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Mme. Adam, Sir Conan Doyle,
Sir Oliver Lodge and Others
By Willis Fletcher Johnson
A Seer on the Kaiser
Her Prophetic Analysis of the
Troubler of the World
wir SCHEMES CF THE KAlsKR Hy Juliette
iSamT Tranalated rrom the Kreuch by J. 0. P. :
BUb<1 ISmo, pp 211 ?- P. Dutton * Co.
We might almost call Mme. Adam a
literary Joan of Arc. Hers was the i
clear and penetrating vision which.
morc than that of any mere man in
France, a generation ago perceived the
inherent and essential iniquity of j
Prussianism and it3 hideous menace to
the world, and hers was the vibrant
voice which called Fiance to arms;
atrainst the enemy. Happy would it ?
have been for the world if not alone
all France but all the civilized world
had been mere heedful of her warn?
ings.
It is really startling to reread to
i!a\ these things which she wrote years
-,:: the Kaiser and his schemes,
] | .- . ? si ience so closely borders upon i
the uncanny. There were, we remem?
ber those who then said that she was
mad, or thai she was the agent of some
malign alien propaganda. For in?
stance :
We shall leave to history, which
v surely record it, the judgment
of human men, of real peace lovers,
concerning William II, concerning
this protector of the Red Sultan, this
renegade and denier of his faith,
Id Ins soul in order to
the world through evil,
?h trickery, through force and
through wai.
She wrote that twenty-one years aero.
and people, rational people, regarded
warranted and unjustifiable
aspersion upon a great and good man.
h. ? day? Who is there of us who
v not be proud to have it stand as
his estimate of William the Damned?
War Vision
mi WAR AN1' AFTER. V.v sir Oliver Lodge,
p. 252 The <;?. irge H, noran Company.
This volume was written at the be?
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Entering the War
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tvany, in the early part of the war
illustrating his narrative with a wealth
of plates, comprising photographs, i
drawings and facsimile reproductions
of proclamations and other iocuments.
It is a fascinating work for immediate
reading, and of much value as a perma?
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from its great intrinsic value it makes'
a strong appeal to the public through
the fact that all proceeds from the sale
of it are given by the authnr to the
fund of the Belgian Scholarship Com- :
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Sewell Ford's Son, Torrey
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199. Edward J. C?enle.
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know. That fact ought in itself to be '
a pretty good notice of the book. And j
if we add that he is a chip of the old
block, that makes it equal to a half
column review. Well, Torrey joined ?
Pershing's army as a private" in Juno'
of last year, and went over to France
with it, and there he has been for
months. He has done his bit in many
ways; hopefully, by this time, in killing
many Huns. But amid all he has found
time to 'write many letters to the folks
at home, full of keen observation,
breezy comments and unaffected humor.
He was, by the way, one of the first
Americans cited for bravery by the
French government, concerning which
he writes: "Of course, I don't deny hav?
ing been brave, but I can't remember it
very distinctly." There you have the
measure of the man and of his book. -
Don't you like it? We do.
Moral Issues of War and Peace
THE WAR AND THE COMING 1'KACE. Hv
Morris Jaatrow, Jr., I.I.. u. 12mo, pp. Hi.
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and convincing discussion of the is
sues of the war and the basis of the
coming peace than we have found in !
almost any other work. His point of
view is the moral one. The war to him
onnciine
Britain s
Man of Power
By W. E. CARSON
The most commanding figure in the
British Empire?the man who saved the
Allied cause at a crucial moment. It is
no ordinary biography. It is an int?male
and authoritative history oi the man who
makes and unmakes British cabinets, of
the first public man in Great Britain who
grasped the fact that modern warfare is
primarily a stupendous business undertak?
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person is seeking light concerning the
amazing developments in British political
affairs, this interpretation of Northcliffe,
written by an American newspaper man,
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OVER PEIIISCOPK POND, l?v Esther Saylcs Root!
Ki'.l Manjnrle Crocker Illustrn'ed. limo, pp. '
29? The HnUgltton Mlfflln Company.
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We counted as many as fifteen
aeroplanes at once, flying in groups
of threes or fours or widely sep?
arated. How thrilling to think that
every little light meant a warm, liv?
ing, thinking human being, strain?
ing to the utmost?some for defence, '
Borne for destruction. We made wild i
speculations?were they French or i
Boche? Why should they have any '
lights? The Boches must certainly
want to come' unobserved, and the
French must certainly want to chase
them without being seen. How can
either side tell which is friend and
' which is enemy, lights or no lights?
How can even an anti-aircraft gun
hope to hit a tiny moving 'plane 'way
up in the air? How can a moving
'ulano hit another in the dark?
Which of the deep booms were guns
and which bombs?
Can't you see those two girls stand?
ing on the balcony at midnight, watch?
ing the battle in the sky over Paris
and plying each other with such specu?
lations? Thus all through the book
you can see and feel their intensely
human experiences in the City of Light
beneath the dun clouds of war.
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Co.), is a thrilling tale of hunting and
other adventures in Africa by a master
hunter and his equally masterful native
gunbearer.
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Prefatory Note by
John Jay Chapman
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great-grandson of the first
French Minister for the
French Republic to the United
States, was the first American
aviator killed flying the Stars
and Stripes. Barely seventeen
when the war came, Genet
left the United States to en?
list in the Foreign Legion.
His charmingly boyish letters
tell of his fifteen months' ser?
vice in the Legion, and later,
after his transfer to the
Lafayette Escadrille, of his
life as a fighting aviator at
the front, when the letters are
full of such heroic names as
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Hampton Institute
The Fifty Year Story of a Note?
worthy School
EDUCATION Kult LIFE. Ity Francis O, IVatmly
Illuslialett. 8V0, pp. iOJ. Di>u?lccJa?. I'mjo ic
The story of Hampton Institute is
twofold. It is in one phase the story
of a great, a very great, mind and
soul, one of the most benevolent phi?
lanthropists and one of the most com?
petent educators whose names have
been inscribed upon our rolls of honor.
The record of Samuel Chapman Arm?
strong's, quarter century of work at
Hampton is a chapter of American his?
tory of which the nation must never
cense nor forget to be grateful and
to be proud. This story, the personal
story, is sympathetically told in this
volume in a way which seems almost
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Mabel Wagnalls
("The Rosebush of a Thousand Years";
Funk it W.ixnalls Company.)
to bring Armstrong back to us in his
breathing, living presence. As a me?
morial of him and nothing more it
would be a work to be coveted.
The other phase is that of the record
of the school and its pupils, of what
it has done for them in half a century,
and of what they, going out from it. have
done for themselves, for their race and
for the world. That is a most encour?
aging, gratifying, inspiring record, as?
suring us of how well worth while the
effort has been. To this phase of the
subject Mr. Peabody, who is one of the
trustees of Hampton, addresses him?
self with abundant authority and with
instructive skill. Not oniy does he tell
the story, but also in appendices, tab?
ular and other, he confirms his case
with facts of record.
The volume was prepared and is put '
forth as a memorial of the fiftieth an?
niversary of the school. It is far more
than that. It is an invaluable contribu?
tion to the permanent, biographical,
educational and sociological history of
America.
Social Democracy
Its Principles and Aims Authori?
tatively Discussed
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY EXPLAINED. By John
Sparifo. Idilio, pp. 33S. Harper & Ilro3.
Wo cannot help recalling the story
of the wandering Red Man who, when .
asked if he was lost, proudly exclaimed,
"No! Indian not lostl Wiywam lost!
Indian here!" So Mr. Spargo proclaims,
his severance of himself from the
Socialist party because of what he re?
gards as its unfaithfulness to the prin?
ciples of Socialism, and yet declares
himself still to be a Socialist. In a
sense the Indian wag right, and in a
still truer and more comprehensive
sense Mr. Spargo is right. Bolshevism,
Syndicalism, the I. W. W. and other
social and economic aberrations, which
he justly condemns, are not true So?
cialism, and from n so-called Socialist
party which countenances them a real
Socialist may well retire without being
any the less a Socialist.
Despite, therefore, Mr. Spargo's with?
drawal from the Socialist party we may
regard him as one of the foremost
authorities on true Socialism, and his
book, therefore, as an authoritative
treatise. He deplores the betrayal of
the international Socialist movement
by the Germans, and anticipates a
material readjustment and reorganiza?
tion of the movement in consequence
of the war. His simple and lucid
speech and his freedom from extreme
passion and invective differentiate him
from many -perhaps most?of the So?
cialist writers and commend the book
to the careful reading of those who
wish to be well informed concerning a
movement which, whether we approve
it or not, must certainly he reckoned
among the great forces of the world
to-day._
Divine Life on Earth
THE IJKK OF COP IN TIIE UFE OF ni8
WORD. Ry Jam,. M.-rrl-> Wlino!. I'l,. IV 12mo,
pp. ill. 60. Funk & Wagnalls Company.
A lifelong of useful work in the de?
fence and propagation of religious
truth is reflected in the pages of this
little book. It has been characteristic
of Dr. Whiton to urge upon his read?
ers, in "The Outlook" and in his vari?
ous' volumes, the consideration that
i mental clarity is a help and not a
' hindrance to vital faith. No one would
I more heartily assent to Canon Lid
I don's assertion that the eternal veri
ties do not chungn with our intellectual ;
fashions. With the incoming of fresh!
light those intellectual account? are,
bound to change, and the consequent
moral is that one should distinguish
faith from form, and not fretfully
throw away the kernel with the husk. |
It ia an admirable illustration that
Hr. Whiton provides of a thinking1
breadth combined with devotional I
depth. The essay is an attempt to j
show that while the fourth century j
metaphysical conceptions of the Holy |
Trinity, us those conceptions are pre- j
served in the Creeds, have no inher?
ent relation to the conduct of life, !
there is abundant pragmatic sanction j
for returning to the simpler view of- ;
fered in tho New Testament, the view I
of a Trinity in the activities of God in
the life of the world.
A Parson Abroad
Till? NOTEBOOK OP AN AMERICAN PAH80N !
IN ENGLAND. Ily <!. Monroe Koyee. 12mo, pp. i
S.-?9. G. I?. Putnam's Sons.
The rector of an American country
church went to England with a special
license from tho Primate of All Eng
land to officiate in Anglican churches,
and for half a dozen years he roved
? over that country, visiting all sorts and
conditions of churches and getting a
singularly. interesting and instructive
insight into social as well as ecclesi?
astical affairs. With a choice sense of
humor and an instinctive knowledge of
what most appeals to the reader, he ?
has written a book which can be read
with much pleasure and profit, whether
you have or have not any special in- ,
tercst in church affairs.
Zionist Nationalism
ROME AND JERUSALEM. I?V Moses Hess |
TVHiis'atril fr'vv the Gorman, with IntriHlurtlon i
,-inil notos, by Meyer Waxmau. 12mo, pp. 2tH.
Rloch Publishing Company.
Written more than half a century
ago, this book is so apt to present con?
ditions that we must regard the trans?
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timely. It must have been with some?
thing of prophetic vision that Moses
Hess foresaw political conditions in
Europe closely approximating those of'
to-day, and saw the only real emanci- I
pation of the Jews in their development
of a true national spirit and their re
establishment in a country of their!
own. He was indeed the advance agent '
of the Zionist movement, which seems
now to be reaching a triumphant cul- I
mination. His book is in fact a most
vital commentary upon tho affairs of,
our own day in relation to the Jewish j
restoration in Palestine.
In Air and Sea
Volumes About Aviation and
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Submarine Warfare
D'ORCY'8 AIRSHIP MANUAL.? Compiled and
edited by Lodlslas P'Orcy. Illustrated. Folio,
pp. 232. The Century Company.
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| 2JU. The Frederick A. Stokes Company,
Mr. D'Orcy has compiled a singularly
; timely and useful work, which does
for the aerial navies of the world '
something like what "Rrassey's An-j
nual" does for the marine fleets. It i
is a compendium of the elementary !
i mechanics of airships, and also inter- !
! national register thereof. It is de- I
voted, it is true, solely to the "lighter
! than air" vessels, or dirigible balloons,
and does not concern itself with aero- I
planes. But despite the failure of Ger?
many's attempt to conquer the world
with Zeppelins, that general type of
, airship is still of sufficient importance
to warrant the preparation of this vol
| ume.
Mr. Rolf-Wheeler has written what
purports to be a book for boys, and to
every boy who is worth raising it ought;
to prove as fascinating as ever was Old i
Sleuth or Nick Carter. But it is so au-1
thentic and informing that adults also
will find it well worth rending, for the
sake of getting a realistic impression
of "the nations' airy navies grappling
in the central blue."
Flight Lieutenant Munday has writ?
ten a handbook of military aviation
which must at once take foremost rank
among standard treatises. It is suffi?
ciently technical to be of instructive
value to the professional aviator, and
vet not too much so to be beyond the
I ken of the layman. Diagrams and for?
mulas, added to photographic illustra?
tions, elucidate the text. It is a good
pocket vade mecum for the aviator and
a valuable work of instruction and ref?
erence for the general public.
Commander von Forstner's account of
his U-boat experiences is written in a
! temperate and modest spirit, and is
lacking in elements of grewsomeness
I and horror, though he tells of his par
I ticipation in the destruction of a num
? her of vessels. He gives an excellent
I description of the workings of a sub
' marine and of the sensations felt in
i being on one. Mr. Hammond's intro
i duction is a valuable expert study of
the submarine problem.
Mr. Collins gives a detailed, lucid and
authentic description of the building,
equipment and operation of submarino
vessels, such as should prove highly
interesting and instructive to boys, and
no less so to adults.
A well ordered introduction to the
Btudy of origins and outlooks is offered
in a handbook, "The Development of
China" ( Houghton, Mifilin Company),
j by Kenneth Scott Latourette, formerly
! of the College of Yale in China. The
1 chapters are chiefly designed for the
needs of college courses dealing with
the Far East, but they are bound to be
of use to the plain citizen who is not
; yet roady to turn to the larger and
i more specialized works in the subject.
I The sketch covers the national develop
! ment to lt?S2. the time when European
' contact began to show its influence, and
! puts in contrast the civilization before
I and the civilization after such contact
! had achieved results. The strength of
I the sleeping giant has often been
| dilated upon, but Mr. Latourette would
I huve the United States wake up to tho
| vast power coming to self-cor.sciousrtess
i on the other side of the Pacific.
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When Davy Joslin quit killing
For a hundred years those genuine Americans of the Kentucky
mountains had been killing each other. They couldn't read or write?
or think. They were a people apart from their countrymen, until one
of them, a gaunt, ignorant mountaineer, resolved to quit murdering
them, and instead to save them?to bring light into the "shut-in"
regions. Head of his tremendous task arid his equally tremendous
achievement in the romance of the New Cumberland*,
THE WAY OUT
By Emerson Hough
??lk_ His struggle with the outside world.
the powerful influences over him of two
beautiful women, his return to the feud
ists of the mountains and their reception
of his offer of help, all are. splendidly
told. "It is an intensely interesting ro?
mance. The best thing that Mr. Hough
has written, and one of the best that
anybody has ever written about the
mountaineers."?Nexo York Tribune.
At all booksellers', ?1.50 net.
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D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, New York
BASED UPON FACTS
Few Americans realice the
appalling conditions which e?
?sted among the poor Kentucky
mountaineers until the I{ev.
J. A. Hums?"Burns of the
Mountains"?erected hi-; famons
college in the region. "The Way
Out" is based upon this wonder?
ful work, and gives perhaps the
only true-to-life picture of
these peoph?people as thor?
oughly American as the name
itself. Burns's indomitable
courage and perseverance arc a
shining light in the history of
Kentucky.
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War Stones
Involving Intrigues, Fighting and
Love Making
"More war tales yet," of all sorts
and conditions. Assuredly the war
dominates the. output of fiction, as it
does most of the activities and prod?
ucts of life. There are stories of
action and heroism in the field, stories
of spying, plots and intrigues, stories
of sentiments afar from the field, but
influenced by it, stories indeed of every
phase of life even remotely touched
by the war.
D. Appleton & Co. send us "Tho
War Cache," by \V. Douglas Newton,
illustrated; a thrilling tale of the
front, of bravo men and of a braver
Red Cross nurse, and their adventu?
rous quest of a hidden war treasure.
Boni & Liveright publish Andreas
Latzko's "Men in War," a realistic
portrayal of the horrors of war and of
its psychological effects upon men, with
a touch at onoe authoritative (the
author is an Austrian officer), and
singularly artistic.
The Britton Publishing Company
publishes "Where the Souls of Men
Are Calling," by Credo Harris, with
frontispiece in colors by John R. Neillj
the love romance of an American
soldier in France.
Dodd, Mead & Co. issue an illustrated
edition of Byers Fletcher's "Drifting
With Browne," a delightfully leisurely,
sentimental, humorous tale of a soldier
convalescing in an English hospital.
The George H. Doran Company pub?
lishes "The Long Trick," by "Bar
timeus," in which the description of
life in the navy is far superior to the
love romance which is dragged in at
the end. The same house sends us
"The Flying Poilu," by Marcel Nadaud,
himself a veteran of the French avia?
tion service, translated by Frances
Wilson Huard and illustrated by
Charles Huard; a singularly brilliant
story of the heroism of a Parisian
gamin in the aerial war of France.
E. P. Dutton & Co. publish Janet
Laing's "Before the Wind," a senti?
mental novel of the war at long range,
written in the leisurely, discursive
style of years ago which is now all
too uncommon.
Harper & Bros, send us "Miss
Amerikanka," by Olive Gilbreath, illus- I
trated by Sigismund de Ivanowski; the j
adventurous romance of an American
girl in Russia in the early part of the I
war.
The Houghton-Mifflin Company pub- j
lishes Arthur Stanwood Pier's "The Son j
Decides," illustrated; a most interest- '
ing and inspiring tale of an American ?
lad, son of a German father, of the j
differences between them over the war '
and of the final triumph of the I
patriotic son as he enters the American
army. ?
The John Lane Company sends us
three stories: "Stealthy Terror," by
John Ferguson, a tragic mystery tale;
"Soldier Men," by "Yeo," a compilation
of brilliant army sketches from
"Punch" and other periodicals; and
"Green and Gay," by Lee Holt, an idyl
of wartime France.
The Frederick A. Stokes Company
publishes "Tho Rider in Khaki," by
Nat Gould, a horseman's novel of the
war, and "Soldiers Both," by Gustave
Guiches, translated by Frederic Taber
Cooper, a novel of two men's answer
to France's call to arms and their
heroism in widely different fields.
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Book News
Authors and Publishers and
Their Doings
"Count Paul Vassili" throws off the I
mask of nom de v?ame at last, and on j
the title page of "Rasputin and the '
Russian Revolution," just published by
the John Lane Company, stands con-1
ftssed as Priiyess Catherine Radzi- i
will; giving a fine opportunity for j
Gifted Hopkins to declare that he al- i
ways knew he was she.
Sara Teasdale, who has just received
the first prize for poetry?$500?ever I
awarded by Columbia University, is a j
native of St. Louis, Mo., where she was
born nearly thirty-four years ago. She I
is now Mrs. E. B. Filsinger, and lives
in New York.
I Mrs. Victor Rickard is the latest
literary "find" of Dodd, Mead & Co.
She has written "The Light Above the
I Crossroads," the story of an English
! spy in Germany, which wiil be pub
i lulled or. June 22.
i G. P. Putnam's Sons are publishers
I of William Cabell Bruco's "Benjamin
Franklin Seli-Revealed," which has
won for its author the Pulitzer bio?
graphical prize of $1,000 at Columbia
University. It was recently reviewed in
these columns.
In "The War Letters of Edmond
Genet," published to-day by Charle?
Scribner'a Sons, there is a letter de?
scribing Genet's death, by Raoul Luf
bery, the famous American aviator,
himself now dead.
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i* all tft? work of our Stationary
Department the high itandard of oar
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"Mr. Jones. Pm* broke!"
i ES, and David Kent was broke. Broke
because of an ideal for which he had burned
his bridges behind him?and here he was in a
new, wild country, surrounded by friends in
the making to be sure, and rascals?human
wolves who preyed on the good people he had
set himself to protect. Read :
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OF THE ROCK
A Tale of Oregon
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This book is to the Pacific
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fornia.
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Things That He and She Ought to
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THE PRESIDENT'S PART IN LEGISLATION ?MINOR PARTIES?THE INDEPEN
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Sir H. Rider Haggard's new romance,
"Love Eternal," is published by Long?
mans, Green & Co.
The Houghton Mifflin Company puts
forth "The Ody38ey of a Torpedoed
Transport," a true narrative of sur?
passing interest; "Cape Cod, New and
Old," by Agnes Edwards, and "The
Faith of France," by Maurice Barres,
translated by Elisabeth Marbury, with
an introduction by Henry van Dyke.
The John D. Winston Company is
preparing to issue a third revised edi?
tion of Willis Fletcher Johnson's
"America and the Great War."
Isaac F. Marcosson is reckoned a
transatlantic commuter. He has just
started on his fifth trip to Europa
since the war began.
The personal rottenness of the
Hohenzollems ia appallingly set forth
in William L* Queux'? "Love Intrigues
of the Kaiser's Sons," published by the
John Lane Company.
"Pull of snap and pep? the first real
) hook about the American boys over
there."?Chicago News.
I THE A. E. F.
By HRYWOOD BROUN
At all bookseller??$1,60 net
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From an American Soldier in
France to His Mother in the
U. S.: "I wish you and Dad
would read 'A Student in
Arms,' hy Donald Hankey.
People back hume always
want dope on the war, by
which is usually meant stor?
ies of the V. C, bursting
shells, raids, etc. But there
is another phase of war
we all experience, and that
is the effect of war on
the inner man, his outlook.
his philosophy; all of which
are so deliciously handled
by Hankey that I wish I had
written the book myself.
His thoughts to a great ex?
tent, especially as regards
the Church, are the same
that I have often thought.
This book will ?ive people
back home an insight into
the philosophic side of Ufe
at the front."
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ii I?Jan????;??