bic poem, whose name gives the title to the book; third, a collection of Myths of the Cherokee, and last, a Glossary of Cherokee words.

These last two parts are copied nearly verbatim from Mr. Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee, published in 1897 in the Nineteenth Report of the Bureau of Ethnology; part one is compiled almost in Mr. Mooney's own words from the same source. No quotation marks are used. Except for the vague statement at the beginning of the "History" that it has been "gleaned" partly from the works of Mr. Mooney, no credit to him whatever is given for his part of the book-slightly more than half and the only part worth reading. In fact, the reader is led to assume without question that the whole work is original. The dedication contains these words: "Trusting that a generous people may hail with delight the advent of this new (italics mine) work, I now dedicate its pages to all lovers of music, poetry and fine art." The preface to the myths (Part III) in which Mr. Mooney gives an account of the sources of the tales and a few words concerning his informants, copied here makes it appear that Mr. Jarrett had secured the whole thing. And again, two pictures, one of Sequoya and one of John Ax, taken by Mr. Mooney himself, are used entirely without credit.

Myths are more or less common property and so the copying of them, even in the exact words of the one who has had the patience and knowledge necessary to get them, may to some seem a little less than plagiarism. When we come, however, to Part IV where the author presents Mr. Mooney's glossary and sound system of the Cherokee language with no reference to Mr. Mooney, there seem to be no extenuating circomstances. Mr. Jarrett did not even do Mr. Mooney the honor of copying him correctly in all cases, or perhaps he attempted in these instances to improve Mr. Moony's phonetics. The glossary consists of many Cherokee words, mostly placenames, carefully etymologized-a thing Mr. Mooney labored over for many years. These are all copied entirely without credit. And the whole-Mr. Mooney's half and the "poem"— is copyrighted under the name of Mr. Jarrett! It is unfor

tunate that the Bureau does not copyright its Reports and thus prevent pirating.

Mr. Mooney is dead now. To those of us who admire his great work among the Cherokees, a work which extended over his whole life-time, such conduct as Jarrett's is very distasteful. His book is probably having a rather extensive local circulation. Most of the people who see it have never heard of Mr. Mooney. Few will even suspect, when they read these myths and trace out local legends and place-names in the glossary, that it is the work of another than him whose name appears on the title page.

University of Pennsylvania.

M. E. LEACH.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Eight Lectures delivered in the United States in August, 1921, by James Bryce. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1922, 275 pp.

Bryce's International Relations is the first publication of the proceedings of the Institute of Politics at Williams College of the summer of 1921. The eight lectures are designed to cover in as elementary form as possible the fundamental points and problems involved in the subject which forms the title of the book. So vast a field requires a master synthetic mind to say anything worth while that the ordinary mortal can read with profit, and one cannot but be grateful that Bryce tried his hand at it before he passed on. Of course, to the close student of international relations the book is unsatisfying in that it offers mainly familiar material, and its method of organization is rather orthodox.

But the main purpose of the book is, of course, not to satisfy the longings of specialist, but to popularize a subject on which so many insist upon talking in glib terms and without much information. It succeeds admirably in this effort. The chapter sketching the history of international relations is in many respects far superior to that classic chapter in Seignobo's Histoire de Civilisation, and the chapter on non-political influence affecting international relations is a recognition of the growing part played therein by the world economic situation. The chapter on the popular control of foreign policy raises

and discusses with great lucidity one of the fundamental problems which must continue to plague the people of the United States for many years to come.

The book is written in the characteristic style of its author, temperate in its assertions, vivid in its presentation of fact, clear-headed in its discussion of moot points, and above all it manifests the clarity of thought which is the fundamental explanation of Bryce's easy flowing mode of expression.

RANDOLPH G. ADAMS.

THE TORRENT. By Vicente Blasco Ibañez. Translated from the Spanish by Isaac Goldberg and Arthur Livingston. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1921.

Under the title The Torrent is translated Blasco Ibañez' novel Entre Naranjos (Among the Orange Trees), which was published in Spanish in 1900. It belongs to the author's first period, that of the regional novel, which contains most of his best work. The large part of the setting is in the town of Alcira, a Valencian Gopher Prariie, with its spying, gossiping, narrow, superstitious people made a thousand-fold worse than in the American Main Street by the venerableness of the place. The life of the town, its narrow traditions, customs and outlook, its religious superstitions, its crooked politics are vividly portrayed. With the fragrant, sensuous orange-groves of the countryside as a background, the product of this civilization is brought into contact with that of the operatic, artistic world, and "Main Street" triumphs, as it seems usually to do.

The hero is the heir of a money-lending grandfather, a money-spending father and a bigoted, close-fisted and ambitious mother, and finds himself, as he comes of age, sent to the Cortes by the local Tammany Hall. He is being steered straight toward matrimony with the dull daughter of a wealthy orange shipper when trouble enters in the form of a grandopera singer of dazzling beauty and great and dubious fame, who has returned to her native town to rest and forget the delusions of the world.

The characters are rather more fully drawn than they are in many of Blasco Ibañez' novels. Rafael is more serious, but still he is very much like the weak Julio of the Four Horse

men. One feels that it is his straightjacket of a background that keeps him erect. Leonora is the beautiful vampire blond of Blood and Sand, Mare Nostrum, etc., but much more refined, much more scrupulous, much more inspiring of sympathy.

To the lover of Spanish life and landscape there is much of profound interest in this book. The flood and the attempt to abate it by carrying a statute of San Bernardo in procession. along the threatened banks is vigorously etched. The most humorous incident in any of Blasco Ibañez' novels occurs near the end, where Rafael is making a long speech on the eclesiastical budget and praising the moral influence of the Church on the home, while the woman he has abandoned sits in the visitors' gallery. His recognition of her makes it hard for him to talk the two hours that senatorial dignity demands. FREDERICK A. G. CowPER.

Trinity College.

THE QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS. Second printing. By H. M. Dresser. New York: The Crowell Publishing Co. 445 pp.

One is rather sorry that these manuscripts have been so long witheld from the public. Among the many reasons, two may be mentioned without danger of controversy. (1) It always seems to an observer unfair for one to make a late claim to the foundation on which another, claiming it as his own, has erected an imposing structure. (2) It is also unfair to permit an innocent party to be penalized in court when one has the evidence to clear him but refuses to let it be used. And yet it is well that these manuscripts have been published; if we take them at their face value, we shall have to admit that Quimby preceded Mrs. Eddy in the conception of mental healing. But even at that we should hardly admit that Quimby was the first to conceive of mental healing; in fact Quimby himself admits that he is not. It is not our purpose to criticise the contents of this book, especially the quotations from the manuscripts, for they are now a half century old; but we note with regret that the editor has deleted some of the manuscripts, and we wonder if it would not have been better

to print them as they were written. Admitting that Quimby did revive mental healing, one feels that but for the organizing power of Mrs. Eddy, who was one of Quimby's pupils, mental healing would have gone into the discard. Perhaps it is also true that but for the religionizing of mental healing by Mrs. Eddy it would have ceased to exist.

As to the manuscripts themselves-in many places they are so shrouded in ambiguity one can scarcely understand what is meant strange, crude, but interesting interpretations are made of passages of Scripture; marvelous tales of cures are recorded, some in which the patient was not even visible to Quimby; strong attacks are made upon the clergy and physicians, in which they are called "blind leaders of the blind." But withal, we venture the assertion that if Quimby were living today, he would probably rank with the best of psychiatrists and that he probably would leave the treatment of small pox and diphtheria to the "medical faculty."

BERT CUNNINGHAM.

LOMBARD STREET: A DESCRIPTION OF THE MONEY MARKET. By Walter Bagehot. Edited and revised by Hartley Withers. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1921-xxiv, 348 pp. $2.50. Walter Bagehot began his Lombard Street in the autumn of 1870 and published it in the spring of 1873. The book has passed through edition after edition, and now after half a century it remains an economic classic with which every one who wishes to understand the history of the English credit system must be familiar. The introduction, "Lombard Street Today," was written by Mr. Withers shortly before the outbreak of the Great War. In a volume coming from the press in 1921, one is surprised to find no word concerning the momentous happenings in England's money and credit world in recent years. Perhaps, however, it is wise to say nothing of the recent past in a place where it could hardly receive adequate consideration. One who reads again Bagehot's illuminating chapters on banks and banking in England will be newly impressed with the author's genius in clearly stating principles which are fundamental to credit operations both in England and elsewhere. WILLIAM H. GLASSON.