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The article focuses on New York City. It states that according to many individuals, New York is "a fine city to visit, a poor city to live in." Individual's fear of insignificance in the great mass of New York. In New York, despite its transcendent opportunities, one confronts also as nowhere else in the world frustrations of modern material civilization. New York is its masterpiece, its magnum opus and New Yorkers pay the price. Throughout their childhood and through their lives millions are denied horizontal vision. Their outlook is eternally on stone or brick walls. Even the sky is circumscribed and shrouded in dust. There is limitation not only for the eye, but also for every sense.

This article presents information on several books. One of the book is "Civilization in the United States. An Inquiry by Thirty Americans," edited by Harold E. Stearns. This books describes the main features of the American civilization. Cooperative works, however, are never very even or very systematic, and in "Civilization in the United States" it is more important to look for the general unity of purpose and conscience to which the book lays claim. As a matter of tact, it does on the whole exhibit that unity.

To the majority of Haitians the Commission's coming meant deliverance. For weeks the event had been virtually their sole and universal topic. A couple of naval whitewash inquiries had made them skeptical about the United States's $ good faith, but they felt that a Senate Commission was bound to be different and they regarded the six long and oppressive years of military occupation as nearing an end. A presentiment that all their hopes might not be realized came with the refusal of the Commission to order even the temporary abrogation of martial law for the period of its stay and its failure to issue, as the Haitians had repeatedly requested, an emphatic proclamation assuring safety to all witnesses.

In the Dominican Republic, the situation is simpler than in Haiti. Where the Haitians suffered from the betrayal at the hands of Sudre Dartiguenave, the Dominicans were fortunate in having as their President Henriquez y Carvajal, a man of rare integrity, statesmanship, and patriotism. Moreover, the Dominicans had in May, 1916, when the U.S. invaded their country, the advantage of six months' observation of the execution of promise of the U.S. to Haiti of "no aim except to insure, establish, and help maintain Haitian independence." In consequence, though the U.S. tried precisely as in Haiti to force a humiliating and enslaving treaty upon the Dominicans, they refused to sign. Where in Haiti today a dummy government carries out the occupation's wishes, a constant potential wedge to split the Haitians, in Santo Domingo absolute unity exists.

In this article, the author describes his experience of travelling to the Dominican Republic and disillusion of the people of Haiti, about all the American things. Among thinking Haitians, the author found that beneath the universal discontent were varying shades of sentiment. First, there is the group, by far the largest, represented by the Union Patriotique, which sees the American Occupation exactly for what it is--an illegal and unwarranted assault conceived in wholly selfish motives on the rights and liberty of an independent, small, and always friendly state and stands in consequence for unconditional return of unqualified Haitian sovereignty at the earliest moment. A second group, which includes a fair proportion of the small business men, while longing for the withdrawal of the Americans still hopes that some kind of an advantageous situation in the nature of a compromise may be worked out-it wants Haiti's liberty but still hopes for unselfish American assistance.

Presents a letter to the editor suggesting international control in Africa after the war.

The article gives information on the books "Shall It Be Again?," by John Kenneth Turner and "Imperial Washington," by R.F. Pettigrew. Turner's book is a valiant unmasking, which concludes that "There remains a single chance to derive a benefit from the war just past. It is to perceive the lesson and act upon it"; and he furnishes a concrete program, which by itself refutes any possible criticism that he is not "constructive," a program which might well embody the foreign policy of any future political party that aims honestly to serve cardinal American principles. The U.S. Senator Pettigrew's book approaches the same subject from a different angle.

Presents several letters to the editor, on socio-political conditions of the U.S. Issues related to the financial and commercial interest of the Far East, raised in the Washington Conference; Major causes of labor riots; Rules governing loans given to farmers in the U.S.

The article focuses on the book "The Brass Check. A Study of American Journalism," by Upton Sinclair. This is the most important book which every reader will want to pass on to his neighbor. A fascinating and thorough treatise upon the American press, based on a variety of personal experiences and on contacts, direct and indirect, with newspapers, newspaper stories, and newspaper men, it is an expose and an indictment. It marshals fact after fact and arrays incident after incident; waving aside hearsay and rumor. Respecting no locality, it covers metropolitan and country newspapers.

It was Charlotte, Princess of Monaco, who dreamed of empire. Franz Josef's jealousy and court intrigues had removed Maximilian from the governor-generalcy of Lombardo-Venezia. He had been personally popular, but not strong enough to satisfy the Vienna militarists. He retired to Miramar, his castle across the bay from Trieste. "Max is planning," Charlotte wrote a friend, "to place a fountain on the terrace, to build at the garden's edge a Moorish kiosk, furnished in Oriental style." He also contemplated a winter aviary filled with exotic birds. Charlotte had exacted a daily mass, and for it a chapel was designed so that even the servants could hear-from the vestibule.

The Sunday after the arrival of the U.S. Senatorial Commission, a Te Deum was celebrated in the historic cathedral which shelters Columbus's tomb and bridges the longest time span in the hemisphere. When the oldest Mayflower Pilgrim was as yet unborn Santo Domingo flourished. It is for this culture and this civilization that Archbishop Nouel has been the irrepressible protagonist. He was still feeble and he feared to encroach on his sorely needed strength. So a questionnaire was submitted, but even its unequivocal responses is amplified with a gentle humor mellowing the unquenchable fire which five years of martial law couldnot dim. For the Archbishop too has borne a heavy cross.