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Since War Letters of Fallen Englishmen there has been no

book published with so vivid and intimate a sense of the actuality of war as Letters from Armageddon (Williams and Norgate, 15s.)—a series of letters collected by Mrs. Grant, the wife of the famous writer and jurist, Judge Grant of Boston. As Mr. Owen Wister says in a prefatory note, one is moved by this book " as only either the truest life or the greatest art can ever move." The letters range over the whole field of conflict from Ypres and the Yser to the Falkland Islands, and from a submarine in the Marmora, and a fall 'in a blazing aeroplane, to an American nurse's impressions of a French Field Hospital. Decidedly a book to read.

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