much more horrible way in which it is being conducted in Belgium, France and other ravaged countries of Europe. Imagine a German general expressing concern for the safety of the inhabitants-especially the women and children—of a hostile town during a bombardment, as Lee did during the Mexican war, or issuing orders to troops so humane and regardful of private property and persons as those issued by Lee at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1863!

This admirable short biography of Lee deserves a host of readers.

CAMPAIGNS AND INTERVALS. By Jean Giraudoux. Translated by Elizabeth S. Sergeant. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918,-273 pp. $1.50 net.

SERBIA CRUCIFIED. By Lieutenant Milutin Krunich. With the Aid in English Idiom of Leah Marie Bruce. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918,-305 pp. $1.50 net.

Lieutenant Jean Giraudoux, one of the French officers who came to the United States to assist the Harvard University Reserve Officers' Training Corps, was before the war a writer of experience who had won recognition in literary pursuits. In one of the most interesting of the war books, he has recorded, in a series of sketches of high literary quality, the impressions made upon a cultivated and imaginative mind by many and varied experiences in actual service. Americans have heard little about the early invasion of Alsace by the French. Under the title "The First War," Lieutenant Giraudoux pictures scenes of the first rush of French regiments into the lost provinces with a light and humorous touch, which at times verges upon the pathetic. This part of his work tells more of human nature than of warfare. More warlike, but also intensely human and flavored with many a bit of humor, is the account of the ever memorable "Five Nights, Five Dawns on the Marne." Lieutenant Giraudoux also writes of days in Portugal and at the Dardanelles, and, by contrast, of May on Lake Asquam in New Hampshire.

More painful to read is Lieutenant Milutin Krunich's book on the tragedy of "Serbia Crucified." Two of these chapters are reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. It is a sad story of

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a brave people fighting grimly to their utmost and overwhelmed by superiority of numbers and guns. Some of the descriptions of the death struggles of the dying nation are terrible in the extreme. Though the agonies that have been suffered are irreparable, readers will live in hope that Allied victory may in some happier day bring a time of resurrection to the crucified nation.

DISASTERS AND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN DISASTER RELIEF. By J. Byron Deacon. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1918,— 230 pp. Price, $.75.

This work is the first comprehensive account from the original documents of the experience of the American Red Cross in disaster relief. It contains chapters on disasters at sea, coal mine disasters, floods, fires and tornadoes. The aim of the work is to make clear the principles of most efficient organization for dealing with the problems involved in calamitous loss of life and property. Fortunately, the last proof sheets of the book were being corrected when the recent Halifax disaster occurred, and the members of the Canadian Commission appointed to take charge of the rehabilitation of the city were able to consult the proofs before the book was printed.

The volume will doubtless be useful in connection with the work for refugees in Europe. The principles and methods which it describes apply quite as well in the devastated towns of Belgium, France, and other European countries as in flood or mine disasters in America. Our country may well be proud of the work that has already been done along this line by the Red Cross to relieve distress in the war-stricken countries of Europe.

NOTES AND NEWS

The trustees of the John F. Slater fund have recently published their "Proceedings and Reports" for the year ending September 30, 1917. The pamphlet contains much valuble information regarding the resources and work of the many colleges and schools for the negro race which are assisted by appropriations from the Slater fund. The appropriations to be made for such assistance during the year 1917-1918 amount to $74,500.

Among the recent publications of the General Education Board are an essay entitled "Latin and the A. B. Degree," by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, and a paper on "The Worth of Ancient Literature to the Modern World," by Viscount Bryce. Dr. Eliot's essay is a study of the actual practice in American colleges and universities in the matter of Latin and Greek requirements for the degree of A. B. An appendix presents a tabulation of the facts for seventy-six colleges and universities. The argument is against the compulsory study of Latin, under the conditions of today, by students of American colleges. Viscount Bryce's paper is an able presentation of the claims. of the classics and of the benefits received from a study of the ancient world as it speaks to us through its great writers. However, he does not urge the study of the ancient languages in the case of those who show no aptitude for them. Rather he would have better methods devised whereby that study shall be made more profitable for the best minds. General Education Board, 61 Broadway, New York City.

Dr. Edwin Mims, professor of English in Vanderbilt University, has recently prepared a useful syllabus on "American Ideals in American Literature." The text and references in this syllabus deal with the following topics: "Sectionalism and Provincialism in American Literature," "The Triumph of the National Spirit," "Interpreters of Freedom and Democracy," and "American Ideals of Education and Culture." The sylla

bus was used in connection with a seminar in literature at the University of North Carolina in December, 1917, and is published in the University of North Carolina series of extension leaflets.

The University of Chicago is publishing a series of war papers consisting of four numbers, each of which is sold by the University of Chicago press at the modest price of five cents. The subjects and authors are as follows: "The Threat of German World-Politics," by Harry Pratt Judson; "Americans and the World-Crisis," by Albion W. Small; "Democracy the Basis for World-Order," by Frederick D. Bramhall, and "Sixteen Causes of War," by Andrew C. McLaughlin. Pamphleteering of this sort is a valuable and patriotic service to the government and the community.

A recent number of the University of Iowa monographs is "Social Surveys of Three Rural Townships in Iowa," by Dr. Paul S. Peirce. This monograph was prepared by Dr. Peirce in coöperation with students who were engaged in gathering the detailed facts. It affords a suggestive view of economic conditions, the character of housing, educational conditions, religious conditions, and other phases of social life in southeastern Iowa. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lovers of the poems of the incomparable Heinrich Heine will welcome the translation of more than three hundred of his finest short poems into English by the well-known poet, Louis Untermeyer. While it is of course impossible to rival the original in a translation, nevertheless Mr. Untermeyer has displayed wonderful poetic power in his version of many of the most exquisite lyrics of the world. The volume will surely open to many readers a new world of beauty. The book is attractively published by Messrs. Henry Holt and Company.

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