Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-09-02

10 circumstances, 1nelf zeal, CnelF pFdC.
ticai care for necessary details, their
sense of the need for business habit
and cooperative movement, the whole
of Great Britain became a great field
of organized workers, ready to do what
ever service the regularly organized
they are doing is brought out in this
valuable record. It Is a most suggest
i've and definitely informing book for
Americans to study, since America, too.
tide of energy whose immediate need
is more ways, and more definite ways.
and better organized and co-ordinated
ways. along which this energy may
country. The book repays more than a
mere reading. 1t is well worth the
careful study tof everybody. since every
body is just now more eager to serve
his country than to do any other thing
in the whole wide world.
CONFESSIONS OF A WAR CORRE-
SPONDENT. By William D. Shep-
herd. illustrated. New York: Har-
per & Bros.
The way-wise and Jealous war cor
respondent occupies, after all, one Of
the most slightly" places in the war.
From the ready seizure OF opportunity
and the discipline that results in i'm
mediate selection and projection of
matter. he stands as a reliable source
of information and as the best of in
terpreters about the meanings and i'm
plfcations of events. Mr.. Shepherd, ex-
perienced in war work, here gives an
admirably vivid account of men and
things seen on the various war fronts.
Some central figure is, as a rule, Sc
lected by him as the pivot upon which
reVolves host of significant and in
teresting incidents. 1t is the human
n a
from this side he draws the content of
the war itself. A truly picturesque
drama whose writer was among the
first to visit the British front in France.
front and with the Austrians at Pre-
mysl. He saw the Italians fighting
among the Alps. He witnessed the
Serbian retreat and was with the forces
ence takes shape here in innumerable
scenes of vivid and stirring war move
ments.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. By
Stephen Crane, author of The Little
Regiment" etc. New York: D. APP
pleton & Co.
Sometimes a book of genuine sub
stance and power of appeal has to wait
for readers by reason of the fact that
it arrives at a time when the public
mind is turned away from the interests
with which it has to do. Such. one
of Courage" This is story of the civil
war. Twenty years ago and more,
when it was first published, interest in
the civil war had ebbed to a point
where even the good story could not re-
vive it. And the new war had not yet
risen over the horizon to fan again the
martial spirit. These were money
making years, years of industrial
growth. of social problems; years in
which almost every other kind of fic-
ton took precedence over that based
on war. Now is the moment to present
again this admirable picture of war,
this study of the soul of a young SOL
der in the midst of a terrible confusion
Now is the time when one wants to
get into the hearts of these fighting
boys to catch something-if maybe
of the feelings and thoughts that are
it not sometimes fear? OF certainty
1t is. And it is for us to enter into all
of it that may by any means be opened
to us. If you are after light in this
Badge of Courage" is one of the books
for you to read now.
Dominic deans. A Novel. By Ellis
Parker Butler. New York: Flem-
ing H. Revell Company.
InlS Is book OF war time, out not
of war. 1t is. rather. a picture-a
forty-year-long picture-of life on the
banks of the Mississippi where the
great opening up of the country fol-
lowing upon the close of the civil war
made a belated beginning. The swift
railways. springing so rapidly in those
days, left marooned many a hamlet
along the leisurely waterway of the
This is the story of such a
hamlet. Unframed here is group of
the western folk absorbed in a multi
tude of incidents each of which con-
tributes to the general effect of Ameri-
can realism in it's earlier and simpler
aspects. The central figure is David
Dean-Dominie Dean-a half-pathetic
and wholly noble creation. who is ami
mated with much the same sort of
as stamps Lincoln in his
daily habit Of life. big man. who
just naturally takes his place on the
right side of all the questions that pro-
pound themselves to the community
lob ho1 Sc d