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New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Another Genet

WAR LETTERS OF EDMOND GENET. Edited.
With an Introduction. by Grace Ellery Claiming.
nea 1s mote pp py 11 3 chsEs cbnsls
Sons.
For a century and quarter Ameri-
cans had held the name Of "Citizen"
Genet in scorn, in derision, sometimes
in detestation, as that Of youth mis-
guided into mischievious malignancy
which we'll merited the crushing re-
buke which Washington bestowed; yet
have they also remembered gratefully
fences, gave him shelter and protec-
tion and enabled him to mend his ways
and become a useful and respected,
though not conspicuous, citizen of tho
land which he had so bumptiously ILL
used.
But now and henceforth the same
name stands for another youth, the
great-great-grandson of the former,
whose splendid services as a legion
ary and as an aviator have caused his
name to be inscribed very near the top
of the roll Of our heroes and martyrs
in the great war. These letters, writ.
ten to his "Dear Little Mother" and
others, are indescribably filled to ov r
flowing with the spirit Of youth, Of joy,
Of valor, of high devotion to patriotic
ideals and of that disregard Of danger,
pain and death which only the rarest
heroes feel. Not before amid the
many fine "human documents Of the
war have we seen a finer spirit dis
played, nor nobler blending Of the
exuberant humor Of boyhood and the
thoughtful vision and firm resolution
Of manhood. He fell in air-hung battle
at the age of nineteen, the first Amer
icsr after America was in the war,
leaving our annals enriched with an
other of "the immortal names that
wore not born to die"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
The Law and the Lady'

MAIDS. WIVES AND WIDOWS By Rose Falls
Bros. 12mo. Dp 267. E. P. Duttou & Co.
The status Of women under the laws
Of the nation and the various states is
the subject Of our story; and in mas
terful-should we say mistressful p
manner is it handled. Being rational
people, we do not expect technical
compendium Of forty-nine statute-books
in a single pocket-size volume. But
what We do get somewhat beyond our
expectation is a singularly lucid and
comprehensive conspectus of all the
legislation in question, sufficiently de-
tailed to serve the layman's needs and
sufficiently suggestive to be of direct
ing value to the professional reader.
10 our mind, every woman should sys-
tteematically study law, as she does the
three "Rs",; and to the multitude who
have not done SO, as we'll as to those
who have, this volume will be a veri-
table treasure
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Mobilization for War Service

MOBH.1zrNG OAfAN-POWF.R By Harriet Stan
ton Blatch. With foreword by Theodore Roose-
velt. Illustrated. limo. DID. 1876. The Woman's
Press
We must, in measure, differentiate
between man-power and woman-power,
in character and functions, but not in
value and necessity to the state. Never
before was the service of women needed
in war so much as now, and never was
it SO generally and effectively given;
which is cminently fitting, seeing that
never before was war so hideously and
obscenely waged against womanhood as
it has been and is being waged by the
savage myrmdons Of the Blond Beast
It was Mrs. Blatch's purpose in writ
ing this book to reveal to the women
of America their intense interest in
this war, the part that is being played
land suffered-by their sisters cover
there" the ways in which they can
help the government and the ways in
which the government needs their help.
Timely, Illuminating and inspiring, it
is book which every American woman,
suffragist or nti-suffragist, would do
we'll to read; and if the men should
read it, too, so much the better.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
A Note From a FIGHTER

TIE FIRST SHOT FOR LIBERTY. By CORPORAL
ismo Do 90 9es arla Illustrated @ With Photographic
Though war books may come and
war books may go, and there have been
many of them during the past year.
good, bad and indifferent-we never
theless find something new in each
volume to stir our hearts and fill our
throats with thrill of patriotism for
tnose boys and their cause, which is
su our cause, some new experience told
IN new way, the different phases Of
modern warfare. In this book Of Cor
poral de Varila's we have an entirely
new experience to thrill over, as h.
was with Pershing's first expeditionary
fiorce, and had the great good luck and
honor to fire the first shot that an
nounced Americas entry into the
great war for freedom and humanitvl
Corporal de Varila comes from a
family of born fighters who have had
hand in all our wars from the Reyo-
luton down, so it was perfectly natural
that he should want to enlist upon the
entry of the United States into the
world war, especially as he had a great
deal Of French blood in his veins. In
thls very interesting volume, generous
- oPA AAanA0u Will AumOT, We NnQ his
personal experiences, from going
aboard ship, the training in France and
the life in the trenches, punctuated
with miraculous accounts Of valor per-
formed by our boys on the firing line.
There is one thing that strikes a very
clear note and a ringing message to
the people that are helping the boys in
their fight cover there" and that is the
point emphasized by the author. that
after the second Liberty Loan there
was notable difference in the food
and clothing of the soldiers:
''The food improved wonderfully
after the raising Of the second Lib
erty Loan over in America. The
folks at home must back us to their
last cent If we are to win this war.
Money talks harder right now in
France than at any time in the his
tory of the world. There must be a
constant stream Of cash from the
pockets of Americans if we are to
keep men and munitions pouring
into the fighting zone."
BY mentioning this condition in his
book Corporal de Varila does not infer
that we are not backing our men as we
should, but emphasizes the fact that
we must help here in the only way that
We can be Of help to them, by con-
tributing all the funds that we can
possibly rake and scrape together.
For it is the man behind the man that
fires the gun that makes it possible
for him to fire the gun. This book is
more of human document than just a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

tered over all Europe, and lately in the
United states-"Women Wanted" The
war has even helped toward the COM
plete capitulation of suffrage, but not
in the old militant sense of the word.
To-day the radical suffragettes have
changed their slogan of "Votes for
Women" to "Work for Women" and
are war workers for their country's
cause and not their own. What is
their ultimate aim, these emancipators
for freedom and citizenship? Will they
be willing to close the "open door"
after peace is made and have count
have made in the different industries
and commerce that have been opened
to them; the victory they have won
which not even the woman movement
of yesterday, with their stone throwing
and their fights with the police, could
accomplish?
In this new woman movement of to-
day, of giving the power of citizenship
to women, the author, leading fem
mist, makes it very clear that while the
women, the married women, because
of the war, probably have been forced
to earn their own living. that does not
her home and family for the sake Of
rearing of family, and that it does
not make her less feminine. On the
contrary, Mrs. Daggett points out that
through the advantage Of woman
knowing she is economically inde-
pendent she is better equipped to take
care of her home. In the factory she
is taught to do one thing we'll, whereas
in the home she did many things, per-
haps not excelling in one thing. As
Mrs. Daggett says: cts just like this
about people: We've been trying to
have too many. When Mrs. Smith in
London or New York, or Frau Schmidt
in Berlin, has six or eight or more
children in, say, two rooms, some of
some of them are going to have tuber
culosis, and some Of them are going
into penal institutions. So that when
you come to want them for the army
you find that one in four has failed.
Why. even chickens would. A poultry
fancier does not presume to try to
raise brood Of chickens in quarters
too crowded for their development.
"The unlimited increase that crowds
children from the cradle to the coffin,
in the haste to make room for more,
has been the fatal force that has i'm
PEELED nations teeming with too many
people TO make war lot terrltorlal ex-
pansion. We shall not blot out from
civilization the Prussian military ideal
until we have likewise cffaced the
Prussian maternity ideal of reckless
reproduction. That the cradles Of the
world may never again spill over the
nations must rise from the peace table
with new population policy. In the
birth politics. Of the future there must
be birth control. When children are
scarce, they are dear. See Francel
The rising value of baby may yet
lift the curse Of Eve!"
The author was sent to Europe to
study the new situation created by
woman, and her book is most amaa-
ing record Of the new order Of things
that she witnessed in England and
France and that is gradually taking
hold in the United States. Mrs. Dag
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
An Epic of the Flesh
lynpleasant Commonplace Un-
duly Exploited

AIT q. THE EDUCATION OF GRIFFITH
11nxMS By Charles G. Norris. i2mo. I'D. S7s
& P. Dutt0n Co
Il 1. as old as the hills, or at least
=. old as that hackncyed saying. Un-
.ounted classes of college graduates in
Ill the centuries since long before the
dsys Of Abelard have passed through
scommencement day" to find that their
academic education and instruction
vork and to the real learning of life.
IIneounted multitudes of ill-trained
md ill-instructed boys have been
shocked and corrupted by learning the
mysteries Of sexual generation from
thair elder comrades instead of from
narents or teachers and have been
initiated into the degradation of homo
sexual vices in the same way. Innu-
m.rable young men have got drunk,
visited houses of prostitution, con-
tracted vile diseases and experienced
disgust at their own debauchery.
Everybody to whom the knowledge can
be profitable is already painfully aware
Of these lamentable facts. 1t did not
need the writing of novel to instruct
them.
Our chief criticism of Mr.. Norris's
work is twofold. First, because it gives
what we must regard as an unjust and
incorrect impression of college life and
Of college fraternity life. Mr.. Norris
may not mean the fraternities of his
sSt Cloud" to be taken as typical of
Greek letter fraternities in general. We
But we fear that the average reader
will SO interpret the book, and with
good reason; and we insist that any
such representation of these fraterni
ties is altogether false and misleading.
Neither, perhaps, does he mean his
despicable "hero" to be taken as a type
Of college men in general. Yet, if not,
why does he pitchfork the odious fool
into such prominence? There is no
greater fallacy, no greater untruth,
than that college or university life is
useless to the man who is to enter in
dustry or commerce. Yet the average
rsader, again, would be justified in as
sxming that this book was written to
PROFOUND and to support that fallacy.
Our second objection is to the ex-
ploitation in works of fiction for gen.
eral reading of themes which people of
decent instincts do not publicly dis
cuss. That objection does not arise from
prudishness, nor is it based upon moral
considerations as they are commonly
conceived. A latrine is a necessary
thing, and its uses are certainly not
immoral, but we should hope not to be
charged with prudishness if we object
ed to having it placed in the centre of
the drawing room. AS one of our most
respected and authoritative predeces-
sors once observed on this page. it is
not a question of morals so much as
Of common decency whether a man
should take off his trousers in the mar
ket place.
We regret the more thus to criticise
this work because Of the many ad-
mirable qualities which it displays and
of the fine craftsmanship Of the au-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

with tales of the war in the trenches
we have had very little about the work
of our sailors. Indeed, we fear that
the average American is in danger of
regarding life in the navy as one of
elegant leisure, while the fact is that
it, is marked with intense activity and
with great effectiveness.
Mr.. Paine, who is an expert sea
writer, has told the story of our
sailors work in guarding merchant
ships and transports and in ridding
the seas of Tirpitz's submersible
pirates. There is much to tell, of
cruising and fighting; but the best Of
all is the disclosure Of the fine spirit
of American seamen, on perceiving
which we are ready unhesitatingly to
approve the saying that "good men
with poor ships are better than poor
men with good ships" But happily
this work convinces us that we have
both good men and good ships In the
American navv
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Life's Vitalities

THE KEYS OF HEAVEN By Clara E. Laushlin
l2mo. PIP. ALI. The George H Doran Company.
This is an unconventional and in
teresting romance of a young and at
tractive bachelor who accumulated his
wealth and success in the gold and sill
yer mines of Mexico. In the rough
mining country Stephen Bellas is quite
a parsonage and is inveiglcd into mar
riage with Lncille Harrod, whose sole
ambition in life is to possess an un-
limited bank account and to be at the
top of the social ladder. Stephen, real
izing the failure of his marriage, plans
trip to Europe, and in Italy he meets
Eleanor Atwell, in whom he finds all
the ideals he held about women and
has. cherished from his boyhood, and
through whom he finds supreme happi-
ness.
Miss Laughlin has written story
throbbing with human interest and
amusement and touching upon the vital
things of life.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
In the Heart of the War

THE REAL, FRONT. By Arthur Hunt Chute. svo.
pp 300. Harper Bros.
The title of this book Is not 80 much
, gsograRhissal or Typographical .s,.a as
is much in the volume about the
trenches and the fighting, and it is un-
commonly we'll told, as we might ex-
rect it to be by member Of the first
Canadian contingent, who had already
become trained observer and corre-
spondent in the Balkan and Mexican
campaigns. But the best Of it all is
the insight which it gives into the
hearts and minds Of the soldiers. and
by those who are fighting against the
unspeakable Hun. The real front is
in the breasts Of the men who hold
the line, and Of it no truer picture
has been given than we may find in
these luminous and fascinating pages.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Engineers in War

THE FIGHTING ENGINEERS BY Francis A.
Collins Illustrated. 12mo pp 2od The
We have heard much about our en-
gineers being sent to France and
Flanders, but, with the exception of a
little of what they are doing there.
The fighting on the battlefront mo-
ropolize the daily news. Yet there
is now and then a suggestion of the
vital Importance which engineering
work is to the winning of battles, while
to the thoughtful mind the magnitude,
variety and beneficence of it are be-
yond all expression.
In this lucid little volume Mr.. Col
lins gives most vivid picture of that
work as it is being performed by more
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
New Womanhood
With a New Race in a New
World

Illustrated with photographs. s1o. Do. = AL
Ihe George Ii. Doran Company.
work"
This is practically the text that Mrs.
paggett used for this very remarkable
Dook Tor women, not only in regard to
war work, but also the emancipation
OF women in general, especially tow
ard an economic freedom. The war has
made possible new place in the world
1or women and has helped far toward
the open door" movement into indus
Formerly they had to batter their way
into commercial life, whereas now they
are invited in, by huge posters plas-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
A Long Way to Paris

LITTLE JOURNEYS TOWARD PARIS: 1914-1s1s.
~ Simeon strunsky With map and plans.
12mo. pp. "a. Henry Holt & Co.
This is most excellent fooling. It
purports to be a translation of Will
lam Hohenzollern's guidebook to Paris
by various routes-by way of the
Lusitania, by way of Verdun, bv way
OF Amiens, and then Somme, by way
of .Gott, etc. The fine compound Of
burlesque, irony, satire, and what not
makes it at once irresistibly witty and
scathingly condemnatory of the King
OF the Huns. 1t is by all odds one
OF the cleverest skits on the war that
we have seen.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Homely Views of the War

KEEPING UP WITH WILLIAM By Irving Bach
eler: With cartoons by Gaar Williams. l2mo
pp. lis. The Bobbs- Marril Company
Mr.. Bacheller gives us a study of the
war in the guise of a series of mono
logues from the quaint and homely
genius who some years ago inspired
his keeping Up With Lizzie" It is
a discussion of the Kaiser. and of the
war in general, in homelv, familiar
fashion, filled with racy humor and
with parallels and SMILES drawn from
everyday life. 1t is entertaining read
ing, and is filled with food for serious
thought
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
FOR and About Women
Book News and MISCELLANY

gett has revealed the new opportunities
professions, even prophesying that
women shall eventually have a
voice in government. This book is a
great battle cry for the rally of all
women for the democracy Of both
sexes. And beside the dramatic quail
ity of the book it is one that every
woman should read and study. for it is
very remarkable in it's judicious inter
probation of the New Woman Move
ment whose ultimate aim is a New
World for a New Race. H. A. H.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

than hundred thousand Americans, in
building roads and RAILROADS and
bridges. .quarrying, numbering, the re-
habilitation of orchards and farms,
and what-not else. It is an intensely
interesting presentation, gratifying and
inspiring in the highest degree as a
reminder that there is constructive as
we'll as destructive work IN war, and
also that there is after all in the Amer
leans and their Allies a degree of eff
ciency to which the Hun has never
attained.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

war book; it is collection Of expert
ences that cannot we'll afford to be
as they are the experiences
that many Of our boys will undergo.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Americanization

REKNDLED FIRES BY joseph Anthony With
sSolorcd froattspiece. 12mo pp. 847 Henry
Americanization is the theme Of Mr..
Anthony's romance-his first, we are
told. The hero is Stanislav Zabransky,
in Bohemia; he here becomes Stanley
Zabriskie. But, of course, there is far
more than a change of name. The au-
thor with admirable skill has depicted
the transformation of Old World ideals
into American ambitions and the de-
velopment of fine Americanism out of
the best that is in Bohcmianism. The
detailed and intricate narrative in
wolves the industrial, social, political
and educational systems of America,
and in both description and incident it
is far less inclined to exaggeration than
most works on such themes and hap
PLY avoids the grave error of exploit
ing exceptions as. types. In general
workmanship the book is worthy Of
veteran craftsman instead Of novice,
and its marked excellence constrains US
gladly to look for further works from
Mr.. Anthony as fine enrichment of
American literature.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
The Fighting Fleets

A Thrilling Record of Active
Service at Sea
THE FIGHTING FLEETS BY Ralph D. Paine
illustrated. Svo. pp 1893. Houshton Aiitfin Com
pany
There is certain novelty in this
volume arising from the fact that
while we have been all but surfeited
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29
Some Striking Fiction
Noteworthy War Books
BY Willis Fletcher johnson

thor. Few contemporary novelists have
the multitudinous notes of English
speech so completely and so felicitously
at their command as he. and few are
more expert in the analysis and de-
and convincing narration and descrip-
ton of incidents. Few have written
with more sincere and earnest purpose.
And, whether we like it or not, and
whether we approve it or not, this book
is assuredly one that must be very
seriously rcckoned with amid the i'm
portant fiction of the day. Despite the
sordid and, as we must hope, atypic
character Of some of his themes, we
must acclaim the author as master of
the novel writer's art, and must look
with delighted anticipation for further
works from his gifted pen.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

WAR LETTERS OF EDMOND GENET Edited.
with introduction, by Grace Ellery Charming.
PREDATORY note by John Jay Chapman. Illus
New-York tribune., 1918-06-29

MoBHLznI0 WOMAN: POWER By Harriet Stan
ton Blatch With forsword by Theodore Roose-
vet. illustrated. limo. DID, 1876 The Woman 8
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French Aerial
Warfare Paintings
Attract Throng
NJ. Andre Tardieu and Gov
ernor Whitman Among
Spectators at Exhibit

Mon Dieu, CONNIE il await du
monde!-in other words, there was q
very large attendance at the opening
of the French Aerial Warfare Exhibit
at the Anderson Galleries yesterday.
NJ. Andre Tardieu, the French High
Commissioner, came from Washington
for the occasion; Governor and Mrs.
Whitman came from the st. Regis Ho-
tel, escorted by Commandant Tulasne,
Mrs. Chanler, Lieutenant Fare and
Mr.. Woodhouse; Mrs. j. Magee was
there, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Maynard,
Baron Charles Huard, Alan Hawley,
F. Crowninshield, Marquis and Mar
quise de Polignac, G. D. Smith and
many other we'll known persons.
After time the crowd became so
dense that only those who were very
close could view the paintings with any
appreciation; but then there were the
smartest of French, British, Italian,
Belgian and American uniforms to ad
mire; also the beautiful Lima Cavalieri,
her noted husband, Lucien Muratore,
and other representatives of the Amer
lean and French theatrical world.
Speeches were made by Mr.. Hawley,
Governor Whitman and M. Tardieu, but
Lieutenant Fare caught the wave of
enthusiasm on the crest with a charm
ing little talk in French, which brought
an outburst of applause.
Many flying corps were represented
the French, the Lafayette, British
Royal and Royal Italian, Of which Cap
tain Hugo d'Annunzio was the repre-
sentative.
The paintings by Lieutenant Faro
are sent by the French government. AS
historical documents they are novel, as
pictures they are thrilling. The por-
traits are we'll executed, showing
French and American aviators in their
picturesque caps, few bearing black
crepe bows.
Captain George Guynemer's portrait
attracted much attention with Mort
au champ d'honneur" written across it
and the flags of the Allies above it.
Sensitive to degree. but heroic and
ndomtable. his face looks out Of the
canvas fearlessly; and though the black
bow of crepe is there, he will always
live in the hearts of the French as their
idol, their "ace of aces" who fought
800 battles and brought down eighty
four German airplanes.
The exhibition will remain open for
the next ten days. The admission fee
is so cents, the proceeds going to chill
dren of French aviators killed in the
war