East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-11-15

1 he gives an accent of his training
and his exploits at the front. He car
ries across TO the reader the exhilara-
tion of flying like a bird above the
good green earth. into and over
clods. veered by the wind, lonely and
exalted. There is humor in these
chronicles. and some of the adven-
tpres. in spite of their latent danger
inspire spontaneous chuckles. such
I are his tale of the camouflaged cows.
and his story of his landing among
heaps and heaps of sugar beets. withs
in an ever widening circle of Gers
man hats. The abrupt termination of
the narrative is explained in an ap-
pended statement. Capt. Hall is at
present imprisoned in Germany, aft~I
er having eased the Germans consid-
erable Inconvenience in a aerial COM
bat. There are in the book numerous
photographs of air machines, acci-
dents and trench lines"
Iauder-AIinstreI &. France.
About half the book deals with his
story of the battlefront and camps
in France. whittier he went after the Z
death of his son. They had with
them, built for and contributed for
the expedition, a tiny plano Weighing
15O pounds and carried in their mos
tor car. They went everywhere in
the battle zone, even into the front
trenches and sang and talked in due
outs, in trenches, along the road in
rest bilIets, in hospitals. and every
where they were welcomed warmly
The book is written in the simplest
style. with just enough of the Scottisht
dialect to give it pangeney and with a
certain friendly familiarity. as if Har-
ry Lauder himself were sitting across
the table from you and telling you ALI
a bout 1t in the intimacy of friendship
Root-Oyer PeriScope pond.
'"rhe charm and nusual interest Off
over Periscope pond do not lie alone.
or even chiefly, in the fact that the
record is personal; they are rather in
the kind of personality shown. Both
hese Americans have their eyes open
and their hearts open, too. It is no
foolish national boasting to say that
the spirit of such letters as these is
indeed American; but il is something
IA he proud OF. 1t is not quite fair to
them or to the other Americans who
4re doing hard work in Paris to have
reflected here only the off hours and
The vacations of the pair. Take this
into account, and you will get a fair G
snFount of amusement from these i'm O
formal and very charming letters" "
,Bairnsfather - Fragmants from $,
France. y
q observation-disclosures No. 10. c,
Dorr-Inside the Russian revolu- r.;
ion iii
Falls-Army and navy information. r,
Golnery-BeIgium in war time. Iii
Porter-ShOck at the front. lp
wilson--Great speeches. ii
FOR Club.
Five more books on France have al
ust arrived from the state library to OF
supplement- bUoks already here for Il
hose who are studying France this
winter. III
Lucas-wanderer in Paris. IN
Peixotto-Through the Srench pro- re
'inces. al
sergeant-Frenelr perspectives. If
Tozier-A spring fortnight in
france. p
Vados-BeImGnt book. M
SEw CHII.DRENS ErAolN r
New ehiIdren's books are arrivins p
or the winters reading. The follow B
ng have been prepared for circla-
ion and the covers especially shellacs
q for chRdren's use. at
Vow that school is closed II Is most er
n1ortant that the childrenJs home al
aading should be encouraged. Chill w
ren viii not he allowed TO read in al
be library untn further notice. but a
,ay choose books quickly and take
sem home for reading. PI
Adams -HarpeF's machinery book a.