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WILME'TTE LIFE March 15. 1929 Comment on Newest B,ooks WAR IS WAR "The Cue of Sergeant Griacha" Being Another Episode in . Buffalo Bill Controversy Two more voices are to be heard in the Buffalo Bill controversy started by Gen. Charles King, who took offense at Richard Walsh's biography, "The Making of Buffalo Bill." Walter Noble Burns says: "Mr. Walsh ha.s done 'l genuine service to Buffalo Btll and to thousands who keep hj'i memory gret:n. He has succeeded in stripping a popular hero of myths without injuring the hero. He leaves th~ old scout ~till .on his pedestal, a ;ine, human, brave, mspiring hero. :Mr. vValsh has proved himself an artist as "'·ell as a meticulously accurate chronicler." If General King is the only officer now alive who saw the killing of Yellow Hand Chris Mads~n of Oklahoma City is th~ only enlisted man who witnessed the famous duel. Madsen states emphatically that Cody killed 'J.' ctlow Hand and scalped him, Madsen standing within 100 feet of Cody when it happened. eody refused to return .the scalp to the Indians and carried it with him in his show for manv years. · -- , tUVNfAIN SQVARt · LVANSTON By Arnold z,nlg TJae VIking Press Wilmette j700 The Cradle of. ·the Deep Joan Lowell Tht rtmarkablt autobiography of a child broutht up on a copra·trading vesstl in the South Seas. Simon ~ Schuster~ ·...... $1.75 The Rediscovery of America Waldo Ftanlc A penttrating analysis of tbt spiritual and cultural lift of America. Scribner's .............. SJ.oo · Interlude Frank Thtill Alfred A. Knopf ........ $1. 5o The Rim of Mystery A bunter's wanderings in unknown Sibuian Asia. John B. Burnham Putnam ............... $J.50 "The Case of Sergeant Grischa," by Arnold Zweig, is a book of extraordinary fullness and vitality. It is not without reason that some of its critics, among them Lion Feuchtwanger, have hailed it as "th~ first great novel of the war." It does bring something new to war novels, a breadth, an impersonality, a npn-hysterical and therefore more bitter contempt for the things of war, which we have reason to hope for from novels written ten years after the silencing of the guns. The author, one of the younger German writers, whose first full-length novel is this, has caught what seems to be the authentic spirit of the com· mon soldier of Russia and Germany, the simple, home-loving, peasant type, who went to war because they were told to, who cursed their officers, loved their food, their tobacco, and their too-scanty love affairs, longed for home and for the whole "bloody turmoil" to be over. Grischa is a great clumsy inarticulate Russian, who at the beginning of the story escapes from a German prison camp. I oining forces with some outlaws in the forest, among them a woman Babka who, though in her twenties, the terrors of war have given the white hair and face of an old .woman, he lives with them for some time, then goes on, taking, as a safeguard, the papers of a dead man, Bjuscheff. This man was a deserter and not an escaped prisoner. He is caught and as Bjuscheff, to his hor- ror, he is found guilty of espionage and condemned to · be shot. Throwing off then the disguise which his straightforward soul had hate,d from the first, he establishes his identity as Grischa. But, says the German high command, for :the sake of discipline we'll shoot you anyway. A General becomes interested in his case and so do many others, not least among them, Babka, come in from the forest, though her weapons ate poisoned herbs rather than the, to her, fruitless argumg 'o f other people. Grischa,. grown indifferent at last, becomes thus a battleground on which is waged this great moral struggle, a struggle which sets off admirably, and with contrast, the brutal inconsistencies of war. Barton's Newest Book to Consider Lincoln Ancestry What is probably the first full and reliable account of Lincoln's ancestry will appear in Dr. Barton's new book, "The Lineage of Lincoln," soon to be publisheu. In Dr. Barton's "The Life of Abraham Lincoln," published in 1925, and in his "The \Vomen Lincoln Loved," published in 1927, there was necessarily considerable mention of Lincoln's forbears with no attempt, ho\\~eve r at completeness. Dr. Barton's new hook is a definite volume. contaihing a surprising amount of new materials, supported by a wealth of attested documentary materi~J. ANIMAL LORE In "Noah's Cargo," George Jennison, formerly curator of the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens at Manchester, England, has brought together some curious chapters of natural history. The New York Herald-Tribune finds it "a hook that is full of fascinating unfamiliar lore." A BIOGRAPHY "Trails, Rails and War," is the title of an interesting biography of General Dodge, the railroad builder, by the Rev. J. R . Perkins. The author is one of the founders of International Rotary. The book will be published 111 Critics Laud Thompson's "Presidents I've Known" Charles Willis Thompson's new book, "Presidents I've Known," which has just been publis].led, is receiving excellent reviews. Mr. Thompson is a widely-known newspaperman, having spent a quarter of a century on the New York Times. He writes amusingly and entertainingly of the last six pre ~ ients, all of whom he knew personally. When \Voodrow Wilson ran for president the first time, one of the newspaper correspondents told Mr. Wilson that a New York Times man, a Mr. Thompson. was joining the party. "What sort of looking man is this Mr. Thompson?" Wilson asked. The correspondent ansvrered: "Oh, he looks like F. 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