erver_.--"The flavour of M. Maurois' humour loses little in this
translation.... The admirable verisimilitude of the dialogue.... M.
Maurois' humorous gift is unusually varied.... He tells a good story
with great vivacity."

Holbrook Jackson in the _National News_.--"The Colonel is an eternal
delight.... I put the volume under my arm, started reading it on the way
home, and continued reading until I had finished the same evening....
That ought to be sufficient recommendation for any book...."

_Times Lit. Supplement_.--(Review of French Edition.)--"M. Maurois ...
is indeed so good an artist and so excellent an observer that we would
not for worlds spoil his hand, or do more than merely introduce to
English readers by far the most interesting and amusing group of British
officers that we have met in books since the war began."

_Gentlewoman_.--"The translation of this book is so splendidly done that
it seems impossible that it can be a translation.... One of the very few
war books which survive Peace.... This is one of the few war books that
will not collect dust on the bookshelf."

James Milne in the _Graphic_.--"It is all very wise and very charming."

_Morning Post_.--"This gently-humorous little book.... Half an hour with
Colonel Bramble and his entertaining friends will stop you worrying for
a whole day."

_Saturday Review_.--"The wittiest book of comment on warfare and our
national prejudices that we have yet seen."

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A KUT PRISONER

By Lieut. H. C. W. BISHOP. Illustrated. 6s. 6d. net.

This book is the remarkable story of the first three British officers to
escape from a Turkish prison camp. It contains a description of the
siege and the march of 1,700 miles to Kastamuni; of their capture,
escape and dramatic rescue, and finally the voyage in an open boat to
Alupka, in the Crimea.

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SONNETS FROM A PRISON CAMP

By ARCHIBALD ALLEN BOWMAN

Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

This book falls naturally in two parts; the first is a sonnet sequence
describing the author's capture with his battalion in the great March
Offensive, his weary tramp as a prisoner, and internment in a German
camp; the second consists of a series of meditative sonnets on these
inevitably suggested by close confinement. The poems show great promise,
their intense sincerity being foremost among their merits.

_Morning Post_.--"Mr. Bowman's rich and dig