Show LITTLE COMRADE TN the first chapter of Mr lr Stevenson's Ste IN I new ne an and ver very Interesting tn novel noel subtitled subtitled sub sub- the Great Groat War Var titled A Talc Tale of Grot Dr Bradford Stewart art a young oung American Ameri Amen can cnn surgeon Is talking talkinG with wih his German German German Ger Ger- man friend Dr Bloem They had met metat metat metat at a n surgical con congress ress In Vienna and traveled tog together ther as 5 far Car n as Cologne where we find them on the tho fateful of or July 1911 Bloem tells the American Amen Ameri can cnn that war IB is surely coming and that when It comes he must Join However unwillingly the re regiment In which heI ho he hoIs hois Is I a private And then he holds hohls out his delicate te sensitive sensitive- surgeons sensitive surgeons surgeon's han hands 9 and to both hath men tile the they typify tho the waste of ot war Bloom disappears from the stor story at tho the end of or that first chapter antI and Stewart Is cau caught ht In tho the meshes of ol i International n te rn at I onal I Intrigue n t rig U o a and nd h hurried u e d through a series of oe thrilling adventures which take him across the frontier Into Belgium and finally to France anti and anc the presence of General Joffre JoHre himself but always ah that o note of or waste and fu futility fu- fu and ane horror struck at the be beginning begin begin- ln- ln ning sounds clear and amid distinct The little Belgian cear officer a a. a gallant pathetic path path- cUe etc figure Cure that lingers In ones one's memon memory mem mern- or ory on has learned only too well the truth that there thero Is no glory glon about war He had seen Inoffensive people driven from front their homes to starve starve and and worse The Little Litte Comrade Henr Henry Holt Co of o the title tte Is a girl Irl an Alsatian Alstan who loves loes France and ani has striven to serve her |