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TU New York Timet Magaua, JontlfZ; 1917 Soldier ArtM Who Looks at Wars Comic Side In Spite of! Terrors' Surrounding Him, Captain Bairnsfather Has IManakedLto Writei a Book as Well as to Make $ketches "If r-' i i I -I 1 111" 1 vW -i" rvvr. n.rV'lh' tl 1 UeHv HA' iWlS 2i--J -i -U Jl -JrS' i OF A 0RAU6HT IN i it; APTA1N BRUCE 1 BAIRNSFATHER has bcom a "wriUr. Tbt EnclUh officer whot ketchet lift at th front hart made Eag land thai with laoh- ter hasj now blot- aoraed forth at th author of a Bairn father) (fetches, plty of them, art aandwichod' between the paea, but! the fact Caalna that henceforth Baicnsfather faaa' -and there arc thoaaandi pon thoo- Czsda of them la this country as well as sxrou the ocean rouit think of thelri Uot la a dual capacity tbt merely as the tnaa who drew fraf meats from. Fraacm," i CiUla Bruce Balratfater the aol idler with the smile that went coma off. Go is to the funny side of this war whaf Caesaekert la to the tragic Mora than two rears ago he began drawing sketches on the walls of a ruined jfannhooso In Flanders where he was quartered.

sketches made his comrades shout with lor. FeUow-oCkert clamored for mora. Generals deigned to request originals." Finally, it occurred to Bairnsfather that tie might try to sell a i ketch or two. Quite accidentally he chose The Bystander of London as a suitable periodical editors of The Bystander crowed with delight. Since then it baa published coores and scores of Bairnsfather aketrhea and Its subscribers hare '71 i i the Birth op "foacsmekts'Scri- CUES ON THE FARMMOUSl pkgea In traite a serious rein.

But you suspect he did so because he felt that tradition required seriousacss; you feel sure, somehow, that Bairnsfather has! dubbed tM ben Alf or Bert," and thought lip a perfectly killing picture In-jconnec- toai with its rude assault apon hfrn. rrt of the adrentures of, which pliod prod'jlously and a riustcal comedy Wm JJh now uiwnc riuK ju vjr-ttured by the British from the Germans. When the artist-writer was In tist part of the world, the Germans occupied the topi of th ridgethey were "fiber alles," he observes which made it most onycnlent whenerer they wilhed to dump shells Joto the British' trenches. The pages of the Captain's book bristle with humortraa touches. After deacrib- foa a succession of rainy days he Jots floor one as to which should get into the cellars first" After several months of water-soaked, peril-riddan life Bairnsfather got leave to visit home, lie gives a vivid idea of what leave means to the man at the front; the joy that surgnd through him at the thought of London and his folks at borne simply leaps out of his pages, and the Bairnsfather humor Jumps up several notches from sheer exuberance, tie takes a little fling at the censor by car, fully refraining from mentioning the station from which he sot out for home.

Having no wish to get that station into trouble, nor myself either," he observes, wDl call it Crime do Mentha." It must bo most Ill-favored station, for the Captain adds: "It only becauso I jam trying to sell the station master a copy of this book that I call the place a station at all." And he nonchalantly tosses this I at French railways: Te oaa't mlM tralna In Franc tbVi too much martin anow4 on Um thne UUe. The 10OS leaves at II them at 130, I and so oa; bealdaa. If you did mlM your train. yov could alwara cat ah It ue about two flelda away. thr'a nothing to werrf aboat i After a brief seven days of glorious idling, the humorous Cuptain again found himself.

In muddy Flanders, which in- spired him to this vivid description of how a soldier gets to look at things at the ronti Instead of darlvlnf a Mnae of peace and aaranltr from plcturaaqu country frmi, old ire, Mttlnc suna, and slnsinc birds, are ptM this wretched war business haaHJar up the whole thloff. A farm was a ptaee where yo hpmUA a. ahU through th wU any mlnuta; a tree was the sort of tbinsMthe trunnara took to ranse oa: a suaaet Udlcatad a quantity of Ufbt la which It was unsafe to walk abroad. I a it aV A ATter a wzuie ne got anouer rest, at a some way back of the trenches, jwhere he had a great time sketching everythiag and everybody. The old euro 'of th village objected to Bairnsfather land his comrades, and th Captain, re- imarkai i I think be ot tbta outlook from hie rather painful ospartoacee whoa the Oormana wore la the same vitiate, prior te being Irlvea north.

Thor bad hint locv nn In kia own i collar for fowr or flvo Sara, eftor rorMvln bis oesi wine wmcn vny arn ir. This sort of thing ioi tend toward girlnf I one a tutor outlook. And he took a humorous reveitge oa. that cur. Th old priest warned, th m.0 V.

n.M OALIlara. (lit WMW -w quit tuiaecemrily, Balrnsfsther heatedly remarks so he retaliated by drawing a pictur of the venerable man, with a girl on each knee, singing The soldiers are going, hurrah! hurrah to the ton of "The Campbells Are Coming." Soon after that the genial author of Fragments from Franc got badly shaken up by a shell. lie closes hiabook thus: la three days was oacK in r.ngian at a London hospital a fragment front baa beta produced in London called Balrnaf Ather Land," and people with drooping mustaches and gfoomy eye are 'dubbed "Bairnsfather Men," and th genial Captain has been swept to a fame Hat la unique in the war. Aj a writer, ho is this same genial Brae Bairnsfather. Ills book Is called Bullets and Billet," q.

P. Putnam's Coo, New York,) and inj Its page the author keeps up the remarkable record fet In his sketches of getting a laugh from everything that the) war trots oat for bis inspection. If he finds rain water fevers! feet deep la the trench where he Bust lire, be thinks It's1 funny. If a shell bursts right beside him, he remarks that it'a not the kind of thing on like tcfort breakfast." No matter what it ahcll or comrade or Gerninn prisoner or oleum old French cure or Belgian farmer or tla of beef or rubied farmhouse, It I ft fit subject for a laugh. Tea, Bairnsfather is still Bairnsfather.

lie grins at you out of his paragraphs Just as he does out of thoie uproarious sketches that have made him 4 celebrity. Th last pages of his book ten how a shell burst a few feet from him, giving Mm "a bad case of shell-shock. He wrote thos fowa. this parenthetical note: When- ever 4 coir siave tn cuxuue cunuiuona, read raining" One of th tranches ia which he was stationed used get so. bbaaab a a I eta i 'HEN the Japanes entertain a for-) elgn truest they believe in doing' a a swoa i i too thing up crown, lnis shown by the appended program a r-1 ranged in honor of Lindsay Ruasetl, a-lawyer of New York and President of; the Japan Society of America, when he went to the Mikado's realm a few weeks, ago.

Here is what they fixed up for th NewTorker: i fold that bo and bis comradei actually' AprU (Satardar-Arrive4 Tokohams, used their biscuits for feeding the fire, teeplng warm being more important hin allaying One day Bairnsfather wandered about uald th rulna of a chitcau, he well-cept lawns of which were covered with irticle which would have been much bet-r left la their proper Among hes was a half statue of Minerva or Venus wrapped in three-quarters of a pttalr carpet in the middle of one of th The inside of thi chiteaa waa even worse, because theV upetalra rooms were competing withes ground How Japan Entertains Mr. V. 8. rost Whoelar, Ctiara X. and Roprooantatl'ra met br d'AfaJra Japanese.

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