Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-16
Reviews of New Books

THE LOST FRUITS OF WATERLOO.
By John Spencer Bassett. PHI. D.,
Jackson" ETC. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
80 HIS is study Of the European
decisions and settlements that
followed the period of Napo-
q leonic wars. Its immediate
end positive purpose is to show why
these decisions and settlements did
not-and could not-produce the last
ing peace which Europe, and the rest
Of the world. SO strongly desired. The
study is calculated to demonstrate, on
the contrary, that the present war is
but the logic of that earlier peace con-
clusion. The indirect purpose Of the
Investigation looks toward the peace
that must follow the great war on
hand. 1t provides a fresh summary
OF the mistaken diplomacy Of that
earlier period and, upon this basis.
outlines new course whose single
objective is permanent peace. In au-
thoritative historic detail the writer
sets out the failure of the old system,
system whose inherent ineQuities
bred of themselves the cataclysm of
the present. He gives, in clear anal
ysis also. the obstacles to an endur-
ing peace. And upon this negative
foundation he sets the theory of a
federated world, defining the advan-
tages of this union and stating in full
account, at the same time, the obsta-
cles to it's contamination. AS mat
ter of course, the book offers no deci-
sfons. 1t is, rather, a scholarly gath
ertng of the essential facts underly-
ing past failures and a tentative sur
fse for the future. Both the source
and the treatment of the subject COM
mend it to the reader and to the stu
dent of historic meanings.
THE BIG FIGHT: Gallipon to the
Somme. By Capt David Fallon,
M. c. New York: J. W. Watt g.
Co.
You may think today that you have
spent your last emotion and thrilled
away your uttermost thrill over war
heroes and war stories. And, then to-
morrow there come along another
hero or another story to prove you all
wrong in this respect. And the story
OF Capt. F'allon is one of the very
sort to do this. For tales of personal
adventure this one is unsurpassed. For
variety of war service in widely sep
and pluck, and the straight word,
Capt. Fallon is marvel. He is an
Irishman who fought in India before
coming into the great war. In this
war he went through the Gallipoli
campaign. He has fought in the
trenches; he has commanded tank
assault; he has served as an aerial
observer, spotting the enemy airmen
and fighting their planes: he has gone
over into the German lines and there
had his hand-to-hand with Fritz. He
has done the thousand things that the
royal fellows are doing daily over
there, and of these doings and those
of his immediate comrades he tells
US here in an Irish blend of profanity
and expurgated speech that is con-
slant thrill and stimulation to the
reader. One wants to hear this cap
tain tell about it all, face to face
and he will doubtless have the chance
to do SO.
ny BOY IN KHAKI: A Mothers Story.
By Della Thompson Lutes. New
York: Harper 6 Bros.
This writer belongs to the great
army of women who have men at the
war and, by special dispensation, to
the select army whose sons are SOL
der boys. What she has to say, there
fore, comes from those deep places
where mothers live with their sons in
secret joy, and hope, and understand
ing. That she has, in this universal
war stress, brought these cherished
feelings into the open counts, with
out question, as a positive war serv-
leo that is rooted in the best of pa
trfotism. 1t is a purely personal and
intimate story, and that Is where its
value lies, for it gives voice to the
feelings of all the mothers in the
world today who have beloved sons at
the front. 1t does more than this, for
radiant faith and Triumphant pride.
These are, in this case, communica-
BILE qualities that are bound to enlarge
the outlook and revive the spirit of
every one who. in like situation, reads
this beautifully simple story of my
Boy in Khaki"
THE ANALOGOUS ADVENTURES OF
MILES McCONAUGHYsA An Epic of
the Merchant Marine. BY Arthur
D. Howden Smith. New York:
George H. Doran Company.
The old sea fighters who have hith-
erto had it pretty much their own way
in tales of ocean adventure will now
have to make place in their ranks
for Miles McConaughy. the modern
hero of this epic of the merchant ma
rine. The business of Miles McCon-
aughy is to capture submarines. and
to lay hold of the Hun. both by sea