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consists of her diary from July, 1914, to August, 1915. This 

 anxious French mother makes no attempt to represent herself as 

 more heroic than she was or is, and her honesty gives a special 

 value to her picture of the central and really fine figure in the 

 book that of her son Paul, many of whose letters to her during 

 the war are here given. Among other interesting passages in the 

 book is a description of the scene at the Paris Cabinet Council 

 when General Gallieni was asked by the Ministry if he would 



defend Paris. 



A YEAR AGO. 



BEING "EYE-WITNESS'S" NARRATIVE OF THE WAR 

 FROM MARCH SOTH TO JULY i8TH, 1915. 



By LIEUT.-COL. E. D. SWINTON, D.S.O., R.E., 

 and CAPT. THE EARL PERCY. 



Paper Covers, 2s. net. Cloth, as. 6d. net. 



This volume contains the conclusion of the famous "Eye- 

 Witness's " Narrative from the front, which has now been 

 discontinued. It is reprinted in full from the reports issued by 

 the Press Bureau, and has not hitherto been accessible in a 

 consecutive and complete form. Taken in conjunction with the 

 previous volume published last year by Mr. Edward Arnold, this 

 instalment of " Eye-Witness's " Narrative provides the most 

 valuable current commentary on the events of the war in 

 Flanders which has yet appeared. As time goes on, its accurate 

 and graphic story of the fighting will inevitably be appealed to as 

 the most reliable evidence of what actually occurred whenever 

 diverse theories are at issue. Although units are seldom 

 mentioned by name, officers and men engaged will have no 

 difficulty in identifying the details of their own operations, while 

 the general descriptions of warfare in all its novel phases, from 

 the base to the front-line trenches, contain an immense amount 

 of information that is new and deeply interesting to the civilian 

 reader. 



Although the authorship of "Eye-Witness's" Narrative has 

 long been an open secret, Mr. Edward Arnold has now received 

 permission to announce it publicly for the first time, and readers 

 can exercise their ingenuity in rendering to Lord Percy and to 

 the popular author of " The Green Curve " their respective shares 

 in the credit of this admirable work. (Seepage 12.) 



