ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS

“Fifty Years of Europe, 1870-1919,” by Charles Downer Hazen ’89. Henry Holt & Co., New York.

There is so little new material in this “new” book by Professor Hazen that the task of the reviewer is a very simple one. In 1911 his “Europe Since 1815” took its place as the best single volume on the period, adapted alike to the needs of the class room and of the general reader. In 1917 his “Modern European His- tory” appeared; this was a revision and con- densation of the “Europe Since 1815,” which was brought down to the opening of the war, and which was prefaced by eleven chapters on the Revolutionary Era, 1789-1815. These chap- ters were also published separately under the title “The French Revolution and Napoleon.’* The present volume, “Fifty Years of Europe,” is simply a new edition of the chapters of “Modern European History dealing with the period since 1870—with a few minor changes—to which have been added some eighty pages (331-414) on the World War. Even this additional material has already ap- peared in pamphlet form as a supplement to the “Modern European History.” Thus three books have, by processes of revision and sub- division, grown out of one, and the candid reviewer must conclude that the publishers are taking advantage of the recognized merits of Professor Hazen’s books to ,lplay the mar- ket” to the utmost limits. Professor Hazen, it is proper to add, disarms criticism by the frankness of his prefaces, but the ordinary purchaser has no opportunity to read the pref- ace before he buys the book.

This much has been said by way of warn- ing to the prospective purchaser who is al- ready familiar with Professor Hazen’s pre- vious books, and who may be lead to believe that a new treat is in store. To those who have not given themselves the instructive pleasure of reading either “Europe Since 1815” or “Modern European History,” this volume is unhesitatingly recommended. The pages on the war are models of condensation : nothing essential is omitted; nothing extrane- ous is introduced; this characterization may, indeed, be applied to the whole volume. No review of Professor Hazen’s books, moreover, is complete without some reference to his striking and vivid style; in the chapter on the war he makes full use of his opportunity— and of his extraordinary gift of brilliant writing—to bring back to us some of that al condemnation of Germany which we all felt so strongly and which we are all too prone to forget.

If there is any criticism to be made of his works as a whole it is that he is too much in- terested in “haut politique,” too little interested in social and economic history. One has no desire to see Professor Hazen desert the “old school” of historians and to see him range him- self alongside the “economic determinists”; one does wish that he would not so completely ignore the common life of the common man?

Stanwood Cobb ’O3 is the author of “Simla, a Story of Love,” a long narrative poem pub- lished by The Cornhill Company, Boston.

“Still Boys,” “The One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of Dartmouth,” and a “Toast,” three poems by John W. Gordon ’B3, dedicated to the class of 1883, Dartmouth College, have been published in pamphlet form. “New Hampshire’s New School Laws,” by Gen. Frank S. Streeter ’74, an address de- livered October 16, 1919, at Concord at the joint conference of the local school boards and superintendents with the State Board of Education appears in the November issue of the Granite Monthly.

“Unrecognized Chronic Simple Glaucoma. Eye Strain as a Cause. Suggestions for Field Taking,” by Dr. Edward J. Brown ’74, has been reprinted from the Transactions of the Twen- ty-second Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngol- ogy.

“A Cry Out of the Dark,” three one-act plays, by Henry Bailey Stevens ’l2, has been published by the Four Seas Company, Boston.

“Our Italian Fellow Citizens” by Dr. Fran- cis E. Clark ’73, has been published by Small, Maynard & Cos.

The World Book Company has just pub- lished “Fundamental High School Mathemat- ics,” a text book designed to follow arith- metic, by Harold O. Rugg ’OB, and John R. Clark.

Part 3 of “Price Fixing in the United States During the War,” by Lewis H. Haney ’O3, ap- pears in the September number of the Polit-ical Science Quarterly.

Hamilton Gibson ’97 is the author of Con- cise Chronological History of Dartmouth Col- lege. This pamphlet, issued as Dartmouth College Reprints Number 2, was first pub- lished for the Chicago Alumni Association, February, 1919.

“Inside Football,” by Frank Cavanaugh ’99, has been published by Small, Maynard & Cos. This book will be reviewed in a later issue.