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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939 THE ARMY IN GERMANY 3attdom ITS LIFE AND HISTORY Feeling flat and lifeless? MARION If she had been born 6ix months earlier. It will be a very long time before that record is broken. The Insuperable barrier is the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria. The revolution in Brazil which took place fifty years ago this week was a courteous and, compared with some re The King of Italy, who has just celebrated his seventieth birthday, is a junior as compared with the octogenarian King of Sweden, and a further ten years younger than that melancholy survival, the ex-Kaiser, whose continued residence in Holland now rests on the slender thread of Hitler's whim. But these are not easy days for monarchs, whether crowned or uncrowned or discrowned.

This is the day of the changing of clocks, an unusual exercise in November, but needs must when Herr Hitler drives. Light has become so precious IRAKI Gardens of Character Illustrated 106 net Another of Marion Cran's enchanting volumes written round her beautiful garden of the Kentish Weald. It is a lovely, revealing volume, enriched with the wisdom of experience, and alive with her customary humour and charm. "The German ATtny." By Herbert Roslnskl. (The Hogarth Press.

12s. 6d. net.) BY DR. ERNEST BARKER This is a book of profound Import-'a century from 1914 to 1939. The whole ance, which in point of immediate andjslory is one; and its unity cannot be contemporary interest deserves to broken.

But the second half has matter stand by the side of Herr Rauschning's 1 which is of deep and poignant import-" Germany's Revolution of Destruction," ance for the present in which we are but which is also, over and above that. living; it may even be said to explain, of the nature of a classic in the field of I with an impartial technical skill, the military history. Indeed it is something odds of the combat in whiah we are now even more than that: it is of the nature engaged. It explains the role (and that WORRY wears us down quicker than anything volutions, almost a beautiful episode. No one bore any malice.

The Emperor, Dom Pedro, refused to allow any resistance to be made: the only shot fired was from the Ministry of Marine as a sort of technical protest on beha4f of the exiled of a classic in the field of general history dynasty. The cabin for the voyage tp a boon that the extra hour in the morning will be appreciated. If the same plan is followed, there will have to be an Europe had been carefully provided with all the latest scientific publications (His Majesty was a student of science), and before sailing he sent a letter by carrier pigeon to thank his deposers for their courtesy. In the funeral oration which he delivered over the victims in Munich else saps our interest in things and robs life of its colour. The finest remedy, is sleep both the proper amount and the proper sort of sleep.

And the easiest way to ensure it is by enjoying a cup of Allenburys Diet last thing every night. It's a wonderful habit to get into I Allenburus DIET Of all Chemists, in tins, 21, 4 76 ARTHUR GASK The Vengeance of Larose other readjustment at the end of January, by which date Father Time may have come near the end of his patience. We ourselves are getting a little weary (tor the author always relates the history of the army to the general history and movement of the nation), and it gives a view of the general development of Germany, from the time of Frederick the Great to the present year, which every student of histury is bound to consider. Dr. Rosinski, a follower of the great Ciausewitz, has all his master's width of outlook: he sees the army, and its activity of war, in the breadth of its general social and national implications.

is a sad story) which the Reichswehr has played on politics during the present decade: it explains its relations to the Nazi party: it explains its organisation, its tactics, and the ideas of strategy by which it is animated. Military history, written in this vein and on this elevation, can be a great thing. Dr. Rosinski has indubitably made it a great thing. Only an expert can adequately appraise his estimate of Ciausewitz.

But every student of history can appraise, and admire. 76 net of the eternal calculation as to which is Greenwich Time, which Summer Time, and which Hitler Time. Herr Hess declared that the occurrence A breathless drama of intrigue and espionage featuring Arthur Gask's celebrated and deservedly popular hero, Gilbert Larose. would teaoh the Germans how to hate." These Germans seem to take He has at once a technical mastery of his subject and a general mastery of its such a lot of teaching. Al Capone, America's No.

1 eane- an interpretation of German history background. His style is admirable; and which throws ripar lieht. and R. L. DEARDEN Care of the Commander There are occasions when the daily text from The Times makes a certain approach to humour.

Wednesday's selection was an appropriate adjunct to Mr. Churchill's broadcast: TVJ'O man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. Mark iii. 27. ft is probablv the nearest pmiivalF.nt in ster of some years ago, is again at large, having served eight years of his eleven years' sentence.

But we have progressed 76 net in villainy since his day. UBSERVATOH. A powerfully dramatic story of crime, love and passion within the narrow confines of life on shipboard by the author of Maiden Voyage. light, on two centuries of its development an interpretation which connects the history of the army with social thought and social development, and with the general ideas of the nation and its general mental life. Not that this is a book for students of history only.

It is a book which deserves to be read by us all and not least by every officer whose heart Is in his profession. The British General to whom it is dedicated may well be proud of the Warondinqy the Bible to First catch your hare." nis planning and exposition of his theme are as admirable as his style. It adds to the value of his book that it can be read both by Germans and by Englishmen with sympathy and understanding. The author a refugee who has kept a fine and steady poise loves the great tradition and the great achievement of the German army; but he lias an equal love for the honorable and just traditions of civilian life, and for the true role of an army in the general system of a nation's life. The balance and candour of his judgment makes his bonk an en- oh I i er -n IHuitdred According to the Daily Telegraph," a youne woman asking "Rprlin nfrifial "SEAFORTH We Band of Brothers for a permit to buy a night gown "was 76 net ioiq rio go 10 oed naked.

fejuite unreasonable, but just when in human history Sxcerpts from "Coe Observer" of Hovember 17, 1839 aid the idea of night-wear emerge? We must have reached a certain stage of fastidiousness before it occurred to us bUJNLrb Ut INNOCENCE This is high praise; but it is praise which is fully and thoroughly deserved. Mr. Charles Green, the well-known aeronaut, has been for some time making calculations for the construction of a balloon on a new principle for the purpose of crossing the Atlantic from New York to England Dr. Rosinski gives an interpretation of; A remarkable picture of the world war as it might have been with Britain unprepared. GEORGE C.

FOSTER Say It With Flowers 76 net As a writer of bright, snappy comedy George Foster has few equals, and here is an hilarious story guaranteed to throw a cheery glow over a gloomy world. The Loneliest Mountain, and other Dnnmc Uf LI I Dj two centuries of German hislorv ri wiiia. 1 ww w-w. uaiico. luniio, da, gu.

always from the point of view of the net.) Army and its relation to German dc-i "My Garden and My Birds." By W. H. velopment which will interest and Cn- DavieSi with Illustrations by Hilda Quick. lighten, and move, every reader. ThelCape- 5S' net, The Beggar's Opera," -with the costume of 1728.

when it was originally brought out with the Duchess of Bolton for the heroine, is to be produced to-morrow at Covent Garden. Miss Austin is to play Polly and Mr. W. Farren Peachum. BY BASIL DE SELINCOURT Sound! figures that move across his pages Frederick the Great.

Scharnhorst and Ciausewitz. Schliefen, Lurlendnrf, mat what was good enough to work in was not good enough to sleep in. There are other perils in Berlin just now besides being one of the Von Lubbe family: In Berlin's darkened streets you may collide with a man who. excusing himself, hastily disappears in the darkness, but on coming home you will find your pocket filled with papers with the words Death to Hitler." "The Times." Not the place for a Merry Christmas holiday. Mrs.

Kung Teh-cheng, wife of the seventy-sixth lineal descendant of Confucius, has given birth to a son at Chungking. The ghost of greatgrealgreat papa, contemplating the infant and its chances, must have been discouraged at human progress since 500 B.C. Mr. Davies warns us that, by doctor's Seeckt. and are sketched orders, this must be his last volume of with a masterly power.

The oreanUn- verse. One can but fall back on the tion, the tnrtics. the strategy fnbovc a The plate kept at Windsor Castle Is valued at 1,700,000. There Is one gold service formed by George IV. to dine 130 guests; some pieces were taken from the Spanish Armada and some were brought from India, China, and Burma; one piece belonged to Charles XII.

of Sweden and another to the King of Ava, a peacock of precious stones valued at 30.000. The BERNARD hope that some other doctor may assure him that the joy of having composed a poem st 1 1 brings him more strength perhaps, the strategy) of the German Army are treated ruccinctv and The great movements of the strain of composing it may magnificent silver wine cooler, made for national, life which have affected the army, and -n turn have been affected by the army, are never left out of account Lreorge is enclosed witn plate glass. Its superb chasing and other ornamental lake away In these slender pages, though he acknowledges diminishing he leaves no sense of it with his reader; and there are certainly half a White Teeth are half-the -battle Your teeth play an important part in helping you to "win through!" Keep them sparkling white by using this new rtooth-paste containing Milk of Magnesia brand antacid. 'Milk of Magnesia' by rt action in the mouth removes the acid stains so many have on their teeth especially smokers. Try the only toothpaste that contains 'Milk of Magnesia' and watch your teeth whiten day by day until they becomo a natural white and stay white, Phillips' Dental Magnesia containing 75 VSffs.

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