Show I Books on War War WarI I Still il Popular Qu Query Is the reading public awaking to a lively interest in books dealing ealing with the World war A French French- critic and journalist Jean de tie Pierrefeu has written ii It book about the war Plutarch Lied which is reported to have sold copies within several weeks On I this side of the pond Edith Wharton Wharton Wharton Whar Whar- ton created widespread discussion with her recent novel about the war experiences s of an American family in France A Son Sort at the Front while Willa Cather Gather won the Pulitzer prize with her story One of Ours whose hero fought In the A. A AE E. E F. F Now Little Brown Co are publishIng publishing publishing pub pub- lishing again on January 2 Gun Fodder by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs the story of ot four years or varied service with the English fighting forces First published in the au autumn autumn autumn au- au of or 1919 In the mI midst st of ot a wearying surfeit of war books It naturally failed to secure secure a wide reading yet Arthur Symonds famous English author a and journalist journal journal- I 1st told Mr Gibbs' Gibbs brother rother Cosmo Hamilton the author of ot Another Scandal that it was one ne of the six I best books about the war The same firm is also publishing on January 2 a movel by Larry Barretto Barretto Barretto Bar- Bar I A Conqueror Passes It describes the difficulty experienced by the returned soldier in fitting himself again to the pattern of ot civilian ci man ilian existence The war has a fateful fateful fateful fate fate- ful effect upon the fortunes of the hero of The Inverted Pyramid the new novel by bv Bertrand W W. SinI Sinclair Sin Sin- I clair to be published next month but his experiences overseas with the Canadian expeditionary forces I are merely incidental to the theme of ot the novel the novel the account of the vicissitudes vi vi- of the family I traditions and wealth in the hands II of its modern generation The reCeption reception reception re- re reI I that is accorded to all alJ of ot of I i these hooks books especially Gun Fodder Fod- Fod I Fod-I der will indicate tv whether nether war boOkS books are to be reinstated In publIc public pub pub- lic lie favor favo If there should be a repetition repetition rep rep- I of ot the favorable reviews that greeted Its appearance in 1919 one wonders how many more readers they will gain for it than was the case four years ago |