'M. Ribot's' War Menioirs:
Foch the Great, Simple Soldier {From Our Own Consigsronpenr:
Paris, April 4.
A series of 98 letters written by the late M. Ribot to a friend, and Just published in book form,' con-Yains some notable appreciations of Frenchmen who bore the chief share of responsibility during the war. The letters cover the period between. August, 1914, and October, 917, and bear upon such events as the departure of the Government, for Bordeaux, the return to Paris, the financial relations with England and the United States, the critical position in March, 1917, the failure of the offensive in Champagne in the following month, the Russian revolution, affairs in Greece, and the fall of the Cabinet in October, 1917.
It could hardly be. expected of such an old Parliamentary hand as 'M. Ribot, and especially of one who has 0 often held office, that he should reveal any secrets of import. ance or tell the world anything sen-rational, His letters are chiefly re-series of pen-pictures Of the present Pre sident of the republic, whose col-Teague he was the Viviani Cabinet at the' beginning of the war, M. Ribot writes: "The portfolio of 'War was in the strong hands of M. Millerand. "He showed himself to) be a tireless worker, living ver much within hinvelf, caving nothing for social relations, seldom asking' for advice and not welcoming it when it was proffered, very decided when he had ence made up his mind and occasionally obstinate, tenacious and patient in his lepitimiate anibitions, speaking simply and strongly without any attempt at wit."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.