Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-06
Books and Authors


IN June. Miss Bottome writes TO the
Century Company that she has recently
toured England with her cousin. Lady
Portsmouth. visiting the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association canteens
for female munition workers. She
promises article to tho Century
Magazine descriptive OF the work beinE
carried on by women for women and
girls employed in munition factories.
The article should be OF especial in
terest to-day 10 American women. who
may shortly face conditions here SINH
lar TO those in England
Demctra VaIsa (Mrs. Kenneth Brown).
whose latest book. The Heart OF the
Bankans," has just been published by
Houghton Mifriin Company. has spent
tho last few months in Europe. She
tells OF an interesting conversation
which took place In England. through
which she discovered a new type OF
hero. young woman. whose husband
and brothers were at the front. made
the statement that the hardest role
was played by the women who had 10
sit at home and wait. and with this
Mrs Kenneth Brown agreed. There
upon" she says. IAN old gentleman
from the other corner. in vehement pas
sonate tones, which made the pRthos
of what he said tho more poignant
cried NO madam. no. The hardest
Of the old men. who are longing ia
serve, but who cannot because they
are too DID,. and somehow he managed
to convey to me the tragedy OF these
old men who long 10 carry arms for
their country. and cannot"
n. Thomas curtin. author OF The
Land Of Deepening Shadow" George H.
Doran Company. tells in this account
Of internal conditions in Germany,
story which shows in vivid contrast
the lighting spirit OF the English and
German soldier. The story is also a
many's spiritual isolation. when
Maubeuge fell. heard Germans OF all
classes boast OF how their soldiers
struck the British. who offered to
shake hands after they surrendered to
the Germans. Nearly two years later
during the Battle Of the Somme. some
Berlin papers copied from London
papers "A renort Of how British SOL
dieI- presented arms to the group Of
prisoners who had stubbornIy defended
Ovillers. called the attention of sew
eral German acquaintance to this as
an evidence of AElo-SaXon sporting
spirit. hut ] got practically the same
response In every case. Yes. they are
beginning at last to see what we can
do was the angry remark"
Lieutenant ]. S. Smith. who has just
written book on Trench Warfare"
winch u. i. putton ~ 20. nave IN tram
for early publication, has lived. thus
far. brief life but busy one. His
/ twenty-four years have been packed
| full OF work and adventures and ex-
citements and achievements Born in
Philadelphia, when he was Ave years
| old he was taken to Alaska by his
| father. who participated in the great
| gold rush OF 1898. IN Skagway he was
| one of the first white children to at
| tend school. When he grew older he
! lived up and down the North Pacific
! coast. working as lumberjack, miner,
surveyor, and whatever else came to
| his hand. When the war broke out
| he was cowboy on ranch in Bri-
| Ssh Columbia, and enlisted at once.
! After training i'm Canada and Eng
| land service in Flanders, and further
| training in an officers cadet battalion
| no was commissioned as n second lieu
| tenant In the Royal Scots and served
| with them on the French front. In
| March OF this year he received three
| months leave OF absence and returned
| TO the United States. where he wrote
| his forthcoming volume on Trench
! Warfare" 1t promises to be one OF
| the greatest importance to the officers
| and men OF the United States forces,
| for 1t will give them the hrst compre-
! hensive manual yet printed of this new
! development of warfare. The author
has watched and taken part in the es-
| lablishment and evolution of this sys-
| tenn ever since the beginning OF the
war. and he presents full technical de-
| tails OF building, holding and defend
ing OF bombing squads. and all the
| many features OF an entirely new
method of warfare.