Life — August 23, 1917 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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315 zen- rali- ited then vera, da Nat- able nde lish lied froa addressed + of uns te date of The Latest Books (Continued from page 311) ONALD HANKEY—known toa fast- spreading circle of American readers as “A Student in Arms "—is one of the many writers-that-might-have-been whose talents seem to have been focussed by the war that was so soon to claim their lives. A new sclection of his essays and sketches—"A Student in Arms, Second Series" (Dutton, $1.50)—has just come out, and, whether as a supplement or an introduction to the first collection, is commended to all who care to make book- acquaintance with a limpidly lovely spirit, clear-eyed, keen-souled and fast finding the mastery of a literary expression as simple and significant as itself. IDED by Dixie Carroll, fishing edi- tor of the Chicago Herald, the angle- worm has at last vociferously “turned.” It really was high time, too. Izaak Wal- ton wasn't ashamed to mention live bait in an ordinary tone of voice. Aris- tophanes even produced a play called “The Frogs.” But they've both been | dead so long and in recent years the highbrow fishermen have so monopolized literature, that it has only been by oral tradition that the knowledge has survived that big fish sometimes eat minnows. . “Lake and Stream Game Fishing” An Egregious Blunder (Stewart and Kidd, $1.75) is written in HE the lingo of the shirt-sleeved sport, and is rich not only in the lore of plebeian lures, but in the enthusiasm of the pica torial democracy. J.B. Kerfoot. Prussians, being hard put to it for cannon-fodder, recently took a number of inmates from the great lunatic asylums and attempted to make fighting men out of them. The at- tempt failed. It failed because Prus: Dlundered. Where she blundered was. in trying to make common soldiers out of the lunatics. She should have made them General Staff officers, or military governors of conquered districts, In the trenches, a lunatic who imagined EA tionist lobbyist, “I am making so much money by saving our boys from the Demon Rum that I can afford to indulge in a year's subscription to Lire, instead of borri bors. drooled the Prohibi- ng it from my neigh- | “(A luminous story.’’ “Absorbingly interesting.’’ CHRISTINE The second edition is now ready. The third edition will be ready next week. “Alice Cholmondeley deserves our congratulations and hearty thanks. She has written a book which is absorbingly interesting, with much in it of beauty and even more of truth.”"—N. Y. Times. CHRISTINE - , “Tt would be difficult indeed to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people is pictured so clearly, with so much understanding and convincing detail. Intelligent, generous, sweet-natured, broad-minded, quick to see and to appreciate all that is beautiful “either in nature or in art, rejoicing humbly over her own. great Ri ty ith a keen sense of humor, Christine’s is a thoroughly wholesome and lovable character."—N a " The next time some sentimental id her sex, who ‘can't see why we have to send our boys abroad,’ comes into your vision, and you know they are too tinintelligent (they usually are) to understand a serious essay, try to trap them into reading ‘Christine.’ If you succeed we know it will do them good.” -Town and Country. CHRISTINE “is absolutely different from preceding books of the war. Its very freedom and girlishness of expression, its very simplicity and opencheartedness, prove the truth of its pictures."—New York World. CHRISTINE A luminous story of a sensitive and generous nature, the spontaneous expression of one spirited, affec- tionate, ardently ambitions, and blessed with a sense of humor."—Boston Herald, At all bookstores, $1.25 THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK | ei Waterman’ (éa)Fountain Pen Y Should be in every soldier’s and sailor’s outfit. It isready to write any minute, anywhere. SOLD AT THE BEST STORES L. E. WATERMAN CO., 191 Broadway, N.Y. that he was Herod or Cesare Borgia or Machiavelli or Nero was a nuisance. As a member of the General Staff or as a military governor, he would have been considered a genius. He could have played that he was Herod to his heart's content, and killed numberless nglish children by dropping bombs on them, while all Prussia applauded. The ser, who has hallucinations of his own, would have got along famously with him, The other military gover- nors or members of the General Staff would have recognized in him a kindred spirit. The Prussians have wronged their lunatics. They owe them an apology. comicbooks.com