Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-31
ON GREAT
 WAR DONATED ID LIBRARY

Friends have recently donated the following books on the war, also on travel to the public library:
 "A History of the Great War" by A. Conon Doyle, dealing with the events Of 1915 on the British fighting line in France and Belgium.
 Grapes of Wrath" by Boyd Gable, gives a glimpse of the spirit and en- durance that have mace the new armies more than a match for the Germans.
 Over the Top" by Sergeant Guy Empey. The Chicago Tribune Of September 2nd, stated: This week there were sold four times as many copies of Over the Top as of the best selling novel" showing the great demand there has been for this book of thrilling experiences. Nou will want to read ii too. as well as the others.
 The Pan-Gcrman Plot Cnmask- cd" by Andre Chcradamc. M. Chera- dame was one of the small body ot politicians who. warned Europe of the German danger. The fact that he proved true prophet gives him q special claim 10 be heard when he gives his views as regards to the present and the future.
 "The First Hundred Thousand, by Ian Hay. X record of some of the personal adventures of typical regi- ment of kitchencr's army. While the characters are fictitious. the incidents described all actually occurred.
 "Mademoiselic Miss is little vol umc from an American girl serving with the rank of lieutenant in .. French army hospital at the front. Dr. Richard Cabot in his preface says in part: "I ind in these letters some fragment oi true atonement for the huge sin and blundcr of the war.
 The Coming Democracy. by Hermann Fcrnau. This book by the author of Because l am a German. A scathing exposure of Gcrmanys political system and the ringing ap- peal to Germany 10 rid herself of her obsolete and mischievous imperial dy- nasty, and all the medieval trappingS that go with it, is by a German, who has already fastened upon his gov ernment the unacceptable guilt of hay ing brought about the war - m hrs earlier book, Because I am Ger man." possession of which IS now punishable in Germany by death.
 Out of Their Own. Mouths, IS a volume of uttcrances of German rul- CTS. statesmen, savants, publlclStS, journalists. poets. businessmen, party leaders and soldiers, showing the principles by which the Prussian ..nonarchs and ministc~- --crc -ovcrr- ed; or the world empire which they hoped 10 establish. and the means by which they expected to destroy civil zation and 10 set up in its place the dominion of the Hun.
 There are some readers who want Q think of something beside the war. tor such we have some fascinating books of travel which have been presented to the library: also some new novels.
 "The Critic in the Orient, by George II. Fitch. Mir. Fitch has been or 30 years a professional critic of new books, and brings this training Q bear in writing his impressions Of he Far East He gives us what -eemed to him most significant and Illustrative in scenery, architecture, ,ainting. statuary and in the people
 Delightful Dalmatia." by Molkc, s an attractive book with its beauti- fully colored illustrations.
 ha,-a inc fnllRu~- ;ng novels:
 Christine. by Amelia Barr. The scene of Mrs. Bars new story IS 1mong the fsher-folk of her beloved Scotland. There are pictured many delightful Scotch characters as only one who knows and loves the Scotch people can picture them.
 The Thoroughbred, by Henry K Webster, appeals to very general and dcep-seatcd American desire to see unaidcd courage win the struggle with diversity.
 Summer" bv Edith Wharton. IS a novel of New England village life, in which Mrs. Wharton holds you by her characterization of all the village types.
 Someone and Somebody. by Tor ter r.. Brown. "A story that IS dlf- fercnt," designed to entertain and amusc. But like all real humor It Is based on the serious and substantial things of life.
 Tess of the Storm Country" by Grace Miller White. Tess Is char actcr that will live in the memory ot the reader long after the shallow conventional heroine of society nov els will be forgotten. This story won the author an international audience.
 "Thc Secret of the Storm Coun- try" by the same author, IS the sc uuel. Grace Miller White was born and has lived among the quaint toik she loves to write about.
 Cinderella Jane" by Marjorie Benton Cooke. She can mend any thing, from lcak in the pipe to a broken heart" they say of her.
 At the Foot of the Rainbow, by Gene Stratton-Porter. \ novel full of most beautiful word painting oi nature.
 His Family" by Ernest Poole. \ critic who read His Family, in ad- vance of publication said it IS the tha