Mr. Edward Arnold^s Autumn Announcements. 3 



THE HOLY WAR IN TRIPOLI. 



By G. F. ABBOTT, 



Author of 

 "Through India with the Prince," "A Tale of a Tour in Macedonia," etc. 



One Volume. Demy Svo, Illustrated. 15s. net. 



Contradictory reports have been rife about the Tripolitan War, 

 and the course of the campaign is as obscure as its consequences 

 are important. The public will therefore welcome an unbiassed and 

 graphic narrative by an eye-witness and well-known student of the 

 East. 



Such a book is " The Holy War in Tripoli," by Mr. G. F. Abbott. 

 The volume does not purport to deal with the political aspect of the 

 question, but is a record of first-hand impressions. Mr. Abbott 

 spent about four months with the Turco-Arab warriors in the desert 

 outside Tripoli, shared their hardships, witnessed their struggles 

 and achievements, and entered into their spirit as only a European 

 can who is already familiar with the East and its peoples. 



These pages are alive with human interest. Not only does the 

 author record his personal adventures, both exciting and amusing, 

 but paints a brilliant picture of the life of the camp, and the lives 

 and feelings of the children of the desert who fought so gallantly 

 for their country and their faith. 



Heart-rending accounts of the famine and sickness which abounded 

 in the Turkish camps are relieved by humorous incidents ; and 

 shrewd character sketches give reality to the dramatic descrip- 

 tions of engagements with the enemy. 



SHIPMATES. 



By A. E. LOANE. 



One Vokmie. Crown Svo. 6s. 



"Shipmates" gives the social and service history of a character- 

 istic group of naval officers who were born between Trafalgar and 

 Navarino, and served in the days when men often knew more of 

 their messmates than of their brothers, and who twenty years after 

 marriage still counted by weeks the time spent in their own homes. 



How little is known of the class of men who formed the backbone 

 of the navy, who devoted long and honourable years to their 

 profession, but never attained eminence! In "Shipmates" the 

 service history of some of these officers is told by themselves and 

 by one another, and the latter part of their life is within the writer's 

 clear recollection. 



In these days of social self-consciousness and national assertion 

 and over-anxiety, there is something restful in the remembrance of 

 men who served their fellows instinctively, and who would have 

 forfeited six months' pay cheerfully rather than state publicly that 

 they loved their country and were prepared to resist her enemies. 



