The Washington herald., 1918-07-07

her husband is buried there, and
there. apparently, she has won the
precious gift of placidity and con-
tent. Then she commences to grow
restless and to be filled with immut-
able thoughts. Her bourgeois rela-
ttves begin to bore her; and an obnox-
ious suitor disgusts her. One day she
reads In the paper that a new honor
has befallen Herr Emil Lindbach, the
famous violinist. The item is a chemi-
cal to her emotions, crystalizing
them; for it brings back the memories
OF her youth: when Emil loved her.
and she him-innocently and sweetly.
In the heat Of her new emotions she
writes to him, and he replies warmly.
So 1t comes that she goes to Vienna,
ostensibly to visit relatives; but with
wilder dreams in her head than rela-
uves ever believed in. She meets
Emil. the great artist, the Viennese
epicurean and libertine; and the
drama begins.
Schnitzler was a physician before
he took to writing; and he retains in
his later profession the skepticisn,
fire and aloofness of the true scientist.
He is not a surgeon. but an analyst:
he works with flesh and soul, and
DSA bAo SdEldh 10 u "oTIny buplcCt
for his divining mind. The publishers
in the Modern Library: she deserves
the place OF honor next to Anatol
himself
Keeping Up with william.
This particular William IL none
other than Wilhelm, the Hun brute.
We do not know of a single other
American author. other than Irving
Bacheller. who il able TO tell US SO
much about the man with the
withered arm, and withered brain.
If you have any ambition to learn
one Of the ssons that the Senate
recently agreed to eliminate from our
public schools the language of WILL
lam, as Bacheller calls him. then get
the book and read It.
The Honorable Socrates Potter, who
is the hero OF Keeping Up With
William" is too interesting a char
acter to miss. He says. and we be-
lieve him, Behold the common
sense of Germany become the sense
that is common only among GRIM
inals. The sooner we recognize that.
the better. They are really burglars
in this great house of God we inhabit,
seeking to rob il of its best posses
ns-HindenourSlars! In this war
we must give them the consideration
due a bbrgla-. and only that. We
must hit them how and where we
may. We are bound by no nice re-
gard for fair play. We must Kill the
burglar or the burglar will kill us. -
Bobbs-Merrili Company of Indian
apolis, Ind, are the publishers. The
book sells for 81.
The Real Col. House.
How many Americans really under
stand or know Col. Z. n. House, the
trusted friend and adviser Of Presi-
dent Wilson? Unless they have read
Arthur Howden Smiths book about
Col. House it Is a certainty that they
know very little il anything about
him because he is or has been, a man
Of mystery. deep puzzling mystery.
The book George H. Doran Com
pany. $1.5O Is more than an appreci-
ative and critical biography; it is a
discussion OF the political and inter-
national problems Of the country as
seen by one of its foremost statesmen.
The inside Of President Wilson's war
policy Is reyealed-why he waited to
declare war. and his attitude towards
war conditions and peace terms. Col.
House, whose power as a political fig
ure is not due to the holding of any
office. still less to the slightest tine
ture Of selfadvertising. needs more
explaining than any other leader in
American affairs.
Mr.. Smith tells why he has never
accepted public office, what he intends
to do in the future, and what he has
done in the past to win the unlimited
confidence OF the President. His work
as a diplomat includes provision OF
the world war, and the famous mis-
sion to warn Europe of the imepnding
conflagration in May, 1914. His pre-
else share in the election of Presiden:
Wilson and in the conduct of his ad-
ministration is for the first time made
public In detail.
German Plans for the Next War.
1t may surprise some of us to learn
that Germany, with certain defeat
staring her in the face, is actually
preparing for the next war, a war
beside which the present colossal
struggle cannot, to use slang, hold
a candle
]. 3. w. Gardiner, military critic
for the New York Times, tells US in
his new book, German Plans for the
Next War" Doubleday, Page & Com.
pany). that Germany is preparing
even while fighting this war, for an
other still greater war in which she
expects to do all that she has failed
to do so far today in her assault or
the worlds liberties. He says:
THE German governments realiza.
tion that its ambition ofworld domin.
ion cannot be attained in the present
confiict-its systematic devastation Of
Belgium, Northern France. and Ser.
bia, and its destruction Of the eco.
nomic life and financial subjugatiou
Of those countries, as well as of It's
own allies, Austria Hungary, Bulgaris
and Turkey-its shrewdly calculated
| methods to increase the German male
population. all in order to insure the
success of its next war by which il
is to extend the German empire from
Calais to Bagdad-the peril to America
unless Germany is defeated now
@No. g."
c. De Florez. an American boy
driver Of No. 6 ambulance, has open.
ed in his book, mo. s" (E. p. Duttor
& Company. an entirely new chap
ter in war literature.
Like little windows opened for q
moment on the scenes behind tn,
fighting line are these pages from
the diary of an ambulance driver OF
the Verdun front during the latter
part of last summer. While he tell,
an occasional incident of the peril
Gus service of mercy upon which h,
was engaged. his pages deal NOR,
with the life Immediately around
him. his associates, the French ON,
GERS with whom he often messed, tn,
people of the little towns in which