Eddy, Author of a "Suffering and the War," "The Students of Asia," "With Our Soldiers in France," ete. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1920. Pp, 273, The writers upon post-war conditions who have the most claim to be listened to are those whose knowledge of the war itself, and of the countries most affected by it, both before and after the war, was gained at first hand and by unhurried journeys with a background of an adequate acquaintance both of national and international conditions. Upon these terms, Mr. Eddy's little volume is entitled to a prominent place. He lived in India as a Y. M. C. A. Secretary for 15 years, after which he was appointed secretary for Asia Y. M. C. A. work among students Japan, Korea, China, India, the Near' East and Russia, as an honorary worker.
Russia anp Ina, A prefactory explanation of the somewhat cryptic title introduces the reader to the consideration that this war was emphatically Everybody's War, no nation and no people being untouched by its far reaching results. Two chapters are devoted to the Appeal of Russia, and to its Hope. In these there are lucid explanations of the powerful cross currents in the life of present day chaotic Russia. Two chapters are likewise given to India, with which empire the author's familiarity is much greater than with other lands, and in the throbbing heat of which he recently travelled for six months at a time. The analysis of the careers of three Indian types, Sadhu Sunder Singh, the saint, Bishop Azariah, the churchman, and Mr. K. F. Paul, the statesman, are of peculiar interest. So likewise is the life story of Mr. Gandhi (so often mentioned in the daily telegrams), with an explanation of the reasons for his extraordinary hold upon the polyglot peoples of India.
The ten pages occupied by a consideration of the Contrasts in Anglo-Saxon Mentality, with the table of ten particulars, and a following discussion (which might well serve as topics of friendly international discussions) are alone worth the price of the book. (What that price is is not hinted. The strange ruling in Washington that any journalistic notice or review of a book which mentions the cost is a camouflaged advertise-
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