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EUROPEAN WAR FICTION IN ENGLISH

5 Valloten, Benjamin. Heart of Alsace. 1918. Dodd $1.50. Heinemann. 6/.

On chanerait plutôt le coeur de place. (French title)
A Swiss tutor in an Alsatian home shows how, under the kaiserlich order of threatening politeness, "the people have been maintaining a solid opposition, silent but obdurate, which breaks out with full force in the war." A. L. A. Booklist, Nov., '18.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

6 Latzko, A. A. Men in war. 1918. Boni & Liveright $1.50.

Translated from the German by A. S. Seltzer.
"Six . . . episodes in which an Austrian officer pictures war as a sickening horror and an exploitation of the poor. Its sordidness and misery being unrelieved by any ideal of patriotism," it gives the impression of the utter unjustifiability of either side of war. A. L. A. Booklist, July, '18.

BELGIUM

Adventure.

7 * Gambier, Kenyon. White horse and the red haired girl. 1919. Doran. $1.50.

The incidents take place at the end of 1914.

Canteen Service.

8 Gleason, A. H. Young Hilda at the wars. 1915. Stokes. $1.00.

Sketches based on the actual experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Gleason with an ambulance corps. "If internal evidence can be trusted this book is complementary to