10 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 36

A Book of Broadsheets (Methuen, 7s. 6d.) . contains nothing but

the very best both in prose and verse : it is a selection from those very broadsheets which the enterprise of the Times, aided by several famous hands—Walter Raleigh's among them —began to circulate among our fleets and armies in the autumn of 1915. Thirty sets, six sheets in each and six for a penny, were made, and it is at once a grim and pathetic thought that (as Mr., Geoffrey Dawson tells us) " no more than three bound collections of the original Broadsheets are known' to be in

existence' -. • . _ ,