The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-09
KIPLINC STORIES WELL LIKED BY
 AMERICAN BOYS
Men of fExpeditionary Forces
 Also Fond of Service and Stevenson.

reading army, according to Alfred M. Brace, supervisor of journalism at the State University of South Dakota, in an article on Libraries for Ameri- cans in France
 Rudyard KiDling is the most pop ular writer among the expeditionary forces. Robert w. Service is second. H. G. Wells is third, with Robert Louis Stevenson g. close fourth. A tally of the call for special books has been kept by workers in the Y. M. c. A. libraries and this statement is based on their figures.
 Through the great call is for fic- tion thigh h-brow' books are also in great demand. Works onFrench history and life and technical books are specially sought after. In writ ing of these libraries MT. Brace says:
 ''The book stores of France and England are being ransacked to sup ply the American soldiers in France with reading material for the winter. and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. c. A. to help meet the persistent demand from the sold iers at the American bases and are to be distributed by the library de- partment of the Y M. c. A. through the Red Triangle Huts.
 ''Mr. W. B. Briggs, assistant lib- rarain of Harvard University and representive in France of the Amer ican Library Association, is in charge of the problem of distribution and is making large plans to supply the lit erature that the soldiers are calling | for.
 Owing to the fact that the supply of English books in France is small, arrangements are being made by the Y. M. c. A. to meet the growing needs by securing the supplies from i England-when emergency orders are required-and from America for a steady stream of books through the American Library Association.
 '"The varied demands from the American base camps for reading material shows a great range in taste and education, and very pronounced 1 desire on the part of the soldiers to i improve their minds while in France. A section of the American Ambulance men serving the French army have requested Greek and Latin grammars and Caesars commentaries. They propose to form 6 class to study the Roman campaigns in Gaul, where the larger campaigns of the present war are being fought.
 Books on the differant branches of the military service are being ire quently asked for by enlisted men who desire to study in preparation for examinations flor advancement in the army There has been a large call, as well, elementary high school textbooks, algebras, English gram mars, -arithmetics. geometries. die tionaries and histories. A letter was recently received at the Paris head quarters from Red Triangle secre- tary Somewhere in France It read, We have 1900 men and no books. Send us an algebra and a trigonno- l metry.'
 "The American soldiers from the day they landed on French soil have shown a keen interest in everything French. The largest number of re- quests for books has been for those dealing with French history and things French From every availa- ble 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 :, supply does not keep pace with the demand. French history and biOgra- phy and descriptive books in modern 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 lib- rary department of the Y M. c. A. has placed an order for 10000 copies of handy edition of books of maps
 of the western front and for 10000
 pocket geographies of Europe. A large number of outline maps have also been orderd and will be used on modern war geography classes in the
 hutS this winter
 Books on the war, on European history, on aviation and submarine
 warfare, technical books, history, as tromomy, and psychology are being
 called for in large numbers. Fiction 7, espicially short stories, and humorous , books, are in demand.
 - Ihe largest numper or requests 1 for single author thus far have . been those for the works of Rudyar6 $ Kipling. Otherw riters whom the a requests show to be most popular p with the men are Robert W. Service f H. G. Wells and R. L. Stevenson.
 "A Red Triangle secretary station r. ed at an American base camp re l gently made list of the inquiries fol . books that he had from a group O = American soldiers who freqnentet s the hut of which he was in charge @ It was as follows:
 Maps of France; A History of tn
 Civil War; Augustus Hare's Walk
 in Paris; Algebras; Geometries; Trig
 onometries; William Cullen Bryant
 Poems; Robinson Crusoe; The Lif d of General Chinese" Gordon; Tiff a of Sir Philip Sydney; Longfellow' Il Poems; Tennyson's Poems; Alan See > gar's Poems; Caesars Commentaries Il Latin English dictionary; Hugo French Grammars, and French Eng , fish Pocket Dictionaries"
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