The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17

come, and MT. Cables exposition of cer- tain phases of them is interesting and well worth serious attention.
 YOUR VOTE AND HOW TO USE IT 5 By Mrs Raymond Brown. Harper
 Brothers, Publishers, New York.
 Your Vote and How to Use It. by Mrs. Raymond Brown, will appeal to the thousands of new women citizens who find themselves, as the result of last autumns elections, provided with the privilege and the responsibility of the vote. The author, one of the most prom inent workers for suffrage reform and at present chairman of organization Of the New York state woman suffrage party, presents the subject of civics espe- cially from the standpoint of the woman voted. The major part of the book IS given to those departments of political affairs in which women are most con- cerned. The educational work conducted by the woman suffrage party, during number of years, in which she was ac- lively interested, had shown her just those subjects which most need to De elucidated
 Mrs. Brown wisely starts out by bring ing politics at once into the home-or the home into politics-and explains how government today touches woman's ln- terests at many points, and how there fore no woman can afford to be ignorant of it's workings or refuse to do her share toward making it efficient and clean.
 HANDY WAR GUIDE FOR MY COM
 PANY
 Written at the Front" by Captain Hanguillart of the French army. Trans lated by Louis J. A. Mercier, A. M. The Cortina Academy of Language, publish CTS, New York City
 In Preface" to Captain Hanguillart's Handy War Guide for My Company" the following is suggestive of what the mission of the book is:
 The first part of Captain Hanguillart's little book Petit Guide pratique de Guerre pour ma compagnie'' has been in corporated in the new manuals of 1n- struction published for the young re- cruits of the French army by the official military publishing house "Librairie Militaire Berger Levrault." the editors of the "Annauaire officiel de IArmee;
 It's special value comes from the fact that it was written at the front and is wholly based on the orders which Cap- tain Hanguillart drew up for the in struction of his own company and tested repeatedly through actual experience.
 This it's very omissions are significant.
 The text as it stands represents essen tials
 Its every paragraph is unit of tried advice.
 It embodies the practical data that has secured results
 It sums up the cautions that have saved lives.
 A GROUP OF PAPHLET BOOKS
 Six war books in pamphlet form pub lished by George H. Doran company, No.s 3S West Thirty second street, New York City
 A half dozen war books in pamphlet form, ''The Call to America" by E. G. Pipp; From Turkish Toils,' by Mrs. Esther Mugerditchain; "The League of Nations; '"The Opportunity of the Church" by Charles Gore. M. A.. DD., Hon. D. c. L., Oxford, bishop of OK McCurdy, M. P: "The Dead Lands of Europe" by J. W. Hearam, and Gen eral Shuts Message to South Wales" being the speech delivered at Tonypandy, Rhonda, on October 29 1917.
 All these books relate to the war as has been recorded; each has it's own particular value; concise, well written, arranged in convenient form, they are thoroughly readable, educational and in 
 These six war books in pamphlet form have an especial mission for those who are too busy and too tired to read lengthy books regarding the war will find in these smaller ones a message of value and authority and each is writ ten from an entirely different angle. THE SISTER OF A CERTAIN SOLDIER
 By stephen J. Maher, president of the Futile, Morehouse and Taylor company New Haven, Conn.
 7 Stephen Maher has written little paper backed book entitled "The Sister of a Certain Soldier" which is>intensely interesting and particularly well writ ten. Beginning with the first chapter. "A Faded Proclamation" and going through the eight chapters. "A Few Lines From a Lady" Did You Ever See Her Ride, Always Has His Own Way ''The Song" I've Been Knocking wood.'' "A