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16th, 17th, 18th, 19th BATTALIONS, THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT. (Sherratt and

Hughes. 7s. 6d. net.) This is an excellent record of the four" City" battalions raised in Manchester within the first month of the War. Formed of the admirable material which was then available, they fully lived—and died—up to the standard of their famous regiment, of which Sir James Willcocks records that ? none more devoted and none more valiant" served in the late War. Few episodes could be finer than that of the gallant handful of the 16th who literally carried out Colonel Elstob's order on March 21st, 1918: "Here we fight, here we die." We are glad to see that this well-printed volume is sold at a price which should bring it within the reach of Manchester survivors and relatives of the fallen.