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Show OUE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Balfour, Vivianl and Joffre. By Francis W. Halsey. $1.50. Funk & WagnaUs Company, Publishers, New York City. This volume gives the text of the historic his-toric speeches made by these gentlemen during their visits here in the summer of this year, as well as of those of the Italian. Belgian and Russian commissioners commission-ers with an account of the arrival of our warships and soldiers in England and France under Admiral Sims and General Pershing. This timely book, the material for'whlch has been collected and arranged from contemporary accounts by Francis W. Halsey, editor of "Great Epochs in American Amer-ican History," "Seeing Europe With Famous Authors," etc., also describes the reception given to the different commissioners commis-sioners In various American cities and many interesting incidents of their stay here. As a guide to the aims and ideals of the different nations, as expressed by their representatives, this volume will be found of great practical service, to say nothing of its value as a permanent record. rec-ord. TWO BOOKS OF VERSE. "The Dim Past and Other Poems " Bv Agnes Riley. 80c. "Lake Breezes." By Arthur William Pisher. 51. Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston. The first-mentioned book deals with the subjects most frequently treated by poets religion and love, the high emotions emo-tions of human nature which make poetry of life. A deeply religious note is dominant in all this collection. In such poems as "Thy Heart." "Millet's An-gelus." An-gelus." "Faith," "A Mother's Dream," "A Glimpse of Love," "A Whisper's Heard, "Contentment," "The Recompense." Recom-pense." "The Hidden Goal." is a definite defi-nite call to a realization of God's sheltering shel-tering love and to a childlike and unfaltering unfal-tering trust in His ultimate goodness. "Lake Breezes" are the reminiscences of a poet who has felt the influence of Lake Ontario as a source of Inspiration from childhood. His work would crystallize crystal-lize some few of its Innumerable shifting scenes, and condense to definite form the half-articulate messages that wind and wave have sung him. Such poems as "Sunset on the Lake," "Breakers on Lake Ontario" and "A. Calm on Lake Ontario" are descriptive; not heavily filled with adjectives, exhausting ex-hausting words and audience; a deftly sketched outline suggests to the sympathetic sympa-thetic imagination a colorful whole, its green trees, and brown water, peopled with wood and water folk. CARNEGIE PEACE YEARBOOK FOR 1917. The Carnegie Endowment for International Interna-tional Peace has published its annual year book for 1M7, being tho sixth issue. is-sue. Its contents reveal a wide field of constantly extending activitv and demonstrate dem-onstrate the striking difference between the work of this organization and that of all other so-called peace societies. The endowment is in fact an educational, educa-tional, scientific and economic research institution, working along the linos of a better understanding of the problems of international relations, and a wider diffusion dif-fusion of the fundamental principles of international law. upon The recognition and th1 development of which tbe future peace of the civilized world depends. So far from being put out of business by the devastating war in which the dcmoi-raclcs of th world are now allied i for the defeat of the autocracies of cen- tral Europe, combined in a desperate scheme to dominate modern civilization on the basis of militarism, the trustees ' of the endowment spe in existing conditions condi-tions an opportunity to reconstruct the International orranizatl. .n of the world. the corner stones of which will he Inter-nalionni Inter-nalionni justice and the mutual protection protec-tion of the rights of all nnllons. A NEW AMARTLLY STORY. "Amarilly in T.ovp." By Hello K. Mani-aies. Mani-aies. ruMlshed by Little, Brown & Co.. Bo.-tou. $1.25. The pwer-t humor and helpful chariness chari-ness of "Am.-inlly of :!othe-!r,e Alloy" is- r-'.-'-r nr'-sorit in tl'-'s clmmicln or the later adventures of ih- J, pkln.i famllv. 'Che ii:iily life nil tile HtMil. the homely pi. aswrc s. 'lie asp; 1 a : ,oiu; ;i!!i i i y:i r,p.,i i mcnls, will rCMke you lauh and, or-';t-siorcHv. cans- a little ccJch in your thro.it. Amarlily, when sh" isn't ;i t home, is In the eily trylu- t" "make "od," and show Mr. Derry that she was worth helping; she works in a store, writes a play and helps a dear little waif to find his father. But mostly, of course, this is a love story; several mn, including Derry, the artist, and a new character, the Man at the Corners, trv to find the key to Amarilly's heart, and, of course, one lucky man does; for, as the Boarder phrased it in the vernacular of his former trade. "No ginger-topped gal ever got side-tracked long from the matrimonial rail." The secret of Amarilly's charm lies In the "glad-you-are-alive" feeling she gives one. And while it took Amarilly a whole book to be sure that she loved someone, you will find In a few pases that you are in love with her. A BOOK OF VERSE. "At the Sign of the Muse." By Pearl L. Norton. Published by Sherman, French & Co., Boston. $1.00. This collection of short poems In varied forms might be characterized as a smiling book. Not because it essays humor it does not; but because of its buoyant light-heartedness light-heartedness and healthy, youthful optimism. opti-mism. It is not heartless, nor are life's burdens denied, but so much that Is lovely love-ly and pleasing is found in nature, men and God that there is little room left for gloom and despair. Some few, as "Lines on Keats," "Music and Poetry," "The Immigrant," "God's Masterpiece," are along more purely human, hu-man, literary or religious lines, but most of the poems are out-of-door verses, and except for an occasional gray bit by wiiv of contrast, the pleasanter aspects of nature na-ture claim attention as a rule green woodland paths: singing birds; laughing, sun-kissed waters rather than dirge-sighing dirge-sighing waves and stark boughs against a leaden sky. Happy fancies and lilting notes coax long unaccustomed footsteps lightly a-Maying. Hope runs on before; tragedy lags far behind. No attempt is made to maintain unbending un-bending dignity and solemnity; tne muse who sponsors this book is the elf sprite of poesy, who lives in a violet and dances in the moonlight when stolid folk are abed. For the latter it will have small appeal, but those whom Pan has marked will listen to Its singing gladly. BOOK ON BRITISH NAVY. "The British Navy at War." Bv W. Macneile Dixon. Published by Houghton, Hough-ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. The author, a professor In the University Uni-versity of Glasgow and publicity agent for the British government, has succeeded very well in condensing into less than 100 pages the story of tile part the British navy has played In the present war. An enumeration of tho chapters will best serve to show the reader what the writer has attempted to do. (1) "The War at Sea"; 2l "Tho First. Phase"; (ill "The Ocean Battles"; (4) "North Sea Battles"; (o) "Submarines"; ffi, "Blockade "Block-ade and Bombardment"; (7) "Single Ship Actions"; (8) "Bridging the Seas"; CI) "Navies and Armies." A good many people are under the impression that the navy is under a spell of inactivity, especially espe-cially as compared with the land forces of which we read dailv that there Is "something doing all tlie time" at the front. One need only to read Professor Dixon's little book to become aware of the fact that the navy is playing her part in the war game. Besides a number of portraits of some of the leading admirals, there are a number num-ber of pictures of different tvpes of men-of-war. maps of the North sea. the Dardanelles, Dar-danelles, etc., and two appendices. one showing tho badges of rank In the roval navy, the other enumerating the German Ger-man colonial possessions surrendered to tho allies since. August, 1SH. Altogether a valuable liltle volume. THREE NEW ARMY MANUALS. "Bayonet Fighting." By Captain L. Mc-l.eglen. Mc-l.eglen. 7oc. "Bayonet Training and Practical Bayonet Fighting." from ofnelal regulations. 75c. "peloid Entrenchments. a Manual of Trench Yv'nrfare," based on official manuals. $1. Published by The National Na-tional Military Publishing' company. New York City. These newly published manuals are all of pocket size, well bound and supplied with diagrams and Illustrations. Captain M'.'laIen says uf ids system or bayonet bayo-net lighting that lie Invented t about the ye.ir K'10. after having carefully studied the systems In vogue in the British. Brit-ish. Trench. Russian and Japanese ar-mles. ar-mles. All of ibese svh.tik :irpoaic.I to him incomplete and did not pet the full effect that can be got out of the rille and the bayonet. He set to work to Invent a complete system, and claims that it has absolutely revolutionized nil the methods previouFly in vugue. There is a remarkuhle pariraph ou the effects "if the Japanese method of resusr-itaiio:i, called the "Katsu" system, by means of which it is claimed, a man who has died from a shock, without having been hurt in a vital part, may be restored to lift?. The- other manual on bayonet fitihtln contains the r eolations, also Illustrated with cuta. in force In the new armies of the entente allies, whirh have likewise been adopted at I'lattsburpr und olher American carr.p:. Tiiti manual on lield entrenchments Is devised primarily for the oflioer and prospective ofiicer. It is written by an ciiim-cr officer attached to the imperial . enc ral staff . |