LIBER'S NOTE-BOOK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 5

LIBER'S NOTE-BOOK

Collins Bros, send me from their Wellington house copies of two recent additions'to their excellent littie sevenpenny library. One is an English trans-. lation, "The Frontier," of a stirring and pathetic story by Maurice Le Blanc, • well known by his Arseno Lupin novels. |'The Frontier" is a story of the clashing of wills between an old Alsatian farmer, who remembers 1870, and anxiously awaits., la revanche, and his son, who has imbibed anti-militarism sympathies. There is a pathetic struggle, but in the end it is the old- man's will ■that conquers, and the son shoulders the rifle in defence of his country. To the same series the publishers have added a welcome reprint of one of I Louis Becke's collection of Polynesian yarns.

Even the great ''Pshaw," who used to pose as an, ardent anti-militarist, lias proclaimed his conviction ■ that Great Britain,was simply forced to fight, and actually recommends John Bull to "hit as hard as' possible." Are : there any

anti-militarists left in the Old Country in these daysP I begin to doubt, it when I read ,of the tardy conversion of 6.8.5. and of even, yes even Mr. Massmgham!