Private Peat. By Harold R. Peat. (Hutchinson and Co. 13s.
net.)—This is a spirited narrative of the experiences of a young Canadian, who enlisted in the first Canadian contingent and fought in the desperate Second Battle of Ypres, where after the gas attack the Canadians saved the broken line. Mr. Peat was badly wounded just after he had been recommended for a oonomission. " When I enlisted," he says, " and before I went over to England, I had no use for the Englishman myself ; that was, the Englishman as we knew him in Western Canada." He changed his opinion when he met the English soldier in France. " I have no English blood in my veins, but I believe in fairness, I believe firmly that all the other nations of the Empire put together have not done so much as have the English Tommies by themselves." Mr. Peat says that the Canadians were stung to fury by what they saw of German atrocities, committed on helpless women and children. The Americans have had the same experience.
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