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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
What s What in War
The Story of the Army That Is
Behind the Army

son. Illustrated limo. PIP. Sic Tho John Lane
Company.
Elsewhere we have noticed gifted
military writer's account of the way in
which modern war is waged on the
field Of battle. Here we have fine
companion piece in a gifted civilians
account of the transaction of the bust
ness of war, behind the firing line and
all the way back to the base and source
of supplies. The transportation of
millions of men beyond seas, and
supplying them with food and NUM-
tions, the manufacture and distribution
of cannon shells by scores of millions,
the direction of tens of thousands of
motor cars and trucks-these are
achievements which rival in appeal to
the imagination the armies themselves
and their battles. Mr.. Marcosson gives
US fascinating views of that efficient
British supply system which has be-
come one of the wonders of the world:
instructive views, of incalculable value
to this nation in the like tasks in
which it is beginning to engage and
IN which 1T Will have to engage here
after even beyond the vast British
limits. There are illuminating bits of
humor, too; as when London passenger
omnlbuses were rushed to the front.
still bearing the advertising fosters
which had adorned (?) them in Cock
al ne:
At that time "Potash and PERL
mutter," rendered into a play. was
having its first big run. Nearly
every London bus carried a huge
sign which read: "See Potash and
Perrin utter at the Queens Theatre. !"
This injunction burst upon the I'M
suspecting people of France. When
the first line Of buses filled with
British Tommies swept up the road
to Mons the French soldiers and
civilians stood at attention on the
roadside and yelled:
"Fiuent les Generates Potash ct
Perlmutterw
1t is most impressive picture which
Mr.. Marcosson gives of Sir John s
Cowans, quartermastcr general to ali
the British forces. and there arc 9th I'll e az.
of General Boyce, director of trans
port N France; Of Sir Eric Geddes of
SIR Douglas Haig, and of Lord North :
cllffe.. filling out volume of sinpularlv
valuable and interesting information
about the business side Of a great wan van
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Shakespeare and America

H$S E Az TIE S?SorHH oE Ga Ss
1t is commonplace of observation
that America equally with England is
an lnheritor Of Shakespeare's genius
that Shakespeare whom opponents of
Kultur have impudentry been claiming
as Gcrmany's own. But it is not a
common thing to consider precisely
wnat, If any, relation actually existed
between Shakespeare and America. We
need not wonder at the absence Of d.
rect mention of this country in his
writings, seeing that he died while the
Virginian colony was in its infancy
and years before the first New Eng
land settlement was made. There were
no themes IN the New World to tempt
his fancy, save his supposititous use Of
an unpublished letter from Virginia in
"The Tempest"
His relationship with America, how
ever, was probably intimate, as DR..
Gayley with erudite plausibility points
out, through his association with those
leaders of liberal political thought in
England who shaped the charters of
the colonies and implanted in them
those principles of human rights which
ultimately became triumphant in our
revolution. We must remember tina,
those principles were not a "Yankef
notion" They had been foreshadowes
and voiced by Hooker and his contem.
poraries in England long before Thorn.
as jefferson was born With then
Shakespeare was presumably familiar
and we may plausibly discern clea
traces of them in his writings. Thu
suggestion is fascinating one; i
gives us new sense of interest in ant
ownership OF the poet, and it is worke,
out by DR.. Gayley in this volume will
much ingenuity. n wealth of scholar
ship and an attractive style.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Beyond the Rockies
Fascinating Glimpses of the Far
West Of Canada

SUNSET CANADA. By Archie Bell With map
$40, pp. xii. $50 The Page Company.
Canada is, of course, entirely too big
to be covered in a single volume of the
beautiful "See America First" series,
with which the Page, Company is en-
! riching American literature, wherefore
the volume before US is devoted to
British Columbia and beyond-Van-
oouver and other regions. There is no
part of Canada, or, indeed, of the
North American Continent, more rich
in splendid scenery of protean va
riety, and there are not many regions
possessing greater historic and ro-
mantle interest
Into the spirit of the land and
waters Mr.. Bell enters with sympa-
thetic enthusiasm, giving us an album
dance both of practical information and
of legend. until we begin to realize
what a veritable wonderland there is in
that Oregon territory which we once
claimed under the slogan of "Fifty-
four Forty or Fight" but which we
presently relinquishcd without striking
a single blow. Archaeology, mythology
folklore. the romance of adventure
the quest of gold, the fairy tales OF
commerce all combine to fill hand
some volume with exceptional interest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
A Patriotic Pilgrimage.

~ "1 y ANY, Hlsn w. Or hSnf 81
Macmillan Company.
Thank God for sense Of humor! If
it were not for that, the world would
go quite mad With that, we can con-
uuer Fate itself There are, Of course,
, times and places in which that saving
grace must be held in allegiance, and
there may be those who think that the
present war provides them. 1t does
yet it is not without times and places
when humor is not only appropriate
and even desirable, but actually es-
sential; as witness the book before us.
| There has not been a more richly,
unctuously. infectiously humorous book
published in years. Yet there has been
no war book more congruous and more
in harmony with the tragic setting of
its theme.
That is because Mr.. White is not
merely a humorist, but a thoughtful
and sincere philosopher as we'll. So he
sees all phases of life, and treats them
all as occasion requires. He tells us here
the story, essentially true relation
of his and Henry j. Aliens journey
from Kansas to the French battlefront
and back again, with commiss ions
from the American Red Cross as inspec-
tors, with view to subsequent pub
Lefty. Essentially Il was an GRAND
marked with seriousness, unutte rable
pathos, and the shadows of an unex-
ampled world tragedy. Yet inevitably
it was frequently marked with amusing
episodes ard circumstances Upon both
and all phases Mr.. White dwells with
admirable discrimination and taste
The result is book which might we'll
be bracketted, for sheer fun. with Mark
Twain's 'Inncccnts Abroad" and for a
consummatc mingling of racy wit with
/ shrewd philosophy with Dc Miles i'm
mortal dodge Club" and yet which,
for serious reminder and information
of the horrors of war and the piteous
need of relief for the stricken, rivals
any entirely serious volume that has
been written. Note:
And courqge-that thing which the
Germans thought was their special
gift from Heaven, bred of military
discipline: rising out of German kul-
tur-we know now is the commonest
heritage of men. 1t is the divine fire
burning in the souls Of us that
proves the case for democracy. For
at base and underneath rc are all
equals. In crises the man, the
poor man, the thief, tn harlot, the
preacher, the teacher the laborer.
the ignorant. the wise, all go to death
for something that deties death, some
thing immortal in the human heart.
Those truck-drivers, those mule
/. whackers, those common soldiers,
that doctor, these college men on the
ambulanccs are brothers tonight in
the democracy of courage. Upon
that democracy is the hope of the
race, for it bespeaks wider and
deeper kinship Of men.
Such was the burden of their CONVEX.
sation, even amid the irrepressblc
kuoyancy of youth and the sense OF
humor that nothing could cxtinguish
and such is the fine spirit which FER.
vadcs this wholly admirable book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Our Newest Possessions
All About Our twenty-five
Million Dollar Islands

THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. BY Luther X. Zabrsldc.
With 100 illustrations and two maps. Svo. pp.
xvii. 339 G. Z. Putnams Sons.
The former Vice Consul of the
United States at St. Thomas has here
produced what will doubtless be gen
orally accepted as the standard work
on what were the Danish West Indies
With no pretence at Zine writing"
but in straightforward and readable
style, he gives us the history of those
islands, and particularly the history
of our negotiations for the purchase Of
them, together with really ency-
c opedic description of the islands,
their topography, resources, industries
and commerce, and inhabitants. Dis
proportonate space may seem to have
been given to the story of the actual
sale, the ceremonies of transfer, and
the installation of the first American
Governor; but all this is of present in
terest, if it is not to be of much per-
manent value.
The volume contains many admir-
able illustrations, made from pho
tographs, couple of useful maps, an
abundance of statistics, and the texts
of the treaty of cession, the govern
ment act, and other documents, and is
provided with an adequate index.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
War DETECTIVES
What Each Side Seeks, and
What Each May Get

s SsheT Pm D With frontispicce and a1 mans
'Vo. pp. II @s". Harper & Bros maps
what we may term the political phi
losophy OF the great war is elaboratclv
analyzed and discussed by DR.. Usher
49, splrlt OF resolute though somewhat
opportunlst optimism. The magnitude
and is set forth strongly, but without
exaggeration, some particularly ;llmn, !
natlng passages being given to the "in.
visible army of spies and conspirators
Upon winch Germany largely depended.
The various aims of Germany are d;s.
ce,ussed, together with the causes ~
their partial defeat Similarly are con-
sldered the causes of the failure of the
Allies TO win the prompt victory which
ehelr initial optimism anticipated. The
prooablllties of German economic cx-
naustlon. and of German democratic re-.
SSol: are discussed and the folly of
uaoaHs expectations thereon is con-
Vlncingly pointed out.
=, VI chief interest, however. is the on.
tnor's forecast of the results Of 10
war and the conditions of peace sun-
gested by the title of the volume. 81
tne ultimate victory of the Allies he
mas no doubt, but his view of the char
acter OF that victory will not coincide
win the prepossessions of MANY of his
readers. Since the collapse of Russia
the original detectives of the Allies
are ne thinks, impossible of realiza.
~ s.on' No1hlng can restore Europe as
u was before the war, or England and
TL rance as they were in 1870 or in 1914.
Inc old Europe, the concert of the
six great powers. must be recorded 'n ns
gone forever. The rest of the world
especially America, has now become a
participant IN European guarantees, in
an era OF lnternationalism such rs the
world has not seen before.
Inc scheme OF victory and post-bel-
lum status amounts, then, to this: Tho
Central Powers have won much in
central Europe which they NAV retain
but which will weaken them perhans
more than 1T strengthens them. Great
brltaln' france and Italy must retain
.ne;1 Solldarity and strengthen their
position as Atlantic powers and their
control of the Atlantic. German 'ru me, rne.t :
have no foothod on the Atlantic in
Africa, South America or elsewhere %
ana her access to the sea in Eurono
must be conditioned upon good hc.
favlor. And for some time after +ho
war the Central Powers must be ;so-
lated, until they have demonstrated
their fitness to be trusted and to he
received rec again into the community of
IN thus permitting German militar-
ism to continue, and in building up
strong powers to counterbalance it,
sneIe seems to be an unwelcome pros
there is much to be said for such an
arrangement, and DR.. Usher saws IL
exceedingly we'll. His volume is worthy
OF most thoughtful consideration by
an who feel concern in the winning Of
the war. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Ways and Means Of the War
at Front and Behind the Lines
"Bill-Jim
Adventures on the Battle Front
With the Anzacs
OVER THERE WITH THE AUSTRALIANS. Ky
Captain II. Hugh knyvett. Amaze Scout Illus
limo Charl los

OVER THERE WITH THE AUSTRALIANS; Ky
trato. l2mo, pp $3.50. Charles scribncr's Sons.
Readers of these columns will re-
call that we have acclaimed several
volumes of personal experience in. the
war as really great books. To be worthy
of such consideration work must
have certain essential qualities, such
as action, pathos, humor-yes, humor,
even in hell dramatic power and
spiritual vision. Such qualities APP
Piled to any theme might make a note
worthy book. Applied to the great war
they create the hallmark of greatness.
In Captain Knyvett's volume they
are all conspicuous in exceptional de-
gree, and the special themes of the
book give them exceptional scope,
while his own exceptional personality
assured the perfecting touch. He is a
university man, once a lecturer on
psychology, who had engaged in pearl
fisheries and sheep raising in Queens
land. Entering the war as an intelli-
gence oifflcer, he served in Egypt, at
Gellipoli, and on the Western front, in
the trenches and on the scathed ex-
ranse of No Mans Land. In every
part of his varied services he saw
all that was worth seeing, both tragic
ana humorous, and with rare gift
nc relates the best parts of it for the
inspiration of the reader.
Above all, he voices the sane, stern
Judgment of the Huns, which thought
ful and righteous men everywhere are
more and more accepting:
The German government made
savagery, brutality and bestiality a
deliberate policy, and now it is their
unconscious impulse. Germany is
paying terrible penalty in the
degradation and generalization of
ner whole people for having given
Inc direcslon of the country into the
lower, and the German army is to.
day a forcing house for bestialitv
-. NO action could be too cruel.
no deed too beastly, no torture too
dlabolical, no insult too keen. M
impulse too filthy, no dishgurement
tco hldeous, no vandalism too shock
ing, no destruction too complete no
STOPPING too low, that GERMANY
would hesitate to do where she has
there are no hospitals where lie
thousands of girls too young to be-
come mothers who have been raped.
"A young. girl said to me: There is
Daby coming; it is Boche; when
II is born | will cut it's throat" A
woman showed me on an cstaminet
noor the bloodstains of her own baby
putchered before her eyes. These
were French women, not ours. But
Wnat II they had been? Your sister!
,n;uh+ mother , Your wife! And they
dent of geography. Would Won still
nave kindly feelings for GERMANY
ana not want to "humiliate herr?
One little page of straight. sound
talk like that is worth a 49, eoun '
ume of maudlin sentiment. ~ WI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Lest We Forget
A Comprehensive Review of the
Great War

TIE lE, GREAT ;3.'l, CRIME AND IT'S MORAL. BY J..
Soden Willmore. Svo pp. X. S23. The George
II Doran Company.
Human memories are short; so short
that it is necessary to refresh them
with reminders, lest they forget even
the most essential things. 1t is quite
probable that the average man has now
forgotten some of those circumstances
of the beginning of the great war which
at the time dominated the attention Of
everybody. This is applicable, though
not excusable, on the ground of the
tremendous character of the new events
and conditions which almost every day
is bringing forth. We must observe
these later things, but we should not
remembrance of them and just ap-
probation of their significance we
should be quite unable properly to
judge and to dispose of the transcend
ent issues which will confront US at the
end oft ALL
1T is to refresh our memories of the
antecedents of the war, Of the circum-
stances of it's beginning, and of the
manner in which it has been waged,
that Mr.; Willmore has prepared this
book. There is nothing new in it, I'M
less according to the old principle that
nothing is new save that which has
been forgotten. But then there is moth
ing in it that is not true, and there is
nothing that is not worthy and most
strongly desirable to be remembered.
In rehearsing the appalling narrative Of
Hunnish infamy the author cities in
dubitable authorities for practically
every chapter and verse of text, in a
large proportion of cases Hunnish au-
torties themselves. He is concise, ne
cessarily, since there is so much to
tell and even an octave will not hold
everything; he is astonishingly COM
prehensive, SO that the reader finds
himself wondering # single essential
fact or phase of fact has been
omitted; and he is lucid and convincing
to most gratifying degree.
There have been many books written
on the war, end many covering or at
tempting to cover the same ground that
this one does. But we can recall none
that on the whole presents the case
Of humanity KS. the Hun, more etfec
lively and more satisfactorily than this.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13

with all the interest and charm
which master of fiction can give
to works of sheer invention.
Mr.. Poole was in Russia during
much of the revolutionary period, and
he came into close and instructive con-
tact with many persons, from the
heads of the government to the peas
ants, whom he calls "The Dark Peo-
pie" His impressions of them and
his reports of conversations with
them afford q wonderfully illuminat-
ing view of that vast, strange ma
ton, in its exaggerated idealism and
it's childish simplicity; enabling us
to understand more fully how it has
fallen into it's present state of chaos.
We have read no book which got
closer to the heart, or to the multi
tudinous, hearts, of the Russian peo-
pie of all classes and conditions, and
which more graphically revealed the
contents thereof to the readers vision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
: How War Is Waged
Told by an Expert, With Per-
sonal Illustrations

THE WARFARE OF TO-DAY. By Lieutenant
colonel Paul Azan. Translated by Major Julian
332' The Houghton Mfiin Company.
Many books have been written about
the war, but comparatively few about
war; that is, about the general princi-
pies upon which war is waged and the
manner in which it is waged, apart, of
course, from the atrocities which the
Germans have been practising. The
present volume therefore supplies a
real need. 1t tells in notably lucid
manner of the training and equipment
of an army, of the construction of
trenches and other Notifications, of
plans of campaign, of defence, of at
tack and of the winning of victory.
These things are told by military au-
thority quite competent to instruct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13

prospective officers, yet with gift of
style and manner making his dis
courses Ineligible and interesting to
the non military layman.
AS the present war provides the &C.
casion for it, the book, of course, pays
some special attention to its charac-
teristlcs distinguishing it from other
illustrations drawn from the authors
distinguished services in it. The nu-
merous pictures, made from photo
graphs, are of striking interest, giving
a more convincing idea of the equip
ment of armies, of the ravages of bat
tile and other phases of warfare than
any others that we recall seeing. 1t is
thus book Of much immediate inter
est and of permanent and standard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13

Chaotic Russia
"A People Crying for the Light

THE DARK PEOPLE" BY Ernest Poole illus
pany.
We had the pleasure of foretelling
the appearance of this book in these
columns many weeks ago, and we are
now glad to record that the pleasant
and interested antcipations with
which we awaited it have been we'll
justified. Mr.. Poole has been chiefly
known hitherto as the author of vari-
Gus works of fiction Of realistic power
and of more than ordinary thought
fulness. The volume before us rs
not fiction. 1t is too strange, too ro-
mantle, too imaginative to be any,
thing but sober truth. But it is told
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-13
Interests of the Nations
The Panorama of the World
By Willis Fletcher johnson

greatly reckoned with by the world,
though he takes no stock in "yelow
peril" talk and does not believe that
China will ever made herself a military
menace to the world.
Mr.. Clennell gives us a concise and
practical account of the religious be-
liefs of China during the last three
thousand years, including Taoism.
Buddhism, Confucianism, and the i'm
plantation of Christianity through mis-
sionary effort. His views are broad
and generous, and his presentation of
information and to induce a better
understanding of China in the Occi
dental mind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-23
OREERS RICELESS WEDDINGS
Throw Coal Into Cellar Instead
Saws Food Controller

R.celoss weddings IS now the new or
der Of the food administration
For this many prospective brides and
hr,dcgrcoms viii utter Il hearty vote of
thank
The new ruling. made public today by
Food Adm,nistrator Cooke. viii help
brides ard hrideErooms 10 hide their
identity. Rice had ,h' 9ahlt Of clinEtns
more. if there was any lurking in the
hair of the bridegroom it was bound TO
fall out on the local hotel register the
very first time he signed Mr.. and
Mrs -
Rice also causes more work for church
ia anitors. hotel porters, Pullman porters
and others who come in contact with
those on the first lap of married life
II rice must be thrown, throw II into a
nan aud make cakes or puddinES out or
it. Just cook it" says Administrator
Cooke but don't waste it."
"Rooters" at weddings who want to
help might assemble at the front door
and throw coal into the cellar This
would he the best way Of giving the
happy couple a warm reception. the ad-
mlnStrator says.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-23
STOLEN AUTOMOBILE BALKS
Collides With Curb and Occupant
l. Held for Theft

An automobile collision at Eighteenth
street and Columbia avenue led to the
arrest Of Thomas Regan, of Twenty
eighth street, near York, an alleged
automobile thief
Regan was driving the car. He at
tcn1pted to turn corner and Collided
with the curb to avoid hitting another
machine, \ rear wheel of his machine
snapped off He jumped off the car
and ran down the street. Policeman
Kenny, who witnessed the accident, he
came suspicious of Regans actions He
arrested Regan and at Nineteenth and
oxford streets police station, Regan ad-
nitted taking the car from in front
Of the Woman's Hospital, at Twenty
second street and North College avenue.
The car is owned by Dr.. Edit, Shanatt,
He was arraigned before Magistrate
Glenn AT Fourth and York streets police
station today and held in $500 bail for
court.