Evening star., 1918-03-24
THE LIFE OF LIEUTENANT GEN
ERAL CHAFFEE. BY William
Harding Carter, major general.
United States Army.


ERAL CHAFFEE- BY William
Harding Carter. major general.
United States Army.
-HIS is the kind of story that
makes history come alive.
that puts flesh and blood into
the events of a nation This
is the kind of story for boys
50 read, for it fills the heroic mold of
boys mind with a man whom he can
almost touch. one whose character is
stin a tangible reality, one whose acts
are part of the immediate present in
which he himself is SO concerned.
From private soldier to chief of staff
These are the boundaries of the public
service of Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee- Within
these limits one finds here the story Of
the civil war. of frontier service from
Kansas to California, of rugged par
ticipation in the Indian wars from
Minnesota to Mexico And here, too,
IN this life record of Gen. Chafee is the
story of the Spanish-American war and
the Santiago campaign, and the story
of the China relief expedition and the
capture of Peking, with that later one Of
service in the Philippines. The story
OF brave soldier and big man. To
the recital of this heroic tale and to
the appreciation of this manly char
acter the writer brings forty years of
love and friendship and he brings to
II, too. the soldiers knowledge of mill
kary history and a splendid appreciation
of the soldierly qualities of Gen
Chaffee. AS biography, the book is an
admirably sympathetic study of a brave
man, and a patient one. AS history
from the military standpoint, it gives
an excellently balanced survey of i'm
portant events in the development of
A-s tc al
quent story. whose words flow together
In affinities that stir the blood and
warm the heart of the reader as he
partakes of the life of another brave
and greatly useful American soldier.
CAMPAIGNS AND INTERVALS. By
Lieut.. Jean Giraudoux. Translated
by Elizabeth Sergeant Boston:
Houghton Miffiin Company.
Before he went to war Jean Girau-
eoux was a writer-a novelist These
war sketches are, therefore. drawn in
with a practiced hand. Telling details
round the pictures to Iifelikeness. and
. proportioned sense of values gives
them consistency. They step, whole,
put of this volume into the emotions
and convictions of the reader. The
battle of the Marine has place here in
2 dramatic summary of Five Nights.
Fiye Dawns on the Marne-" The cam
pa1gn or the Dardanelles STANDS out IN
viyid lines of black against white The
6rst war-that expedition into Alsace-
makes its a1HeaI of sentiment and
Righteousness. Between these full and
Urgent views there is an interval in
Portugal, an interval of vivid impress
eions and delicate Implications, such as
tnhere in all parts of this work. The
book closes with the writer in New
England. in the White mountains,
where forester and an Australian
poet keep him company. And the two
1.-The novelist-soldier and the poet
talk long talks about the gifted boys
who have gone out through the door
way Of the great war. They talk of
Seeger, and Blakefy. and Dollero. and
Brooke-and of their last poems .'in
which each saw death as il was, in
Tact, to overtake them-Seeger like a
mistress, longing for rendezvous:
pollero like storm, with three stray