New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-31
By George Palmer Putnam

BN THE army | came TO know a
q young banker, froy. O middle West
IL ern state At Intervals since the
srmistice he has asked me to sug-
gest books which he should add to the
evidently rapidly growing library in
this home. And, curiously, he has uni
versally accepted the advice. He now
writes me:
at seems to me the time has come
for chap like myself, who is inter-
ested in accommodating a worth while
modest home library, to get up a thor
ough going list of war books. Won't
you please think the matter over and
work out a list of, say, approximately
fifty, or even a hundred titles repre-
senting the really outstanding books
about the war. What want is library
which will give a reasonably we'll
rounded picture of the whole show
Something my grandchildren will
treasure. AS matter of fact, the idea
has really come to ne because l have
just recently seen a splendid collec-
ton of Civil War books"
went to work to prepare that list
for my literary banker. And because
there are doubtless great many other
people who might be interested in ac-
cumulating such library, or in max
ing their own selections from such
collection, l list hundred books be-
low.
The list includes 100 titles. My
follows: Origin, Cause and Response
bility; Personal Experience; History;
Memoirs, Military, Naval and Diplo-
matte; War Horrors and Outrages;
Art; Humor; Poetry; Fiction; Peace
Conference and After; Miscellaneous.
Doubtless the real histories of the
war have not yet been written, and
they won't be for decade OF so. Also
probably some outstanding works Of
fiction, and even of personal expert
ence, are still to come But these can
be added later. From a bookbuyer's
standpoint the important thing to re-
member is that while probably now
everyone of the titles listed can be pur-
chased, in few years almost inevita-
bly, certain ones of them will go out
of print and will perhaps not be OBJ
tainable except at fancy prices.
The list includes 100 titles. My
friend selected fifty of them. frankly
i also have selected fifty, which l am
placing in my own library. 1t hap
pened that my friend and l differed
materially in our editing" of the list
l think The Tribune readers might find
It interesting to create from this list
groups of fifty for themselves. And
likely they will find titles that should
be added, as we'll as ones that should
be deleted. The present list, while the
fruit of the joint efforts Of several
editors, publishers and book statesmen,
is of course far from infallible. For
instance, even since compiling it in its
final form l am convinced that for my
own library I want file OF an illus
tratcd magazine during the war years,
such as The London Illustrated News,
The Graphic or the Times Mid-W eek
Pictorial.
ORIGIN, CAUSE AND RESPON-
SIBILITY
Bernhard, Germany and the Next
War.
Beck, Evidence in the Case.
Uichnowsky, Guilt of Germany.
Putnam, Alsace and Lorraine.
British Blue Book.
Usher, Pan-Germanism.
Muhlon, VandaI of Europe.
Rose, Origins of the War.
Austrian White Book.
Cramb, Germany and England.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Empey, Over the Top.
Dawson, Carry On.
Bairnsfather, Bullets and Billets.
Roosevelt War in Garden of Eden.
Bishop, Winged War.
Jones, Road to Endor.
Hankey, Student in Arms.
Hay, First Hundred Thousand.
Aldrich, Hilltop on the Marine.
Derby, Wade in Sanitary.
Gibbs, Way to Victory.
Butcher, English Life in Berlin.
HISTORY
Simonds, History of the War.
Palmer, First Year of the War.
Buchan, Battle of the Somme.
Mcpherson, Short History of the
War.
Belloc, First and Second Phases of
the War.
Masefield, Gallipol.
Punch for the War Years, 1914-1919
MEMOIRS, MILITARY, NAVAL
AND DIPLOMATIC
Whitlock, Belgium.
Morganthau, Ambassadors Story.
Wood, Note Book of an Aftache
Gerard, Four Years in Germany.
Mercier's (CardinaD Own Story.
} Sims, Victory at Sea-
Repington, Diary.
JelIicoe, Grand Fleet.
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