Reveille. No. 2. Edited by John Galsworthy. (Stationery Office. 2s.
6d. net.)—Mr. Galsworthy has enlisted many distin- guished contributors, like Mr. Hardy, M. Brieux, Sir Owen Seaman, and Mr. Chesterton, for this second number of his quarterly, and gives a coloured caricature of Major Augustus John by Mr. Max Beerbohm as a frontispiece. The purpose of Reveille is to arouse and maintain public interest in the disabled sailor and soldier, and the second number, we think, achieves this even more fully than did the first. Mr. Galsworthy in his article " Looking Ahead " says plainly that the " decentralized and democratic way " of providing for the disabled locally, which has been adopted in preference to a centralized scheme, is very slow. Between April 1st. and September 17th fresh pension claims from 134,0)3 disabled soldiers were dealt with, but only 6,200 men were admitted to training. Probably half the disabled men went back to their old employment, but many of the remainder must, we fear, have been left without the special assistance that they needed. M. Brieux's striking article on " Blinded Soldiers and Our Duty " is one among several that must impress every reader.
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