BOY SCOUT EDITION—JACKET IN COLORS
Fiction
The Best Short Stories of 1915, 1916, 1917
Edited by EDWARD J. O'BRIEN
From every point of view—from that of the actual probabilities of reading enjoyment to be derived from it by all sorts of readers; from that of the vivid and varied, but always valid, concernment with life that it maintains; from that of technical literary interest in American letters, and from that of sheer esthetic response to artistic quality—THE BEST SHORT STORIES warrants an emphatic and unconditional recommendation to all.—Life.
Indispensable to every student of American fiction, and will furnish each successive year a critical and historical survey of the art such as does not exist in any other form.—Boston Transcript.
War
Beyond the Marne
By HENRIETTE CUVRU-MAGOT
Mademoiselle Henriette is the little friend and neighbor of Miss Mildred Aldrich (author of "A Hilltop on the Marne," "On the Edge of the War Zone," etc.), who came to Miss Aldrich the day after the Germans were driven away on the other side of the Marne to suggest that they visit the battlefield. Her book might be called truly a companion volume to "A Hilltop on the Marne."
War
Covered With Mud and Glory
A Machine Gun Company in Action
By GEORGES LAFOND
Sergeant-Major, Territorial Hussars, French Army; Intelligence Officer, Machine Gun Sections, French Colonial Infantry.
Translated by EDWIN GILE RICH
With an Introduction by MAURICE BARRÈS of the French Academy
The Book with GEORGES CLEMENCEAU'S Famous "Tribute to the Soldiers of France"
Illustrated
War
On the Edge of the War Zone
From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
By MILDRED ALDRICH
The long-awaited continuation of "A Hilltop on the Marne."
Portrait frontispiece in photogravure and other illustrations. Cloth, bound uniformly with the same author's "A Hilltop on the Marne" and "Told in a French Garden."
Miss Aldrich tells what has happened from the day when the Germans were turned back almost at her very door, to the never-to-be-forgotten moment when the news reached France that the United States had entered the war.
Told in a French Garden: August, 1914
By MILDRED ALDRICH
With a portrait frontispiece in photogravure from a sketch of the author by Pierre-Emile Cornillier.
Unlike Miss Aldrich's other books, "Told in a French Garden" is a venture in fiction.
War
The White Flame of France
By MAUDE RADFORD WARREN
Author of "Peter Peter," "Barbara's Marriages," etc.
The front-line trenches at Rheims during a bombardment when the shells were whistling over, two Zeppelin raids in London, the heroic services of devoted actors and actresses when they played for the soldiers of Verdun, the irony of the mad slaughter, the indestructibility of human courage and ideals, the spirit and soul of suffering France, the real meaning of the war—all these things are interpreted in this remarkable book by a novelist with a brilliant record in the art of writing, who spent more than half a year "over there."
You Who Can Help
Paris Letters of an American Army Officer's Wife, from August, 1916, to January, 1918
By MARY SMITH CHURCHILL
The writer of these letters is the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Marlborough Churchill, who, the year before the entrance of the United States into the war, was an American military observer in France, and later became a member of General Pershing's staff. Mrs. Churchill volunteered her services in Paris in connection with the American Fund for the French Wounded—"the A. F. F. W."—and these are her letters home, written with no thought of publication, but simply to tell her family of the work in which she was engaged.
War Camps
Camp Devens
Described and Photographed by
ROGER BATCHELDER
Author of "Watching and Waiting on the Border"
"An accurate and complete description by pen and lens of Camp Devens."—Roger Merrill, Major, A. G. R. C., 151st Infantry Brigade.
With 77 illustrations.
Camp Upton
Described and Photographed by
ROGER BATCHELDER
A companion volume to "Camp Devens," and like it, a book that fills a long-felt want.
Illustrated with photographs
Other volumes in the AMERICAN CAMPS SERIES in preparation
War Poetry
Buddy's Blighty and other Verses from the Trenches
By LIEUTENANT JACK TURNER, M. C.
Here is a volume of poems that move the spirit to genuine emotion, because every line pictures reality as the author knows it. The range of subjects covers the many-sided life of the men who are fighting in the Great War,—the happenings, the emotions, the give and take, the tragedy and the comedy of soldiering.
"I have read Robert Service's 'Rhymes of a Red Cross Man'—and all the verses written on the war—but in my opinion 'Buddy's Blighty,' by Jack Turner, is the best thing yet written—because it's the truth."
Private Harold R. Peat
The Welfare Series
The Field of Social Service
Edited by PHILIP DAVIS, in collaboration with Maida Herman
An invaluable text-book for those who ask, "Just what can I do in social work and how shall I go about it?"
Street-Land
By PHILIP DAVIS, assisted by Grace Kroll
What shall we do with the 11,000,000 children of the city streets? A question of great national significance answered by an expert.
Consumption
By JOHN B. HAWES, 2d, M.D.
A book for laymen, by an eminent specialist, with particular consideration of the fact that the problem of tuberculosis is first of all a human problem.
One More Chance
An Experiment in Human Salvage
By LEWIS E. MacBRAYNE and JAMES P. RAMSAY
Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship.
Other volumes in preparation