The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01

fate learning. MT. Ohlinger takes up the whole matter of thfs pof1uting of our in tellectual we'll springs by carefully laid schemes going back for quarter of a century or more. He shows how the fa- voring of German history, German songs, German philosophy, German language and literature; to the exclusion of French and even English was fostered among
 pedagogues throughout the country, and
 how this slow narcotic was poured into
 the minds of students from the first
 grade up. He proves it by his long and
 careful study of conditions among our
 schools. And he proves it by the words
 of the German universities and their pro-
 fessors, even so noted scholars as Edward
 Meyer of the University of Berlin. He
 proves 1t over and over again by the
 words of Wilhelmstrasse and the German
 American alliance in America and kin
 dred organizations. Of all the Teutonc
 propaganda this is the most far-reach-
 ing and insidious, despite the fact that it ultimately failed. The book will interest almost every one-every one who has been student, every one who has been a parent, and like most American par ents, known too little of what children are taught. It will certainly be of in terest to every conscientious teacher and trustee of school, and in the last anal
 
 G. Captain Gustave Ohlinger was born Tn China where he became familiar with the people and language. He graduated from the academic and law departments of the University of Michigan and practiced ad- miralty law in China during the Russo- Japanese war where he says he first ob- served the German machnations. He practieed civil law in Toledo where he was the head of the Chamber of Com me e a Ia axxyUn h rr,a o- h
 trained sort of a witness when he was
 called upon to testify against the Ger
 man-American Alliance before congress. l It was his testimony that caused the
 revoking of that reasonable organiza- tions congressional charter. He has lived | in Germany, knows Germans and their language and thought thoroughly, and
 carried on the most acute observations
 of their methods in this country.
 NAVAL POWER IN THE WAR"
 l By c. c. Gill, Commander United States l navy. George H. Doran company, pub 1 fishers, New York city.
 l This is a revised, amplified and new tao ! tics through the four years of the Euro | pean conflict. It takes up in order the sea fights as they have occurred all ovei
 the globe during the war. and he believes \ and shows that it has been slowly but surely the sea power that has, as Admiral Mahan agrees, shaped the issues in this war as in former years. There is spe- l ciai chapter upon the United States navy | in the war--its war activities in general. ] it's service as a transport auxiliary fof l American troop and supply ships, than which there has been, as all students Of f the war admit, no more important func- tion. Besides this new chapter on our I own activities in the war, the book has | been amplified throughout by bringing up | the whole history to the date of the ces- sation of hostilities. The greater part or this material appeared first in the form | of lectures delivered by Commander Gill before the United States Naval academy | in the winter of 19l6-1917, to Y1idshipmen l who have since been graduated and are 1 now in active service. The volume IS printed with the sanction of the navy de- l partment, and is now in use by the de- partment of English at the Naval acad- | emy in the teaching of naval history The | book is fully illustrated with coioreu
 maps, diagrams and pictures of ships.
 | The author graduated from the Naval 1 academy in 1907. He was in the squadron | that made the cruise around the world m
 Mr. Roosevelt's S administrations For three i years he compiled the professional ana war notes for the Unitetd States Naval | institute (the Service Magazine) He con | tributed the article on the Navy in the American War Book for 1916, and has had t number of articles in the Institute
 and the Current History Magazine. Fol /. threa ysaFs usls-12l0 he was an instruc'