Dr. Emslie Hutton's story of her adventures With a Woman's
Tint in Serbia, Salonika, and Sebastopol (Williams and Norgate, 12s. (id.) is put together from letters and diaries written in the intervals of hard and often dangerous hospital work. She describes, of course, many grim and terrible incidents, but somehow time has taken the terror out of them and the general effect of the book is cheerful and entertaining. All the nurses and doctors loved the Serbian soldiers, who seem to have been the most engaging savages. Did he think the stories of atrocities coming from Bulgaria were true ? the doctor asked a soldier patient. " Oh yes ! " he said, he was sure of it. " We do atrocities too, we like it, you English do not understand." Their simplicity and gratitude, on the other hand, were most endearing. They were quick at picking up English sentences,
and their talent for dumb-show was a constant amusement to the doctors. They loved to sing and to hear singing, picking up Scotch tunes with special delight, making the melody sad or joyous according to their mood.
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