Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-07

War has Just hccu ~unouucc b. IN.
George II. Do:an Company. for iune
publication.
War Flames by Holm curtis Tn
crNoo Gh. Macmiilaus,. is ono OF
mos" searching i~maEinatipus which go
10 III" heart OF things FOR the fabric %,
their visions. out Of the flame. and
has built eripping pictures which hin,
of what is back OF all ware, all houc
of peace.
Tie War. Madame" by raul
Gcrnldy Charles Scrihucr's Sonz>. is
Erirring in lis Interest. This bcauti-
M i'tlc story 90 a young French sol
i'aris mad" til" name" oicruldy familiar
III every Partisan household I; is
a mos; touching story. written with
extreme grace and dclicacy. uf the
Young mans Impressions. adventures
ana Conversations; End. l~ncid"n;aly.
through them l. departed a POIGNANT
F"t . cheering sens" Of tnr spirit Of
the t'r"nch S"ldicr-iuIc"d. Of Franc.
herself What is it lik" to b" a French
soldier ia ;his war? Nobody can full
understand without reading this II
Is u li,il" mhSt"rpi"cr-rhc r. r'l:I say
the mast"rpi.c.-of the war.
l.ucien :. Kirkland. author az sam
ur"I Trails DUST announced for rp-
ture publication hI tho George ~. Do
ran tomp"nNb, and wcli known as a
war correspondent is also the author,
OF Il series OF articles on the Russian
campaign in Galacia which have at
tracted considerable attention in the
pages OF I.cslic's Weekly. Mir. Kirt-
land was the one foreign
TO he given u genera pass FOR the
front lines in C;a!acin during the
months Of August and September. 1916.
He has only recently! rcturucd from tn.
front. His new volume wa written
after a walking tour through Japan
IL number Of years ago.
The MEXICAN border means more Ia
us. individually, to-day than il meant
a year ago. for during the summer and
autumn our friends in the militia have
lrttrolled its desert and
among It's cactus. There IS. therefore.
unusual interest expected in the novel
10y Louis Dodge-wh;ch the Scribners
have Just Observation-Disclosures of the
Desert" whose seen. is the chaparrai
country along the Rio Grande. The
characters belong To this pioneer re-
Sion where races intcrmingle and the
romantic rciGms side by side with the
sordid and the beautiful. The author.
however. shows that the interior drama
OF the heart and the passions can be
as pcrtincntly staged amidst these sur
rouhh!nSS as elsewhere. and the alb
sorhing interest OF his narrative lies
in his sympathetic and mastery study
Of a temperament Of fatal complcXity.
which neither the younger Dumas nor
tho author OF Manor T.escaut" has
more sirikingly interpreted.
Major Charles W. Gordon. Of the
F~orty-third Canadian Infantry. OF
Winnipeg. known TO the world as
Ralph Connor, novelist, brought cheer,
from 100 ministers at the luncheon Of
the CLERGY club. In the Fifth Avenue
building. New York. the Other day. hy
telling them that he hoped soon Ia see
the stars and Strips waving over the
trenches in Franco. THE men in the
trenchc. all look up to America" he
said. I'VE will all he glad when VIC
see the troops Of the Unitc.l states
on the lighting line Major Gordon Is
from the British War OGlcc and viii
return shortly to his regiment in
FLANDERS. The allies have no quar-
rel with tho people OF Germany. Major
Gordon said. but they arc determined
to stamp out the prussian military
caste. After the experiences at
Yprca.' he remarked. FOR sovt raj
months the British roops saw red, and
few prisoner. were taken. Now the
surgeons Of tho allies treat the wound
cd as we'll as their own men.
No people OF sporting blood aud in
Etinci can carry a hate" rho soldier
also commented upon the difference i'm
temperament between the French and
British soldiers. The ''poilu." he related.
went Into battle with u grim dctermi-
nation, while the ''T'ommies' attacked
singing and laughing.