reamer's "Bnt Wing" (Dou bledn), Pago & Co.). The) are more skillfull) constructed nnd tho trail to the solution runs through n much greater number of complications. "The House in Queen Anno Squnre" is the first novel of n distinguished Glasgow lawyer, but there are few nov elists who have served a long nppren tiiesblp who could surpass It in its field. It purports to be tho story of twin brothers, one of whom is suspected of impersonating the other, and it douls with the mysteries of his household nnd comes to a climax when n charming )ouug vvomnn is charged with tho mur der of a )oung mnn whom she hnd known from childhood. Tho murder oc curied a few days after she, hod prom ised to miirrv another man. The jury returns a verdict nf not proven nnd the girl then disappears. There nre a house with secret pnssages nnd strnnge nnd uncxpliilncd money trnusactions nnd suddo i disappearances and nil tho ma-, chiner) of a good old-fashioned tale, and it is all told ns though the nuthor were describing things actually within his knowledge. As an example of w bat a capable lawyer can do when he sets out to show how n mystery story should be written it is notable. Readers familiar with Sax Rnlnner will expect to find m "But Wing" n stor.v out of the usual order nnd thev will not be disappointed Tt begins with the request of a Spanish gentle man that n distinguished London de tective go to his countr) house to protect him from a violent death with which lie savs hc Is threatened. The detective goes, but on the date when tho crime was expectel to be done the Spanish gentleman Is shot through the bend beside a sundial in his garden. Then the detective sets out to discover tho actual criminal Of course ho sue ceeds, but not before he unravels n stor.v of vice and crime which is hnir-rnlsiifs enough to satisf) the most exacting. .Sara Tcqsdalo If the present generation had pro duced no other poet In America save Born Teasdale lovers of fine things 1n litcratliro would havo abundnnt rea sons for thankfulness. This woman has a delicacy nnd beauty of expression, combined with a profoundly of Insight, which gives her verse the rare quality of poetry. She writes of love and sorrow, Joy and pain with the simplicity of one who Is telling of real experiences, consequently there Is a genuineness about her verse which is convincing. In her latest volume, "Flame nnd Shndbw," there Is n group of poems under the general classification "In a Hospital," of which tills one on "Pain," will touch many suffering heart: Waves nre the sea's whlt daughter". And raindrop r thn children of rain. Hut why, for my uhlmmrrlwr body, Have I a mother Ilka Pain? Nluht Is th! mother of atars, And nlnd Is the mother of foam The world In hrlmmln with beauty. Hut I muat stay at home. This' little thing exhibits tho lyric quality of her verse, ns well as the emotion of it. It Is typical of nor lll. A MM AND SHADOW dale. New York" The Mucin Ily Hara Teas nlllan Co $1 TB. 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' ty Tht5 plots of the stories nre not kn deficient In elements of suspense twirl t : touches, of surprise, but the nuthor's . chief concern Is the study of chsrnrier, . y$ nn Himijrun i,i uiuiitij, nn iinifuiinc iu f stimuli, rimer nutsmc or tnternnif. its-, development under differing Influences, conditions nnd environments, HU people nre not oply Interesting; they nre life-like. "Carrots" Is perhaps the most powerful of the six stories In the volume, witli Its potent call nf the free hills nnd the tough soil and Its regeneration of character, "Babel" -cs n sort of ethical rnthnrsls. "Tho Obligee" is n bit of whimsy with a pertinent moral, but no moralising. "The Buckpnsser" nnd "The Lay Duckling" have the saving savor of humor. IlAlir.L. Ilv Ituith Maesfalr Kahler. Nw York: O. P, Putnam's Sons. LARGEST OLD BOOK STORE IN AMERICA EverySubject Under the Sun mulc li Eleanor Smith. iM-o k Sheliaru to. 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Mr. edition you seek there are Knhler uses onl) n few diameters and I nino rhnnrfjcj nnr nf ton fhnf usuully but n single scene, but ho allows "lne C."?eS 0UC ,0t ,tel ttlat himself enough room to turn around you Will discover the book VOU In. Ills, chnrncters rnngo from the want at cruoe, iinrn iype or nninreii inrmer to the pampered scion of opulence. Apparently he knows noil the tech nique of vnrlnnt activities nnd occu pations nnii uusincss, lor export com Lxt h cix a. t i t i j. mcrce. forming, office routine nre rNinth Street BelOW Market nmong the backgrounds of his stones (Opposite Post Office) Leary's Book Store THE NEIV BOOKS Fiction the rni.Mf.i-iN ni.oTri;n n tsai.ei Cstrar.iler :ew York Hobcrt Mrllrlde Co. Tim WHITn WOLF Hv Kltner nussell Greor. New York U. Appleton i. Co. A otory full nf the spirit of outdoors, vivid with Indian life anil leitend" ami seasoned with tales of hunting nnd atlrrlnu deeds. General what nr.ALi.r happrnkd at PArii.f. Kdited In ndward Mamlell House and Charles Semour. Lltt. IJ. New York: ( harles Serlhner's Sons, Thn stnrv of the Peace Conference told b American delegates. IN TUB ALASKAN OAMIJ LANDS llvj. A. Mauulre. Cincinnati' Stewart & Klilil Co. A silrrliur narrative of achievement In the wildest outdoors It has many haiitds and hardship surmount,! In a way to rouse the lilnod of th Kenulne man or boj The hunilnu counlrv nn the White Itlr nf Alaska and Yukon Terrltor whlih Is the locale of the stnrj Is far from the beaten track The writer tells his tale with Braphle detail nnd man lld touches It Is Illus trated with exu-llent phntoBraphs li the au thor, and William T. Hornnda. ,.f the Ne ork oolouirai Hardens, nn authorltatle naturalist, u rites an appreciative foreword. Plays CARUYIVn OfT A TIIKOKY. Hv Wlllard Hpitiser. Philadelphia I'enn PuhlKhlntr Co. A clever little skit the theory belnc that all housemaids are afflhled with a chronic Krouch It takes four men and one woman to till the roles. The author Is thn ve. known librettist or "I'rlriLeis Monnie " "Miss Ilol, White' ami other well-known musical shows of esterear. IMS. CITY GIRL. Hv Ward Marauley. Philadelphia Penn Publishing Co. A rustle comedy nf sentiment in one act which has the elements of romanco and humor It requires four male and four fe male portravers The author has a nlco sense of character. The setting: Is a country grocery store IH YOCIl SAME SMITH? ny Hdlih Kunton TRYING THKM OCT Il Lilian Stoll. Ol' II MI3THOD H IMIth llurrows One-art plas published In tho l'enn Pub HshlnB Co Philadelphia THE HUSBAND TEST By MARY CAROLYN DAVIES A witty satire on Greenwich Village life. Bettina must choose between the conventional lawyer and the temper amental poet. How she decides is told in clever style. 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Ynia University, New York Th, Maimillan Co. . wis; By Andre TARDifcu Frtneh High Com.nluionir to the V. S, DtUgale (a th Pac Conftrmca 2&JRUTH -TREATY COL. E.M. HOUSE says: Tardieu was the one nearly indispensable man at the Peace Conference At All Bookulltrt 500 Paw 94.00 B.OBDS.MERRILU PkiUiI.cn "Here are the Facts'9 Colonel House What Really Happened At Paris The Story of the Peace Conference 1918-1919 By the American Delegates From Colonel House's Foreword "The voice of the United States during the Con ference finds itB first comprehensive and au thoritative expression within these pages." " Here are the facts and not the rumors and gossip picked up like crumbs from a bounti ful table." " Here is told, by those who sat in Conference day by day with the heads of states, the story of the negotiations." Each of these men tells of the work of the great Commission he served upon : Colonel House, Herbert Hoover, Thomas W. 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