General Foch at the Marne. By Charles Le Goffic. Translated
by Lucy Menzies. (Dent. 4s. 6d. net.)—This is a highly interesting account of the fighting in and near the marshes of St. Gond during the battle of the Marne. It is not a precise military history, but the informal narrative suggests the ebb and flow of battle all the more vividly on that account. M. Le Goffic disposes of the legend that the Prussian Guard was engulfed in the marshes ; it is as devoid of truth as the old story about the Austro-Russians who, fleeing across a frozen lake at Austerlitz, broke the ice by their weight and were drowned in hundreds. The enemy retreated across the marshes of St. Gond before the French could overtake them, and much of the fighting in the later days of the battle on this part of the front was a mere rearguard action. General Foch's audacity in attacking had, however, quickened the enemy's retreat.
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