Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-30


left this week for the Grand Canyon.
in the neighborhood OF which his
previous novel, "'rhe Heart OF the Sun
set" was located. Beach and stone viii
be Joined by two friends, and the four
will then strike out into wild country.
remaining for six weeks. Among other
things they hope TO rope mountain
lions.
Herbert Adams Gibbons. author Of
THE Reconstruction OF Poland and the
Near East" 10 appear in June, wrote
10 his publishers: Il love those people
OF the Near East. and most OF my old
students are lighting in the present
war. They are not fighting against
Great Britain and France at all. but
TO keep Russia out OF Constantinoplc.
I am in no sense hostile to Russia
that is. TO the Russian pcople-and
think Russia has as wonderful future
as any nation in Europe. The trouble is
that her ruling caste is imbucd by
exactly the same spirit as tho Prussian
Junkers.", This was written in 1916.
when Czarism was still supreme in
Russia What the attitude of the new
Russia will be toward the balkan
states and Constantinople events have
not as yet shown
new book, Russia OF Yesterday
and Tomorrow" is announced by the
Century Co. TO be published in June.
The author. Baroness Souiny, is RUS
sian noblcwoman at present in the
United States Her husband, a noted
Russian surgeon. was mt one time at
tached to the court and the baroness,
as an intimate friend OF n lady-in-wait-
ing TO the Czarina, writes with author
ity on the court intrigucs. particularly
about the Russian Intellectual women.
n ,.,s,
Nicholas to plain Mr.. Eomanof.
baroness Souiny is not a democrat; she
ia an aristocrat, and even more, she
is cosmopolitan. Disliking Ger
mans she confcsscs to admiration of
German efficiency: loving Russia. she
still dcplores its incffcctivcncss.
War" by Pierre Lott. has just been
published by j. Il. Lippincott Company.
The brilliant Frcnchman has written
or Iceland Morocco and of the East
always giving a vivid impression of
the aspects OF the place and the work
inRs of The human mind when there.
The same result is attained in War"
1.-The title IS explicit, the book gives
the atmosphere, the spirit OF war. The
spirit is NOT that OF the waving Dan-
ncr sounding nuele and rattling
drum, but that of this new sort OF
war. the war OF the Germans. in which
scientific deviltry takes the place OF
courage, meditated rapine that OF
chivalry. There is little OF tic ro-
mantle in the war that lott sees. the
war OF sasscd soldiers sitting in the
hospitals, OF deserted children wan
derinG where the enemy has been. OF
the shattered Cathedral at rheims. OF
the quiet South Sea isle Of Tahita
.hellcd by the "savages with pink
skins like boiled pigs The pre-:
vaiiing note OF the book is genuine
and tender sympathy with the victims
OF German barbarity. lie describes
in simple bat touching words. his eli
counters with wounded soldiers. Sisters
of Mercy and homeless little Belgian
orphans. But even under his mask OF
artist restraint one can recognize the
wrathful and contcmptuous bitterness
that fills the soul Of every Frenchman,
when he thinks Of the things that
have been done III the name OF wal.
There are chapters upon the heroic
defense at DiXmude. the glory that is
Serbia's. the downfall that is Turkeys
and everywhere through tho book is
the perfect expression OF thought and
appearance OF the most sensitive a..
list of Franco.