Evening star., 1917-04-01

the fundamental significance of the war
in relation to the new Europe that
must result from the struggle. Among
those contributing to this many-sided
view are Viscount James Bryce. David
Lloyd George, Arthur J. Balfour.
George Trevelyan, II. H. AsGuith, NJ
Maurice Barres. Sir Edward Grey, Prot.
Gilbert Murray and Edward Price Bell
Asquith, in a reply to the German
chancellor. explains what Britain IS
fighting for. as Lord Haldane also dis
cusses it as the war of democracy. Why
England is in the war and what she
hopes from the future. not only for
England, but for Europe and the world
is discussed by Viscount Grey OF Fallo-
den. David Lloyd George tells why the
allies will win-they Will win because
all of them are Just as solid and deter
mined as was England, whose sheer OBJ
stinacy wore down Napoleon after
twenty years of warfare" Maurice
Barres gives an eloquent and impas-
stoned picture of the noble soul Of
France. And at the opening of this
discussion from so many points of view
James Bryce sums up the whole matter
in an important statement of deep in
sight and profound philosophic grasp
JOSEPH PENNELL's PICTURES OF
WAR WORK IN ENGLAND. Phila-
delphia: ]. B. Ltppincott Company.
Like Mr. Rudyard Kipling. who makes
such splendid use Of mere machinery
for the purpose of story telling. Mr.. Pen
nell has discovered the pictorial content
of machinery Reproduced here from Il
series of drawings and Autographs are
pictures of the muEition works of Eng
land Ii is hardly conceivable that the
incredible industrial energy that has turn
ed England into one gigantic gun shop
could be transferred to print as complete
ly as il Is presented here. The book fair
ly huns with motion and achievement.
Its effect is weird, and n bit terrifying.
1t is as If man had created something that
had surpassed him in power in exact au-
tomatism in tirelessnesS, in productivity.
Yet, all that the artist has done is to
showroom mine TO war trench-the
making of munitions. The pictures are
as beautiful as they are sinister in effect.
Riding through Pittsburgh ar night one
goes back involuntarily to his childish
imaginings of he'll That is what lie does
here too Not so far aheld, either, when
one comes TO think of il. Along with the
pictures are bits of technical explanation
by Mr. Penuen. glimpses OF the artists
interpretation, and gliutS of humor that
are as grim as the subject. MI ii S'.
Wells who introduces TINS book OF prints,
supreme effort of western civilization to
save itself and the world from the domi-
nance Of the reactionary German inn
perialism that has seized the weapons and
resources OF modern science
AFRAID. By Sidney Dark. author of
'aThe Man Who Would Not Be King"
etc, New York: John Lane Com
pany.
This is the story of Jasper Sedley.
coward. Somewhere along the line a
timid ancestor. one or more. had put
into the boy the fear of pain. And
sinoa ~ 10 easier to condemn fear than
to understand it, the world toe took toll
of the boys spirit for TINS frallty OF
the flesh. The story opens with Jas
ner NOT vet eight years old. admitting
pefi to big aot George e sedisy. his father, that
down upon himself thereby a scora as
49, Ett1a afraid child. The story ends
with the death of JASPER sedley on the
French front And this is a hsro,s
deaah Retween thase Two po'nis enere