The Front Line. By C. E. Montague. With Drawings by
Muirhead Bone. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6d. net.)—Captain Montague's vivid little essay will save our soldiers the trouble of answering the question that all their friends ask them : " What is the front really like 1 " His description was written of the old Somme front, but it applies, in the main, to any part of the modern trench line where we have advanced. First comes a belt of derelict land, three miles wide ; then there is a belt of desert, churned up by our guns ; then come the now trenches, and beyond them the No-Man's-Land and the enemy. Captain Montague's text, which we found all too brief, is admirably supplemented by Mr. Muirhead Eone's vigorous sketches, in which there is no attempt to cast a glamour over the hideousness of the twentieth-century battlefield.
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