Show I Complete Writings I I of Woodrow Wilson i Newly Published I Vital Style of War President President dent Makes Book Immensely Immensely Im- Im Woodrow is is revealed firsthand first hand through the lasting things he wrote and said in a volume three set of books just published under the title Selected Literary and Political Papers and Addresses of Woodrow Wilson Because of the WIlson prize essay contest It has been arranged to dIstrIbute I the sets of books at only 2 Ida Tarbell has contrIbuted a preface and Ray Stannard Baker Bakel and Professor William E B Dodd the introduction to the books the Wilson man and his ideas ideas- Is portrayed clearly and without an outsiders outsider's bIas We Ve see hIm through the crystal clear medium or of hIs own I prose st style le Hit Hi w writings art are dynamic dy- dy vital and Immensely lating f This selection begInnIng with the I first article written while he was wasa wasa a student at Princeton and ending with his last public address shows the gradual illumination of hIs ideals under the buffeting of ex- ex Practically all the theorIes theories theo theo- rIes on government and society whIch lie later elaborated into political po- po proposals are evident In the earlier pages And the selection throughout is excellent Nearl Nearly all the important documents of his late political career are Included Some of the war papers particularly the loing list of popular speeches In favor of the league of nations have be- be ben been n omitted n But these largely duplicate du- du plicate One ne another and are available available avail avail- able for the student In other forms To 10 study these books is to get a liberal education in both the theory of American government and Pits its practical What makEs makE's this work extremely Interesting is the Inclusion of the literary essays In a sense they are of one piece with the rest of his work yet they reveal to us a man deeply read In the a humanities even when confined to subjects purely lIterary Is worthy to rank with the best America has To judge from the publishers publishers' the occasIon whIch has hall |