My War Experiences in Two Continents. By S. Macnaughtan. (John
Murray. 10s. 6d. net.)—The late Miss Macnaughtan, we think, drew upon her Belgian diary to some extent for her earlier book, A Woman's Diary of the IVar, but there is plenty of fresh material for the new book, and the de- scription of her work in the hospitals and in connexion with her soup-kitchen at Fumes, is most vivid and moving. After a year in-Belgium and a short lecturing tour at home, Miss Mac- naughtan went to give her help on the Russian and Persian fronts. But the Eastern expedition made too severe demands upon her strength. Depressed by Russian dilatoriness and the consequent waste of opportunities, with her physical strength severely impaired by the climate and the hardships she had to (adore, she was forced home by illness in the following spring, and she died a few months later. if the chapters dealing with this expedition are less vivid than those about Belgium, the reader feels that it is because illness and depression had weakened her pen. Nevertheless there is plenty of interest in Miss Macnaughtan's impressions of Russia and her attractive but irresponsible peoples, and of the ill-fated Armenians, and in her glimpse of the Persian front.
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