War in the Garden of Eden. By Kermit Roosevelt. (Murray.
10s. 6d. net)—Captain Roosevelt, a younger son of the late President, did good service with the British Army in Meso- potamia and has described his experiences in this readable little book. He was attached to the light armoured ears, which proved invaluable after Baghdad was occupied. He gives a spirited account of the pursuit of the Turkish remnant up the Euphrates after the brilliant action at Khan. Baghdadi. The cars and the cavalry and the airmen between them drove the enemy like sheep for seventy miles. Captain Roosevelt, hastily generalizing from an incident in this affair, says : " We always felt that the Turk was a clean fighter." He follows this by an admission that the. Turk treated only our officers well. But he did not do so in all cases, as the survivors of Gallipoli could tell the author. Two-thirds of the heroic troops of Kut died in captivity, under the tender mercies of the " clean fighter." Captain Roosevelt describes also the advance over the Jebel Hamrin. towards Kirkuk on the main Mosul road, in the spring of 1918. We are interested to know that he took the " Anahasis " in his pocket and that, when he was in want of a new book, 'a friendly airman dropped a Plutarch for him. Greek is evidently not so dead—in America or in England—as some pessimists would have us believe.
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