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LAND & WATER 
November 22; 1917 
Books of the Week 
The Marne— and After. By Major A. Corbett-Smith- 
With plates and maps. Cassell. 5s.net. 
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade, 
August 1914 to March 1915. Bv BRir,.M)ii;R-GKNi: r.m. 
Coi NT (li.KiCHEN. Blackwood. 3s not. 
The Tenth (Irish) Division at Gallipoli. By Major Bryan 
Cooper. W^tii an introduction by Major-Generai. 
Sir Bry.vn M.xhon. BS.O. Herbert Jenkins. 6s. net. 
Twenty-two Months Under Fire. By Bri(..\dier-Generai. 
Henry Paiie Croft, C.MG.. MP. .[ohn Murray. 
5s. net. 
Carrying On— After the First Hundred Thousand. 
BvIavHav. (The Junior Sub ) Blackwood. (<s net. 
Glorious Exploits of the Air. By Kim.ar Middieton. 
Simpkin Marshall. 5s. lut. 
HARKINiG back to the very strenuous and critical 
days of the original K.xpeditionary Force— the 
days . after the Mame, when the men of the 
old army waited patiently for the new armies 
to train and come out, one is struck by the difference 
in the estimate of the enemy, and also by the equipment of 
that wonderful old army. Major Corbett-Smith, in a. very 
salutary chapter on enemy atrocities, points out that it was 
not till" after the Mame and the advance to tlie Aisne that 
the British troops l>egan to realise what manner of men were 
these Germans whom they, faced, for on the great retreat 
thev had left behind them villages and towns untouched, but, 
as soon as they returned on the tracks of the Hun, they began 
to see unbelievable things- there had been no Lnsitanm 
sinking, then ; Louvain might be an exaggeration, and 
Klwyms was still untouched. But these sights were 
undeniable. Very sanely Major Corbett-Smith comments : 
I have remarked that it is the depravity of a whole nation 
rather than the iruiividual exces.ses of an ArmV which is 
responsible for these things. A national army reflect-s the 
spirit of the nation. The German Army was, at tlie outbreak 
of war, just such an army as Britain in 1916 had in the field. 
Representative, 1 mean, of the nation as a whole. It was not 
a select body of professional troops such as ours was. And it 
was that national army — and, through it, the German people 
— which was guiltj' of those incredible outrages against all 
laws human and divine. . . . What purpose will be 
served by a German revolution ? The German people remain. 
This he sets as a warning to those who expect, in the day 
ol reckoning, that punishment of the German rulers, apart 
from the people, will be sufficient — it is the nation as a whole 
that is perverted in instinct, guilty of the enormous crime. 
* * * * * 
In the matter of the equipment of the old ariiiy. Brigadier 
General Count Gleichen, in his Doings 0/ the Fifteenth In- 
fantry Brigade, remarks that " it does indeed seem 
ex'traordinary now that in those strenuous days of 1914 
we had only about three machine guns to two battalions. 
Nowadays we should have at least twenty." And Major 
Bryan Cooper, in his The Tenth [Irish) Division in Gallipoli, 
a record worthy almost to rank with the Iliad as a catalogue of 
the incredible exploits of mortal men, makes the same point 
when he tells how Irishmen held on and died under a rain of 
Turkish bombs, having no bombs themselves with which to 
reply. One hero caught the bomte as coolly as if in a cricket 
match, and hurled them back to ex-plode in the Turkish lines, 
till one exploded as he caught it and sent him to the \'altialla 
of heroes. These three books axe epic 
Coming forward to the doings of the Territorials, Timnty- 
hvo Months under Tire, by Brigadier-General H. Page-Croft, 
gives the stories of Zonnebeke, Givenchy, the battle of 
Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, Loos — all the great actions of that 
time which now seems far off, before the machinery of to-day 
had come to supplement the courage which has not failed 
since the first Expeditionary Force set out. This author 
takes his story on to the battle of the Somme, and to Pozieres, 
and he sees as the great lesson of the war a realisation of the 
fact that the nations of the British will stand together. 
" Scattered as we are we can still claim similar qualities 
of steadfastness of purpose, courage against all odds, greatness 
in adversity," and " severally we could not have lasted the 
course, but together we shall win through." The whole of 
this book is a tribute to " that great-hearted gentleman, the 
British soldier," and that is why it cannot be other than a 
worthy record of heroism, illu-strated by stories which go to 
prove that in the grimmest struggles the sense of humour is 
never lacking from either Regulars or Territorials. 
* * <• * ♦ ' , 
In rather lighter vein Ian Hay has continued his record 'of 
life with the Territorials, Carrying On— After the First 
Hundred Thousand. Sergeant Mucklewame— no longer a 
mere private— is again to the fore, as are Wagstaffe and other 
old friends of this author's preceding account of training and 
w** It was evident, when The First Hundred Thousand 
was published, that there were many good stories of the doings 
of these worthies yet untold, and here they are— the author 
has decided not to make a third volume, and thus this second 
ends with Mucklewame out of it, Bobby about to be itiarried, 
and Wagstaffe commiserating him on the sad event. It is 
an old saying that a sequel is never a success, but Ian Hay 
proves the reverse. 
' ***** 
Another "war book," this time devoted to the doings of 
the youngest service, is Glorious Exploits of the Air, in which 
?.!r. "Edgar Middieton has collected some stories of the work 
of the RFC. by way of material, and woven them into a 
book from which it is possible to gain some idea of the multi- 
farious duties of the flying man. A point worth making in 
connection with this work is that the author is himself an 
ex-piJot of the Air Service, and thus is able to maintain technical 
accuracy, which is none too common in flying stories. 
But for the work of the Royal Flying Corps, as depicted 
by photographs, we would specially commend that volume, 
now a familiar sight on every bookstall, with its striking 
cover of cloudscape and a swooping aeroplane. Lord Hugh 
Cecil, himself in the Service, has written a most interesting 
introduction describing the actual work of the R.F.C. in which 
he mentions that the dangers of training have rather increased 
than diminished. The Illustrated London News is responsible 
for the printing of this admirable volume, the cost of which 
is half-a-crown, the proceeds going to A.F.C. hospitals. 
Tlw Fleet Annual, 1917 (Chapman and Hall, 4s. net), provides 
enlightenment for the lav mind in its list of the vessels of the 
British Naw, a list that is well worth perusal by all. There is, 
in addition,' an excellent outline history of the war from the 
naval point of view, together with a naval roll of honour for the 
year which this " Annual " concerns, and a mass of other matter 
relating to such varied subjects as naval separation allowances 
and submarine warfare. It is a very useful and well-compiled 
volume, tabulating all that can be published, and containing 
many facts about the Navy. Mr. Lionel Yexley, compiler of 
the "Annual," has the advantage of thorough technical know- 
ledge of his work, as is evident in his selection of matter and in 
its arrangement. 
Messrs. HUTCHINSON & CO. 
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