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The article discusses war literature. "The China-Japan War," and "The Japan-China War," are largely compilations, and both are drawn mainly from Japanese sources. The first, whose author adopts the pseudonym of Vladimir, is of greater permanent value, giving a clear and consecutive narrative of the war, as well as of the circumstances leading up to it and of the various negotiations that led to its close and the establishment of peace. The illustrations are very poor, and in this respect, the second work is of much superior quality.

When the Comte de Paris was still in exile, he inhabited a house at Twickenham called York House, which is one of the simplest of the cluster of mansions on the banks of the Thames Rivers, England. The Comte de Paris, who had much leisure and who is naturally of a serious and laborious disposition, had undertaken a great work. He had been a soldier in the army of the North, and had played a very creditable part in the unfortunate campaign of the Virginian Peninsula. He received from all sides very valuable documents, sometimes original notes and letters; he resolved to write a comprehensive history of the Civil War in the U.S. The Comte de Paris attempted to give a complete picture of the U.S. during the war of secession, but from the first two volumes of his work which have just appeared, and which have been very favorably received, it is evident that the history of the military events will have the principal place in this elaborate picture.

This article presents information on various literary works such as books, magazines, volumes, etc. which are published in June 1870. These all are collectively taken as a part of June magazines, exploring the inner history of war. First considered writings of Jeremiah Black's "Galaxy" which deals with Senator Edmund Wilson's eulogy of secretary of war, Edwin McMasters Stanton. It further contains an special article on protoplasm, "Old and New," by Francis Tiffany. Fourteen or fifteen pages of reviewing at the end of the magazine make the best part of the June 1870 issue of the "Atlantic." The book-notices, however, have redeeming power, although there is no doubt that the level on which they were kept while they were the work of a single hand is hardly maintained now that there are several writers at work.

The article provides recent developments related to the publishing of books in the U.S. The Century Company announces for publication in September the following volumes, "Vagabonding Down the Andes," by Harry A. Franck; "The Golden Eagle," by Allen French; "Cavalry Alley," by Alice Hegan Rice; and "The Lost Little Lady," by Emilie B. and Arthur A. Kitipe. Some of the Autumn publications of the Princeton University Press are as follows, "Value of the Classics," edited by Andrew Fleming West; "The World Peril"; "Postal Savings," by Edwin W. Kemmerer; "Platonism," by Paul Elmer More; "Egyptian Records of Travel in Western Asia," by David Paton. Two war books, "The war of Democracy," and "Ethical Problems of War," both of similar structure and of related aims have recently appeared, from the pens of two over-lapping groups of distinguished Englishmen.

The article provides information on the book "War Memoirs of David Lloyd George," vol. V and VI, an autobiography. George remarks in the preface of his concluding volume that when a man starts a new craft in his seventieth year, he cannot become anything better than an amateur. The author in the article doesn't feel competent to assess the precise significance of the words "most careful" as used in the book, but it is undeniable that George's achievement is remarkable. Lloyd George warmly resents the accusation, made, he implies, by many critics of the earlier volumes that, that he has condemned every general, admiral, and statesman who took part in the war

The article discusses the book "The Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865," by A.A. Humphreys. An officer among the highest in rank in the Army of the Potomac, Virginia, and one whose rank was not more distinguished than his services to the Union cause, General Humphreys brings to his task peculiar advantages. His long and eminent service after the war, in Washington, placed within his easy reach all the official data now extant in regard to the struggle.

The article focuses on the book "The Best Poems of 1942," by the author Thomas Moult. One would have a hard time proving, from these pages, that ,there was a war on; the event is mentioned, described, or alluded to, in less than a dozen items. That the war neither scares nor interests poets might be a healthy sign; as it is surely one that neither the official line nor private bloodthirstiness do any loud shrieking in these pages. On the other hand, the trouble is, these writers seem to have no strong feelings, either for, against, or about the whole bloody business: poet Oscar Williams's poem, poet Stephen Spender's phrase, "where everything stops but the wishes that kill," and the sensitive remarks of poet David Morton in the sonnet entitled "Lost Lexicon" are exceptions to the general rule. For the most part, the treatment is casual or conventional: the familiar, the inevitable airplane-and-bomb make their appearance, of course. The men of the Infantry and artillery are going to get little notice from literature this time, it seems.

This article presents information on the book "A Study of War," by Quincy Wright. This book, reportedly, is provided with an extensive research of war. The book is comprised with fourteen chapters each of which is categorized in several sections and there are overall 45 appendixes. As per authors quantitative eulogy, Wright's learning is throughout of superior quality, with only such minor flaws as omniscience alone could avoid in so vast an aggregate of knowledge; second, that his factual science is illumined by a judgment as penetrating as it is wise and human.

Although the war belongs now to the past, one cannot revert to precisely the old attitude toward the biographical approach to literature. Civilians who read, during the war, almost nothing but the newly-published experience of men at the front seemed often to find a delicate gratification of the aesthetic sense in the idea that the literature of the war, as well as the struggle itself, was something new and strange. Having been brought, in various ways, to feel that the value of literature is largely independent of the accidents of authorship, one may find it pleasant, in an hour given over to thoughts not modern and scientific, to remember old-fashioned critics like Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt, who judged books most happily without reference to biographical data.

The article focuses on the book "Europe's Fateful Hour," by Guglielmo Ferrero. Like so many other scholars at present, the distinguished Italian historian of old Rome has written a volume about the war--several essays, of which this book is the English translation. The most interesting portions of the book deal with the part of the Latins in civilization, and that which the Teutons have done or undone. Most of medieval and modern civilization, Ferrero thinks, has come from the Latin genius. In the careers of peoples there have been two great impelling motives, "an ideal of perfection and an ideal of power."

The article presents information on three books "Barbara Picks a Husband," by Hermann Hagedorn, "The Amazing Interlude," by Mary Roberts Rinehart and "Unpardonable Sins," by Rupert Hughes. In the "Barbara Picks a Husband," the opening scene is good, for a moment one has a sense of being in for a bit of sound comedy. "The Amazing Interlude" is a tale of sentiment in a war setting. Rinehart uses the three familiar figures, the ingenue, the worthy young man and the fascinating adventurer. It is a far more difficult feat that Hughes attempts in "Unpardonable Sin." His problem is that of "The Outrage," by Annie Vivanti Chartres. Chartres succeeded in giving her tale a touch of tragic emotion and restraint.

This article presents information on the French literary prize, "Goncourt prize" by considering the books "Gaspard," a war-book, which has received the last Goncourt prize. In France it has gained great popularity and has even had the honor of being reviewed in the "Revue des Deux-Mondes," an honor never before conferred by this guardian of tradition upon any Goncourt prize. The war has changed many things in France, and has apparently done away with the literary, as well as with the political, differences. This award is being provided by the "Goncourt Academy." The founder designated eight of the ten members whom the society was to comprise. But it was not until seven years after French novelist and art critic, Edmond de Goncourt's death in 1896 that the difficulties of his will were finally settled and the society organized.

This article briefly discusses the book "A Short History of Belgium." The author declares that his "`Short History of Belgium" is not a "war book," and cannot be placed among those books classed as war literature." The matter of the thirteen chapters shows the appropriateness of this remark, for the narrative closes with the death of King Leopold II and the accession in 1910 of "Albert I, King of the Belgians, knight without rear and without reproach"--as the dedication reads. The style of the author is, for a foreigner, remarkably clear, strong, and of rapid movement.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on the review of the article "Books on the War"; Confiscation of stocks of bread grains and flour and oats by Bundersrat of Germany; Problems related to food imports in Germany.

The article focuses on French literature written before the war and its down-to-earth approach to cynicism. References are found for the books of those whom war has slain and of others like them. One of them was Charles Péguy, who helped to keep this Young France together in the way, and who was one of the first to be killed. He was not a great poet, and none of these is a great writer, though they have produced great pages; but they are noteworthy for uttering, however incompletely, the new and true spirit of their race. "L'Appel des Armes" was the first work of Ernest Psichari to draw the attention of the general public.

It is much the same for novels published in France less than two months ago. Even in fiction, life will never again be as it was before. It is foolish to prophesy before war is over; but it may be said now, and it may be reasoned out from the books latest published, that the thoughts of the men who are being subjected to this strain and all their literature are bound to follow soon certain lines of tendency, and not others. The first is towards pure Socialism, that is, towards a remaking of human society from within so that all sorts and conditions of men shall stand or fall together as they have been doing all through this war; and this will lead to forgetfulness of the dividing Radicalism which is already so discredited in its effects, and of Pacifism which now seems but puling, and of social service which has all along been scarcely more than a class religion.

The campaign in Tripoli, which has stirred Italian public opinion more than any other event since wars of independence, has resulted in a continuous output of books dealing with the subject from every point of view. Books are not all of equal value and many are only of slight and ephemeral interest. The most remarkable piece of literature inspired by the campaign is undoubtedly Gabriele D'Annunzio's volume, "Le Cauzoni Delle Gesta D'oltremare." Giuseppe Bevione is also a detailed historian. Of writers on the military operations and the political aspects of the Tripolitan campaign, Enrico Carradini, the novelist and apostle of the new Italian Nationalist movement, easily takes the first place.

This article focuses on the book "The War of Secession, 1861-1862: Bull Run to Malvern Hill," by G.W. Redway. The author, an officer of the British army, is known to American students of the Civil War through his study of the battle of Fredericksburg, which was published as number of the same series. The present volume and numerous other recent books on the civil war by Englishmen, in which are evident original research and fresh treatment of the theme, seem to indicate that more interest is taken in that war just now in England than in the U.S.

The article presents the author's comments on the German literature. To understand present-day German literature it is necessary to go back a generation. According to the author, it is the misfortune of the writers of today that war and revolution actually came. Furthermore, Germany lies half-way between East and West and today more than ever is forced to choose between them. The radical critic says that it is for you to mold the memory of the war, and to carry out the revolution in literature. Today all problems touch all mankind; and the bourgeoisie with its smashed ideals is no longer mankind. Its humanism is an anachronism, as is the whole European tradition of culture and art.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding various previous articles concerning different socio-political issues and developments. "The Politics of Deconstruction," which evaluates an article discussing Marxist theory; "In Defense of Kristeva," which comments on author John Weiner's article clarifying issue of literary critic, Paul de Man's politics; "Out of Context," which focuses on an article on Paul de Man's wartime journalism.

This article focuses on the book "Contemporary French Literature," by Reée Lalou. Lalou actually endeavors to trace the evolution of French literature from the collapse of Romanticism, hastened by the Franco-German war, to the brief splutter of Dadaism; and in the whole course of this survey he is not guilty of a single professorial lapse. He does not wave the tricolor when he comes to Romain Rolland, nor descant upon the immoralism of Remy de Gourinont; and he is able to see Zola and Maupassant as clearly and steadily ashe sees.

The article discusses books and authors. War has shaped much of the world's fiction for two generations. The recent "little wars" in Asia, however, coming after a decade of genocide and bearing the threat of atomic annihilation, have produced a new literature of shifting realities. The essentially romantic nihilism of the First World War no longer exists, and even the horror of the second has become obsolete. As reflected in fiction, three primary positions remain to men within the frame of "little war." The first of these is seen in "The Sword of God," René Hardy's novel of the struggle for Indo-China.

The article discusses World War literature. To date, most post-war literature has been directed, consciously or unconsciously, to the small group of experts who are already in agreement on major policies. The much larger section of the general public that is most susceptible to isolationist propaganda has been neglected. Yet, this is the group that was primarily responsible for the failure of the last peace and bears the closest watching today. It is they who are most in need both of information and of the regimen of orderly thinking on post-war issues.

This article presents information on books published during the year 1916. Some of them are as follows: "In the Field," by M. Dupont; "The Bright Eyes of Danger," by J. Foster; "The Human Boy and the War," E. Phillpotts; "Dante: How to Know Him," by A.M. Brooks; "Peeps into the Psychic World," by M. MacDonald Crawford; "Holland's Influence on English Language and Literature," by T. DeVries; "Essays in Experimental Logic," J. Dewey; "Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America," by G.G. Groat; " The Soldier Boy," by C.L. Hind; "Modern Europe: 1789-1914," by S. Herbert; "A Community Arithmetic," by B. Hunt; and "Textbook of Land Drainage," by J.A. Jeffery.

This article focuses on various literary works concerned with recent issues and developments in Prussian and German warfare. German self-criticism has in times past amounted to a disease, whose symptoms, in personal life, have been a morbid philosophical pessimism and a heightened rate of suicide. In national life, a tendency to schism persisting in an age when other nations had attained unity. German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's reflections on his country were surpassed in bitterness by Heinrich Heine's, which, in turn, sound like praise when they are compared with the diatribes of philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Presents information on the book "The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947," by John Lewis Gaddis. Expression of a counterattack on the revisionist position in the book; Weaknesses of the revisionist literature that have been highlighted by Gaddis; Arguments of Gaddis regarding the stand of the U.S. in the Cold War.