22 JANUARY 1927, Page 28

THE EIGHTH DIVISION IN WAR: 1914-18. By Lieut.-Col. J;11. Boraston

and Captain C. E. 0. Bax. (The Medici Society. 6s. 6d.)—" Words," wrote Hazlitt, "are the only things that last fur ever." So though the War Memorial of this hard-fighting and always sorely tried Division stands shaped in stone and lion-crowned at Aldershot, its more enduring memorial is here in this book, the cheapness of which will enable it to enter the home of every one of the Division's ex-members and well-wishers. The story of that Division, which for thirty-six perilous hours fought back the German advance towards Amiens in the dark, fate-fraught month of March, 1918, is here recorded. When the last shots were fired by one of its component regiments at Mons "the wheel had indeed travelled full circle."