THE WOOD MAZE BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN IN THE forest day by day I and Bird-in-hand would play: Thus, one day, her game began: Saw her dancing up and down,— Light of heart, and light of foot, There a moment cried her fill: "Catch me! catch me!" Then was still. And the fairies, green and gold, In the forest now all day, "Catch me! catch me!" day by day, Underneath the hazel shade "Catch me, catch me, if you can!" Leaf, I cannot tell apart, Grief for thee hath stretched my heart! Every leaf that I see fall Now I love; I keep them all. Little comforts-such a crumb! "Catch me, catch me!" down they come. Long it takes to make the bed Here beneath the boughs I sit; . Down they come; and when the breeze Lifts the last leaf from the trees, I shall have her-one of these. WHAT TO READ THIS SUMMER In this year of grace, 1918, there is no summer season. People will look back on these years of war as unique in the lives of this generation, certainly, and in many respects as different from human experience at any other period of the world's history. The familiar attitude toward the playtime months of the year has vanished. No one is "going away" in the sense that the world and its concerns are to be forgot. We shall carry with us wherever we go the inescapable concern for the fortunes of a vast body of men and women engaged in a colossal enterprise. People are in no mood to forget or lose touch with this enterprise; and the means to remain with one's finger on the pulse, so to speak, are provided in the books that register every quickening beat of the world's arteries. Never before in the memory of man has the printer been so "mobilised" and made part and parcel of the war energy of a people. In this list are grouped some of the better things which men and women at home or abroad will want to read and re-read for better information as well as amusement. WAR IN OUR FIRST YEAR OF WAR. By Woodrow Wilson. A companion volume to Why We Are At War. The second inaugural address, with the President's messages and addresses in the first calendar year of the war. THE IRON RATION. By George Abel The uncensored truths about war-time Germany and her allies-told by one who both stood in the bread-line and dined in a palace. A FLYING FIGHTER. By Lieut. E. M. An American boy in France, his miraculous escapes and his brave work during his twenty-two months in the air. OUTWITTING THE HUN. By Lieut. Pat O'Brien, R.F.C. The exciting adventures of a young Chicago aviator who was taken prisoner by the Huns. This book tells of the seventytwo days of escape to Holland frontier and safety, of the hardships and perils he endured, and of the splendid way in which he "won out." THE WINNING OF THE WAR. By Roland G. Usher. A sequel to Pan-Germanism; it analyses the objectives of the Germans and of the THE REAL FRONT. By Arthur Hunt An inner story of the war written by a man who was not only an actual combatant, but a trained war correspondent as well. It deals with life at the front as he saw it and felt it, with the hidden things within the hearts of the men. CREDIT OF THE NATIONS. By J. pages of history. How the fighting Anzacs were swiftly trained and transported across the seas, what they did in Egypt, at Gallipoli and France is the background of the story. UNDER THE GERMAN SHELLS. By Emmanuel Bourcier. An eminent French man of letters-a member of the French commission to the United States, and a former instructor at Camp Grant-pictures the life of the French poilu as he has shared it. THE U-BOAT HUNTERS. By James B. Connolly. The activity of our destroyers against the U-boats and our navy's part abroad in this war are described by Mr. Connolly, who has had unusual opportunity for observing the navy from the inside. WITH THE FIGHTING FLEETS. By Ralph D. Paine. A brilliant narrative of both the daily life and high fighting moments of our boys afloat, to thrill every American. IN THE HEART OF GERMAN IN TRIGUE. By Demetra Vaka. A notable contribution to the secret history of the war; an entertaining account of adventures in Greece in the very heart of perhaps the most important campaign of intrigue the Germans have initiated. THE FAITH OF FRANCE. By Maurice Barrès. A translation: Barrès, the recognised interpreter and mouthpiece of les jeunes in the trenches, after studying thousands of letters and talking with hundreds of young soldiers, pieces together a compelling picture of the spiritual unity of fighting France. HIGH ADVENTURE. By James Norman Hall. A narrative of the air fighting in France, with a special appeal for the thousands of American boys who are soon to undertake the same High Adventure. OVER PERISCOPE POND. By Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker. A joyous war book of letters from Paris revealing the spirit of feminine young America: a brave and self-sacrificing spirit, a worthy complement to the unquestioning and unquestioned valour of the brothers of such girls to-day. THE ODYSSEY OF A TORPEDOED TRANSPORT. A first-hand account, by a young French officer, of the deadly game of hide-and-seek ceaselessly played between submarine and merchantman on the broad waters of the Atlantic. KEEPING UP WITH WILLIAM. By Irving Bacheller. A complete antidote to German propaganda: humour like the fun behind the lines. The author throws many verbal bombs into the enemy's trenches. THE EMMA GEES. By Captain H. W. McBride. A true story of the machine guns or the M. G.'s, by a late captain who was in the thickest of it. PRIVATE PEAT, HIS OWN SOLDIER STORY. A story to be read and enjoyed when other and more serious war books are forgotten. A NATION AT BAY. By Ruth S. Farnam. The story of Sergeant Farnam's experiences in foreign relief work, in the Allied hospitals, in the Serbian Red Cross, and on the Balkan battle-fields. THE BOYS' MILITARY MANUAL. By Virgil D. Collins. Training, organisation, duties, construction and use of firearms, military maps, and other important information for both parents and their sons. DERE MABLE. By Lieut. Edward Streeter. Love letters of a rookie: experiences of a "simple soldier" told to his best girl with genuine humour. ARMY AND NAVY UNIFORMS AND IN SIGNIA. By Col. Dion Williams. Up-to-the-minute chapters are added on such subjects as the American Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. Workers, enrolled women of the navy. FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM. By James W. Gerard. An account of the situation of the neutral countries of Europe, a warning to our own country to beware of German propaganda, a revelation of German statecraft from the inside, an exposure of the German spy system, and an analysis of conditions in the United States as the author finds them. WHEN THE SOMME RAN RED. By Captain A. R. Dugmore. The author's adventures with the camera and the gun-snapping the boche in Belgium and helping smash the German line on the Somme-forms one of the most thrilling chronicles of the war. WINGED WARFARE. By Major W. A. Bishop. A history of supermen who are lovably human, of warriors whose experience holds but one "terrible moment," the moment of investiture. JAPAN OR GERMANY. By Frederick Coleman. The inside story of the struggle in Siberia: the author discusses with first-hand knowledge, the situation in Russia, Siberia, Japan, and the Far East. THE NEW BOOK OF MARTYRS. By Georges Duhamel. The record of a French doctor: true and unforgettable tales of the nameless heroes of the French front-a thing of wonder, of unspeakable sadness, of shining glory. THE ECLIPSE OF RUSSIA. By Dr. E. J. Dillon. A revelation of the genius and the weakness of the Russian people; an analysis of the underlying reasons for their gigantic attempts and still more gigantic failures. THE FLYING POILU. By Marcel Nadaud. (Translated by Frances Wilson Huard). A most delicate yet realistic romance of the French aviation service, full of humour, breathless excitement, pathos, gaiety-in a word, of the inimitable French élan. THE WAY OUT OF WAR. By Dr. Robert T. Morris. Not a political discussion of peace-but a biological view of the death that Prussic has decreed for herself. |