Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
THE WAR ROMANCE OF THE SAL
NATION ARMY. By Evangeline
Booth and Grace Livingston HILL
Philadelphia: j. q. Lippincott Com
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pany.
IN HE material of this romance is,
of course. the splendid war
service of the Salvation Army.
That service is a matter of
record. registered in the hearts
of thousands and thousands of SOL
diers, acknowledged in warm depths
of gratitude by the world at large. To
this material-this voluminous body of
fact. tested and vouched for by the COM
mander- in chief of the Salvation Army
in America, Evangeline Booth herself
Mrs. Hill has applied the best Of her
sincere and sympathetic powers OF por-
trayal, bringing out in striking ar
engagements the true colors o! ms
srmy's great war work. Hundreds OF
little stories-true stories-incidents.
anecdotes, flashlights of picture.
make up this Illuminating narrative.
Every important war area and sec
tor stands. in turn. as the subject OF
these sketches. the center OF the
Armys heroic and untiring service
Gondrecourt. Toul, Montdidier. Bac-
carat, Chateau Thierry. scissors. ST.
Mihiel. Argonne. One marvels at the
vividness of these scenes. One actu-
ally walks through these gray httIe
medieval French villages where the sol
diers are billeted. one feels the rain
and wades the mud and himself has
tens toward the hastily jmprovIsed
good cheer set up by this indetatsa-
BILE army of practical good deeds. one
literally shares in this brotherinE OF
the sick toward health and the loving
of the wounded toward hope. To get
this effect of immediacy Mrs. Hill has
hewn close to the bare facts. She
has embodied them in the simplest
of words. There is no reach for i'm
nrPSSiOnS in and of themselves So
with great story to tell and in the
simplicity of portrayal that great
deeds exact. these authors have de
hvered to the public an unforgettable
chronicle of the Salvation Army in
France.
LESSONS OF THE WORLD WAR. BY
Augustin Hamon. author of Social
and Political France" etc. Trans
lated by Bernard Mall. introduce
ton by Patrick Geddes. New York:
Dodd, Mead & CO.
NJ. Hamon is trained and expert in
the broad science of sociology. AS a
ma alter of course, therefore. his mind
bends strenuousIy and searchingly
upon the war in it's logical relations
and inevitable effects upon the gem
eral complex of human society itself.
Here in psychological approach is
consciousness that produced the war.
the spiritual, or unspiritual. outlook
that sustained it. The ideals md
practices of autocracy and democracy
in their respective bearings upon the
great war situation are set forth. The
material side of the matter is record
ed in clear detail-econornic demands
desire for expansion territorially. the
domination Much information of
practical character covering the vari-
Gus kinds of war costs are included in
this study. Looking beyond this chaos
of world-strife the writer defines and
analyses the most essential of the
problems of peace, outlining in this
connection the most promising of the
measures looking toward permanency
OF peace. The whole is scholarly
and competent study, as valuable for
its wise and practical suggestions as
it is for its solid body of authentic
and revealing facts. The chapters Of
this volume were given, primarily. in
the form Of lectures at Kings College
University of London. as a contribu-
ton to the general subject: The War:
Its Social Tasks and Problems" which
in the summer of 1915 was under dis
cussion at that institution.
PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION.
By Isaac Lippincott, Phi. d. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
A countrywide unrest of many
kinds-dissatisfactio national in
scope and various of breed, had al
ready attained to lusty growth and
had definitely seized upon the fore
ground OF public attention, by the
time the United States entered the
war. Reformers of every sort were
already active in the advocacy of
measures for the relief Of an ill-bal-
anced situation, for a redealng of
the cards of economic and political
opportunity. Then the war came.
Its necessities created and put into
operation vast industrial organiza-
tion. Under government control for
fmer functionings gave way to new
modes of fitting means to ends. The
war Is over. The problem of recon-
trial machinery is in working order
to be used. If need be. in the solution
of some, or all, of these problems
The book in hand is clear sum-
mary of the situation up to the
present point of reconstruction. 1t
Is. moreover, a discussion of certain
preliminary steps by which the great
readjustment may be approached. For
the larger part the book is a history
of the changes which our entrance
into the war brought to the economic
character of this country. Detailed
descriptions are given of the various
lines of government control over the
essential matters of war prepara-
ton Suggestive comparisons are in
serted here from the work in the
same direction done by Europe. In
other part the book is discussion of
tentative plans looking toward re-
construction itself, plans that involve
systematic investigation. co-ordina-
ton. economy of effort. substantially
of result. The whole is an authorita-
tive study. embodying in the perma-
hence of book form the vital mat
tiers that are pressing upon the whole
public at the present time.
OUR HOUSE. BY Henry Seidel Candy
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
Sincerity is the keynote of this novel
Of American life. To set out the mat
ter in hand pretty much as 1t is ap-
pears to be the chief aim of the au-
thor. 1t Is the story of young man
in his many and various efforts to
relate himself successfully and. hap
PLY to the small-town life of which
he is a part. Robert Roberts is just
an average youth of good family of
sound American traditions. Like about
every other young fellow in the world.
he is more or less igonrant of what
1T is all about-espe cially of what he
himself is about. A strain of artistic
tendency inclines him toward a ca
reer OF writing. But our house
wants him to continue it's own old
business preoccupation. All right
perhaps as well that as anything else.
So :he story goes on with the expert
ments that the boy makes in bust
in love writing and in nlai N