tional and amazing ... absorbingly interesting."

_Daily Mail_.--"A really striking and diverting story."

_Evening News_.--"The tale of the two lieutenants is perhaps the noblest
example of the game and fine art of spoof that the world has ever seen,
or ever will see ... their wonderful and almost monstrous elaboration
... an amazing story."

_Everyman_.--"One of the most amazing tales that we have ever read. The
gradual augmentation of the spook's power is one of the most
preposterous, the most laughable histories in the whole literature of
spoofing. Lieut. Jones has given us a wonderful book--even a great
book."

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THE SILENCE OF COLONEL BRAMBLE

By ANDRE MAUROIS.

_Translated from the French._

Second Edition. With Portrait. 5s. net.

_Westminster Gazette_.--"_The Silence of Colonel Bramble_ is the best
composite character sketch I have seen to show France what the English
gentleman at war is like ... much delightful humour.... It is full of
good stories.... The translator appears to have done his work
wonderfully well."

_Daily Telegraph_.--"This book has enjoyed a great success in France,
and it will be an extraordinary thing if it is not equally successful
here.... Those who do not already know the book in French, will lose
nothing of its charm in English form. The humours of the mess-room are
inimitable.... The whole thing is real, alive, sympathetic, there is not
a false touch in all its delicate, glancing wit.... One need not be a
Frenchman to appreciate its wisdom and its penetrating truth."

_Star_.--"An excellent translation ... a gay and daring translation....
I laughed over its audacious humour."

_Times_.--"This admirable French picture of English officers."

_Daily Graphic_.--"A triumph of sympathetic observation ... delightful
book ... many moving passages."

_Daily Mail_.--"So good as to be no less amusing than the original....
This is one of the finest feats of modern translations that I know. The
book gives one a better idea of the war than any other book I can
recall.... Among many comical disputes the funniest is that about
superstitions. That really is, in mess language, 'A scream'."

_New Statesman_.--"The whole is of a piece charmingly harmonious in tone
and closely woven together.... The book has a perfect ending.... Few
living writers achieve so great a range of sentiment, with so uniformly
light and unassuming a manner."

_Obs