20 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 39

It is sad to remember—and " Ian Hay's " brilliant

short ac- t of his visit to Gallipoli, called The Ship of Remembrance odder and Stoughton, 2s.) recalls the fact—that the River de,' once beached under the terrible cliffs of Cape Relies the face of a devastating fire, has been refloated and is earning her living on the high seas under a foreign flag, ad of being a national monument in some great English port. The daring of that first attack on Sedd-el-Bahr hardly been eclipsed by any feat of arms in history : "brugge was not more gallant, if heroisms may be com- red. We welcome " Ian Hay's " story of a pilgrimage to • vex that will remain for ever among the most honoured our history.