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...Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions of war in the abstract, of which the first would seem the justest, though the author obviously did not mean it to appear so. Mr. Parsons' "The Abandoned House" is good description but the word "animals" is rather a colorless designation for rats. A story by the same author, "Footfalls in the Desert," supplies us with mystery and "local color," but its greatest claim on our regard...
...that the breeding of fierce soldiers is the key to national preeminence in the world's affairs. But just as both parties in the world war can, if they like, claim that Nietzsche is on their side--hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, yet author of the "superman" theory--so the Darwinians may point out that, according to Darwin, it is the fittest, and not necessarily the strongest physically or materially, that survives, and fitness may reside as much in patience, in industry and in moral purpose as in physical strength and in military efficiency...
Major Ian Hay Beith, the well-known author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students of the University next Sunday. The meeting will be held in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society, and will be open only to men in the law and graduate schools...
Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey of the British Army, author of the famous war book "Over the Top," will speak at Symphony Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15. He will describe his experiences in french warfare, including bomb-throwing and machine gun and bayonet fighting...
Perhaps the most popular of war books is "Over the Top." Last summer the R. O. T. C. found it cursory reading of a delightful kind. The author will speak in Symphony Hall this evening, so that members of the Corps who do not go will be haunted for days by, "You ought to have been there." Notebooks should be left at home, for at this lecture seriousness is censored. "The Role of the High Command" is not so much the subject as "The Role of Thomas Atkins...