Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-07
VARIETY OF BOOKS
ON THE GREAT VAR
Famous Military Critic Writes
on Foch as Tictor; Kermit
Roosevelt in Palestine

Captain Raymond Recouly, the noted
French strategic writer, whose military
criticisms under the nom de plume Of
Captain X,' as well as his COM
mentaries during the Peace Conference
won him wide reputation as notable
thinker and balanced logician, has writ.
ten an analytic account Of the great
part played in the world war drama
by Marshal Foch as the ultimate vic
tor. The book blends essential biog-
raphy with its estimation and valua.
tion of the Entente generalissimo' con-
quering strategy. 1t takes the intelli-
gent reader below the surface in a sur
vey of the military aspects and phases
of the great combat with militaristic
autocracy. Captain Recouly was a
daily. worker with the great marshal,
and his intimate sources Of observation
and information have resulted in q
one fitted to be placed beside the au-
thor''s earlier treatise, "Joffre and His
Battles"
The Roosevelts are a literary as well
as patriotic and military family. Ker-
init Roosevelt, following In his brother
Theodore's footsteps. places on the
Oyster Bay bookshelf. beside Average
Americans in Olive Drab," stirring
narrative of the war on the Mesopo.
amman anu relateu IrOntS. ne cdus ~
War in the Garden of Eden" 1t is
notable for simplicity and sincerity. and
has value for its pen pictures and side
lights on a phase of the great war
which has not been fully or graph
ically described. The author was cap
tain in the motor machine gun corps
of the British expeditionary forces until
this country entered the war. when he
was commissioned captain Of field
artillery in the A. e. F.
with the Y. NJ. G.. A. in France"
the American doughboy. The author.
Harold G. Warren, who was formerly
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Walla Walla, WASH, subtitles his book
souvenirs of Secretary" Doctor
Warren seems, judging by the vim and
vigor of his writings, and the earnest
ness and lack of pose in it, to have been
an outstanding, two -fisted sort of man.
What he says of the trials that the
Y. NJ. G. A. met and the mistakes
for which it was harshly criticized,
therefore, makes a favorable impress
sion. But it must not be supposed that
the writer is an apologist or a partisan
. He is not concerned with a defense oi
the Y. NJ. G. A., but with story of its
accomplishment for the welfare of the
A. E. F. Edward Box, in an appre
ciative introduction, says: II like thi,
{ little book because it goes farther thar
to show the work of the Y. NJ. G. A
in France. 1t gives the reader, ovel
and over again, by the use of anec
dote, excellent glimpses of that mar
velous product of the great war-th
r American doughboy. To those of u
r who were given the privilege to see hin
, in France, he was the most amazin
part of the whole SHOW His equa
was in none of the other armies. y
t "Cheerio" is the story of an Amer
| lean medical officer at the fighting from
c with the British army. The author ]
Major Haroll NJ. Hays, NJ. c., U.
A. 1t is the record of personal i'm
{ pressions as events reacted on an in
{ telligently observant man who wa
t privileged to get close up to the action.
FocH. THE WINNER OF THE WAR. b
h Raymond Recouly. New York: Cha
= ! Scribner's Sons. So.
: Harold @. Warren. New York: Fleming +
WAR IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 7
e Kermit Roosevelt. New York: Chas. Scri|
e ner's Sons. S1.60.
= CHEERiO. BY Major Harold NJ. Hays. Ne
York: Alfred A. Knopf. $3.50.