The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-21


 book too from which to make striking quotations.
 THE WAR WEEK BY WEEK"
 OBSERVATIONS FROM LIFE By Edward s. Martin. F. P. Dutton &
 Co.,. publishers. New York.
 No editorials that you have read in your morning or evening papers are more entertaining or well written than Life's editorials. Nothing that you have read on the war, in newspapers, books or mag azines. can by any possibility be any thing like Iife's editorials. because Life Is just Life-different. absolutely, from anything else on earth.
 "The War Week by Week. by MT. Ed ward s. Martin. of Life is bound to be live book because it comes out of Isfe. It is just what you would expect Life book on the war to be like: alive, bright, original, prophetic.
 JUNGLE SAM'S MODERN MIRACLES By William Atherton Dupuy. Illustrated
 from photographs. Frederick A. Stokes
 Co.,, Publishers, New York.
 This is a record of the big things the government is doing. "The federal gov- ernment in the bickerings and compromise of surface politics appears in it's worst light" But all the time it is accomplish
  canal. if less concrete and spectacular, that make for the well-being of human ity and are in line with the ages great advance in knowledge, organization and machinery. A glimpse at these really big undertakings is calculated to reas- sure one that the United States is the greatest human force in the world to- day" and to arouse patriotic pride in anybody.
 Some of the chapter headings are: Con quering Contagion," Awakening the Fil- ipino' Revealing Weather Secrets. "Recompensng the Indian,' Transform ing Deserts" "Shackling the Mississippi "Blanketing the World With Wireless, " Taking the Census, Preaching Sanita- tion to the World Accommodating Hoards of Gold" etc. These things are bound to be interesting, and they are inn portant for girls and boys to know about. The authors style is imaginative; he is capable of putting good deal of spirit and interest into his subjects. He revels l in picturesque statistics. making one feel the size of things graphically-show for instance, pictures like the entire navy carrying the gold of the United States in bags holding about 150 pounds. or the water of the Elephant Butte dam cover ing the whole of New York. the Brons and Brooklyn up to the second story making business possible only through 1 the use of boats.''
 l PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN H BRINTON."
 Introduction by S Weir Mitchell. Int
 Neale Publishing Co.,, Publishers. New l York.
 The "Personal Memoirs of John H Rrinton." military surgeon, U. s. V. 1S61-1S65, Is a work of the utmost i'm portance in it's relation to the civil war l Of 1t the late Dr. s. Weir Mitchell said. "In my opinion it stands alon, Il as a unique contribution from a physi clan of distinction to the medical ant | military history of the war. 1t is { wonderful story of personal devotion sacrifice, courage and intelligence. This Is high praise, coming, as it does from one of the greatest men of letters that America has produced. But it i T praise none too high
 II Few surgeons of the civil war, 1 any, enjoyed the varied duties and tn close personal contact with men of dis tinction that came to the author Uf thi Look. As medical director in the field
 he established some of the greates 1, field hospitals of the war, and engage, in every form of activity that coul, E fall to the lot of a military surgeon The book naturally enough covers field of it's own. It contains many in ] tlIHdte SketcneS or great men, hitherto unpublished anecdotes, all writrcn il an intimate and charming style tha makes this work a part of America permanent literature
 II Dr.. Brinton served on the staff O General Grant, of whom he was close I personal friend, as major. He founde, the Army Medical museum in Washing ton. He numbered among his friend
 many of the greatest men of the worl, of his period. Consequently. here is
 book of reminiscence of the first i'm portance.
 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED IRE II VIEWS LATER)
 DER TAG, OR THE TRAGIC MAN, l by J. M. Barrie; Charles Scribner Sons, publishers. New York.
 WITH THE ALLIES" by Richart Harding Davis. illustrated; Charles l Scribner's Sons. publishers. New l York;
 FIGHTING IN FLANDERS" by l. l Alexander Powell, F. R. c. &; Charles 1 Scribner's Sons, publishers New | York.
 THE HIDDEN CHILDREN" by Rob 1 ert w. Chambers, with illustration II by A. l. Keller; D. Appleton X Co. | publishers, New York.