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Descriptive leaflets of EX LIBRIS advertisers may be obtained at its Information Bureau, rez-de-chaussée, 10 rue de l'Elysée. Volume I TLX LIBI^IS OCTOBER Number 4 1923 Writings of the American Volunteers in the French Foreign Legion during the World War PAUL AYRES ROCKWELL Historian of the "Association of the American Volunteers of the French Foreign Legion". There was an extraordin Seeger was living in Paris when war • was ary amount of literary and declared, and immediately enrolled in the For poetic talent among the few eign Legion. He was already beginning to be score American youths known through his poems, and had also done who, long before their some newspaper work in America and Europe. native land ever dreamed In the Legion, Seeger was not of a very of entering the conflict, sociable nature, and did not mix to any extent volunteered to fight Ger- with this comrades. He greatly admired the _ , _ , many in the uniform of old veterans of African and Paul Rockwell„ ' Legionnaires, OrSci.l w«Corrt.pondeni France . Perhaps this was Asiatic service, the romance of their campaigns attached to French Army . 1 T7 I "Cr.nd He.dqu...«. ". because t ranee has in exotic lands appealing to his poetic imagina 1417 18 ever inspired and fired the tion. The height of his ambition was to equal imagination, without a plentiful supply of which the soldierly perfection of these experienced one can not be worthy of the name of writer. combatants, and he bent his greatest efforts The life at the front, whether in the trenches or toward that aim. Seeger was slightly built and in the air, further brought to the surface talent frail ; he was unaccustomed to outdoor life and long dormant, or often undreamed of by the exercise, and the first few months with the possessor. It is an interesting fact that those Legion were terribly hard for him. He had an volunteers who became the most celebrated as iron will, however, and before he fell he had writers were in the little group that enlisted in the infinite satisfaction of knowing that he was the Foreign Legion at the very outbreak of war one of the best soldiers of the corps he adored. in 1914. On the rare occasions that the Legionnaires at repose behind the lines had a few hours to them Alan Seeger selves, Seeger did not bestow much time to social intercourse with the other volunteers, who The most famous, and justly so, of the writers often sought relaxation in sitting in groups, among the American Volunteers, was Alan gossiping or playing cards. Slipping quietly Seeger, whose inspired poems and beautiful away into a secluded wood, or to a sunny, letters are so well known to every American sheltered spot behind some shell-wrecked build with any pretension to knowledge of modem ing, he would produce from the pockets of his authors and poets, and to French readers through great-coat pencil and note-book, and write down the excellent translation by Mademoiselle Odette his impressions, or bring forth from his brain Raimondi-Matheron. verse that had perhaps been struggling there for 99 Henry Farnsworth One of the most fascinating war books is that which Mr. William Farnsworth has had printed for private circulation, containing the letters written home from France by his son, Henry Weston Farnsworth, which reflect remarkably the soldierly spirit and fine enthusiasm of that gallant Foreign Legionnaire. One is particu larly impressed in reading the book with young Farnsworth's great love for France and devotion to the Foreign Legion. Henry Farnsworth was born at Dedham, Mass., on August 7, 1890. He graduated from Groton School when eighteen years of age, and from Harvard in 1912. The summer of that year, he visited Russia, Hungary and Turkey. When the Balkan War broke out, in the autumn of 1912. Henry went there, and later published " a book of his experiences : The Log of a Would-be War Correspondent". Then he went to Mexico during the revolution of 1913, as cor respondent for the Providence Journal. At the outbreak of the World War, Farns worth came to Paris and joined an independent volunteer corps, Bles' Mounted Scouts. As this corps was not accepted by any of the Allied Governments, Henry enlisted in the Foreign days during the turmoil of battle or the dreary Legion in January 1915. His first impressions sordidness of the trenches. of that corps are contained in a letter written When there was no work of military to utility home a few days later : be done, Seeger usually had pencil and paper in "As for the Legion, so far as I have seen, it is not hand. Some jeered at him as a scribbler; there much like its reputation. In the first place, there is no were a few who suspected his genius : to all tough element at all. Many of the men are educated, opinions he was equally indifferent. and the very lowest is of the high class workman type. ' Seeger surely felt what he wrote, when he In my room, for instance, there are Le Petit Pere' Uhlin, old Alsatian, who has already served fourteen penned those marvellous lines : an years in the Legion in Morocco and China; the corporal. ; " Lebrun, a socialist already well known in his district I have a rendezvous with Death Engler, a Swiss cotton broker from Havre ; Donald At »ome disputed barricade. Campbell, a newspaper man and short story writer, When Spring comes back with rustling shade whose family left England in 1745. with the exception And apple-blossoms fill the air— of his father, who was a captain in the Royal Irish I have a rendezvous with Death Fusiliers ; Sukuna, a Fijian prince and Oxford student, When Spring brings back blue days and fair" black as ink ; Hath, a Dane, over 6 feet, whom Camp bell aptly calls the 'Blond Beast' (aide 'Zarathustra'); and he accepted unflinchingly that rendezvous.