24 JUNE 1905, Page 35

It's a Way They Have in tho Army. By Lady

Helen Forbes. (Duckworth and Co. 6s.)—In spite of its cumbersome title, the quality of this book is decidedly trivial. The story is an account of Army life in an Indian station, where, according.to Lady Helen Forbes, the society left much to be desired. The author states in a note that the book is "a faithful transcription of conversations heard and incidents witnessed by the writer." As this is so, the only comment possible is that Lady Helen Forbes has been singularly unfortunate in the soldiers whom she happens to have met. The book has more than a touch of vulgarity,—also, it must be supposed, the fault of the people who held the con- versations, and enacted the incidents described.