"The sea has been the inspiration of countless tales, epics, songs, and dramas. Something of this epic and dramatic character appears in these two very different books.

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The Pacific Triangle 65pendix gives abundant statistics about the Territorial and Stateofficers of Oregon, initiative and referendum measures, importantdates in Oregon history, Oregon death roll in the World War, andother matters of importance.By way of illustrations, the book contains eleven maps, nine-teen portraits and one hundred and thirty-nine historical pictures.In no feature of the volume has the painstaking labor ofJudge Carey been better shown than in the copious index. Thiscovers eighty-two double-columned pages, making the vast store- ,house of historical materials instantly available for the searcher.There is no doubt as to the important place Judge Carey'sHistory of Oregon will take among the reference books in thePacific Northwest.EDMOND S. MEANYThe Pacific Triangle. By SYDNEY GREENBIE. (New York: TheCentury Company, 1921. Pp. 402. $4.00.)The Problem of the Pacific in the Twentieth Century. By GENERAl,N. GOLOVIN in Collaboration with ADMIRAL A. D. BUBNOV;Translated by C. Nabokoff; Introduction by Harold Williams.(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Pp.256. $3.50.)The sea has been the inspiration of countless tales, epics,songs, and dramas. Something of this epic and dramatic charac-ter appears in these two very different books.The first is primarily a book of travels. The traveler is ma-hue, observant, and possessed of a very readable_ literary style,along with an effectively used camera which has furnished a num-ber of illustrations. To the observations of a traveler, the authorhas added some exposition and comment on the problems that anextended .voyage in the South Pacific and Orient suggests. Thesecomments are in part a continuation and elaboration of those ex-pressed in an earlier book, Japan: Real and Imaginary. Thework is divided into three books: Book One, Historical andTravel Material; Book Two, Discussion of Native Problems--Personal and Social; and Book Three, Discussion of the PoliticalProblems Involving Australia, Asia, and America.The book of General Golovin, a staff officer before theRussian Revolution, is in a much more serious strain. The firsthalf dozen chapters deal with the growth and development ofJapan and ~ith Japanese imperialistic policies. Chapters VII-Xare the contribution of Admiral Bubnov, who was Chief of the66 Book ReviewsNaval Section of the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief in theGreat War. These chapters outline the strategic considerationsof the possible conflict between this country and Japan. OurGeneral again takes up the pen, first for a chapter on the relationof Russia and her Far Eastern Dominions upon the problem, andfor a final chapter on the Washington Conference of a year ago.This conference is declared to be barren of real results.The thesis of the book is that with human nature and eco-nomic considerations making a struggle in the Pacific inevitable,the United States can defeat Japan only in alliance with a strongRussia, a regenerated Russia. The author does not give any defi-nition of his adjective, "regenerated"; American statesmanshipshould. It is true, moreover, that this country has, as the authorurges, an enormous stake in the regeneration of China and Russia.The data supplied by the book adds to the proof of how great thisstake is for us.WILLIAM A. SPENCER.Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society, VolumeTwenty. Edited by ALBERT \VATKINS. (Lincoln: The So-ciety, 1922. Pp.400.)All students of Pacific Northwest History are placed underenduring obligations to the Nebraska State Historical Society forthe wealth of newspaper and other material relating to emigrationto the Pacific Coast that is furnished in this new volume of itsPublications. A mere examination of captions and running title~""ill convince a casual reader that the editor is right in presum-ing that "the most valuable information in the book is that of thetraffic on the great highways to Oregon and California." Morecareful study reveals a wealth of contemporaneous comment uponoverland travel to Oregon. No volume with which the writer isfamiliar gives a mo,re colorful and vivid picture of the adven-turous pioneer crossing the Plains to the Pacific.While indebtedness is chiefly due to the rendering accessibleof this data hidden away in the cumbrous files of rare and tomost people inaccessible newspapers, the value of the book is en-hanced by editorial notes, a carefully made index and a map ofthe Nebraska Territory specially designed and drafted for thisnoteworthy volume.CHARLES W. SMITH.

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