Evening star., 1920-01-25
Reviews of New Books

days, too-days of stocky endurance. OF
good humor. of real humor. OF 1rieno-
ships, of sharings. of invinclbie soioler-
stuff, whether the enemy be boche or
Weather or long march or trench, or
vermin or what not. Running aiong,
diary fashion, nothing of war work
seems to escape this indefatlgapie an,
nalst. And the book rounds, too' 10
the men of the seth. An appendix gives
regimental record, decorations, cltatlohs
and historical sketch by Joyce klimer;
who had he not died in battle, Wouiu
have written the book itself, so Fatner
Duffy says 1t is a great book for the
ones in whose behalf it was written. A
great book, as WELL for all VINO glory IN
the heroisms and gallantries and sacrl.
fees of the American boys In the great
war.
MY MEMOIRS, BY Grand Admiral Won
Tirpitz. New York: Dodd. Mead &
co.
The memoirs of Admiral Won Tirpitz
reach their high point. to the general
reader, with the part played by TINS
high naval official in the great war
And this point is. too. the climax OF
the writer's own interest Personal dis
appointment and self-eXpianation To-
gether with a rancorous hatred of Eng
land are the unhappy influences under
which the recoliectiOnS cumlnate. Co
ing back to the beginning of his use
fulness the writer shows his own part
in the development of German sea pow
er and describes his own place in the
pan German councils of the nation.
Frank disclosures of William III are here
in abundance. Equally free estimates
of those Immediately surrounding the
kaiser are here. The misunderstand-
ings that surrounded the author him
i,, hi Off i1l
undoing are gone into with clear cir
cumstance of detail. 1t is not, however.
Won Tirpitz himself. nor his own direct
concerns, that give this book its value.
Rather is it the whole outlook of Ger
many as this is reflected in the theories
representatives. that compels consider
alton Won Tirpitz. like the rest of his
countrymen, maintains. with every APP
pearance of sincerity, that Germany
went to war in self-defense that
among its foes England was the arch
traitor, the unspeakable enemy. This
notion stepped in deepest hatred ami
mates the vital portions of this study.
Much of it goes also into self-extenua-
tion for the course that finally. turned
Won Tirpitz into degraded scapegoat
for the imperial William. The incom-
peteDce of the kaser's advisers. and
many a side-light on the foibles of the
emperor himself. contribute to these
pages of self-avowal on the part of a
man who, according to the German
standard. appears to have worked
! whole-heartedly for the fatherland and
! for an ungrateful and pusillanimous
sovereign.
| SIR HARRY. By Archibald Marshall
! author of "Watermeads," etc. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
| Like all of Mr. Marshalrs romances
this one moves forward evenly and
quietly through the medium of mod
| ern English life. A young man, Sill
| Harry Brent, is brought up in the Sc
clusion of the country estate held by
his grandmother. 1t is this grand
mother who plays the part of fate tc
| the youth. Her son married beneath
him. and to save the grandson from q
| similar fall she makes of him pris
I. oner--a happy prisoner unconscious
of his cell. A very beautiful youth Mr.
| Marshall makes of this boy. A very
remarkable grandmother. too-the ex
| ceptional person in the story. Al
/ idyllic romance develops right in thu
boys prison-and exactly the kind o.
one that the wise lady was seeking t.
avoid. Then the war breaks out. 'Th'
story ends with the great sacrifice
and such compensation as can be gath
! cred out of the fact that the boy wal
right in his choice, and that the wist
1 old woman was. for the once, wrong
one likes the even power of this story
! Just as he likes this quality of Mr.
Marshalrs story. But this time on
feels a tinge of disappointment at tn
close-a feeling that il she were tn
old lady she would miss something IL
this girl. Not truth, not beauty. no
gooGness-none of these. but some
Thing less than the boy would have re
uuired in his manhood. Probably tina