Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
By BRIGGS

The nutshell is Facts About
France, by E. Saillens, recently pub
lished by Stokes. 1t is a book unique
in plan and as full of interesting in
| formation as n nut is full of meat.
| Americans who have seen France
and wish to enlarge their knowledge
| or refresh their memories, and those
| who contemplate a pilgrimage to a
| France of many changes, will find
! in this compact, readable encyclo-
! pedia information covering every
phase of French life, customs and
! people, past and present, ranging
from thoughtful discussions of
music. painting and sculpture to d
concise treatment of the Alsace-Lor-
! raine question; from agriculture and
industries to Joan of Arc, Napoleon
and the battles of the Great War.
Yashka, Maria Botchkareva's NOV
| ing and unique story of her early
| personal life and her service for
Russia during the war, recently pub
lished by Stokes, has had an un-
usual reception, meeting universal
recognition of its extraordinary
qualities both, as a human document
and record of genuine historical
, Importance. Those following the
Investigations of the Overman Com
mittee into revolutionary propagan-
/ da will be interested in the fact that
] Botchkareva' story goes further and
| deeper into the sconrge of Bolshe-
vism than any witness appearing
/ before that committee. 1t is based
on inside experience not outside OBJ
| serNation. Maria Botchkareva saw
with her own eyes how Bolshevism
worked in the Russian army. Her
Lea Na L.
! should sweep away Russia and inun-
date the world are enormously sig
! nificant. Though she did not meet
with immediate and visible success,
she stands, and will stand in future,
/ as a historical figure, comparable
with the foremost heroes of world
progress.
A few months before his death,
Theodore Roosevelt invited Maria
Botchkareva to lucheon at Oyster
! Bay, desrous, although he said he
did not believe in women going to
war;" of meeting the inspired peas
ant woman who had served Russia
so uniquely. At once these two
widely differing individuals recog-
niZed in each other a kindred spirit.
Roosevelt was so deeply impressed
with the inspiration and devotion as
a leader of her people that he sent
| her $1,000 from his Nobel Peace
I Prize Fund to be applied to the re-
lief of thirty brave women of the
Battalion of Death whose destitute
condition Botchkareva knowingly de-
scrihes in her thrilling life story
1ashka tStokes). lie said of her
afterwards, II never enjoyed an
afternoon more. She's a remarkable
woman" -.
Singing seems to go with soldier
ing, as the many recent books of
verse by our heroes testify. One of
the most spirited and delightful of
/ these volumes is Songs OF The Ser
vices, by Chief Yoeman Will Stokes.
a veteran of the u. S. Army and
Navy, well loved as a man and a
singer by men of the Services who
for years have known and sung
many of the songs appearing in
this volume. Will Stokes has serv-
ed in three wars and seems even
more alive to-day than ever before,
He was on the eve of retiring after
thirty-two years service when the
war broke out and caused him to
renew his energies in the navy. His
poems of the Great War have
splendid patriotic spirit and real
Irish humor.