WAR'S MANY PHASES AS DELINEATED BY NOTED FRENCH ARTIST

IN these sketches by Carlègle, one catches at the same time the deftness of modern French black-and-white 
art and a sense of the feeling that animates the "whole nation in these trying times. They were drawn 
to illustrate a book of recent war ballads, composed and sung in all the bivouacs of the French army 
by Théodore Botrel. Some of them scintillate with fun, others are a glorified pathos, while in others 
is all the dash and Verve of the "poilu," who has shown himself such a worthy successor to the "grumbler" 
of Napoleon's Grande Armée. Most of all are they eloquent of the Frenchman's idealization of home life 
and childhood. Nothing is more typical of the war spirit of France than this means taken by the Government 
to encourage the men. They are taught to sing the songs, the best singers in each group soon becoming 
leaders. The choruses are spirited and are easily learned.