At 12:30 p.m. my 1st and 2d platoons will leave the woods there (pointing to woods 500 yards east), and retire to a position near LONGS by moving west along the unimproved road south of here as far as the second creek, thence northwest up that creek to the road south of LONGS. A three-star rocket will be fired when they reach their position.

My 3d and 4th platoons will hold this position until the rocket is seen. Then they will retire.

Cover the withdrawal of the 1st and 2d platoons.

I will remain here."

Required:

Your orders and dispositions.

Special Situation No. 8:

Your first section is in position just west of the crest of hill 487 where they can fire over it. There is an interval of about 30 yards between guns, the center of the interval being near the 8 in the figure 487.

Your second section is in a similar position 30 yards to the north of the first section.

At 12:30 p.m. the two Red Infantry platoons began their retirement from the woods east of your position.

At 12:45 p.m. hill 487 is receiving fire from the two machine guns and the infantry platoon on the nose 900 yards northeast of you and from a Blue infantry line which is firing from the western edge of woods east of hill 487. Your platoon has suffered six casualties but all of your guns are still in action and firing, your second (left) section against the nose to the

the infantry line at edge of the woods.

The two infantry platoons, which are retiring on LONGS, have reached the house on the trail 600 yards southwest of hill 487.

At this time Captain C gives you the following order:

"Send one section of machine guns, at once, to oin the first and second platoons and take up a position to support them near LONGS."

Required:

(a) Which section do you send?

(b) Targets assigned to the remaining section.

Special Situation No. 9:

At 12:50 p.m. two machine guns open fire from western edge of woods east of 487. Rifle and machine-gun fire continues from nose 900 yards to the northeast. The Blue Infantry line has not advanced from the western edge of the woods east of hill 487.

At 1:00 p.m. you see a three star Very pistol rocket fired near LONGS. A moment later Captain C gives you the following order.

"Our 1st and 2d platoons are now in position near LONGS. We will now retire to the new position.

A section of the 4th platoon will remain here and cover our withdrawal until we have crossed the railroad.

Move your remaining machine gun section to the new position near LONGS at

once.

I will be with the 3d platoon which will follow the route of the 1st and 2d platoons." Required:

Your action.

A Short History of the Great War, by William L. McPherson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 392 pages, 8vo. Price, $2.50.

It is natural to expect that the aftermath of the Great War would produce volume after volume dealing with the events of the conflict that have now passed into history. Many of these are of real value, others of superficial value only and not a few worthless.

What the American reader wants today is a concise outline study of the war-a more or less birds-eye-view of the great conflict-from which he may be able, in the limited time at his disposal, refresh his memory of the sequence of events that he read about in the headlines of the papers at the time they took place.

Mr. McPherson has produced just such a book. He studied the war firsthand and at close range. His comments that appeared in the New York Tribune during the continuance of the war attracted wide attention and were marked by a firm grasp of the military situation as it existed at the time.

The text covers, briefly, the causes of the conflict and its beginnings. From this point it selects the decisive movements on various fronts, the effect of these critical points on subsequent movements, the significant objectives, the means—successful or otherwise for achieving these desired ends. Great men as well as great movements stand clear here from the multitudinous de

tails that obscure main issues from the general reader. The study itself closes with an admirably concise and telling chapter on America's part in the war. An appendix gives the countries in volved in the war, the military losses of the principal powers and the spe

A book for boys-and men. A story of Scott's campaign interwoven with the adventures of Jerry Cameron, who marched and fought beside Second Lieut. Ulysses S. Grant.

Jerry Cameron's father died at Vera Cruz from yellow fever early in 1847. Jerry was left stranded in that place. Then came the American expedition. The boy steals away and joins the Americans. He becomes a drummer boy in the regiment to which Lieutenant Grant was assigned.

The book deals with the experiences of Perry-his adventures and hairbreadth escapes. Along with all of these are many intimate sketches of men who in later years were to become famous soldiers and who were getting their try-out in these memorable days.

Mr. Sabin has drawn a wonderful

picture of the Mexican Campaign. In the foreword he gives the causes of the war and outlines the various campaigns. This is a historical romance that every American man and boy will read with deep pleasure and profit. He writes with that intimate viewpoint which is so appealing to boys. It is an inspiring story which will influence them to higher ideals of country and honor, and actuate greater reverence for our heroes, even while it entertains and in

structs. No real boy can read these experiences without a wish that he had been beside Jerry Cameron, but he will agree that the next best is to live through the adventures by means of the printed pages.

Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War, by George Barton. Boston: The Page Company, 1919. Cloth. 345 pages. Price, $2.00. This book is a companion volume to the author's work, "The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents," which pictures the notable spies of the past.

Every great world event produces its notables, its martyrs and its Benedict Arnolds, together with its great mysteries. The World War, as was to be expected, was no exception to this rule.

The author has selected the leading dramatic figures of the war and has drawn a pen picture of the part they played in the great conflict that for nearly five years shook the very foundations of civilization. Wherever possible, documentary evidence has been produced to show the authenticity of the statements that are made and the conclusions that are drawn.

The sixteen chapters deal with the mysteries and dramatic disappearance of England's master military mind, Lord Kitchener, who is supposed to have gone down with the Hampshire on the night of June 5-6, 1916, when that vessel was sunk by a mine or torpedo while enroute to Russia. The incidents leading up to and the desperate efforts to prevent the execution of the first martyr of the war, Miss Edith Cavell. To the fate of Nicholas, the Czar of all the Russias, and his family, a chapter is devoted.

Early in 1918, before our entrance

into the World War, the U. S. collier Cyclops disappeared. To this day no scrap of information has come forth. regarding her fate. An interesting chapter interwoven with human interest in the life of Alfred L. M. Gottschalk, the American consul general at Rio, who was lost with the vessel, is included. The other chapters are devoted to the judicia! murder of the heroic British skipper of the Brussels, Captain Fryatt, who rammed a submarine and was later captured and shot by the Germans. The story of Eugene Van Doren and his secret press of Belgium, which distributed its propaganda throughout the period of German occupation. The mad adventure of Sir Roger Casement and his Irish revolution. The mystery of the Turkish beauty, Madame Storch, and and her secret-service activities in the United States. The romantic life of Mlle. Mata-Hari, who faced the French firing squad at Vincennes on the morning of October 15, 1917, and paid the supreme penalty of the military spy. The activities of Bolo Pasha, who finally ended his eventful life before the firing squad. The story of Lieutenant Fay and the ship bomb plots. Ram Chandra and the German-Hindu plots in the United States. Henry Bode, the soldier of fortune who was a German spy, and who is now serving a ten-year sentence for his activities. The story of the dynamiting of the Vanceboro bridge by Werner Horn. The unsolved mystery of the master German spy in the United States. The mystery surrounding the murder of Archduke Ferdinand.

These stories will compete with the most thrilling tales of fiction, and, all in all, the book is most readable and absorbingly interesting.