The Independent . aring in some form ofsocial service the opportunities andpossibilities as well as the methods thatmay be followed. This is a valuable ad-dition to the Welfare Series. The Field of Social Service, by Philip Davis,Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. $ ABOVE THE BATTLEThe award of the Nobel prize inliterature to Romain Rolland is pecu-liarly appropriate, since he is one ofthe few authors belonging to the bel-ligerent nations who have retained asense of internationalism thruout theterrible conflict. Before the war, in hisfamous novel of Jean-Christophe, hetried to cultivate a bette


The Independent . aring in some form ofsocial service the opportunities andpossibilities as well as the methods thatmay be followed. This is a valuable ad-dition to the Welfare Series. The Field of Social Service, by Philip Davis,Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. $ ABOVE THE BATTLEThe award of the Nobel prize inliterature to Romain Rolland is pecu-liarly appropriate, since he is one ofthe few authors belonging to the bel-ligerent nations who have retained asense of internationalism thruout theterrible conflict. Before the war, in hisfamous novel of Jean-Christophe, hetried to cultivate a better understand-ing between the French and Germanpeople, and since the war he has beenin Switzerland engaged in promotingthe exchange of wounded prisoners, andproviding for the wants of the in-terned. The volume Au-dessus de la Melee,which has just been translated asAbove the Battle, consists of variousarticles and letters addrest to bothsides, protesting against the unreason-ing hatred that has sprung up in con-. } Theres winter sport too—in a KODAK Outdoors with skates and skis and coasting, whenthe trees are snow laden and great drifts tell the tale oflast nights storm, there are pictures well worth taking. And indoors there are group pictures and home por-traits, by daylight or flashlight and in the long winterevenings, when rain and sleet make the outdoorsimpossible, theres good fun in developing and step is simple by the Kodak system. Catalog free at your dealers, or by mail. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y., The Kodak City. tiqfot CSreat ^ort Stories THE Short Story is now the most popular type of fiction. It appears in a variety of forms in the pages ofour newspapers, magazines and books. It is read by all classes of people. It is universal in its influence of the Short Story, fortunately, is almost always directed toward that which is good—manliness, honor, self-sacrifice—idealism in some form. From an educational point of view the S


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