PRESIDENT J. G. SCHURMAN OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY writes of this book: "I regard Mr. Croly's book as a serious and weighty contribution to contemporary American politics. A treatise on the fundamental political ideas of the American people which attempts to develop their full content and to re-read American history in the light of these developed ideas cannot, of course, be made light literature; but the author brings to the weighty subject with which he deals a lucid and vivacious style and a logical sense of arrangement. And thoughtful readers who are interested in fundamental political principles, once they have started the book, are pretty certain to finish it.... For my own part I have found the book exceedingly stimulating. It is also instructive, for the author seems to be thoroughly versed in the modern political and economic history not only of America but of Europe as well. Finally, the volume has the immense attraction of dealing with a subject which of all political subjects is now most prominent in the mind not only of thoughtful citizens, but, one might almost say, of the American people." "'The Promise of American Life' will beyond doubt be recognized by students of the great philosophical currents of American history and political development as an unusual and remarkable work.... Mr. Croly acutely analyzes American democracy and pseudo-democracy, while his treatment of the actual present tendencies of democratic ideals is even more instructive and suggestive than the purely historical part of his book. He writes with a free pen and is both apt and keen-witted in his way of illustrating theories and beliefs by practical applications. One chapter, for instance, which will attract very special attention is that which considers the aims and methods of four typical reformers, Jerome, Hearst, Bryan, and Roosevelt."--_The Outlook._ BY ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, PH.D. Professor of History in Harvard University The United States as a World Power _Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net_ This book is based on the lectures delivered by the author at the Sorbonne in Paris in the winter of 1906-1907. Among the questions considered as affecting the relations of the United States with other countries are immigration and race questions, the Monroe Doctrine and our relations with Latin America, the Spanish War and the acquisition of colonies, our relations with the chief continental powers, with England and with Canada, the Isthmian Canal, the United States in the Pacific and our relations with China and with Japan.