LIVING AGE THE LIVING AGE FOR NEXT WEEK WILL CONTAIN AMONG OTHER THINGS TROTZKY'S SPEECH TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET At the time of writing, the press is announcing the advance of the Bolsheviki and the probable fall of Odessa. In the speech which we have reprinted, Trotzky deals with the organization of the Red Army and the use which he expects to make of it. A most unusual and timely paper. THE CONGRESS OF PARIS: A British View By Sir Frederick Maurice THE FUTURE OF GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY Translated from the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. A NEW IDEA IN EDUCATION SOME LITERARY ASPECTS OF FRANCE IN THE WAR MEREDITH REVEALED By Edmund Gosse A review of the new biography which has occasioned so much comment. AN ESSAY ON DINNERS If not a subscriber, and you would like to receive The Living Age, 41 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. Gentlemen: Enclosed find $6.00 for my subscription to THE LIVING AGE for one Announcing THE ATLANTIC AND ITS MAKERS A By M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE SUCCINCT and entertaining history of the founding of the Atlantic and of the first forty years of its existence; with sketches of its successive editors and their diverse editorial methods. The author has drawn freely upon the memoirs and letters of the men who were largely concerned in the enterprise from its inception, and the book is enlivened with many amusing anecdotes. There is also a brief résumé of the more recent history of the magazine. Illustrated with portraits and old wood cuts. ABOUT PEACE BERTRAND --AND FICTION A Paragraph for Women While the press of war work was on, with band age-rolling, and knitting in between, these books may have slipped by your notice. Now there is time for reading again. Firecracker Jane, by Alice Calhoun Haines ($1.50 net), suggests the leisure hour and the relaxation of a story deftly light and entertaining. "A dashing, madcap romance,' says one critic. Almanzar, by J. Frank Davis ($1.00 net), lays bare the heart of a "cullud" house-boy down in "San Antone." Every woman will enjoy his amusing adventures -and wish, too, that she had him in her kitchen! With the charming touch that endeared The Rose Garden Husband to so many readers, Margaret Widdemer has written a multiple romance, You're Only Young Once, which no one who has read ner earlier books will want to miss. Thomas Burke's Nights in London ($1.50 net) is A series of tales that Scheherezade herself might have envied. A book of universal delight for the quality of its workmanship and for the equal quality of its spirit."-Washington Star. (By the author of Limehouse Nights.) The permanent value of The Makers of the Nineteenth Century Series (edited by Basil Williams, $2.25 net per volume)-the series in which Lord Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln appears - becomes more apparent with each additional biography. We are announcing for immediate publication C. Grant Robertson's Bismarck, a study of the " Iron Chancellor's" statecraft and of the man himself as one of the makers of Modern Europe and of the German empire and nation. Based on exhaustive study and on ideas already formed before the storm burst upon the nations, it is not a mere product of the war. It is further notable for the incorporation of much new material, including the authentic text of the famous Ems dispatch. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NEW YORK CITY |