Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
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M completes Mrs Huard's
war trilogy-"My Home


~ completes Mrs. Huard's
war trilogy-"My Home
in the Field of Honour"
and MY Home in the Field Of Mercy"
making up the two remaining parts.
These are beautiful books--beautiful
in their simplicity, in their tender
ness, in their fidelity to the patient
hearts of the French people under
their supreme war sorrow From her
own home as q center of war life, as
1t used to be the center of the peace
full country life roundabout Mrs
Huard tells of the day-by-day duties
that the war has imposed upon her
and upon the neighborhood This
like it's companion stories, is record
of hard work and many makeshtfts,
record of heavenly neighhorlineSs,
record of mutual helpfnlnesses, In
her preoccupations with the human
beings around her Mrs. Huard does not
forget the animal life of her home,
She fills in and completes the little
picture with what this dog, or that
one, does on one day or another III
fitting himself to an incredibly strange
existence; and what the donkey does
to help carry on in this mad world
where the hens and the geese and the
ducks bestow themselves, such as are
left of them, and so on through all
the homely accommodations thar
actually take place in that torn cor
ner of France--accommoda that
add a bit of humor and no end of
Dathos to the profoundly human story.
Not a small part Of the charm OF
these Huard books rests with the
pictures that the artist husband OF
the writer supplies in support OF some
point of text.
THE DOCTOR IN WAR. BY Woods
Hutchinson. NJ. D.. author Of Civ
ilization and Health" etc. Illus
trated, Boston: Houghton Mitfin
Company,
ut is the first war where the doctor
has been given free hand, and he has
responded by almost wiping out dis
ease. by making the death-rate from
1t in the camps lower than that at
home, by saving 90 per cent of the
wounded and sending so per cent of
them back to the firing line within for
ty days, and by making the death-rate
from all causes in this most horrid-
sounding and appalling of wars the
lowest on record--barely per cent per
annum, and for the past two years un-
der per cent" With practically
year Of observation on the miracles
that have been wrought through the
treatment of the wounded and the sick,
and through the measures of proven
ton that have been devised and prac-
ticed, DR.. Hutchinson gives In simple
and readable fashion the great story
of the doctor in war. 1t is a record of
lasting value, for. while the doctor was
q godsend to the soldier, the war, in
its turn, taught the physician many
lessons that will carry on in civil life
for all of the future. The layman will
get q fine body Of practical informa-
ton from this book. And the doctor
himself will read it with enthusiasm
and pride.
THE FORCE SUPREME. BY Walter
Wellman. New York: George II.
Doran Company.
The war over, Walter Wellman here
takes an outlook over the world to
see what can be done with the pieces.
He notes that for the first time in
history war has produced the unity
of the world-save only for the one
outlaw tribe. He points out that
life progresses by organic law,
whether this be the life of a plant.
human being, state or the world
state. This organic law operates con-
structively. expressing itself through
the forces that build up. through the
worlds work. War is an accident,
cutting violently and destructively
through the operations of the law of
life. The world, now for the first
time unified, Is ready. as never be-
fore, to cooperate with the funda-
mental law of it's own being, cutting
off wars and bending itself to the ac-
celebration Of progress. to the fortfi-
cation of civilization, and to the lift
ing. prodigiously, of the general level
of human existence. Clipping the
English sentence up into little square
blocks of fine driving force, Mr.. Well
man outlines, broadly, a program of
progress. This sounds like a large
order, and so 1t is, but since the
author attempts no more than Il sug
gestive plan--one, too. that within
limits Is easily adaptable-it offers
much to the earnest man or woman
who stands eager to contribute TO the
new forces that hereafter are to
count exclusively in world matters.
IN THE SOLDIERS SERVICE. BY
Mary Dexter Boston: HoughtOn
Miftlin Company.
From 1911 TO 1918 Mary Dexter was
nurse in England. Belgium, France.
This book is made UP Of her letters
to her mother during that period.
One is soon impressed with the fact
that a businesslkc and level headed
young woman is the author of these
letters. There is very little here