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Lieutenant O'Brien, who fell 8,000 feet with his airplane into the German lines, was captured and held for some time in a German prison camp. The story of his escape, which was effected by jumping through a train window and working for 72 days towards the frontier, is perhaps the most extraordinary personal experience...
...erect new countries in southern Europe with boundaries based on slight numerical superiority of particular races it would be merely renewing the old Balkan problems on a larger scale. At Berlin in 1878 the powers of Europe attempted to make national divisions in the Balkans; but the new nations fell under the control of men like Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and wars continued to arise in that section to threaten and finally overthrow the peace of Europe...
...falling off of 385 from the count for 1916. The absolutely new books of the year were 8,849, as against 9,160 for the year before. American authors, who furnished 8,430 of the books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted for by the natural boom in war books...
...fiction, the American output fell from 932 in 1916 to 922 for last year, and native novelists offered 632 new titles in the later twelvemonth as against 703 in the earlier...
That honors men who fell at Freedom's shrine...