Loretts, Par Henri Rene. (Paris : Perrin. 3 fr. 50
e.)—This is a vivid account in detached notes, as if torn from a diary, of the twelve months' straggle on the plateau of Notre Dame do Loretto, which ended in the capture by the French of Sow:hoz in October, 1915, just after we had taken Loos. The author writes with the candour that we admire so much in the French, admitting the repeated failures of his heaoio
countrymen and their heavy losses, but proving all the more clearly for that their determination and their ability to conquer. Apart from the details of this tremendous battle—far greater than the English public ever supposed—the book illustrates with exceptional success the gradual evolution of the new tactics of trench warfare, when bitter experience had shown the defensive value of the machine gun and the artillery curtain-fire for troops in well-made trenches such as the Germans had almost from the start.
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