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principal topics are dealt with in all their aspects, and with a 

 profuse wealth of illustration, drawn both from history and from 

 the author's own varied and extensive experience of military 

 administration, and of modern armies in war and in peace time. 

 From this discussion there emerges a body of principles, which 

 in the concluding chapters he applies to the solution of the prob- 

 lems indicated in the preceding pages. 



One of the most striking conclusions arrived at is that the rifle 

 has had a levelling effect in war, and has reduced the value of 

 efficiency (training) as against that of numbers. In the late war 

 this tendency was further accentuated by the conditions of trench- 

 warfare ; but this will not hold good in the future, when the tac- 

 tical possibilities of tanks, aeroplanes, etc., have been more com- 

 pletely developed, and success will fall, not to the big battalions, 

 but to the army whose organization and training are best suited 

 to the new conditions. 



ADRIENNE TONER. 



By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK (MRS. BASIL DE 

 SELINCOURT), 



AUTHOR OF "FRANKLIN KANE," " TANTE," "THE ENCOUNTER," ETC. 



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Adrienne Toner is a young American, orphaned and unattached. 

 Not a typical young American girl, very far from it, though only 

 America could have produced her. Incidentally, she possesses 

 wealth, but her paramount possession is a creed, a philosophy of 

 life which possesses her, and which she lives up to heroically, 

 according to her lights. Thus equipped, she finds her way into 

 a pleasant English family, with a nice set of not very unusual 

 friends. An alien, exotic element, fascinating some, disconcerting 

 or exasperating others, she works strange havoc in the little 

 English circle. It is not her creed that does it so much as her 

 temperament and character. For she is desperately alive and 

 real, far too much so to be explained or bounded by her own 

 simple formulas. Things happen, amongst them the Great War, 

 but her personality is the book. Mrs. de Selincourt has made no 

 more ambitious effort than this, and never, not even in "Tante," 

 has she achieved so complete a creation. 



