3 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 10

The Welchers. By Emily Huntley. (Red Triangle Press. Bd.) —This

attractive and touching little book describes the work of the hostels which the Y.M.C.A. maintains In France for relatives and friends visiting soldiers who are dangerously ill. There is a hostel of this kind at every hospital base in Northern France, end two hundred friends of patients are entertained every week. It is an admirable work, and the profits on this little book should help it forward. As the author shows, many a sick or wounded-men is put on the road to recovery by the unexpected sight of his wife or mother at his bedside.