Omaha daily bee., 1918-03-09

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NINETY SIX HOURS LEAVE. BY Stephen
McKenna. George II. Doran Company.
$1.S5.
Coincident with the arrival in Lon
don of three khaki-clad British Off
GERS there is advertised in the papers
the mysterious visit of an Italian
prince. AMI in the course of prac-
tical joke such complications ensue
with the British war office, the secret
service and the Italian government
that the reader quite understands the
force of Lieutenant Kit Markham's re-
mark that it was all too exciting for
him--the quiet life of the trenches
would soothe his nerves.
HOWARD CHASE, RED HILL. KAN. BY
Charles NJ. Sheldon. George H. Doran
Company. s12S.
A story OF a big man in small
town-the most gossipy town in Kan
sas.' Howard Chase is minister,
with whom all the attractive young
ladies in the district fall in love. The
story deals with the foibles and fol-
lies of church folk. The redemption
of the town by the creation of the
Community club dispels the spirit of
gossip and narrowness and self-cen-
tered satisfaction, and recreates a
clean, wholesome, spiritual atmos-
phere.
AMERICA AT WAR. BY Albert Bushnell
| Hart George H. Doran Company $3.50
This work is a compendium of data
on the causes, events and principles
of the world war. 1t consists of
classified references to books and
periodicals, and of documents and ex-
tracts, on stch subjects as interna-
tional law, freedom of the seas, war
finance, organization of industry,
compulsory versus voluntary military
service, submarine warfare, the world
peace movement, and the ideas OF
peace of each of the nations engaged.
In tracing the series of events lead
ing up to our entrance into the war,
both sides are represented, and the
relation to each other of various Dip
lomatic statements by the different
nations is shown. Collections of war
books of various prices and extent are
suggested.
FOOD IN WAR TIME BY Graham Lusk,
Phi. D. w. B. Saunders Company. 81
Cents.
In the first part of this book the au.
thor shows several important funda.
mentals of food and nutrition and how
corn may be SO supplemented with
other foodstuffs as to become ex-
tremely valuable in nutrition. He ad-
vises the use of whole milk in greater
quantity and the diminution of the
use of butter and cream and suggests
bread-potato-fruit diet which gives
very excellent basis of wholesome nu-
triton. The second part deals with
calories in common life and the third
part consists of eight rules of saving
and safety. IS ...@
WHEATLEsS AND MEATLEss DAYS, BY
Pauline Dunwell Partridge and Hester
Martha Conkin. D. Appleton & Co.
$r25.
This book contains hundreds of
simple and detailed recipes for ral-
ate-tickling dishes that can be made
without the use of wheat or meat. In
the first part of the book, there are
many recipes for fine soups, vegetable,
salads, meat substitutes and fish
dishes which are eleverly arranged so
that either fresh or canned fish may
be used in them interchangeably. The
second part of the book gives practi-
cal ways of substituting other grams
for wheat, and tells how to make de-
licious bread, cakes, mullins, cereals,
puddings and even frozen desserts.
TWO WAR YEARS IN CONsTANTINOPLE
BY Dr. Harry Stuermer. George II.
Doran Company, $3.50.
The author makes the formal state
ment on oath that he has written this
book to relieve his conscience by stat
ing the truth about the things he has
seen and experienced in CONSTANT
nople as a German correspondent, I he