YEOMAN SERVICE.
Yrontan Service. By Lady Maud Folkston. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 7s. Gd.)—Lady Maud Rolleston has written a very fascinating book. It is simply the " diary of the wife of an Imperial Yeomanry officer during the Boer War," but the diary is so genuine, so free from affectation, so eager, and so full of good feeling, that its publication is more than justified. Our only regret is that we were not given the whole, but only a part of the diary, but probably this policy of suppression was inevitable. It is useless to attempt to describe the diary, but we say to our readers without the slightest fear of misleading them: Get the book and read it, and you will understand what war looks like from the standpoint of the women who are waiting behind the army, and live, as it were, straining their ears to catch the sound of the guns." In a word, the book, though all unconsciously, affords a most striking and artistic picture of woman's part in war. Bat let no one suppose that Lady Maud Rolleston is one of the soldier's womankind who tremble at the thought of battle. Not a bit of it. Though she is a very different person from the immortal Mrs. O'Dowd, she is no whit behind that lady in spirit, while so much beyond her in sensibility and feeling.
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