Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-16
WAR BOOKS CONTINUE,
LED BY VOLUME BY
EX-SEN. BEVERIDGE
Volumes of Much Interest on
Many Aspects of Worlds
Most Absorbing Event
HINDENBURG IN LONDON


The Iaudable desIre TO learn. no far as
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on 1Ni'ei '''i' 'ouiU, VI '"e moves 'N
the morale OF the European peoples now
engaged in vast conflict and to present the
a,dines to our o,vn neopia that thew ,,,ipbt
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pe 'le Oet'er 'o'e W Juuse vi ''ie ooilu'-
tions in war-torn Europe Is responsible
for an entertaining volume, what Is Back
OF the War" (The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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bert D. Beveridge' some parts OF the work
have already been presented to the reading
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noaIi,jo,, thnt ,,rrn,,,,ds tho SontraI ,sn,
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pin.Iii,, W. tho,r confdaSco IN tboir ornopi1n-
tinn ana IN tho thoro,gb Lnowlodgo ~ tho
meaning of tho ,var noasaased nv Tho Indi-
,jdunls of the countrv rho French owe
tbeir oonadenca to "a sublime natriotIsrn
and n Prn, boIIef that 1SngIand will fnaIiv
send them sufficient military reinforcennenrs
10 defeat their common foe
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The volume possesses Vslue 10 Amerl-
Vii niay a large mart IN the ,,ediatIon and
IN thn Gpoi no.co
Eranl, II SIn,onds takes as the title of
b,s iittIe hook about Verdun the answer OF
Erance IN the Cerman hordes which at
t,cLod tho fortress HIIs no raeseront mas,
,rhsv ebaiI nor mass" IDouhIedav page
o CO The cb,pters NJ tbie ovceedippIv
~ +ora.,tre, ara avcitino bool, deoI VIII The
tnnogranby NJ Vardnn ire innortance
(znroN and ,ba oarIior e,, ges ~ tho attack
,risn o,,tho. hai;o,,as T., h; ti,Ia hu, ~ ,bo |
NV, we sII,, ,to n,oat rnnss,rlno chontor will
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70 ,ho ,araraIIsStr,o' ,n,ortIon ~ ,,i,,,ng
m Vnrd1,n Nov, that the hattie has cost
sn r,ncI, f. saor,s inconcoiyahIa tbat Iofsro
sho,iS ho,,o honn ,,iIiins- w, - aght ,That
the hqht means much to France can he |
ga tbered from the qIorious dissertation of a
more glorious thing.-the improyisation of a
motor transport when, rail facilities failed
Fra nee, which Mr. SImonds has admirabIy
caught The references to strategy are ali
seems least grounded. Rut for reading II |
is an excellent study
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Antwerp to Gallipoll' Charles scribner's
Sons, New York;. In consequence he has
written something more important than a
war book" His chapters
based on personal routing through several
war fronts ''play up" the high points" of
his STORIES" But he is more than merely
reportoral. for he analyses military moves
and makes clear racial and political motives
and prejudices. Particularly valuable are
IN the Balkans.
MY Fourteen Months at the Front" Gilt
tle Brown Co., Boston) Is subtitled "An
american Boys Baptism of Fire" 1t gives
In much detail the experiences Of William
J. Robinson, a lad who varied service, |
and he was able to recreate his impressions,
experiences and deductions. His
story makes no pretense to literary dis
inctIon, though 1t is clearly written. but is
IF value as first-hand account of many
interesting things about the early phases OF
he great war
The American edition Of "FIindenburg's
March Into London" (John c. Winston
Company, Philadelphia) needs, as far as
is text is concerned no introduction to the