The Yankee in the British Zone. By Ewen C. MacVeagh
and Lee D. Brown. (Putnam's. 12s. 6d.)—This book, by two American officers, is a kindly and generous tribute to the British Army in France, as well as an account of the doings of the American troops who served in the British zone. Ten American divisions received part of their training from our officers, but only two—the Twenty-Seventh or New York National Guard, and the Thirtieth, National Guards from Tennessee and the Carolinas—remained in the British zone from the morrow of the spring offensive of 1918 until the Armistice. The authors, in commenting on the hospitality extended by our troops to the newcomers, slyly remark that the hosts on one occasion were too anxious to please. When some troops from Georgia were asked to parade in London, the band at the saluting-point struck up "Marching Through Georgia "—the last tune that a Southerner would care to hear. The authors admit that both Americans and British had a good deal to learn about one another, and they are convinced that the friendly inter- course between the troops did much to dissipate bad traditions which have kept the peoples apart.
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