The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-03
LATE NEWS FROM THE LAND Of BOOKS
A PSYCHOLOGICAL STORY
OF THE GREAT WAR
Paul Bourgeois Interesting Account of the Expe.
ricn:es of a Great Surgeon.
Montana Vigilantcs Our Government Analvzcd-
The Tourists Northwest Shakespeare Lecture.

t. account Of the great rCe
IN raul Bourgeois story Of Tho Nigh.
Comcth. translated by G. Frederic
Lees &c i. putnam's Sons). will
or,egue's house was n place of splen-
dor. I. was n museum OF art. It's
paintings OF the Spanish school
slowed wonderfully in their ancient
frames. There were flowers in the
rooms, always a splendid display; there
were servants In livery. there was
silver plate.
The story calls O~rteSue an Arabian
magician, also n Parisian of the Pa
r.sians. lie had boxes NJ the theatre.
at the opera. lie had three automo-
hiles. In morals he paired with Dr..
Faustus. At the age Of ~ he married
a handsome lady OF 20. She adored
him.
II IL A terrible part Of the story
that narrates the surgeons revelation
to his young assistant. Marsal:
I've. You shall judge for yourself"
This was In Ortegue's wal hospital.
The great war had Just begun. Mar
cal purports to relate all the story.
"A sofa used for examinations en-
numbered one of the OF the
little room. He stretched himsel.
upon t., undid his waistcoat. raised
his knees and guiding my hand said:
There, under the floating ribs. feel
about. Do you feel the edge of the
liver with its little nodus? Yes? Now
feel the hillary vesicle. Have you got
4? Notice that pear shaped pro.
duced by the bile. which no longer
c!rculates. Remember Co%urvoisier-
Terriers sign. The VISIBLE is d!lated.
Therefore II Is not a question of a
hillary stone 1t was a cancer. OF
course" The surgeons assistant knew
hcS to tell his tale in IA way TO make
the reader shudder. He was a master
Of pathological description.
Young lie Gallie. a soldier. Mime.
vi uS y SouSliAs ibio SoiIiC " u NiSAA'
He is religious. The surgeon talks 70
Marsal about him. We find In what
re says a reference 10 an affection said
TO be suffered by the German En-
peror. He comes 10 talk to us OF
the kindness OF God" the surgeon
says. He himself is young and ro-
bust. a fine lad-you have seen him.
He may be killed tomorrow. and at
this very minute in Europe there are
millions of young men like him. who
throw themselves into the butchery.
for nothing, because an idiotic idea Of
conquest passed through tho brain u
a degenerate. suffering from a suppu-
rat!ve and incurahle otitis." Pres
entity We see the surgeons way Of
supporting the pain and terror OF h!s
own trouble. He takes n hypodermic
syringe from a drawer. passes the
needle through the fame OF an alcohol
lamp. fills the syringe with morphine
and injects the dose into his arm. I,
10 curious to find him steril!z.nS the
needle to protect himself from ore
poison. filling his veins with another,
and conscious hat he is dying OF a
third.
The details OF the progress OF the
surgeons malady Is not spared by
Marsal. There IL more that is dis
turb!ng when the wounded soldiers
begin 10 arrive at the hospital. Two
were blind, a third was struck wi h
aphasia. an other in a semi-comatose
state uttered every now and then
tina. meningeal cry. the harshness OF
which. once heard. II never forgot