Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16

three days." said the Breton admiral.
Ronarc'h, to his command of French
marines, who. for the time being. were
turned infantrymen. The three days
| stretched to two full weeks with the
| sailor-soldiers still holding on" This
was Dixmude. where 5000 French sail
ors and 5000 Belgians held back three
| German army corps. One man to six.
The stand at Dixmude insured the
| safety of the Belgian army and en-
| abled the armies Of the north to with
| draw behind the User, past the full
ferocity of the German attack. In so
| far as this was possible, M. LIE Goffic
took the story of Dixmude from those
who themselves created this new Their
mopylae of France. Personal expert
ences and recollections of this survivor
ters from these fighting sailormen.
written in the brief respites of the de-
Tense. supply the bulk of material for
this story of surprising heroism. These
immediate sources are, however. sup
plemented by official records and re-
ports which sketch in outline the de-
Tense and fall of Dixmude. Within
these outlines scene after scene of
bravery incredible unfolds, story after
story of grandly courageous acts, It
was at Dixmude that Commander jean
Mot, fallen prisoner to the Germans.
was shot and then bayonetted as too
troublesome impedimenta Of the march
The worth of the story lies in the
is truly an epic story, one that will
stand as such even among the great
events that have followed since the day
Of Dixmude.
THE HUMAN BOY, AND THE WAR.
By Eden Phillpotts, author Of
"Brunels Tower" etc New York:
The Macmillan Company.
This book is joy as we'll as a sur
prise. One had not thought of Eden
Phillpotts as caring to write a boy
The surprise comes. therefore, from his
having done it. The joy bubbles up out
of the book itself. book, which in
the fullness and vigor of its boy flavor,
rivals "Penrod' and Seventeen" those
Harrington masterpieces of boydom
The Merivale school is the setting of
these stories, each Of which brings out
some particular boy who, sooner or
later. comes pretty near to being an
other Joffre. or Petain, or Haig, or
another among the heroes of the allies
All together, these tales simply sizzle
with hatred for the Germans They
would, since this is an English school
The stories are delicious. The wonder
is that dozens of writer's are not en-
gagged upon this particular theme For
in every town and countryside the
wood over boys are fighting this war.
Wherever two or more meet, the battle
begins. and. prior to the combat itself,
such marchings as there are. and such
blasts of music, relic of earlier wars,
and such trying out of the latest big
guns. and fire curtains, and gas masks.
and digging of trenches, with the rest
of the internal business. And such big
patriotism and such fine hatred as there
is among them. 1t is all in this book.
every bit of it, in the most apprecia-
tive treatment conceivable.
THE REAL MOTIVE. By Dorothy
Garfield, author of The Bent Twig."
etc. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Seventeen of the Dorothy Garfield
short stories come together in this
volume. Varied as these are in char
acter, incident. background and final
effect, they meet here upon the kim
ship of a common foundation. All of
them are based on the hidden springs
of human action, on the real motive
some outward appearance.
If the word wholesome" had not fall
en- into bad company and lost its