The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
"GOLDEN LADS,

can whose testimony was incorporated in the Bryce report and whose deposi tions have been officially, used by the French government as the basis of a fu- ture history of the war. One the su preme points at issue in this conflict the author is able to say, "I saw" MT Gleason, carried the Bel gian green pass, and served with the famous Hector Munro Ambulance corps, whose military leader wasgthe son of the Belgian prime minister. Mrs. Gleason was the only American woman decorated by King Albert for heroic work done under fire.
 The book is all fact-but not cold fact; the authors having felt things as we'll as seen them could not help writing of them with the fire of emo tion, and it istsafe to say that.no piece of fiction ths'year will more certainly touch the finest depths of the eaders heart than this true story of the Golden Lads"
 "SUSANlLEGG AND HER LOVE
 AFFAIRS"
 By Anne Warner. Little, Brown & Co.,,
 publishers. Boston.
 AIHCSL cWSIy III AlneTiCd WHO reads books s.or magazines knows Susan we'll enough to call her by her hrst name even. and a few millions have wondered what really became of her. They will learn as they read these stories, the last that Anne Warner wrote, possessing Nthat same inimita- ble humor which caused her to be ranked as one of the,drollest of, Ameri- can humorists. Mrs. Lathrop, her son Jathrop, now become wealthy, Grand ma Mullins and many other favorite characters reappear, and in the end Susan surprises everyone by her TO- mantle marriage to one Mr. Kettle well, who is bald headed and has false teeth and a bullet in his leg, but is otherwise as perfect, as a man of his age could be. And then the curtain rings down on Susan C1egg for good and all.
 BY MOTOR TO THE FIRING LINE" By Walter Hale. Forty illustrations
 on tint and two maps. The Century
 company, publishers. New York.
 MT. Hale went into the trenches with an unusual perceptive equipment; and so the things he saw and heard and felt were not the things that register themselves as important to the con- ventional war correspondents and journalistic novelists. and not in their manner does MT. Hale give to the reader what he collected while streak ing across shattered France in a motor or while toiling through a frst-line trench under the whining shells.
 The booy, By Motor to the Firing Line" is illustrated with 10 drawings by the author and with 30 halftones from photographs But, of course, Mir Hale was seeing everybody and every inc nj cto all IU 1, b easily and naturally raises pictures in the mind of the reader-of Rheims, for instance. of Arras. Soissons Scuchez etc, etc. In addition, there is a dis tinction, a delicacy. a sensitive hu- ~maneness in the manner of the book that separates 1t from the mass of war time volumes.
 PLEADING OPINIONS BOTH FOR AND
 AGAINST NATIONAL DEFENSE" Collected and arranged by Hudson
 Maxim. Hearst's International L-
 brary company. publishers. 119 West
 Fortieth street New York
 In "Foreword" to Leading Opin- ions, Both for and Against National Defense" Hudson Maxim, who collected and arranged the contents. says:
 At this time. when the people of the other great nations of the world are destroying one another's property rob- ping one another and cutting one an- others throats. it is only natural that the people of this country should begin to inquire about our ability to protect our homes from destruction. our prop erty from plunder. and our threats from being cut. in the event of our being drawn into this war. or into a war with any of the billigerent nations after the present war Is over
 The people are asking questions of those in whom they have confidence asking questions of those who are SUD- posed to know what our needs actual 1y are for national defense.
 The persons of whom the peop,e ara 1nqufring are divided into two main classes namely. the paciflsts or advo cates or unarmed preparedness and the martialists who believe in armed pre paredness against war.
 The pacihsts differ wildly among themselves. Some hold the extreme opinion that we should wholly abandon all armed preparation that, in fact we should disarm to set the other nations great moral example and seek to maintain peace In that way, while oth- CTS believe that we should have some armed preparedness. but not much. Tn. martialists also differ among then,- selves. from tho extreme opinion that Oe should have only little armed nre-
 
 nave such adequate armed protection as would insure the country againsr war
 While the pacifists and the martial ists differ widely from each other. and among one another, regarding the mat ter of armed preparedness, they are however, all in perfect agreement thai we want peace and that we should take such measures IS shall best insure the country against war
 Therefore. there is but one question al issue. and 1t Is as to the best and < most practical insurance that should he sought against war
 This country being a democracv tba destiny of the nation rests unon the opinions of the people. That thing ana only that thing will be done. or can ba done. which the majority of the people believe ought to be done. It is. there fore. the plain duty of the people-and happily they are seeing more and more that 1t is their duty-to give the neces- sary attention and study to this snb- Ject to inform themselves upon 1t. and shape their opinions according to the evidence.
 Consequently. the essentials of the reasons and arguments of both the pacinsts and the martialists should be laid before the people for their ex animation and appraisement, and for their guidance according to the ey. dence as they see and understand it.
 It IS Tor this purpose that I am send ing this booklet, together with my book, "Defenseless America" to a cer. tain number or men and women among the leaders of American thought and Q Ve z rc nf