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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 30, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 47.

BOOK NOTICE

“The Audacious War,” by Clarence W. Barron, Houghton Mifflin Company. Price, $1.10, postpaid.

The author of this book, Mr. Clarence W. Barron, is one of the recognized authorities of the world in financial matters. He is president of the Dow, Jones & Co. Corporation, of New York City; and in consequence of his position with this company, he is managing editor of Wall Street Journal, which is the great financial daily of the United States. All heavy investors, and men who are conducting large business enterprises, feel that they must have the Wall Street Journal for the authentic and high grade information it contains.

Mr. Barron also publishes the Boston News Bureau and the Philadelphia News Bureau, and is prominent in “directing news gathering for the bank and financial communities.”

Last winter, he crossed the Atlantic, spending considerable time in England, and also going over onto the continent of Europe, to study at first hand, and right on the ground, the financial side of the great, barbarous war that is spreading like a mighty conflagration all through Europe. He returned to this country, and immediately prepared the matter that appears in this volume. The book is filled with facts and expert opinions concerning the underlying principles involved in that titanic struggle. It is perhaps superfluous to say that his opinions may be regarded as more or less biased; but the facts he presents, and the conclusions he reaches, are invaluable to the student of present-day conditions.

Mr. Barron seems to be quite clear in reaching the conclusion that “the immediate causes of this war—and I believe they have not been before presented on this side of the ocean—are connected with commercial treaties, protective tariffs, and financial progress.” In other words, commerce, and the struggle for supremacy in the material field of business and finance, have occasioned the great destruction of life and the ruin of homes and other property, along with all of the incidental suffering of the noncombatant men, women, and children.

The volume is printed in large, clear type. It presents its story within a reasonable compass; and the artisan or the farmer, as well as the financier and the man of great affairs, will find it profitable for study.