The B.E.F. Times : a Facsimile Reprint of the Trench
Magazine. (Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.)—The reprint of the first trench magazine of the British Expeditionary Force, the Wipers Tunes, has had a great and deserved success, and we do not doubt that this com- panion volume will be equally popular at home, especially with those readers whose soldier sons can supply a commentary on tho many cryptic allusions. The editor explains that there are only six numbers and fragments of a seventh in this volume, because a German shell wrecked the printing office, and, in any case, " war nowadays seems to take up so much more of one's time than formerly." " War up to mid-16," he adds, " was a .Sunday-school picnic compared with what it is to-day." Yet it does not seem to have dulled the contributors to this clever, whimsical, and ex- tremely disrespectful magazine. No. 6 is dated February 26th last ; No. 7 was nearly ready when it perished in the enemy's March offensive.
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