Lieut.-General Galet writes of the great part played by Albert,
King of the Belgians in the Great War (Putnam. 25s.). His book makes direct appeal to soldiers rather than to the ordinary public. Military readers will not like it the less for its strict confinement to military matters. The author, " who at present holds under the Sovereign the highest military office in the Belgian Army," occupied during the War " a position of great responsibility at the very heart of affairs. For the whole period of hostilities he lived in close association with the King, usually putting up in the same quarters, taking his meals at the same table, exchanging views with His Majesty many times a day on the military and political situation." King Albert and his " military adviser " are contemporaries who first came across one another as fellow-students at the ]tole Militaire. It is interesting to note that General Galet was the son of a working man who attended a village school in a Walloon village.
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