Show 1 I ORTY 1 I ITS ON MUSA forty days on musa dagh Is the title of a new book at the delta pub lie ile library which Is the most ab corbing volume of historical fiction the writer has read for a long per lod led it takes up the turkish aro atrocities cities against the armenians the war of extermination which so befouled the ottoman government in the eyes of the christian world the book opens on the order from the turkish headquarters to cause the deportation of seven armenian villages the inhabitants take a vote and some decide to allow themselves to be deported the others decide to die fighting taking honorable death rather than atrocious extermination the early portion of the book es part of the trail taken by those being deported and shows without veil the inhumanities the bestiality attending that line of march it al most sickens one then the book turns td the affairs of those who de aided to fight for life and sell their death at the highest toll among the toe foe they took to a mountain fastness almost bare deep chasms and hid themselves trenching in three ma jors battles are fought which are so thrill thrilling ng that one can hardly lay the book aside so eagerly does one want to follow the fortunes of these per secured people the book Is full of action it reads well with minute detail the author akes bakes the reader into every phase of this forty days of life until allied warships enter the harbor silence the turks and rescue Is made it 13 a most satisfying book when the aggressors meet death one feels they deserve it when the heroes of the action perform their exploits it Is most adroitly said and one ex nits the book ends in five lines one would not nolt want to change that end i ing it Is to sublime the heroic leader of the poor wretched armen lan ian forces goes to hia his sons son s grave crave who was foully murdered first a blow from a rifle butt stabbed tor for 1 ty times as it if this were not enough and then already dead the butchers cut the fourteen year old boys boy un resisting throat as the father sor rows over his sons son s grave turkish tire fire a volley killing the fath er one does not want to change that ending it Is too sublime to wish it otherwise even it if sorrowful the book la is most satisfying |