SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
INotice.in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review]
The Leinster Regimental Annual, 1921-22, edited by Lieut.-Col. F. E. Whitton (Aldershot : Gale and Polden), is a most attractive production, though it must increase the regret occasioned by the disbandment of the Leinsters. We are reminded by various articles that both the regular battalions have been actively employed of late. The 1st Battalion, as Captain McEnroy shows in an interesting paper, had to deal with the Moplah rebellion in Malabar, while the 2nd Battalion had a scarcely less difficult task in Upper Silesia, where Germans and Poles had to be constrained to keep the peace. A veteran recalls his early days in the old 100th Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians, which was rechristened the 1st Leinsters; the 2nd Battalion was formerly the 109th Foot, a Bombay European regiment taken over from " John Company." But for that fatal re- christening with an Irish name the regiment might have been spared. The Prince of Wales, the Colonel-in-Chief, visited the 1st Battalion in India, and a full account of the proceedings is given. The annual is well illustrated and printed with unusual care and taste.
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