Evening star., 1919-03-02
Mine Eyes Have Seen Of Americans
in Action In this Year OF Grace and
Allied Endeavor. BY Irwin S. Cobb.
author of Back Home,'' etc. New

Mine Eyes Have Seen OF Americans
in Action In this Year Of Grace and
Allied Endeavor. BY Irwin s. Cobb.
author of Back Home" etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
4 have seen the glory of the coming.
have watched the American expedi-
tionary force grow from a small thing
Unto a mighty thing--the mightiest
thing, verify believe, that since con-
sciouS time began has been under
taken by a free people entering upon
a war on foreign shores with nothing
personally to gain except principle,
with nothing to maintain except honor,
with nothing to keep except their na-
tlonal self-reGpect. In this war our
only spoiis out of the victory will be
the establishment of the rights of
other peoples 70 rule themselves: our
only territorial enlargements will be
the graves where our fallen dead sleep
on alien soil. 1t is this glory" that
Irwin Cobb tells in the pages of the
book in hand. Many have read these
stories from the various war fronts
before, since they have been printed
already in paper and periodical But
they are we'll worth many reading gs.
And. grouped together like this. they
come to one in new unity of effect.
FROM CZAR TO BoLSHEyIK. By F.
I, Stebbing, author of "At the Ser
bian Front in Macedonia" etc, IL
IuStrated with photographs by the
author. New York: John Lane
Company.
When Mr.. Stebbing set out from
England for northeastern Russia by
way of Sweden, Norway and Finland
his errand was of a business nature
the iuyestigat ion of the forest re-
sources of that region. looking
toward days of peace and the resump-
t1on OF industry and trade. This ac-
count of his actual experiences in
fussia demonstrates the total change
Oh plan that the conditions of the
country imposed upon him. No eco
nomlc question was worth considera-
ton without some compreh enSion of
the political situation that engulfed
every other aspect of Russian life.
Immediately. therefore. the traveller
adopted the plan of trying to get into
touch with the outstanding features
OF the Russian political upheaval. CO.
ordinating, as well as this was pos
slble, the apparently isolated phases
OF political experiment. Moving
down from the north to Petrograd.
Mr.. Stebbing jotted down day by day
the observations for which the many
cross currents of political agitation
GiiI'!tiStl MN bppoil
Out of the motley of political thought
and experiment that followed upon
the abdication of the car this writer
draws out and describes in clear and
succiHct stat ement the distinguishing
stamp of the provisional governments
that succeeded each other in steady
advance from an attempted order to
the final anarchy of bolshevism. Side
lights of many kinds illuminate this
purely political movement That
-. III n
makes most clear to the reader, is
the depth of the German design
against Russia, and. further along,
against England's empire in India.
When this book was written the war
was still going on-as the war of
German propaganda appears to be
still going on. That the allies
should counteract this Germa MIA
ton of Russia by an intelligent and
thorough propaganda of their own is
he urges that, in mere self-defense if
for no other reason, there should be
a perfect coordination of the activi-
ties of the allies in Russia An uu-
commonly thoughtful study of in
formal and appealing personality
WAR AND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA:
1814-I917. BY Gen. Basil Gourko.
illustrated New York: The Mac
milan Company.
In it's chief features this is "a book
for the military man, for the student
of military plans and movements and
operations. Gen. Gourko, the author.
led the armies of western Russia in
East Prussia. Poland and Galicia dur
ing so much of the year 1917 as escaped
the Russian revolution, in the early
months of that year. Prior to this
time the general was chief of the Rus
sian general staff-military in the
texture of his mind and, therefore,
prepossessed with the theory and art
of war. The book appeals. conse-
quently, to the fighting technician.
However, in its later chapters the
writer examines into some of the most