Heroes

RANK AND FILE--Theodore Roosevelt --Scribners ($2.50). Author-Politician Roosevelt has one excuse for his compendium of two well-known hero sagas: an attempt is vaguely made to impress the reader with the fact that a nation expresses itself fully only in war time.

It is amusing to watch the propaganda of the elder Roosevelt stick its head up, break out a Rooseveltian double-barreled grin, and shout "Bully!" Balloon Buster Luke* is here not so much an aviator as one who loudly condemned our shameful inactivity prior to 1917.

Ably illustrated by Captain John W. Thomason Jr., Rank and File might interest any reader who has been denied the Sunday supplements or Liberty.

*Lt. Frank Luke Jr., destroyed eleven German balloons and three airplanes in four days, in September 1918, was officially rated an ace in October, killed in November.