The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23

Here is his description of the occa- sion:
 But more impressive than his speech is the appearance Of the man His face is white almost to ghastl-. ness: his cheeks are gaunt; his eyes deen black .lustrous; he looks like one who has suffered and struggled anu borne great burdens. He incarnates the stuff of which martyrs are made. we talked of many things that April oay of war, peace, democracy, the Whoie chaos in which the world seemed plunged. He displayed an amazlhs knowledge of affairs and l Wassnot surprised to find that his twoadmira- tions were Lloyd George and Lincoln. Consciously he has made the lives or these two great leaders the mouelS for his own. wn.NUnconsciously he has De- come, so far as his public IS con cerned, the prototype of the first. Who knows but that he may share with the great American emancipator the glory of kindred martyrdom No one who has watched Russia in the perilous days of her transition can question the fact that much of the future or the nation lies in the hollow of Kerenskys hand. Up to him was placed squarely the task of instflling into millions or simple, honest. illiterate and childiike people the message of democracy. No y tempt it with any hope of success. What he can do remains to be seen. But one thing is certain. So long as kerensl<y lives so long will reason rule. The man who was the cement of the revolution will remain the rock of reconstruction"
 Throughout the 30 pages that Mir. Marcosson devotes to sketches of a dczen makers and leaders of the revo- lution one is struck by the variety of the experiences and achievements or each of these men and by the abound ing vigor and many-sided capacity to which these achievements bear wit ness.
 THE JUNIOR PLATTSBURG
 MANUAL
 By Capt. E. B. Carey, United States
 Army, and Capt. o. o. Ellis United
 States Army. with a "foreword" by
 Maj Gen. John F. ORyan. The Gen.
 utry Co, publishers, No. 353 Fourth
 avenue, New York
 One of the most instructive books of the year is 'The Junior Plattsburg Man. ual,' by Capts. E. B. Carey and o. O. Ellis, United States army. The book has a foreword by Maj Gen. John F. O'Ryan. Captains Carey and Ellis 1t will be remembered, are the authors of the extraordinarily successful "Platts- burg Manual which has been indorsed by Mai. Gen. Hugh l.. Scott chief of staff. United States army; Maj. Gen.. Leonard Wood, United States army, and many more army officers interested in expeditng the military training of boys and men in America.
 Planned along the same lines as .he book for men, The Junior Plattsbufg Manual has been written especially for boys. Its object is not to help in the making of young soldiers merely 1t is tn ha1o o1ro f1apnt1 ', 1n of military training, specifically outlined, straight bodies, straight minds and straight morals; 1t Is to help build the foundation for physically sound, az gressive, courageous, characterful man. hood And if the boy should later be called upon to serve his country as a soldier he will have 7lready the rudi- ments of the special training needed Captains Carey and Ellis are both graduates of West Point, have both given military training to boys in various col leges, and have both been instructors at Plattsburg.
 The book has 25O illustrations some of the pictures showing side by side, the right way and tho wrong way of doing essential things.
 The Junior Plattsburg Manual should be of extraordinary value in boys camps that emphasize military training, for i high schools and other educational in- stitutions giving military instruction to boys, and for any individual boy, or young man, who desires the clements of military training presented in the sim plest manner possible
 THE SPORT OF KINGS. l By Arthur Somers Roches. Illustrated by Arthur l. Keller. The Bobbs Merrill l Co., Publishers, Indianapolis 1 In this novel MT. Pocne handles with all skill three factors of popular in- l terest
 1 In the first place. there is the turf the love of the thoroughpreds, the pride i of the jockeys, and the excitement of l the race. By the authors ability for description and suggestion the reader sees the whole scene-the nervous horses, the excited crowds, the thrilling finish. 1 Then, there is love affair which has none of the earmarks of conventionality 1 And, of course, there is the detective i story element of which MT. Roche Is past master, with the lure of mystery and the keen edge of suspense I The story moves swiftly forward to a 1 happy elimination.
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