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ELEMENTARY SPANISH GRAMMAR. By Aurelio M. Espinosa and Clifford G. Allen. Cincinnati and New York: American Book Company.

This book "furnishes enough material in Spanish grammar, texts, conversation, and composition for one year of college and two years of high-school work, granting that about one half of the time be given to the reading and translation of literary texts." The last four lessons are exclusively of a commercial character, so as to give a good practical basis for business correspondence in Spanish. Excellent illustrations of cities and cathedrals in South America and Spain accompany the text, and a complete vocabulary, both English-Spanish and SpanishEnglish, is provided.

THE INVASION OF AMERICA. By Julius Muller. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company.

This account of an imaginary invasion of our country, written with no desire to "scare" and "based on the inexorable mathematics of war," tells in journalistic style, illustrated by numerous maps and photographs, how an army of less than half a million men landed in New England and in an increditably short time made themselves masters of New England and New York, while the rest of the country looked on in helpless horror. After exacting enormous tribute the invaders sailed away before an adequate army could be raised to exact vengeance on them. The book is a thoroughly convincing document in favor of preparedness.

SOCIAL ADAPTATION. By L. M. Bristol. Cambridge: The University Press. 1915.

An excellent hand-book or historiographical account of the doctrine of social progress from its inception in the writings of Auguste Comte. Social adaptation is described as "such relationship between an organism, species, social group or institution as is favorable to existence and growth"; or, dynamically, "as the process by which such a unity becomes and continues in favorable relation to its environment." H. A.

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Board of Managers:

JOHN M. MCBRYDE, JR., Chairman, WALTER HULLIHEN, THOMAS A. TIDBALL, CLEVELAND K. BENEDICT, SEDLEY L. WARE.

Contributors to the October Number

WILMER T. STONE is Instructor in English in the De Witt Clinton High School, New York City.

MARGARET LYNN is Associate Professor of English in the University of Kansas.

J. WARSHAW is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages in the University of Missouri.

LOUIS JAMES BLOCK is Principal of the John Marshall High School, Chicago.

EARL L. BRADSHER is an Instructor in English in the University of Texas.

WILLIAM GILMER PERRY is Professor of English in the Georgia School of Technology.

BENJAMIN BRAWLEY is Dean and Professor of English in Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia.

WARWICK JAMES PRICE is a Philadelphia lawyer and journalist.

EDWARD RAYMOND TURNER is Professor of European History in the University of Michigan.

LINDSAY ROGERS is Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the University of Virginia.

Statement of the Ownership, Management, etc., of The Sewanee Review, published Quarterly at Sewanee, Tennessee, required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912: Editor, John M. McBryde, Jr., Sewanee, Tenn.; Business Manager, James C. Preston, Sewanee, Tenn.; Publisher and Owner, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., an educational institution, incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee; no stock issued.

(Signed) JAS. C. PRESTON, Business Manager.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of Oct., 1916.
(Signed) D. L. VAUGHAN, Notary Public.

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My commission expires Oct., 1916.

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Can America endure? Does the question seem preposterous? Yet every human institution lives its appointed hour- or cycle -and passes. Some nations seem founded on the solid rock, and last centuries; others are quickly swept aside in the rushing torrent of time-to appear no more, in anything resembling their old form, on the surface of the stream. Races persist; institutions crumble. The centuries-old strife between Latin and Teuton continues to-day, as it did in Cæsar's time; yet where is Rome, or where the great Teuton empire of Charlemagne ?

Can America endure? And by America is meant the United States of our idealist ancestors, who fondly believed in the permanence of a government "of the people, by the people, for the people." The two greatest governments outside of the United States approximating that ideal, France and Great Britain, are engaged in a death struggle with the strongest autocracy, because the most efficient, the world has ever seen. Despite their powerful allies in the combat, no man can say what their future is to be, for it is evident that no nation can long withstand the pressure of German efficiency and national spirit without resistance made strong by equally efficient national organization and supported by equally ardent patriotism. It may be that efficiency and intense national spirit can be developed only by a benevolent autocracy. In short, democracy is on trial, and we in the United States cannot be indifferent to the outcome of the present struggle.

Is it not wise to try to anticipate the result of the struggle in Europe, however, so that we may see clearly what lies before us,

and how best we may meet any future that presents itself? A comparison of our fundamental ideals, and of our measure of realization of these ideals, with those of Germany should be instructive. Such a comparison should show us to what extent we may learn from Germany before it is too late, without giving up those of our ideals which we had rather perish than lose.

GERMAN AND AMERICAN IDEALS COMPARED

Germany's claim to greatness lies principally in her ideal of economic justice as between the various classes of her population; in the disinterested reverence of and service to the State on the part of all; above all, in the frank and far-seeing investigation into, and action upon, all questions that affect the national welfare. Americans, on the other hand, are notorious for their indifference to abstract claims of the public welfare, and for the universal sacrifice of such claims for the immediate gain of individuals. As a result of this attitude, all serious problems of our national future are covered up by specious platitudes; all disagreeable facts are hidden or brushed aside; a shockingly low standard of honesty, and gross inefficiency, on the part of public officials is tolerated; there is a woful disregard of labor struggles as affecting the ultimate social welfare of the entire nation.

Americans have been reproached times innumerable by foreign (and domestic) critics with an utter absorption in the "almighty dollar"; with a singularly rapacious and boundless commercial selfishness that subordinates all other aspects of human endeavor or aspiration. Unfortunately there is great truth in the arraignment. No one can consider our oft-discussed venal politics; the slum conditions in our cities; our hideous and blatant advertising; the relentless crushing of business competitors by fair means or foul; the plundering of stockholders by boards of directors; the crushing of strikes by hired thugs and "fixed" judges; these and many other phenomena of present-day American life, without admitting that material selfishness is more rampant in the "land of the free" than perhaps anywhere else on the whole globe. That this spirit constitutes a terrible menace to our national spirit is evident, and this relationship will be considered in detail below.

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