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thrilling as tale aooo1
,,,ot,rr man-eating tigers or pursuing
rare and ferocious beasts in darkest
Afric, But the proof that such may oe
~ c.se ;s at hand in this book os
c.an coroas Here is the amazing story
of fighting yellow fever in the trop''s.
g. ~ C,nba and then in Panama. And
t,,s 10 nothing more nor less than
,,oso,ito hunt. The French. WORKING
a, the canal prior to our acquisition oi
+ha rieh+s Of this enterprise. died IKE
shaen fully a third of their nuhoer
..cb year The same situation, shouio
~ nrevail with US also. gave warrant
~ the loss Of more than three thousaho
men annually This was unthlnhaoie'
And 40 the sanitation commission grew
with Gen. Gorgas at Its head. anu
here. In detail, the writer gives iuii
account Of the means by which Panama
was transformed from the DANCE ,I, zond nd
of the world to most heaItGiuts th;s
inviting locality alt s,orY rne Of n shting yellow
rever in Havana immedlasely aitea I
the Spanish-American war. ttnu thnn
romance could be more eNci..ns cot
this account of the various aueS.S
mn for the source of this deadly ois-
ease. Contrary to common benel' sal-
itation was not its preVeh.I t;on
Havana grew. under the sa.Ia sani,ae.1n
commission, to be as clean as a wnlstle;
R,,t still yellow fever appeared ano
throye One theory of the source 9i
yellow fever after anotner wac aaiIy
coined. tried and dismissed finaias ~
these narrowed to the mosquito as tne
origin of the trouble. And here one Is
dumfounded at the patience ana utt. =
conouerable energy OF sclehce IN r.1
pursuit of truth For these ts ai nroved
mast peradventure that, out OF apous
seven hundred kinds of mosquitoes. u
was only the female of one kind, the
stegomyia, that could taS anu anS
mil the disease. and could do this oniy
under certain conditions, all OF wnicn
these men reduced to terms or perlece
exactness And from this point OF ois-
covery the story goes on WIN the Suo
seuuent work of dealing with yeiio"
fever in the tropics. If this were only
a story of the march of science along
the lines of general human "eiiare -
would be an absorbing story. but y.
has it's heroes and its martyrs, as Wen:
So ii is tinged with very real ana
poignant sorrow. 1t is plain and un-
pretentious tale. told in eVeryaas
speech, and shot with glints OF klno
of grim humor. and with CLEANS or sen
timent mellowing it's careful devotion
to full disclosure of fact. rms Is
not a book for the physician alone. nor
for the official guardians OF puoNc
health alone. 1t is miracle book OF
modern science also, and book or the
best of patriotism for everybodys
readying.
THE CRY FOR JUSTICE. An Anthol-
oxy of Literature of Social Protest.
Edited by Upton Sinclair. Introduc-
tion by Jack London. Philadelphia:
The John C. Winston Company.
You will not like this book. That
does not matter. 1t was not made
merely to please and divert you. Rather
was it contrived to disturb you. to
convince, and finally to haunt you with
its converging tides of protest against
the manifold sorrows of the social
world. And it will do all of this For
1t will pursue and ultimately possess
YOU, though you may not subscribe to
the doctrine of socialism for which TINS
anthology stands. in sum, as the ad-
vocate and champion. From the TOUR
quarters of the earth, out OF the past
FIVE thousand years, and from many
modes of speech. Mr.. Sinclair has gain.
cred here those vital protests against
the social order which. in every age,
have been voiced in a most compelling
power of appeal. The book is, there
fore. world literature, as we'll as the
gospel of a universal humanism. Phil
and essayists. hundreds of them. from
ancient days down to the present mo-
ment, have contributed to 1t In COM
mon volume of passionate and vehe,
unfairness, against the burden OF the
worlds needless suffering. a message
of tremendous effect. The book is ad-
mirably planned for practical use; II !,
"Mammon," Children. The Outcast,
1.-The Church and so on. 1t is 1ndexed
by subjects. by authors and by pup
lishers Geographic notes on the writ
ers add also to the interest of the
whole sixty pages Of art repeat In
this field what Is at the same time be-
ing said through the medium OF nteIa-
ture An introduction by Jack London
in his characteristic vein of stanch
socialism rounds this remarkable book
to full and finished completion.
THE HIGHER PATRIOTISM. By John
Grier Hibben, president Of Princeton
University. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
The first of the four essays Of this
volume by the president of Princeton
discuss patriotism in its aspect Of serv-
ice. Another contrasts the characteris-
tics of might and right as national
ideals. One analyses adequate pre-
paredness for national defense in it's
relation to peace, and one defines the
martial va1or that peace, no less than
..t pDGe Sedicases nation by
the people of that nation. to the service
of the world. Along this road lies uni
versAl and permanent peace through
the cooperative influences Of q feder-
aAed world. But the way. as yet. is not
far travelled. and the national mind is
forced, IN consequence, to q considera-
ton Of preparedness against invasion
AZ this point. DR.. Hibben openly re-
xyUeA on the one hand. the pacihst cry
Tor complete disarmament, and on the
other the government policy OF make
aha1e and partial preparation for ma
tiona1 defense. He defines militarism
a. that theory Of state which counts
The government IS part of the army.
rather than the army as q part OF the
government And he sounds the note of
warning for the time whom new inter
national readjustments will have to
meet this theory and resist It's rever-
sionary impulse toward . lower stage
of civilization. The little volume sums
to a broad vision of the practical ap-
proaches to the highest ideals of ma
tional peace and International amity.
At THE FRONT WITH THREE
ARMIES. BY Granville Fortescue.
special correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph. New York: Brentan0s
Determined In purpose and inventive
in plan. Granville Fortescue. special
correspondent Of the Daily Telegraph.
appears to have succeeded better than
most of his craft in covering the
ground of the great war. This is the
story of his adventures in the war zone.
In Belgium at its invasion by the Ger
man army he was an eyewitness of the
Belgium to France, and from France
to Germany. he moved, gathering In
Vulnerable impressions and q host of
facts concerning the different armies in