Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-02

student, who from necessity has T.
make his home his place of study
the advantages which accrue to
college course in composition an,
story writing. 1t may be called
book which teaches student o
rhetoric or composition how t,
teach himself, showing him how tt
analyze and appraise literature, ap
plying the knowledge gained to tn
testing of his own progress in crea
tive writing.
THE LETTERS OF THoMASINA AT
KINs. BY Private CIV. A. A. c.
George H. Doran Compan 81.
Miss Thomasina, of the Woman
Army Auxiliary corps, is doing he
bit somewhere in France as ;
simple soldier, leading a soldier
life with all its hardships and pri
vations and hard work. and record
ing it in letters written home-let
tiers which reveal with humor ant
force how nobly the women have
done their work over there-worl
often sordid, often mental, almos
never picturesque.
! THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOEL
| CHANDLER HARRIS. BY Julia Collie
Harris. Houghton Mifflin Co. $3.50.
Mr.. Harris was copious and en-
gaging letter-writer, so that hi
daughter-in-law, his biographer, ha:
had a rich mass of geographic ma
terial at her service. From it, anc
from a searching investigation o.
all matters connected with Mr.. Har
ries' life, she has built up a vita
and attractive story of his life ant
literary cs-rer. The book is lavishly
illustrated and with frontispiece il
full color.
| FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD. BY Georg'
| A. Schreiner. Harpers & Bros. $500.
The first authentic and intimate
account of life in the new Turkey
the eyewitness story of the Oar
danelles- Gallipoli campaign and The
Armenian deportations-what Otto
man Green and Armenian think Of
the war-the Berlin-Bagdad rail
road as it is-the new Turk WON
ans emahcipation-an audience with
the sultan, Caliph-how Talaat ant
Enver Pasha view 1.-THE role OIL
the German in the orient told here
by the only American war CORE.
spondent regularly stationed in the
orient.
THE WAR AND THE FUTURE. By John
Masefeld, the Macmillan Co., sl.25.
Here are presented the two lee
lures which Mr.. Masefield delivered
in this country i'll the early months
of 1918. The first is "St. George
and the Dragon" the second, "The
War and the Future a most widely
discussed address relating to the
war, its successful prosecution and
the future after the war.
FEDERAL POWER, ITS GROWTH AND
NECESSITY. BY Henry Litchfield
West. George II. Doran Company, $3.50
Against a historical background,
Mr.. West makes clear the gradual
Capitalization of government from
the time of the first federalist party,
through the cataclysm Of the civil
war which had the question OF
states rights for its primary issue,
down to the present day. A discus
sion of federal power as a political
issue and as military necessity
leads up to a prediction of the fu-
ture which, considering the authors
historical and political training, must
be regarded as serious contribu-
ton to the literature OF political
science.
THE KAISER AS I KNEW HIM BY Ar
thur N. Davis, Harpers & Bros. $500.
For fifteen years the author was
the German kaiser's personal dem
fist, and this book throws binding
light upon the question of the kai-
scr's responsibility for the war, upon
his fore-knowledge of the destruc-
ton of the Lusitania, upon the part
attempted by the German govern
ment in the presidential election OF
1916, upon the kaiser's own idea that
America shall pay the bills for this
war;" and upon the thousand and
one vital questions to which Ameri-
cans want answers.
THE THREE GAYS AT THE OLD
FARM. By Ethel C. Brown. The Penn
Publishing Company. 81.
Kathryn and Roger and Jack
visit Merryton and meet Ann Earth
ingale and Herbert Jamison, and the
five young people have some de-
lightful times together.
ROSS GRANT IN MINERS CAMP. BY
John Garland, The Penn Publishing
Company. $1.35.
Another of the Ross Grant series
in which Ross leaves college for
Miners Camp in Wyoming. He
finds that bitter dispute over a
mining claim has divided the camp.
Ross tries to be impartial but is
drawn into the quarrel, and his loyal
service helps to prevent tragedy.
L LITTLE MAID OF OLD CoNNECTI-
CUT. BY Alice Turner Curtis. The Penn
Publishing Company. ST.
A story for little girls. Little e.
len Elizabeth Barlow lived in
Connecticut in the troublous days of
l777, when enemy war vessels and
Tory bands were ravaging the coast
settlements of the colony.
THE LETTERS OF THoMAsINA AT.
KINs George H. Doran Co.. 800.
Intimate. whimsical, humorous and
pathetic letters from the front by a
private soldier in the Woman's
Army Auxiliary corps of England
They give a very decided idea of the
life of the "Waacs" in Hostel" in
England and behind the lines in
France, in a fresh and colloquial
style. The effect of the war on
women and of women on the war is
strikingly brought out.
WOMEN AS SEX VENDORS, by Mary
Marcy and R. B. Tobias. Charles H
Kerr & Co.. soc.
A key to the mystery of the mod.