Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-21

PARIS VISTAS. BY Helen Davenport
Gibbons. author of "A Little Gray
Gs:Ho in FrS-Ice,' etc Iilustrs2-
tons by Lester George Horribly.
New York: The Century Company.
N Il Ow and then there is a per-
M son who. acting habitually
on what appears to be the
spur of the moment, is able
to give to the most commonplace per-
formances an air of fresh and engag-
ing spontaneity. To go a-marketing.
venture. House-hunting is a holiday
Balancing meager income and outlay
becomes an enterprise in high finance.
Mrs Gibbons is of this rare person
atty. And with Paris in her pocket.
so to speak. there is no end to the
colorful bits that she Is momentarily
taking out for the delight of one who
about the city wonderful. The vistas
through which one is led to look by
tbs inspired guide are not only those
of space, but the redolent distances
of time, as well. The most of Mrs.
Gibbons thirty years or so of life has
questionable mold, she is, therefore,
saturated with the fra grances and the
essences of this magic city of the
Seine Communicable. as well, one
catches out of these remarkable WIS.,
taS innumerable subtle suggestions,
Innumerable views from a fresh and
spirited standpoint. Equal to Mrs.
Gibbons herself and in much the same
kind of appreciation is Mr.. Hornby.
whose illustrations here are a sheer
JOY Of hide-and- go-seek beauty. -.
very beautiful experience in bits of
Paris life from a rather recent past
up to the urgent days of tho present.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN
THE GREAT WAR. BY Henry P.
Dawson New York: The Macmil-
Ian Company.
Chairman of the war council of The
American Red Cross. Mr. Dawson gath
ers into this compact volume IA sum-
mary OF the general scope and purpose
of the war work of this ins-i.ution
The nrst part of the study deals with
the general unreadineSs o. the organl-
cation at the outbreak OF war, with the
mobilization of forces throughout the
country to eject organization and sub
sequent movements to meet the need of
war supplies. of transportation of sery-
ice for the soldiers at home. The second
part describes the work of the Red
Cross on the battlefront and among the
destitute in the combatant Countries
IN Belgium. Italy. Serbia. Rumaria,
Russia 1t is a great story of self-ef-
facing service. of courage, of personal
suffering, of heroic consfancy Adj
dressed to the thirty millions who be-
longed to the Red Cross in America at
the close of the war. the book is cal
culated out of its solid substance to en-
list other millions to the work that re-
mains yet to be done at the hands of
the great body of men and women en-
listed in this army of succor and sup
port.
HISTORY OF THE YANKEE DuvI.
sion. By Harry A BenwelI Bos-
ton: The Cornhiu Company.
This book is offered by its author
as tribute to the men of the Yankee
Division and to its great leader
Clarence Ransome Edwards" 1t gives
IN substance the story of this gall
liant S26th Division-the first Amer
organization. the first to reach
France. the first of the American ex-
pedltionary forces to occupy a sector
as full division. For nine out of
the ten months of it's service the
26th spent but ten days in a rest
area Chemin DIES Danes. Chateau
Thierry, Belleau Wood, st. Mihiel and
the Argonne forest are among the
names that bear. testimony to the
surprising valor of the Yankee Dr.
vision From the organization of
the unit and a short account of its
training in France. the narrative
moves definitely through the months
of actual fighting that fell to the lot
of this division, and into a summary
of its military achievements Rec
way of citations, recommendations
and general orders from many
sources of high authority are given
In copy here as an essential part of
this history. The book Is generous
ly illustrated from photographs. An
appendix contains roster of the Of
ficers of the division as it was orig
inally organized. Appreciations from
Gen. Pershing. Maj Gen. Clarence
Edwards and the Secretary of War
introduce the story itself. The work
stands as keenly sympathetic
equal sacrifices. both of which will
gradually melt into the already
splendid tradition of New England
patriotism and American idealism.
SPIRITUAL VOICES IN MODERN
LITERATURE. By Trevor n. Da-
vies. New York: George H. Do
ran Company.
Here are ten lectures that repre-
sent an interesting adventure on the
part of their author-pastor of the
Metropolitan Church, Toronto. The
field of this adventure is modern lit
erature. Its purpose, to prove that
modern literary genius has found its
clearest inspiration in the spiritual
facts that illuminate the life of Jesus
Christ, that give direction to the
noblest aims of humanity, that stand
as the foundation and the support OF
the Christian church. Tennyson
Wordsworth, Ruskin. Browning, Ibsen