Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10

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POTTERATT AND THE WAR: 4 Novel.
BY Benjamin Vallotton, author of
"Propos du Conmissaire Potteratt.
etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
1t is no wonder that NJ. Vallotton has
written one, two and three stories
from the book in hand. Potteratt is an
inexhaustible well of JOY. radiating
kindness and contentment from the
quiet corner of a Swiss village where
he lived Potteratt's joy in his garden
and the poultry, and the birds, and the
Mi-F'ou, the cat, and in RellSalre the
rescued vagrant, in his shining little
house. in his wife and his boy-this is
a communicate JOY that enters into
the heart of the reader to the eXalta-
ton of all simple sources of happiness.
And the story of Potteratt moves, leis-
urely, through these homely scenes for
many a page and chapter And then
the war begins to rumble and growl
around this neutral island Of peace
Stories of Belgium devastated, of the
Lusitania sunk. of a thousand unnen-
tionabIe atrocities committed. drift
across the neutral boundary line. And
Poueratt. above all else a man of
peace. flames into Indignation over the
inhumanities of this warfare. Poteratt
in his garden is. in miniature, the
world as 1T should be-with men and
women enamored of peace absorbed in
useful work, satisfied with simple
pleasures, living in hearty fellowship
and Potteratt aroused is the likeness
l of every man and woman outraged at
the unspeakabIe brutaIities of war
THIS Is :. boz that takes its own time,
soaking into ones being little by little,
and g:viag him, finally. the JOY of a
seasoned friendship with the inimitab}e
conlratle, Potteratt
HARRY BuTTERS: Life and War Let
tcrs. Edited by Mrs. Denis O'SuIfi-
van Illustrated from photographs
New York. John Lane Company
The life of this California boy, as it is
| net down here, reads like the story of
| some Prince Charming. His war fet-
| tiers. from the FLANDERS front, read like
/ those of a real boy-of 4 boy who is
, keen for the fight. and who is CIamor-
| ousiy keen, also. 10 know what has be-
come OF the box of over-dei2yed goodies
| sent to him from the home folks of the
| Golden state. The first wears of Harry
/ Buffers were set in shifting scenes
travelling back and fo-th between Eu-
, rope and America, between Africa and
. America in the company of a big father
| bent upon enterprises OF large mean
| ings. Then there were early school
! years in England. And these SO en-
( dearei that country to the heart of the
! boy that when England went to war
( nothing else would do bat that Harry
{ Buffers should himself go to the front
. for England. That was before Amer
! lea decaded- And these boy letters from
/ the front are so greatly appealing. be-
| cause there rs in them so much of the
| boy Remember. Harry Buffers was
not a poet, not a novefist-not any
| thing but a boy. But these letters are
so filled with zest for the fight and
; with courage so surging with rage
often a justiiably profane rage
f, against the Hun; they are SO gallant.
| so gay, SO careless of personal danger,
+, SO joyous over the bravery of his COM
| rades. that they stand for the readers
| own pride in his own country. for an
-expauSlon Of his avn determination fnr