SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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The Lord Kitchener Memorial Book. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. Gd. net.)—This interesting volume has been compiled by Sir Medley Le Bas for the benefit of the Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund, to provide medical aid for disabled officers and men and commercial travel- ling scholarships for their sons. It contains some remarkable tributes to Lord Kitchener from General Joffre, General Cadorna, Lord Derby, and General Sir W. Robertson—who emphasizes the magnitude of Lord Kitcheuer's achievement in raising and equipping our vast new armies so rapidly. The Marquis do Chasseloup Laubat, who as head of a French technical mission was in close relations with the War Minister during the early days of the war, describes in a striking way an interview during which Lord Kitchener, distressed at being unable to supply all that General Joffre needed in a crisis, almost broke down and wept "I had already admired his fine intellectual and moral qualities," ho adds, " but from that instant I also felt for him a deep affection." General Birdwood describes Lord Kitchener's visit to Gallipoli, and the enthusiasm of the Australians at Anzac. All Lord Kitchener's speeches en the war are reprinted here, as they deserve to be, an 1 there is a very interesting collection cf portraits, cartoons, and illustra- tions of episodes in that great career.
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