5 MAY 1917, Page 17

Under the title of Les Premiers Cent Mille (1 fr.

25 c.. net), Messrs. Nelson publish a French version of Ian Hays famous The First Thindred- Thousand. The translators, MM. Georges Riehet and Emile Herzog, have done their work admirably, though it cannot have been easy to turn such idiomatic, colloquial English into good French.