The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-09
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD SUNDAY FEBRUARY g. 1919
publishers, Franklin square. New York

puDnSherS, tTanklln square, New I 1ork
 city.
 Arthur Guiterman, whose verse contri-
 buttons to Life" ''The Youths Com
 panion,> The Delineator," "The De-
 signer," Golfers" and other well known
 periodicals. has made him one of the most popular rhymists in America to- day. sends out volume of his clever
 verses which he entities The Mrthful Tyre"
 The collection of poems is very at tFactive-in fact. the author is at his
 "Camouflage," That Fraud, omar" Afternoon Tea, "The Summer Boarder,' -
 "The Home Wind and Breaking Camp"
 One of the most attractive poems under
 the head of "A Few Chidren.' is ap- pended;
 TN DEFENSE OF CHILDREN"
 The parents thin, their children rude
 Especially about their food
 And call their table manners low I really have not found them so;
 never vet have known a boy
 From Skaneateles to Troy FiOlAi f0ACi Stlltlltp NQ NHN lOTA Who took his porridse with a fork Nor any girl beneath the moon
 Who managed mince.pie with a spoon
 Nor any child in ssl my life That ate it's ice cream with a knife "Revelations.' by an ex-director of Krupps; The Economic Weapon by A. E. Zmmern; "A Note on the History of Submarine Warfare by Sir Henry Newbolt; Hate With a Will To Vic tory" by J. Hartley Manners; George IT, Doran company, publishers, SS West Thirty second street, New York city. A group of four pamphlet books per- taining to the war, including most
 markable ana effective bit of "propa ganda" by ]. Hartley Manners, will De found interesting.
 Revelations" by an X-director of
 krupp's is the work of Dr. Mullen; his memorandum and his letter to Herr Von
 Bethmann- dolweg, and among other things this expression is noted The revelations as to the perfidy of the German government seems from the first to have made profound impression on Herr Muhlons mind. It would seem that soon afterwards he resigned his post as director of krupps, but con- tinued to be employed by the foreign office in connection with Rumanian af- fairs at time when Rumania was not yet belligerent power" In The Economic Weapon" the author asks the question and answers it. What isF the economic question? It can be stated in a sentence The central powers are being besieged by practically the entire world and they have no means
 at their disposal for bringing the siege to an end.''
 A concise statement of submarine war fare is furnished by Sir Henry New
 bolt in "A Note on the History of the
 Submarine Warfare" in which he ob- serves
 ''The history of the submarine war may be said to begin with the second half of the sixteenth century, when it's two main principles or aims were first form
 ulated, both by English seaman. Sir
 William Monson, one of Queen Eliza
 beths admirals. in his famous Naval
 Tracts, suggests that powerful ship may be sunk more easily by underwater shot than by ordinary gunfire His plan is Ito place a cannon in the hold of bark with her mouth to the side of the ship; the bark shall board, and then to
 give fire to the cannon that is slowed
 under water, and they shall both in-
 stantly sink; the man that shall exc cute this strategem may escape in small
 boat hauled to the other side of the
 bark
 And then comes Hate With a Will to Victory" in which the well known play
 wright and theatrical manager, J. Hart ley Manners, has given out a most em- phatic invective against Germany, her methods, her people, and her Kaiser. MT. Manners has dedicated his little booklet ITO Pro-Germans," To German-Americans, v To defeatists,
 To Pacifists,
 To those who have accepted German