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Show THE CITIZEN 12 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniNmiirainwiiiiiiniiiiiwiiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiumiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiMniiuiiuuiiiiiiniiiiiuiiiMiiiwMHiiiiiiiiiiHiuiMiiiiuiiiiiiiiMiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiu ,W BOOR Prof. George THE GREAT WAR: FOUR: THE BRITISH VOLUME CAMPAIGN FLANDERS. Doyle. IN FRANCE AND By Sir Arthur Conan (George H. Doran Company, $2.50.) SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLES A History of the Great War has now reached its fourth volume, which is de- voted to the British campaign in France and Flanders in 1917, culminating in the dramatic twofold battle of Cambrai." Sir Arthur begins with Hindenburgs retreat along the s front, the advance Foutrh and Fifth armies, of the the capture of Bapaume and all this leading up to t he 1917. He battle of Arras of April follows along with the operations in the Arras sectors after the battle proper; gives a chapter to the battle of Messines that opened with Plumers the great miens blowin up of exof with 1,000,000 pounds with this plosives, and follows four chapters, running to seventy pages in all, given to the third battle of Ypres that began on July 31 and continued until November 10. Two chapters picturing the battle of Cambrai, where the tanks made their appearance for the first time in the war, brings this volume to its end. Of this engagement which began so brilliantly for the British how the allied world thrilled at Byngs success in the beginning! and ended so lamely Doyle writes: So ended the swaying fortunes of this hard fought and dramatic battle, beginning with a surArras-Soisson- ' Pe-ronn- e, 3, prise attack of the British upon the Germans and ending by an attack of the Germans upon the British, which, if not a surprise to the commanders, at least produced some surprising and untoward results. The balance of these varied actions was greatly in favor of the British, and yet it could not be denied that something of the glory and satisfaction of Byngs splendid original victory were dimmed by this unsatisfactory epilogue, which was only made less disastrous to the British cause by the very heavy losses which their enemy incurred upon the northern sector. One may well wonder if a British historian studying this battle fifty years from now will take as much comfort as Doyle does out of those very heavy losses that were so little comfort to us at the beginning of December, 1918? In his scheme of telling the history of the war Sir Arthur seems to have agreed to make the western front of chief importance, for in the first chapter of this volume he gives only a page to summarizing the work of General Maude, in Mesopotamia and of the beginning of the campaign across the Sinai desert that was to end so brilliantly in the taking of Jerusalem from the Turk. He makes a brief reference to the German submarine campaign that brought us into the war at last, but he makes a conspicuous slip in stating the United States formally declared war on April 5, the real date being the following day. Of the general results of the year 1917 Doyle says: "It is certain, however, that this year marked the period in which the allies gained a definite military ascendency over the German forces, in spite of the one great subsequent rally which had its source in events which were beyond the control of the western powers. Doubtless he means the Russian situation by this, but with Lloyd Georges famous call for help after the German drive of March, 1918, began, still fresh in the memory, we can see that Conan Doyle is trying to shift the blame to shoulders other than those Britons woh so long opposed against a united command. It was united command, with such a genius as General Foch in readiness to assume the task of generalissimo, with American aid, that won the war. to-geth- er THE JOURNAL OF A DISAPPOINTED MAN, by W. N. P. Bar-bellio- (George H. Doran Salntsbuis book Elizabethan literature amuses George, there can be no doubt, is a ?iiiiiiiiiiuiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiHiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiimniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHMititiHiiiiiMiHiimtiinmiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.T A HISTORY OF afraid of life. Here is a shrewd item taken at random: on me. re- fined, cultivated fellow . . . and you should hear him refer to folk who cant read Homer in the original or who havent been to Oxford to Merton above all. He also says non so che for je ne sals that he should pioneer his path in such an intriguing struction it Is amazing fashion. Sir Harry Johnston, the famous African explorer who has written (Continued on Page 17.) At quoi. tbs to the journal, giving a brief outline of Barbellions life and speaking of the thread of exquisite beauty that runs through the story told in the diary, he says, to all sensitive readers it will be plain enough, and those who cannot see it plain do not deserve to have it underlined for them, that, still unseeing, they may pretend to see. Which, while rather chilly reasoning, holds much of truth, just as this record of a wretchedly happy life holds the truthful confessions of a man who saw with keenness the beauty of life as well as its bitterness. Service is Our Highest Aim Utah State National Bank THE GAY DOMBEYS. By Sir Harry Johnston. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Published by Macmillan Company. Com- pany.) It is like coming upon a green oasis in a desrt of books to run across this journal of a man who was so tremendously in love with his life and who analyzes it in a ruthless and egotistic way, counting meanwhile his heartbeats that every once in so often drop a stitch and make him wonder if he will live until he reaches the next corner. That, with the cheerful greeting of his physician, Well hows the paralysis today? would be quite enough to put a young chap into the sidelines of life, but Barbellion sticks and what out until he is twenty-eigh- t, is more he makes his mark in natural history and he probably would laugh aloud in that world where he now is; to know that it is his journal that will keep his name alive. From th age of thirteen he sets down in black and white what he is doing, and thinking. For fifteen years he keeps the journal going and now it is, according to Hugh Walpole, a remarkable book that is causing much There is hudiscussion in London. mor and irony in his life and he sees it clearly, just as he sees the hopelessness of it all, and as he says, at times, when I am vividly conscious of the insecurity of my tenure here, my desires enter on a mad race to obtain fulfillment before it is too late. . . . and as fulfillment recedes, ambition obsesses me the more. Trying to carry on in spite of ill health, threatened with blindness, walking along the London streets staring in the windows of private houses, hungry for a little society, talking the greatest nonsense with his friends and always seeking some one whom he can love writing down bits of criticisms of literature and art, the book is crammed with human interest to any one who is not HAVE long had a lurking persuasion that nearly any man of experience who cared to be frank Corner' Banking Perfection Under U. B. 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