Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08
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we'll be imagined. Beyond this per-
sonal record of soldering on the border
the book is rich in grimly humorous
sketches of the civil life on both the
boundary line. In its widest and most
important range of consideration 1t
sums to an accusation against the gov
eminent for the military use of I'M
forces. 1t is a vivid and readable story.
which the writer uses as an object
lesson to demonstrate the need of gen.
eral compulsory military training.
THE SHIELD. Edited by Maxim Gorky,
Leonid Andreyev and Fyodor Solo
CUB. Translated from the Russian
by A. Yarmolinsky. New York: AL
fred A. Knopf.
There is in Russia a society of nom
Jewish Russian intellectuals organized
for the study of Jewish life. Members
Of that society contributed the articles
contained in this volume. These are, in
part, stories by Gorky. Andreyev. and
other well known writer's to illuminate
this or that aspect of life among the
Jews OF Russia. In other part these
are discussions by publicists and scien-
lists of different phases of the Jewish
questioned their legal status, of their
effect upon the economic life of the
empire. of their civil rights. of the bur
densome disabilities imposed upon them.
In an introduction to this volume Will
liam English Walling says: This is not
merely a book about the Russian Jews.
1t Is a marvellous revelation of the Rus
sian soul. 1t shows not only that the
overwhelming majority of Russian in
tellectuals. including nearly all of her
brilliant literary geniuses, are opposed
to- the persecution Of the Jews or any
other race, but that they have ca
pacity for sympathy and understand
ing of humanity unequaled in any other
land. I do not know of any book where
the genius and heart of Russia is bet
ter displayed"
THE MARINE CAMPAIGN. BY Maj. F.
b. Wilton. Boston: Houghton
Mimin Company.
An expert. circumstantial study of the
battle OF the Marine. 1t Is. moreover, a
study OF such excellence Of organization
and such economy OF statement as to
place the salient movements Of that bat
tie within the reach OF the general reader
just as its further treatment fits it for
the use Of the military student. The book
forms part of the series Campaigns
and Their Lessons edited by Maj. Gen.
C. e. Caldwell. who affirms that the
battle Of the Marine will rank hence
forward as one Of the most decisive bat
ties In the annals OF mankind-decisive in
the sense that it completely transformed
the strategtcal situation in the greatest
war the world has seem
THE WORLD AT WAR. By Georg
Brandes. Translated by Catherine
d. Groth. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
A Danish publicist presents here a
twenty-hve-year survey of such points
of European statecraft as have proved,
by the issue. to be contributory in
fiuences in the war. An Introduction,
written in 1881, "A Foreboding." pre-
diets the greatest of all wars. It
points to a time when Germany will
lie alone, isolated, hated by the neigh
boring countries; a stronghold Of con-
servatism In the center of Europe.
Around 1t, in Italy, in France, in Rus
STA. in the north. there will rise a gen.
Grafton imbued with International ideas
and eager to carry them out in life.
But Germany will lie there, old and
half stided In her coat Of mail, armed
to the teeth, and protected by all the
weapons OF murder and defense which
science can invent" From this Danish
point Of vi9w the writer goes into the
causes Of the war. from this standpoint
refusing either full praise to the allies
or complete condemnation Of Germany
for the attitude of the one and the con-
duct Of the other in respect to Belgium.
This position appears to have drawn
against Mr.. Brandes. by certain English
and French writer's. the charge Of an
unneutral leaning toward Germany.
The writer submits his side OF this