The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06

1.-THE EMMA GEES.
 By Herbert w. Mcbride The Bobbs Merrill company, publishers, Indianapo- lis.
 Because M sounds like N, and other characters in the alphabet were in dan ger of like confusion, the signal corps , invented new names for old letters. In this way M became Emma, and as the initials Nj. G. stood for machine gun ner, these daredevils of our service were dubbed the Emma Gees This explains the title to those unfamiliar with sol der lingo
 1 Captain McBride.s book itself needs no i explanation. It is a fighting man t, story-every word true and every page 1 new-told with the trained soldiers | love of accuracy and lack of sentiment ! It is red war and no quarter to dis honorable foe.
 | The Emma Gees are the boys who mow the Germans down when they come 1 in mass formation, or snipe them off when they stick their heads above the parapet. It's a great lfe-accordins to 1 Captain McBrde-if you don't click in, 1 but it never was intended for any but 1 the young. the daring, the adventurous 1 and the iron-nerVed.
 | Private Mcbride went over with the l Fist Canadian battalion and got right into the thick of things Hooge, St. | E,loi, Hill 50, Loos, Vimy Ridge, all along the Ypres salient, and at the Somme. | He was promoted in the field, straight | through the non commissioned grades. l and eventually won his captainey, He | was known for his coolness, his daring and his luck-''The fact that l was not killed hundred times was due to just that many miracles" he says. And cer- | h.. sln
  GREAT BRITAIN, PALESTINE AND
 THE JEWS"
 lJEWRY'S CELEBRATION OF ITS MA
 TIONAL CHARACTER
 George II. Doran company, publishers
 New York.
 A most interesting contribution to lit erature is the book entitled 'Great brl- tain, Palestine and the Jews.
 To form some idea of it's merit 1t IS just as we'll to glimpse word or two of the preface" and the following Is coralled for that purpose:
 "The declaration by the British govern ment in favor of the establishment II Palestine of a national home for the Jew is. people constitutes the greatest even in the history of the Jews since thei 7 dispersion. The manner in which thu , declaration has been received ana cele [ brated in Jewish communities both her and abroad has been marked by bound I less enthusiasm and overflowing grati tude But for the fact that the world is stil grooming under the scourge of war tn ) rejoicings by the Jewish people woul' doubtless have assumed much nor | imposing and jubilant character But th rece I'd presented in this publication show that the house of Israel is fully con scious of the high significance or th pledge of the British government con corning it's restoration.
 This pamphlet is in tended to give
 brief and comprehensive survey or th
 various forms of celebration m JeWI 1 in honor of the promulgation of the Brlt
 ish charter of Zionism. It is inevitapi
 confined to the events and utterance
 oe the first few weeks following th
 nublica ton of MT. Balfours historic let
 ter and cannot therefore inclhe
 adeouate account of the celebrations
 other lands. But it is worthy c- not
 that in addition to the countless secuia
 celebrations, the synagogues also too
 cognisance of the government ueciara
 tion -
 Although political document MT. Ba
 four's letter proclaims the forthcomin
 fllfiljment of what has always been
 religious ideal in Jewry; and II wa
 therefore right and proper that the le ter should have been read in numerot ?, synagogues during the Sappatn sersl. s and formed the text of countless SCI l. lmons" 0 FLOW A SOLDIER MAY SCCCEE Q AFTER THE WAR" 5 By Russell H. Conwell. Harper brotner al publishers, New York.
 ' In How a Soldier May Succeed Aft' d the War the author Russell H. Col l. we'll shows the American soldier of t r day how he can return to civii h' equipped to take up any career he ike This book shows, in the amazingly 1T. "a stories it tells how many of our pre-