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Show I MILITARY TRAINING "Arms (ml tli liov," iv Colonel Ij. It. ' J iKnilli.it. 1'iihltMlifi hy I lib IdunbH-Merrill IdunbH-Merrill Company, 1 1 id fa napolia. f'oIonH ClKnllll.'Lt. Is suprrlntendent of one of the lia-vr.-.st ami moil mu "-ix-b.f .il military schools in the country the Oliver Oli-ver M Ult;.ry u .idwnv nd this volume concern I n ; mill I a rv t ram! n ami schools WTltl.-li hy Mm '.(! lit; T'-Wrfl Upon tO he correct in fVf-.ry wa y. The hook iun-tiiifiM iun-tiiifiM n i n t roi 1 1 1 -1 i m hy the secretary of war, and iittMiiptx in show the value in ptiT) fi ml 1 in pori a ii'-.j in war of mil Itary , training m-hoola ami rolU-gen. Th illfrvrfjii. roitrwH of training token up in tho different h''ojIh are thoroughly diHfiiHfril, an wt-11 ;t the restriction placed upon I lift M i.i If n t.s. f 'oils I' I era lile spurt- Is. alHO devoted to the work In t lie I itch flciifiolM Miroughout the country. 'J' lie Salt Lake high N'hnnl rudet corps fa mentioned men-tioned in nevcr;il places ii irl a picture in-ken Ht a tevlew of the cadets is given. It. in re-i -il as one of the ciack high ni'hool cadet corps of the. count ry. The plan follow.-. I In Salt f,ake in discussed, as well an the spec in 1 ins i rue Lion gl van for noii - com missioned officers-. A huok which should heconio popular In a short lime h e i a u s i of the marked a t -(entloit which this wort of (ruining is receiving re-ceiving at present and of the recognized ability of the author. Since HKitf the Culver military m-admy has been designated desig-nated as one of the "distinguished" In-Munitions In-Munitions of the country. AMERICAN TELLS OF SIBERIAN RETREAT. "Willi Serbia Into Exile." Hy Fortier Jones, i'uhllshed hy the Century' L'om-puny. L'om-puny. New York. The only America n, according to the publishers, who was with l ho retreating Serbian army all the way from the Danube to the Adriatic telis in this book a fact -story at oin'ii Incredibly hideous and incrediol v heroic. There are details, soberly and st raigh t for wardl v stated, as dated lltd. which might have been lifted from a ale of horror and .splendor belonging be-longing lo the Middle Ajjch. Mr. Jones presents -Serbia In its supreme su-preme anoiiy the army of old and young, handicappi-d by snow unci Miner and almost Impassable roads, beset by hunger and lack of 'immunltion, fighting and retreating retreat-ing a nd d ing ; the straggling hordes of women and children fleeing, they hardly knew whither, in automobiles, ox-carts, on foot; Uie mobs of doctors, nurses, the rabblu of relief e peditlon.s, of one of which Mr. Jones was a member, surmounting sur-mounting difficulties almost beyond the tower of in. a glnat ion in their flight toward to-ward safety; little scenes, as of a Serbian Ser-bian home and family when the German and Austrian cannon besan raining- shells in the town; poignant vignettes of character, char-acter, hh of a 1 0-year-old Serbian sergeant ser-geant cntch:ng and kissing the hand of liis old father, a private in the ranks, to prevent Ids elder saluting him of such is Mr. Jones's rtrnrt of the horrors and the heroism of Serbia going into exile. MARGARET DELANO'S NEW NOVEL. "The RKin-r Tide." By Margaret De-land. De-land. Published by Harper & Brothers. New York. In reading this book one follows with a good de.il of indulgence many of "Freddie's" "Fred-die's" small foibles. Freddie is the principal prin-cipal character and her occasional cigarette, cigar-ette, smoknd with a certain bravado;" her camaraderie with men on a masculine basis, heedless of the proprieties. and- Indulgence In-dulgence in freedom and frankness of Mpeech all this and much else is not so much an atrtion by Freddie of her emancipated position as it is a yielding to an irresistible desire to shock the staid and unassertive, feminine minds about her. Freddie seeks to employ her energies to the best advantage by going into the real estate business, and in this venture Fhe is in a way successful. But life does not so easily adapt itself to so ruthless nn Invasion of its customary activities as Freddie attempts. Gradually, as the utory progresses, love insistently edges its way tor ward and becomes crucially the renter of things. She is disappointed in her love affairs at first, however, but in the end she finds her happiness, though not where she had sought it. A live story throughout and. to one who enjovs reading the author's works one which should be especially interesting. LIFE OF CUEIST WRITTEN IN FICTION FIC-TION FORM. "The l, look Kerith." Hy i b-orge Moore. I'ub'iisne.i by tne. Mactnil Ian company, New York. A new !i: of Christ, written in fiction foiin. Is Mr. Moore's contribution to literature lit-erature In the. oit-H.-at itook. Starting out witli Die assuniTiiioii that Christ did not die on the i-ross. he builds up a narrative as fa.-cinatlng as it is unusual, the during originality of whlca will asiound threader. th-reader. The work is based on lesrends which had currency in the early centuries and which are probably as old as i lit Christian gospel uself. Out of them, with his genius and bis fine sense of the grouping of word.-, i he author has produced pro-duced a vivid picture of the Holy Land in the days of Oirist. ANTWERP TO GALLIPOLI. "Antwerp lo Gallipoli." P.y Arthur Ruhl. Published by Charles Sci'lbner's Sons, 1 New York. Writ ten In an Interesting and attract -Ive way, this book is one of the best war books v.'e have lately received. The hu-thor hu-thor is a prominent writer and the material ma-terial in this volume is taken from actual experience- with the great Kuropean i armies. The contents of t his olurne are as ' follows: "The Germans Are Coming! Paris at Bay; After the Maine; The Fall of Antwerp; Paris Again, and Bordeaux; Journal of a Flight From a Iondon Fog; The Great Days; Two German Prison Camps; In the German Trenches at I-a liassee; The Road to Constantinople; Rumania Ru-mania and Bulgaria; The Adventure of the Fifty 1 io.stagts ; With the Turks at the Pi.irdanelles; Soghan-pere and the Filer of A k-Hash; A War Correspondents' Village; Cannon Fodder; Fast of Weinberg; Wein-berg; Through Austria- Hungary to the Galician Front; In the Dust of the Russian Rus-sian Retreat." A great deal of space Is devoted to the flight of the Belgians before the German armies. In speaking of this (fight, with which there is nothing to compare, the author says in part: "Never In modern times, not in our generation, at least, had Europe seen anything like that (light nothing so strange, so overwhelming, overwhelm-ing, so pitiful. A nd when I say pitiful, you must not think of hysterical women, desperate, trampling men. Lcars and screams. In all those miles one saw neither complaining nor protestation at times one might almost have thought it some vast, eccentric picnic. No, it was their orderliness, their thrift and kindness, kind-ness, their unmistakable usefulness, which made- the waste and irony of It all so colossal and hideous." At another place, in speaking of the German prison camps, and especially the one Ht Zossen. where most of the prisoners prison-ers are French, the author says: "But the French are only part of Zossen. There are Russians shaggy peasants such as we see in cartoons or plays at home, and Mongol Russians, witli 11a t faces and almond al-mond eyes, who might pass for Chinamen. China-men. There are wild-eyed 'Turcos' from French African provinces; chattering, untamed un-tamed Arabs playing leap-frog in front of their German commandant as impudently impu-dently as street boys back in their native na-tive bazaars. There are all the tribes and castes of British Indians 'I've got twenty different kinds of people in my Mohammedan Moham-medan camp,' said the lieutenant who was showing me about squat Gurkhas from the Himalayas, minus their famous knives tall, black-bearded Sikhs, with the faces of princes. There are even a few lone Englishmen, though most of the British soldiers In this part of Germany are at Doberitz. Whether or not Zossen could be called a 'show' camp, it seemed, at any rate, about as well managed as such a place could be." There are some thirty illustrations, taken from photographs. FACTS ABOUT THE THEATER, "The Truth About the Theater." Anonymous. Published by Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati. Precisely what the title indicates facts as they are, plain and unmistakable, without veneer of any sort. The writer of this volume, according to the publishers, publish-ers, is one of the best-known theatrical men in New York and has had years of experience. He recites what he knows, what be has seen, and his quiet, calm, authoritative account of conditions as they are is without adornment, excuse or exaggeration. It is intended to be helpful to those who want the facts, and for them it will be Invaluable. WAR BOOK. "Holy War." Ry Frederic C. Howe. Published Pub-lished by Charles Scribncr's .Sons, New Yurk. In this book is discussed the proposition proposi-tion tii.it i lie pros "nt Kurnian war l:as been caused, not by t!:e ambitions of the czar or k;i iser, but principally because of the aggregations of liriiish, French and Cc-rman financiers ami concession seekers, seek-ers, also by the struggle for the exploitation ex-ploitation of weaker peoples. It declares that no wais are made by the people, but by irresponsible monarchs, tre ruling aristoci'acy and diplomats. "War is still thy plaything of the ruling classes. Permanent peace will only come through democracy and democracy can come only through the end of war." . The book discusses a large variety of subjeets of interest which are of a far-reaching far-reaching nature. Frederic C. Howe, the author, is city commissioner of immigration immigra-tion at the port of New York. NOVEL OF THE GEEAT NORTH WOODS. "The Girl at Big Loon Post.-' By George Van Schaick. Published by Small . Maynard fc Co., Boston. A deeply moving story nf the great north woods, of life and love at a Hudson Hud-son bay trading post, of chicanery and intrigue, of bravery and devotion. A young man named I.oveland goes north and is employed by the Hudson Bay Trading company. The Indians come here to sell their furs and with them is a pretty Indian girl with whom Loveland fails in love. Their love affairs, ma r-rlage, r-rlage, how an enemv of his attempts to kill him in order to win this girl, 'bis escape and safe return to -his wife and son, all go to make up an Interesting story of the northern wilderness. The author knows his country and few writers can compete with him as a storyteller story-teller in his chosen field. This new novel is marked, as are his loniaer works, hv an unaffected sincerity which adds zest to the reader's pleasure. THIRD BOOK OF "JANICE DAY" SERIES. "How Janice Dav Won." Bv Helen Bceehcr Long. Published by Sully Kleineich, New York. Readers of the previous ".Janice Day" books will be eager to welcome the third ! volume in the series, as it explains the iacts in many interesting cases where much help Is needed to assist the poor to rise to a higher standard, and has also many delightful touches of the down-east down-east cpiaintness and humor. It will undoubtedly un-doubtedly place the author among the leading fiction writers of the day. j THE VAN HAAVENS. "The Van Haavens." By C. Hilton Tur-vey. Tur-vey. Published by Small, Maynatd & Company, Boston. This might be called the story of a family. The elder Van Haavens would have spoken of The Family and would have allowed modern life to engulf them even while they resented its encroachments. encroach-ments. On the shoulders of voung Wil- I loughby Van Haaven fell all the burdens of sustaining the family In Its struggle with the world, and the story of bis light is inspiring. The book is many sided in its presentation presen-tation of human nature and the author's insight Into life . stimulates the reader's Interest to that ultimate satisfaction uniorced enthusiasm and complete enjoyment. en-joyment. BOOK BY PRESIDENT WILSON. "The President of the United States." Bv Yvoodrow Wilson. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, In this little volume President Wilson gives an analysis of the historical evolution evo-lution of the president's office, and it shows his own feelings on the subject at a time when It is- probable he had no thought of becoming president himself. The material in the book was written In 190S, when Mr. Wilson was president of Princeton university, and the book shows how, since, his theory and practice have met. HOW TO MAKE ' MONEY. "Making Money Make Monev." By H I U Barber. Published by A. "j. Munson & Company, Chicago. A practical book, urging the common people to co-operate and invest their money for themselves instead of letting it out on interest and letting the other fellow fel-low make the profit. , He points out that the common people have been doing this for ages, while if they would invest it as well as the rich man and just as safely the returns would be much greater. The difference between the renting and earning earn-ing power of money is given. STORY FOR GIRLS. "Prudence Says So." Bv Kthel Hueston -Published by the Bobbs-Merrlll Company, Com-pany, Indianapolis. "Prudence of the Parsonage" has taken her joyful place with the famous girls of fiction. In many American homes there has been a longing to know more about Prudence and the happy family which she mothered with love and .laughter, quaint humor and true faith. To these homes "Prudence Savs So1" will come as a boon that lightens burdens and scatters cheer. For Prudence is here again in all her charm, rounding out her romance with Jerry, marrying and having hav-ing a little Fairy of her own. All the other Parsonage girls are here and the fun is fresher and livelier than ever. The sayings of Prudence, alwavs on the tongues of her sisters, will be alwavs on I the tongues of her readers. And her spirit, so glad and fresh and wholesome, imparts itself to all who read. LOVE STORY. "Chine Malone." By Fannie Heaslip Lea. Published by Little, Blown & Company, Boston. Her name was Chine Malone: she lived in Xew Orleans, and she had all the vi- : vaelty and charm of the real old-family I Southern girl. Her mother lacked money, I however, and Chloe sets her mind upon j marrying a millionaire. But. nn her way to her debut at the old French opera ' house, she met an adventure she had not J counted on. Do you think that Chloe married the millionaire she met at the ' opera house later that same evening, or lid she choose the poor entomologist " who I aroused her mentality by his contempt ' :"or the fashionable butterfly she seemed : .loomed to be'.' Kate, boll weevils and !ier French godmother decided that. It Is a pic-ii sing love st ory, with viva - 1 :ious dialogue and charming characters, and the Xew Orleans background, the at- j mosphere of the old French aristocraev, j id lis much to the attractiveness of the !l |