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-(6/ -.)- This story opens with .. rMal of
ovonta a.t &00. following the decla.ratioD 'o f war
on "the 4th August; 1914. 1 The S.S. B;omb&y,
Rangoon to London, is tQtpedoed off tije ooa.st
of 1'orl.uga.l by e. Ge.rmab. aubma.rine..- I Hugh.
Duncan, the seoond ma:f.e., th~ only .,urvivqr
u.ppareotty, iB -taken 00 ooa.ra and kept Ia
pl'l80Der m the "UD~raeboot," where he is
privileged to view thrOugh the periscope the
ba.voC wrought among morohantmOJ;l and
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(author of II Nonsenaa
"Arcadian Adventures With the
" etc.)", amusingly called Moon"""C_":.' Larler Lunacy (crow~ Bvo,
storiea form 8.Il ideal book
up at such timea as the

greatly .dd ,to the gaiety
is to 6ay
of the benevolellt
nations of "
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or really
book by· M . Anatole Fra.n~ is
a. great deal of interdkt.
of Clory, which Mr. Lane
pul)lisibed 1tbie week (demY,8Vb,.6J-).

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fd\\'ls or rice, buHc:Bng
0. hu r out of ba.mboos,
brick8,: stonos or empty
sardine tins, chum·
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mi,ng I wit~ the Se~gal~, j nn~ at the. ~me
time koop,;lUg the ruggers 10 their pla~t qlaking . bolly-bands fol' the &:addle wltn. ~,b!)
wick~ of
lamps, ma~i-pg SOUPI ~t!ng
anyttpng and OV6r~b.lOg, and. drinking
absinthe."
There IS a, deVil-may-care
attit*de about Barn&vaux that compela &nd
holde our admiration, 6Spec!ia.lly i~ . we oa.n
recognise the wide moral latitude,oxtended to
a.~ 8O~er in the far-distant colQnIal outposts.
He lla.s -quite settled convictions about the
confined sphere of the ~' nigger ", and hi8 v~!ue
in the world's affairs, Bnd treats them all With
a' national insouciance, half triellc.d, half
governor. But with all W9 'ai"e pleased with
him and at timee with his philosophy. As
for the remainder of the book, there are &c>me
line stories' we have been 'particularlY impreased by
Mille's oxcursions into a.n untrodden field- of fiction. "" The Chinamen" is
a. vigorous and weird yarn. M. Mille has, ,
not. without justificat ion, been styled tbe Kipling lof Fra.nce. At a. time whe-n the bond between Brita.in and. her loyal a.lIy aorose the
Cba~el is being hourly ,dorengtbened we welcome him to the ranks of thOBO who please us
mightily by their pen . The illu8trations by
Helen MoKie cannot be tOo hi~hly praiaed...
her BaIilavaux in portraiture IS the ·Barna.-V8.U1 of t.he book to e::r.aatiiude.
"MoriIS for the Youn.. B, Marcus. IiIUi
trll.ted by Goo. Morrow. Wtth a. foreword by
William J. Locke. , (2/- ne~. )
W,Wam J.
Lodke we know. L 'Vho was not charmed mph
Aristide PUlol? Georgo Morrow we also
~know j vary much indeed. But the former sel- ..
d'om comes to us iu tho guise of a juvenile
mora.listl and 'we are not at nJI ceTtain that
this is a disadvan*age. In a foreword he discloSGa the fact. that he haa pleasure in laying
the
a rhyming theory ' of. educa.the instruction of the chil" I
IlDd a girl of seven, of his
Ordeyne, who is nOw i
" .It is Clear that
educational r meat is~
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LETTt.RS , OF AN
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Mary had a little lobster

IrpPrexl!,ced__I'Y the court.osy

tPbcto by Khaki Studioo.

from tJle

She put in grandpal's bed,
And ohl it blushed, it did,' to hear
The .things that gran'dpa ea.id.
questionable whether some of the V6l'S08
the best ta.ste or really suited to the
emm"" for whose edification the book . seems
been written.
'Fhe' humour is a.pthe eld~s, but it is certain tJ;l.a.t
assistlmC9 it will puzzle the .
or nin!l e:>{6n if it were wise for
lit.
'l'he illustrations of Mr.
are, "a e usual, excel1ent.
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Corpl. WM~ HARRY EARL, 8tl1
eatt. Royal Berb Reg t.. 12,
ChLll"Ch Street, Newport Pagnell,

for their
who have

Tuck and
use of the

formerly employ'ed at Hungerford.
-Missing slrice October 13, 1915.

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Chf Pter in Bl"i~ain'l Histol"Y.

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setl
DeeplJ' they bbw a& eY91 and hearts
met.
Thus, as th~ youngest' year ita circle 'spUlItJ
The oldest of life's comedie'th.egio•.
Some;thing new in calendars, this. .
, LoOk In. for e..... By Mro. Tremlett,
(6/ -.) London in war timer But the London of. war time ,in the lighter vein, a background Of society .ladies making mitten. ·and
sooks and spwing shirts for ' aoldiera; sOme
ladiee. young , &lid faacinating, &ome of u'n08l'~
tam iummerl and one looking for Gra.ce. The
9uest for Grac& is, of courae, the theme of the
OOok, and the maze througb which we .u proceed in aea.rch of that lAdy i. wondrously oon"
ooived by Mrs. Trem~tt. 'Tw" thu", Mrs.
Maaaingham, austere apd 00 the aide of acidity, has the misfortune to loBe 'her husband, a
Territorial omcer~ at the "front ,in Flanders.
She h ... the additional misfortune to receive a
letter from .. aubaltorn recounting the last
aoene and- a.aaurine Mrs, M. that the g&lla.nt
oBioer died with one name 'orl hi. lip-........ora.ce.
Now Mr•. MaeaingJiam's Ohristian name i.
not Grace I Bence, chercb911 la · femme. Mn.
M...ingham i. very .cute &Dd dieoovera that '
her huiband had, aotne tUne before proceeding to France, real.i8ed the 80mewhat large

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Batt. Oxford and Bucka Light
Infantry, Dun~den. Wounded.

IUID of £5,000 tllrOU&h hia solicitor who did,
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swimming towards the drippi.ll-g hun ~d
Hugh Duncan dives in after her and mrunng
the ml1&Ollio sign to Plesaen oompela him to
resc ue them. Life on board tho submarine is
well described by Mr. D~we" The boa.t eventu- ,
ally runs in t.o Rae Mur&, on the coast of
MorOcco, a. sooret pl~j8hing base, wherp
Plossen awa.its the ~re&t ltloot from Kiel that is
sweeping the EnsWBh fr~
l m th& seMI At Raa
Mura. tho story cfev~10'p8 rapidly and drama.tically. Tho Commander Plessen, the torpedo
oxporl Straub; who kiss each torpedo ere he.
&enda it on its' deadly' orrand, and a rGerma.n
emissary named Herr ~u8Ch, eventually all
fall victims ,to the cha$s of the young lad"
who ha.s boon rescued Jrom the U Sidonia., '
The denouement is well contrived, with the
aid of what Mr. Micall/ber terms "turnings
u~,!' and 'bho story ends, as it should, ha.pplly. Mr. Dawe ~rt~Y8 wlth no fa.ltering
hand the dw,bolical h~rlSY and Ponceit of
the minions of tho AlI- ighE!8t of Berlin, and
the lfiguro of Herr Bu "who as a. little boi
san~ 80 sweetly tho
II ~tedor" in a. Ham.
burg eJmrch, and la.ter
developed mto a. wine-.bibbing a.nd greasy
hypoonte, is excellently drawh.
We con"
gratulate Mr. D~e
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Barn'':vaux, ' By
Pierre Millo.
(8/ 6
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AbOut a. thi
of. thi s volume is take
up hy record of th~
continuance , of th~
career of. Ba.rna.va.ux, 0.
soldier in the' It'''rencll
Coloniat lnlantr ~
whom we have m(Jt ~
fore in 'J Under the
Tricolour."
Ba.rna'l"
vaux, gay scam,P and
yet a. [lovable slice of
sunny ~rance, haa
80rved a while in t.he
Legion. He has b~
reduced, But he g",,!
to the' Legion, be nonchnlantly t ells us, to ~
preserve his , honour '
and ~i8 chastity, H~
h8.$ been everywh~re
in Colpnia} Fr.anoe, liU
Bal'llo, vaux, ana ~
soon everything, Her,
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lnarricd life on Sundny. The committee of tho l tondi g 1l1dulrt.riul l II'r1
Society, Ltd " of which Mr. Rose is genoml lllQnager, pr !!ont<>d the
'\lIe couple
with a. hnlld solllo. inkstllnd and the depn.rtmont£l,1 a.nd branch I uW ll~Q rS ga.ve
. l1uminatod
add ross and a gold-tllounted umbrolln , \\,h,10 thore wOro nume ou ~ family gifts.
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