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Books to Read 
By Lucian Oldershaw 
■ OWEVER opinions may differ as to the value of 
the moral drawn in The Unseen Hand in English 
History {National Review Office,' 6s.) ..there can be 
,no doubt that in it Mr. Ian D. Colvin has made 
as able, ingenious and interesting a piece of historical recon- 
struction as in his previous volume, The Germans in England. 
His theme is that " the pohtical organisation and policy 
of a State cannot be separated without ■ error in thought 
and disaster in practice from its economic life." His Unseen 
Hand, is of material interest, and he argues that a nation's 
chief preoccupation should be that its own unseen hand, and 
not that of an alien, should control its chief acts of State. 
There always is and always will be an unseen hand in politics. 
Adam Smith, who " borrowed from French philosophy an 
ideal world and an ideal past," did not realise this. " List 
was too well acquainted with history, and affairs to make 
such a mistake." So Mr. Colvin endorses the views of the 
German Tariff Reformer, and writes a racy and informative 
history of England from the time of the Tudors to illustrate 
his case. In this history the climax of England's greatness 
is reached in the Methuen Treaty, of which Mr. Colvin says : 
"If France was cruelly revenged in the gout of Chatham 
and the pricking toes of many other noble Englishmen, may 
we not say that they suffered gladly in a great style for a 
great cause?" It is always interesting to study history 
from various view points, and Mr. Colvin's sincerely held 
materialism forms a useful hypothesis for the explanation of 
many historical conundrums and the placing of many 
incidents in fresh relations to one another. 
« * >i< « • 
Mr. Ian Colvin and the Princess Catherine Radziwill are 
at one in finding personal motives behind the events of history, 
but whilst the former deems the ruhng motive self-interest, the 
latter in Germany under Three Emperors (Cassell and Co., 
i6s. net) seems to hold that emotional caprice chiefly controls 
the actions of men. Her book is in the main a study of Bis- 
marck, and its leading theme, worked out with some in- 
consistencies, is that the present policy of the German Empire 
is in the main the outcome of his work, though he himself 
. was rather a' consequence than a catise of Prussiam deVeftab' 
•; ment. Moreover, the present policy is " Bismarckianisnji 
'■ without Bismarck," an " imitation " which " was to brin| 
' savage ruin to the world, despair to millions of human beingi, 
•' destruction everywhere." Apart from generalities, the boo^ 
" has, like its author's recent work. The Tragedy of a Throne^, 
r some interesting glimpses of personalities, espeeially during 
•. the last twenty years of ..last century. .As in the previous 
/ book, Herr. von / Holstein, Bismarck's lieutenant;, plays a 
■-.i considerable part in the story. 
g ' ' i^ If It if it 
'• Here is a book of somewhat unusual ' sketches from the 
• Front. The Kitten in the Crater (C. H. Kelly, 3s. 6d. net) 
■ is by- a Methodist Chaplain to the Forces. In the sketch 
which gives its title to the book and in those which follow it 
the Rev. Thomas Tiplady moralises, usually with good sense 
■ and always with sincerity and broadmindedness, on incidents 
'. seen and observations made during his work in France. That 
the author must be a preacher who can drive home his 
• " points " is to be gathered from numerous passages such as 
. this from " Tommy's Idea of the Churches." He is develop- 
ing the theme that real goodness is unconscious. " Has 
anyone," he asks, ever claimed to be as good as Christ ? 
I forget whether Mr. Bernard Shaw has or not. . . . The 
wife needs to be pitied whose husband knows he is a good 
husband. Her heart is probably very near to breaking." 
• I do not share altogether Mr. Tiplady's spiritual point of view 
and I am often made uncomfortable, through a different 
' and perhaps less sincere habit of speech, by his manner of 
T expressing it, but I can swallow a good deal of what seems to 
; me like sentimentality for the sake of the wholesome food for 
• reflection which this book contains. 
\ . * « ♦ * * 
^ We are not yet prepared in England to comfort ourselves 
' with- a sense of achievement, but there is no reason \yhy we 
» should not ask the world outside to believe that we are perhaps 
doing more than a casual reading of our own newspapers would 
i^ suggest. I take it that that is the true inwardness of Towards 
the Goal (John Murray, 2s. 6d."net), in which Mrs. Humphrey 
.', Ward, in a series of letters to 'Mr.' Roosevelt, describes 
,; something of what England has done and is doing in the war^ 
• Mr.'^RooSeVdt re^(Wfds fl<5.1jl^. '.m a,;prefa'fip in ; which ||C0mpli- 
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