Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-22

pEemc COmmunuer OF the Allied
Armies. By Clara e. Laughlin. IL
Il lustrated. New York: Fleming HI.
Revell Company.
IN NE morning new man
stands at the head of the
IN allied enthusiastically a SOL
dierly commander despite
8the 1.-the youthfulness of his look.
WHO is this man. this Foch? And
with the world beloved Joffre in
zmind, vague resentment grumbles
lin the heart of the remote and criti-
zeal -combatant. In this little
book of no more than an hours read
Eing Miss Laughln sets this suddenly
exalted figure in the midst of the
circumstances that have made and
shaped him for the great task now
lin his hand. Though the writer
makes use of the usual formula of
biography, the common dreary eff
feet of this routine is lost here by
la selection and emphasis of the es-
|sentials only. and by the vivid in
substance of the man. into the inn
mediate personality of the great COM
mander of the allied armies. The
book satisfies ones very natural GU
riosity through it's sympathetic, and
intelligent account of slow and steady
development of great man. 1t pre-
|sents a patriot. as inspiring as he is
unassuming-a French patriot to
whom the whole allied world lays
eager claim.
THE WAR AND THE FUTURE. BY
John Masefield, author of "rhe
Everlasting Mercy" etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
The title of this book names one of
the two lectures given in America
during the present year by John
Maseheld. The other one is "St.
Gso ST. ana he aa Rnn aps SeTe
to an examination of the case of
England in the present war. Both
sum, also, to tribute of praise for
England, on the one hand, and to
counting up, on the other hand, of
the reasons why there should be
Great Britain and America. Step by
step, the book engages itself in
answering the accusations of Ger
many against England-that Eng
land is decadent nation, a cowardly
nation, a mean and grasping nation.
even, a store of figures. But these
facts and these figures unfold in a
roll call of English outpouring of
men and substance that Is of Homeric
sweep and cplor. And as the men
and the munitions and the great
and there. involuntarily, to catch
more of the feel of the heroic tide of
deliverance. And one loves England,
all over again, under the spell of this
Englishman who is glad to give up
his heart to US in praise of her. Pic
&n,~ 80 tor ar@eNf
hand by John Masetleld, are scattered
through this larger outlook. All of
the story Is in that swinging prose
that Masefield uses more and more
in lieu of the poetry of his earlier
work. This is poetry. too. more virile.
his thought than any formula for
verse could possibly be.
A NJ BA sADOR MORGENTHAU's
STORY. BY Henry Morgenthau.
formerly ambassador to Turkey.
Illustrated. New-York: Doubleday.
Page & Co. .y
Mr.. Morgenthau's story reads even
better IN the compactness of book
form than it did in it's serial publica-
tt0h, 1t, is of such competent book
struetpra that it gives one a proper,
situation, oot which Mr. Morgenthau,
in TBis. eftictal capacity, is most IL
luminatfng source Of information.
Charged for part of the time with
the affairs of several of the belliger-
ent nations represented at Constanti-
nople. in addition to those of our own
country, this writer is able to present
tke' ftAl complement of fact surround
Ing the part imposed upon Turkey by
Germany, in the prosecution of the
war. These facts Mr.. Morgenthau de-
liYers openly in an informing directness
Of Statement, and with convincing
body, of contributory detail. The pol
itics of Turkey stand clear here in
their blend of intrigue and conspiracy
and in the, general degradation of the
political vision. Personalities of
power and interest are presented in
the, intimacy of, the writer's eXcep-
tional opportunities to know the real
substance of these leaders among the
Young Turks. The book, interesting
and valuable from every point of view, is
pre7emineptly important by virtue OF
Its, open, exposure of the work of Ger
many In Constantinople to make use
of Turkey for. its own ends, and by
virtue also of the intimate and au-
theltic sources of information open to
Mn oMorgenthau through which the
culpability of Germany in causing the
war is beyond question.
ZIGZAGGING. BY Isabel Anderson.
Lift d. illustrated. Boston:
Houghton Miff1in COMPANY