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‘A ENE CNNENE 0s J lace r us ars you y, Oct. 81, 1 nd raleinan Bs rnvetiematc in s M lmmremenen en toren icrmynrcage This book is written by a woman. Mary Lee writes as one who was there, it is unnecessary to turn to the publisher‘s note to know that her exâ€" pertences""paratieted those *of hor character, Anne Wentworth, in her the war, If thit isn‘t your object don‘t start it,. For from the moment that you begin to read its slightly laconic, sketchy, broken sentences, you are in it and cannot get away. who desire to get knowledge of the various races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of the world take this book and cause it to be read to you," and we realize that we have stepped back into a time when people could not read, when miracles._ happened, when the grave of Adam was one of the sights to be ls)een as today is the grave of Columâ€" us. « The Prologue opens: "Great Prinâ€" ces, Emporers, and Kings, Dukes and Marquises, Counts,â€" Knights, and Burgesses! and People of all degrees smiling pages of the book one wonâ€" ders what has kept it so very much alive through the years. Perhaps it is rather the legend of Marco Polo that lives than the book itself. For it is not particularly exciting readâ€" ing, Marco had no publishers to sugâ€" gest he "jarz it up" a little. Its charm, like that of its mape, is most of all in its.quaintness...;.....=._.â€"._â€"â€"â€" ed round making Marco repeat his story until in self defense he had to write it down. Only the arrival of a man from Mars today could be comâ€" parable to the return of Marco. â€"â€"Gometimes in reading the long unâ€" Think of the sensation of hearing from a traveller who had been in these mysterious countries, who had sailed over these unchartered seas. No Old Marco Polo was the first =of them! His successors haven‘t alâ€" ways. beenâ€" so courageous andy I fear often no more truthful. ~But it is fun to go back to this first authorâ€" traveller and hear his naive accounts of his wondering#® At least he gave plenty of. time to it, unlike.the modâ€" erns whose idea of travel .is to capâ€" ture a speed record Marco‘s trip was twentyâ€"sixâ€"years, it is rather> starâ€" tling to come upon the statement that "then continued to navigate the Sea of India for eighteen months more before they arrived whither they were bound," and thisâ€"was only one lap of the journey. _ * ; wrsday, Oct _"ITTS A GEREAT WAR" THE FIRST OF THEM By Mary Lee Houghton Mifflin Co. nutca on m rrerurcon: as 4 Aet en m emeinegs . + 31. 1929 Ne rntrerettiiinnite ols ce armiyes s nemeepe retfveniints ieX it on e SeRTINLA Te 4 CUEROAERNIOTAROnrin Nrrereprmeny t iepiornaen s rmasth w > amnnenmsenmmmamn n masnanasccae P e e " 2eE 4 3 ierindinge P C PR en PEC S EmRne ioi Z 7 PC e =Book Review anp book "It‘s a Great War" "Ns a great war!" the phrase which echoed over and over when they were cold, when the night raider nearly got them, when the general sent a special requisition down from the front for a pair of binoculars so that Rosalie, the farâ€"too pretty stenographer, can also watch the great war. It echoes again when the men who hurried over eager to fight find that they were brought to scratch mahogany desks with their spurs or to peel spuds inâ€" Stead of flying a plang.:â€" Without senâ€" timentality of the roseate hues of our nursery tales of war, Miss Lee shows the dreary everydayness, the boredom of the imminent possibility that the next â€"shell would hit, the weary longing for nothing but a hot bath. Yet she hasâ€"caught, too, the drama of it, the fact that it was the drama of youth, "all the youth of the world slrom. _ Fi0rror and death and suftâ€" fering, yet in it something which made life like wine to the taste, exâ€" URAAA *ATT TT T *IITITTITTTITTTTTTA % U A & tz 3. .8 . 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