EIGHTH REINFORCEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2558, 4 September 1915, Page 11

EIGHTH REINFORCEMENTS

ADDITIONAL MEN SENT TO CAMP. The following were 6ent cuit to Trent''®ln yesterday afternoon from No. 5 Group Ot cllington City aud Suburbs) its 'additional men for the Bth Reinforcements:— Ambulance: W. S'. Smith and J. G. Bntton. Signallers: W. E. long and D. D. M Donald. Artillery: Ci. P. L. Bcntly and 1\ Lord. Infantry: P. llcek, Ji. K Keelty, 11. W. m 5 ?• H. A. Fai-rcl, and A.. Rhodes. Mounted Rifles. E. Carney, IC. Buch?1 na i' Crawford, D. A. Campion, W. t'• Bowman, G. Clarke, M. O'Connor, P. Whitman, li. W. Turner, M. M'Kay, A. T. Jlarsli.ill, C. E. M'lntocliBaker, I<\ 11. Peterson, H.. Guise, G. Hasper, P. L. Norris, W. H. Eades, P. 0 Connor, Marshall, I!. E. Weenick, L. Eowntree, T. Dickson', A. Davies; A. 11. M-'lnnes, C.,'P. M'C'arthy, T. Fletcher, and S. E. Jones. ■ Permanent Hospital Hands. | The following men were also sent out to Trentham from No. 5 Group as permanent attendants for the military hospitals: Range warden: R. Ross. . • ■ Hospital guards: J. Hamilton, L. Mont, •T. S. G. Squire, L. Ct. Clark, W. A. Clarke, S 0. Hodge, A. Morris, D. Hood, and J. Rowe. , Permanent hospital orderlies: J. D. Clarke, H. Knox, R, Lovegrove, L. Patton, E.. Furness, A. D. Dibley; E, F. Casey, A. Ilemmons, H. It, Evans, E. H. Bracey, F. A. Stone, and A. H. Coward. Hospital batmen: J.JW. M'Cartliy, J. t>. Anderson, E. Newman, J. C, Devlin, and G. W. Newton.

BOOKS OF THE DAY NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. ■ "Inquirer." —Buclian's "History of ■the War" (Nelsons; Is. 3d. per volume) should best suit your purpose. Six volumes have been published; others to follow as the war proceeds. -It is wonderfully well .up-to-date. -As • an allround histoid in . small compass of the British Empire you would' probably find G. P. Bosworth's "History of tlie Bntisii Empire,"' 1903 (Macmillan), very t "useful." But for all questions of histori- t oal'reference, Haydn's ''Dictionary of Dates" (Ward, ""Locko and Co.), is the most comprehensive. It is expensive, but tliere is no otlier work of tlie kind its equal .when dates are tc- _ quired. ■ , 1 THE HUMAN GERMAN. * /\-is" there a "human . German ?" After readme of' the foul deeds of the l Huns ! iii (Belgium, Flanders, and Poland, one may'be pardoned' some-'doubt' whether r tho German of to-day and the German £ of tlio last twelvo months, can fairly y bo called a "human being." Kipling, the other day, classified mankind as s being divided into "Germans and human j beings.";. But "befo' do wall," as the old Georgian nigger put it, tlicie was , a human .Germani'and 'it i is of the Ger- ' man, the Berliner, of before i■tho'"'war. the German oil his pmcl) j human side—not tho blood-drunk conglomeration of criminal maniacs of to- 1 day—that Mr. Edward Edgeivorth writes so entertainingly in his book "The Hu- ■ man ■German" (Motliucn and Co.). It is'a vastly per-: . haps,' its humour niight not .be appreci- « ated. in Berlin or Munich, and it is 1 clearly the production ,qf a writer who. t knows his German at close quarteis and .< 'cki, .wl\ilst . satirising, his .< colossal " egotjsnv arid his .unbridled" van— ifcy, do justice to ins pel.sonal good quail- ( ■ties, as < the author ■■- found them to bo existing "before tho war. ,] Mr . Edgeworth introduces ■ us to a ] long portrait gallery—eighteen separate < though, I make no doubt, unconscious, j sitters' has (lie limned with unsparing j fidelity—of■' German"; ? State officials, offi- J cers, soldiers, professors, tradespeople, artists, writers, politicians, housewives, J . maid servants, postmen,'and porters, and other eyen ■ ;less distinguished . members < of Berlin society.The, "Human Kai- J ser" has a chapter, all .to]himself. ~Aiiyr f bodv. iyho still believes iri the prospec- ; j tive jovs of life- under a Socialistic ,i 'bureaucracy will, ' I'" fancy, Jjb frankly, disillusioned by a perusal'of Air. Edge-' « worth's/clever arid most amusing book. L'et-my i theoretical . Socialistic friends f read the'orie chapter entitled "The Hu- J man State,!'and they will, I ain afraid, . begin to' doubt whether the. universal-all-powerful State, controlling ". every- • thing : ahcL< everybody,; and .rogulatmg everything arid'everybody, :hfe such an uiimixed blessing as they have dreamed or it as Xatterly we have read t hot, a little; of the. Kaiser's craze for i bestowing iron 'croses on the heroes of < submarine piracy, x>r of Hun looting i arid lust in Belgium .and Poland., s •it., is ;, onlv ..when" prie. rfetius v 'Mri : ;&dge- , worth's pages that one; gets any fair 'idea of the German hunger fo'r a title-— dlus- a decoration. , The- names of .the. various State officers are, to a coldly, inappreciiitu .Briton almost ". 1 appalling.. Thus'l read that the "list of the star-, red arid'medalled officials" includes: | A' Bahniiiiterhaltungsarbeiter—a road •liiaintainanee workman. \ • But on this subjcct of orders amidecorationa I really must quote Mr. ijugeworth at.'soine length The twenty-three States (tlirce re--1 publics excluded) all, have ; orders. There are eighty. . Prussia lias a dozen. Bavaria'a'lucky thirteen, . .'Saxony eight,, lippe three ; and ' since many orders have different ~ .classes,; ' some, invisibly; minute v'States can bestow fifteen decora- , tions. ■ This refinement of decoration has merits; There is no trade • which has not its appropriate star. But Past Councillor, whose breast' blazes the Fourth -Class of. the Order .of.tho Bear of Anhalt,' will nod but . coldly to a "States- . railway repairer," who 1 has , only • reached tlio. Fifth Class of the Sec-. oud Division of tho Grlifin Ordpr.of • . Jleclclenberg-Sti-elitJ!: . There are undertakers wifcli the Cross of Honour of Reuss of the Younger Liuo; and watchmakers with, the Houso Order of Watchfulness: of tho Saxe-Weimar Whitq'Falcon. Even ' lackoys'. of non-sovereign serenities liavo a chance., i There is the. Order of the House of Phoenix- of Htfienloho, though Hohenloho was con- • ' •'•sumed-when''Naoblferin built ihe ' Rhino' Confederation, and uuhSe ino ' dead in the ash. Mr. Edgeworth's book is. a distinctly original contribution to literature, deal- ■ ing with Gorman life. (Price, 10s'. 6d.) THE WOMEN OF TURKEY. "An •' Englishwoman •• in a . Turkish Harem," by Graco C. Ellison (Methucn arid Co.), is a collection of an EnglishWoman's impressions of everyday life • in a Turkish liarcm. .Turkish domestic life has often, been described by English -■ .writers, but Mrs.. Ellison's oxpenonces. being- so 1 comparatively rocoilt, and her acquaintance with .Turkish life and customs, so'intimate, Jier. book is mvestcd with a special -interest. Tlie-aut-hor ■ who, during many months' residenca .in ■ ConstantiiioplO, had special' facilities for;studying Turkish character, by no means discredits tlio motives, and, up to a certain point, tho policy of the i' -Young Turks' party, believing them to , Inivo bosri,.at the outset at-least, horiourably and truly, patriotic, and far / more liberal' in their views on the in- ■■-■ troduction of reforms .'on Western liuqs ; than most people liavo been incHncd to imagine. It is, however, not in her studios of Turkish politics, end politi- ■ ciaris—although her hoolc contains many character studies of the latter —that tho chief interest• is to bo found;, but in tho author's sympathetic and charming descriptions of the Turkish wife and ■ motlier. "If," she says in her prc- - face, "tlieso letters have been able, in over so small a way, to spread some of tho enthusiasm and love I feel for tho women of a nation wliidh Europe has'so severely censured, they will at least havb justified the reason of . their existence;". Mrs. Ellison gives an intcresting description of tlio work • or • tho Turkishfeminists, € who, the war, were' so active in pressing for tlie greater "independence, _ both m thought and action, of their fellowwomen. According to the author tlio more progressive Turks in Stamboul aro at complete variauce with "tho turbanheaded men from Asia Minor,'.who are tho fanatically conservative followers of tho Sheik-lu-islam. Sho gives many instances of a keen desire on the part of . many prominent Turks to abolish tli® " tyranny of;the veil. The trouble-is, however, that ignorance and fanaticism k, die hard, in Turkey as elsewhere. Mrs. Ellison saysf s ' Tlio slavery of ages cannot b« T left aside in a few. months, and 0 r the ladies continue to wear their thick, black canvas veils over their faces. Through this veil the-beau* ' J tiful cflloui'.ed landECERo bccomee a

black-and-white sketch. On hot 1 days it is unbearable; one lias a ( tendency to squint because of j looking tlirougli the holes in order 7 to see," and it .makes one's eyes ache if one suddenly throws it back. , ' and comes into tlie full glare of tho - , sunshine. And yet tfio Turkish woman still'wears her veil"'doti'n. ■ "You see," said Djemal 1 Bey (the , Military Governor of .Constantinople) ','tbey will .not tako advantage of the liberty I try to give them." The hook contains a, number of interesting portraits and-other illustrations. (Price, 65.)