SHOW ME DEATH ! By W. Redvers Dent. (Constable. 7s.
6d.)—This is an unusual and very beautiful book. Its Canadian hero, unhappy at home, enlists as a boy of sixteen, and comes to France. Wounded, he is sent to England, where he falls in love and marries an English girl. She is killed in an accident, and he returns to France, embittered and despair- ing. Another wound follows, and a decoration. Later, he meets an American girl, and their flirtation, deliberately begun, turns into love. When, finally, he is wounded in the face, she shrinks from him, but comes back in the end. The book compels respect from the first page by its passion and sincerity. Mr. Dent has a wonderful power to communicate suffering, both mental and physical. No better antidote to a certain type of War-book could be found than-this unpretentious story, of which Mr. Dent's countrymen may well be proud,.
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