The sun., 1916-01-08
ABOUT THE WAR.


ABOUT THE WAR.
A further record OF experiences
along the French front is found In T..
Alexander Powelrs "Vive la France"
(Charles Scribners Sons). BY this
time the author. like the other war
correspondents, has learned that all
he can report are picturesque scenes,
incidents of human interest. things
that he happens to see himself which
Will appeal to readers at home, and
has dropped military strategy and
higher politics. This volume tells what
the author noticed in the summer
and fall Of last year. and includes ac-
counts Of the airship and the hospital
work and Of life in the trenches. a
lively picture which gives some idea
Of the spirit which animates the
French.
Tho fighting on the opposite front
last summer is described in the sec
ond instalment Of letters by the Lon
don Times correspondent. Stanley
Washburn. in The Russian Cam.
paign, April To August. and the k;vac-
uation of Warsaw. 1915" OCharles
Scrlbner's sons. 1t is in substance
the story Of the German conquest
of Poland AS seen from the lines of
the defeated armies. The authors
confidence in the Russians Is undimin-
ished by what has happened: the
, more valuable part of his record is
that of the state Of mind Of the Rus
slams and of the people OF the coun-
try where the fighting has gone on.
An artists visit tn the scene from
which no trustworthy information
has been allowed TO come Is chronicled
10y Norman Wilkinson IN The Dar-
danelles" u.ongmans. Green and
Company. The author was either
unusually concerned with minding his
own business or else had a salutary
regard OF what the censorship might
do to him. He describes the men who
| are engaged in the lighting and in
very general terms what he was al
lowed to see. lie painted thirty pretty
water cOlors. taking care to put in
no scene of strategic importance. and
made many rough drawings. most OF
!! them thumbnail sketches. which seem
to tell more about the place than the
| finished pictures.
In the Pages dIIistoire" series
tBerger-Levrault. Paris) Henry de
, NariGny writes an instructive account
OF trench methods In Mines ct
/ T'ranchees' the official statements for
| September are included in Les Com
muniques Oficiels. Nv; second rec
ord of naval operations appears in Nos
Marins ct la Guerre. H." covering
the months from April through Au-
| gust, and extracts from patriotic ut
terances make up LES Alsaciens-
! Lorrains en- France"
Some very interesting pamphlets
have been added to the Pages Ac.
| tuelles' series lBloud 1t Gay, Paris. }
They include lie General JofYre," IL .e
General Gallieni' and "Le General
! Pau" by q. Blanchon. lie General
Manoury" by Miles. lie Roi Albert
by Pierre. Nothomb. "L'Iieroiaue Ser
! bic" by Henri Lorin and lie Soldat de
1914" by Rene Doumic, the academi-
clan.
II is from a broad view of genera
history that DIR. Felix Mlynarski re-
CARDS "The Problems of the Coming
Peace" tPolish Book Importing Com
pany. New York; and assigns to Po
land an important part in the settle
ment. He regards Russia, with hel
craving for ConstantinOple and hel
desire for a Pan -Slavonic empire, a:
the real aggressor in the present con
test. an opinion which was shared
up to two years ago by many wht
had little sympathy with German am
bItions. In the settlement he believes
that the contending nations must pa,
the costs with territory outside o
Europe. except in the case Of Russia
She must agree to an independen
or autonomous Poland and to an in
dependent Turkey that retains STAN
boul, a Croatian empire will SETTLE
the Balkan troubles and the freedom
OF the seas must be secured for al
nations. The authors kindly fcellni
for Austria Hungary is noticeable.
On the subsidiary question arisini
out of the war. which is fully as in
teresting to this country as the wal
itself. what the situation OF the United
States would lie II by any chance Il
should be drawn into the conflict
Julius w. Muller has a good deal t,
say. His views as to what woul,
happen If foreign foe were to at
tack the United States are expressed
in the form OF a story In ''The Inva
sion of America" tE. +. Dutton ant
Company, tale which when II ap
peared in THE Sun did much towart
rOusing public sentiment regard,n,
the unprepared condition OF the coun
try. In a briefer and more didacti,
volume, THE A Il c Of National De
fence" (E T. DuttOn and (,nmnanyN