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The Despatches of Lord French. (Chapman and Hall. 21s. net.

)—In this handsome and well-printed volume, issued in a limited edition, are reprinted Lord French's historic despatches from France, be- ginning with the story of Mons and the great retreat in the despatch of September 7th, 1914, and ending with the brief despatch on the Hohenzollern Redoubt affair of October, 1915. All the names of officers mentioned in despatches are given with the text. Four good portraits and six very elementary maps illustrate the book. Apart from the maps, which are unworthy of the occasion, and the re, grettable absence of an index, the volume is to be• commended as indispensable for a war library.