The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-02
SAmMEES FAVOR
RUDYARD kIPLlNC
Robert w. Service is Second
and H. G. Wells Third
in Army.
APPETITE FOR BOOKS
Even Greek and Latin Works
Sought by Americans
on French Front.
APPETITE FOR BOOKS

The American army IN France is Il
reading army, according to Alfred Nj.
Brace. supervisor Of journalism AZ the
State University Of South Dakota, in an
article on libraries for Americans in
France"
Rudyard kipling IS the most popu-
lar writer among the expedtionary
forces. Robert W. Service is second, H.
g. Wells is third, with Robert Louis
Stevenson a close fourth. 4 tally OF the
call for special books has been kept by
workers in the y. NJ. c. A. libraries
and this statement is based on their
figures
Though the great call is for fiction,
high brow" books are also in great de-
nand. Works on French history and
life and technical books are specially
sought after. In writing of these Ii
braries Mr.. Brace says:
Book Stores Ransacked.
THE book stores OF France and
England are being ransacked to supply
the American soldiers in France with
reading material for the winter. TWEEN
~ thousand books of fiction and gener-
al interest have recently been pur-
chased in England by the American Y.
NJ. c. A. to help meet the persistent
demand from the soldiers at the Amer
lean bases and are to be distributed by
the library department of the Y. NJ
c. A. through the Red Triangle huts.
Greek and Latin Grammar.
The varied demands from the Amer
lean base camps for reading material
shows great range in taste and edu-
cation, and a very pronounced desire on
the part of the soldiers to improve
their minds while in France. A section
of American ambulance men serving
the French army have requested Greek
and Latin grammars and Caesars com
mentaries. They propose to form a
class to study the Roman campaigns in
Gaul, where the larger campaigns OF
the present war are being fought.
! Books on the different branches of
the military service are being frequent.
ly asked for by enlisted men who de-
sire to study In preparation for exam
nations for advancement in the army.
There has been a large call as WELL for
elementary high school textbooks, alge-
bras, English grammars, arithmetics.
geometries,. dictionaries, and histories.
A letter was recently received at the
Paris headquarters from a Red TRAN
gle secretary Somewhere in France,
II read, We have l,2o0 men and ma
books. Send us an algebra and q trig-
onometry.'
Eager to Learn French.
THE American soldiers from the day
they landed an ErGnrb soil have shaun
a keen interest in everything French
books has been for those dealing wifi,
French history and things French
From every available source French
grammars, easy lessons in French and
French English dictionaries have been
sought out to provide the soldiers with
means to. study the French language
and the uspply does not keep pace with
the demand. French history and biog
rapl1y and descriptive books in mod
ern France are also in large demand.
THE American soldiers crowd
around the maps of France on the walls
and will soon wear and rub them out OF
all recognition. The library depart
ment of the Y. NJ. c. a. has placed
| an order for ten thousand copies Of a
handy edition CT books of maps of tile
western front and for ten Thousand
| pocket Biographies of Europe, a
large number of outline maps have alst
been ordered and will be used in mod
| erp war geography classes In the hnts
| this winter.
Books on War Desired,
| books on the war. on European his
Tory, on aviation and submarine war
| fare, technical books, history, astrono-