The sun., 1917-05-19

repeatedly fiapp' u me speakers Ike
bevy Ot enthus as'ic girls"
WITH 4 B.-P. Sr0tT N GALLIP-
OIL. ,E. y. Du'tWa a co., By
u. y. Prirstmar. ,xI.I5.,
At the hr-t opening II With B-P
Scou, IN Gali'roli" 30. =. button &C,)
there so1ns . tiSh;entn- - -he heart
Strings The s.uoo.n rrowe clean
clear eyed yo'in., 1ii hor IN l,haki look
ing on os the irontispiece the brief
letter serving az preface which ends
II were Importance 20 OFFER condo
lence. coneretits.e you on being the
father Of this gallant officer." and
hnai'y AZ the last tho abrup. breaking
on ~ tho manuscript In the middle Of
an snccooie. ali stir the sympathies
fng tn" inevitable .rieedy told in the
ire ,.n0 "rhe a..hor WIS killed In
actor N0"emuer |? 1873"
Young Prizes man was scout master
who early N the war enlisted TO do
his DIT" The first part Of the book is
given up To his letters HON" from the
training camp with his regiment The
Bel,en Rulidoes" He " always lively
and cheerful no very profound In his
observations and rather youthful in
his huTor
More significant are his letters de-
! scr!bing the passage out TO the Darda-
nelles Oh the Aquitan MIA and the weeks
spent in camp on A little Greek island.
The landing at Suvla Bay. the first
lime under fire. the frst experience
! With dead and wounded in the trenches
are told with surface imperturba-
| bilty and depth OF feeling truly
/ British Blt some way after that
night q, Suy,a Bay. and the strange
moaning q the wounded coming from
the dark hillside the gay hearted boy
Of the English camp disappeared
Something happened that night. and
the boy never came back. II was
man who wrote the rest of the letters.
+ telling quite smp.' and without COM
plant OF the trench life. OF the supply
ship tnat never came. and the plans
that never worked out. And il was a
man, a very real and gallant man. who
volunteered for hard Bit OF W rk ami
fell. fighting to the last" And he
les there to-day with thousands OF
other good =, outs" in the Peninsula
OF the Dead English"
4 ~ n
, EXrERIENCE. ,B. ". H.ebsch.,
,sI.|
An EFFORT Ia give the reading public
fresh angie Of the ind.N idual SOL
oiers story Of slaughter and hardship
!s 4 German. Dessricr's War ETperi-
, rnce ,B. w. Huebsch). Ths author.
: 1t is stated. spent fourteen months
A,gI
TO Holland. and thence to America.
Politically Socialist and ant!-millta-
rIst. he clings fast to his theories
through all the horrors o. warfare
lie has no regard for the officers. sc-
cusing them OF sscrificing great bodies
OF g mnon soldiers TO save their own
skins, and he never fails to protest
loudly sgainst mass murder" while
q, the same time he actively partici-
pates In It.
Until almo eihe moment OF crossing
the Pelgian frontier. he says the Cor
nar soldiers had no idea with whom
.ney were at war. or whom they were
to night AT no other moments the
fruits OF military education have pre-
sented themselves more clearly before
my mind" he says The soldier is told.
the Belgian is your enemy and he
has Ia believe IL. II they had told us
the Holla nder Is your enemy We would
have believed that too: We would
have been compelled to believe it. and
would have shot him by order
There sre many pages OF description
Of L.oody engagements. OF the sac king
OF villages. and the miseries OF trench
re Most significant Is the change
in feelirg from the horror with which
~ writer viewed the first man he
saw killed in battle. to the complete
cancusness with which as the weeks
rassed he participated in the growing
horrors.