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come to the foot-hills of Judea. With him you slowly become 

 conscious that the long series of marches is planned to culminate 

 in an assault upon Jerusalem. Now you are part of a dusty 

 column winding up into Judea by the Jerusalem road, looking 

 hour by hour upon those natural phenomena that suggested the 

 parables. " London Men in Palestine " brings all this home to 

 you as if you were a passer-by. Next, the massing of troops 

 about the Holy City is described, and you are given a distant view 

 of the city itself. A chapter follows that describes the coming of 

 the rains. Then you spend a night in an old rock-engendered 

 fortress- village while troops pass through to the attack, the storm 

 still at its height. A chapter follows that tells of a crowded day 

 too complex and full of incident here to be described. The book 

 closes with an exciting description of a fight on the Mount of Olives. 



MONS, ANZAC, AND KUT. 



By an M.P. 

 i vol. Demy 8vo. 145. net. 



The writer of these remarkable memoirs, whose anonymity will 

 not veil his identity from his friends, is a man well known, not 

 only in England, but also abroad, and the pages are full of the 

 writer's charm, and gaiety of spirit, and " courage of a day that 

 knows not death." Day by day, in the thick of the most stirring 

 events in history, he jotted down his impressions at first hand, 

 and although parts of the diary cannot yet be published, enough 

 is given to the world to form a graphic and very human history. 



Our author was present at the most critical part of the Retreat 

 from Mons. He took part in the dramatic defence of Landrecies, 

 and the stand at Compiegne. Wounded, and a prisoner, he 

 describes his experiences in a German hospital and his subsequent 

 recapture by the British during the Marne advance. 



The scene then shifts to Gallipoli, where he was present at the 

 immortal first landing, surely one of the noblest pages of our 

 history. He took part in the fierce fighting at Suvla Bay, and, 

 owing to his knowledge of Turkish, he had amazing experiences 

 during the Armistice arranged for the burial of the dead. 



Later, the author was in Mesopotamia, where he accompanied 

 the relieving force in their heroic attempt to save Kut. On 

 several occasions he was sent out between the lines to conduct 

 negociations between the Turks and ourselves. 



" Mons, Anzac, and Kut "... A day and a day will pass, 

 before the man and the moment meet to give us another book 

 like this. We congratulate ourselves that the author survived to 

 write it. 



