The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-09
MILITANT AMERICA AND JESUS
CHRIST"

| CHRISTI"
by Abraham Nitric Rihbany. Hough-
| ton Mifflin Co, publishers, Boston.
There is among some people in this
country feeling that the war and
Americas participation in it is an
unchristian proceeding" One can
| hardly entertain this view after read
| ing Mr.. Rihbany's eloquent and con-
vincing book
| AS readers of his Syrian Christ
Know, Mr.. Rihbany, who is a Syrian by
| plrth, is particularly successful in
| Understanding and interpreting the
| real meaning of the utterances OF
Jesus, In the present book he shows
| conclusively that, SO far from being
pacifist, Jesus would in the pres
ent crisis have resisted German mill
| tary aggression with the sword.
Militant America and Jesus Christ"
| Is book which will have profound
significance for Christian readers
| throughout the world
/ ALSACE-LORRAINE UNDER GER
MAN RULE"
by Charles Downer Hazen. Henry Holt
q Co., publishers. New York city.
Belgium has suffered under our own
eyes, but the earlier fate of Alsace- Lor-
raine lies in q period of European his
tory which is hazy to most Americans.
This book provides a brief and reliable
account of the matter. 1t gives the facts
upon which opinion may safely rest 1t
is mainly a study of the history of
Alsace-Lorraine since its annexation by
Germany in 1871, as a result of a sue
cessful war.
A preliminary chapter traces in broad
lines the nature of the relation of the
two provinces to medieval Germany, the
manner in which they subsequently, be-
came French, the character of the French
rule for over 200 years, the part taken
by Alsace-Lorraine in the French revo-
luton. in the Napoleonic era, and in the
Franco-German war
The German agitation for the conques,
OF Alsace- Lorraine, the arguments
urged by German publicists and scholars
for the annexation of 1871, and the re-
peated protests of the people of Alsace-
Lorraine against this act are fully stated.
Particular attention lisp aid to the spirit
and the methods of German rule since the
annexation, to the persistent attempts
at Communication, and to the reaction of
all this upon the local population A
chapter is devoted to the constitution of
l9il and another to the 'Zabern At
lair of 1913. The influence, in recent
years. of Pan Germanism in embittering
and endangering the situation is shown.
The problems of public law and public
morality involved in this famous "Ques-
ton are discussed, as is also the prop
OPPOSITION for plebscte as an agency for
Its future settlement
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES"
BY Franklin p Adams. Doubleday, Page
and Company, Publishers, Garden City.
N. Y.
F. P. Ain other words Franklin p.
Adams--is a
Prince Of entertainers.
Shrewd gossip, amiable critic
sly puncturer of many gay balloons,
dally companion whose wit is treas
ure and a joy.
weights and Measures is amusing in
so many different ways, with so sly and
WElmsical humor 1t pokes fun at peo-
pie, and things, and pretensions, and
customs. 1t Translator Horace Of course.
IN the words of the most modern slang.
1t parodies Amy Lowell to the tune of a
iax meter. and Sara Teasdale to the
accompaniment of mosquitoes on River
side drive. 1t tells the tale Of baseball
game as seen by "Our Own Mr. Rusgles.'
and presents bits of "anthoogies." after
the manner of Edgar Lee Masters 1t
sings In goodly rhyme and rhythm the
pailades of divers strange adventures"
In which the usual unexpected ending is
dispensed with and everything turns out.
miranle dictu, precisely as might have
$500 AoA onNci' IL TelellS the tale OF 'Jen-
ny Kissed Me- in the words of Arnold
Bonnett, and carols Its Long WAY TO
Ilpperary after the manner of James
Oppenheim, Eugene Field, A. e. Hous
mar and the translators of Horace and
Aenophon. 1t turns Drink to Me Only
with Thine Tyes' into free verse: and
exc Jack Spratt' and Little Miss Muf-
ie,. And it contains many a gay, trill-
lIgs verse that defies classification. such
as TINS gem of human understands:
Q Brotherhood of Engineers,
y Brotherhood Of Train and Firemen.
Gaze on the suppliant salty tears.
Wept by this lowliest Of the lyremen.
mighty railroad presidents,
Debating how to help the nation
BY saving corporate expense
Harken to mine interrogation:
what is there in the common law
The statutes of exchange and barta9
From Portland to Communipaw,
What is there in the railroads chAfteN---
What is there-something I am stree
what is there-this my query weigh -
That makes you keep the tempera III!
" so-called sleeping cars at S0?
More Germans informed
Chattanooga, February S-Adolph FsAs
venSted, New York banker ners<sfsf