4 Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements. 



ever, merely the outcome of a few weeks' sojourn or " trip to the 

 trenches," with one eye on an expectant public, for the author 

 has four times seen autumn fade into winter on the flat country- 

 side of Flanders, and, when the war ended, was still at his post 

 rendering invaluable services amidst unforgettable scenes. The 

 author's comments on the day-to-day happenings are distinguished 

 by a tone that is at once manly, reflective, and good-humoured. 

 Medical questions are naturally prominent, but are dealt with 

 largely in a manner that should interest the layman at the present 

 time. Sir Wilmot was with Lord Roberts when he died. A very 

 pleasing feature of the book is the constant revelation of the 

 author's love of nature and sport, and his happy way of introducing 

 such topics, together with descriptions of the country around him, 

 makes a welcome contrast to the stern events which form the 

 staple material of the book. There are some very amusing stories. 



LONDON MEN IN PALESTINE. 



By ROWLANDS COLDICOTT. 

 With maps, i vol. Demy 8vo. 125. 6d. net. 



This book embraces so much more than the ordinary war story 

 that we have a peculiar difficulty in describing it in a few chosen 

 words. 



The curtain lifts the day after the battle of Sheria, one of the 

 minor fights in General Allenby's first campaign those move- 

 ments of troops which came only to a pause with the capture 

 of Jerusalem. Gaza has just been taken. You are introduced to 

 one of the companies of a London battalion serving in the East, 

 of which company the author is commander. The reading of a few 

 lines, the passing of a few moments, causes you (such is the power of 

 right words) to be attached to that company and to move in imagina- 

 tion with it across the dazzling plain. When you havetrampeda few 

 miles you begin to realise, perhaps for the first time, the heat and 

 torment of a day's march in Philistia. It is not long before you 

 feel that you, too, are adventuring with the toiling soldiers ; with 

 them you wonder where the halting place will be, what sort of 

 bivouac you are likely to hit upon. By this time you will have 

 met the officers Temple, Trobus, Jackson and are coming to 

 have a nodding acquaintance with the men. Desire to compass 

 the unknown, and sympathetic interest in the experiences of a 

 company of your own country-men, Londoners footing it in a 

 foreign land, now takes you irresistibly into the very heart of the 

 tale, and you become one with the narrator. With him you 

 wander among the ruins of Gaza, pass into southern Palestine, and 



