THE SILENCE OF
COLONEL BRAMBLE
By ANDRÉ MAUROIS
Second Edition. 5s. net.
Westminster Gazette.—“‘The Silence of Colonel Bramble’ is
the best composite character sketch I have seen to show France
what the English gentleman at war is like ... much delightful
humour.... It is full of good stories.... The translator
appears to have done his work wonderfully well.”
Daily Telegraph.—“This book has enjoyed a great success in
France, and it will be an extraordinary thing if it is not equally successful
here.... Those who do not already know the book in
French will lose nothing of its charm in English form. The
humours of the mess-room are inimitable.... The whole thing is
real, alive, sympathetic; there is not a false touch in all its delicate,
glancing wit.... One need not be a Frenchman to appreciate its
wisdom and its penetrating truth.”
Star.—“An excellent translation ... a gay and daring
translation ... I laughed over its audacious humour.”
Times.—“This admirable French picture of English officers.”
Daily Graphic.—“A triumph of sympathetic observation ...
delightful book ... many moving passages.”
Daily Mail.—“So good as to be no less amusing than the
original.... This is one of the finest feats of modern translation
that I know. The book gives one a better idea of the war than any
other book I can recall.... Among many comical disputes the
funniest is that about superstitions. That really is, in mess language,
‘A scream.’”
New Statesman.—“The whole is of a piece charmingly
harmonious in tone and closely woven together.... The book
has a perfect ending.... Few living writers achieve so great
a range of sentiment, with so uniformly light and unassuming a
manner.”
Observer.—“The flavour of M. Maurois’ humour loses little
in this translation.... The admirable verisimilitude of the
dialogue.... M. Maurois’ humorous gift is unusually varied....
He tells a good story with great vivacity.”
Holbrook Jackson in the National News.—“The Colonel is an
eternal delight.... I put the volume under my arm, started
reading it on the way home, and continued reading until I had
finished the same evening.... That ought to be sufficient recommendation
for any book....”
Times Lit. Supplement.—(Review of French Edition.)—“M.
Maurois ... is indeed so good an artist and so excellent an
observer that we would not for worlds spoil his hand, or do more
than merely introduce to English readers by far the most interesting
and amusing group of British officers that we have met in books
since the war began.”
Gentlewoman.—“The translation of this book is so splendidly
done that it seems impossible that it can be a translation.... One
of the very few war books which survive Peace.... This is one of
the few war books that will not collect dust on the bookshelf.”
James Milne in the Graphic.—“It is all very wise and very
charming.”
Morning Post.—“This gently-humorous little book.... Half-an-hour
with Colonel Bramble and his entertaining friends will stop
you worrying for a whole day.”
Saturday Review.—“The wittiest book of comment on warfare
and our national prejudices that we have yet seen.”
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO ST., W. 1
A KUT PRISONER
By Lieut. H. C. W. BISHOP. Illustrated. 6s. 6d. net.
This book is the remarkable story of the first three British officers to escape from a Turkish prison camp. It contains a description of the siege and the march of 1,700 miles to Kastamuni; of their capture, escape, and dramatic rescue, and finally the voyage in an open boat to Alupka, in the Crimea.
SONNETS FROM A PRISON
CAMP
By ARCHIBALD ALLAN BOWMAN
Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
This book falls naturally in two parts; the first is a sonnet
sequence describing the author’s capture with his battalion
in the great March Offensive, his weary tramp as a prisoner,
and internment in a German camp; the second consists of
a series of meditative sonnets on theses inevitably suggested
by close confinement. The poems show great promise, their
intense sincerity being foremost among their merits.
Morning Post.—“Mr. Bowman’s rich and dignified sonnets.”
Scotsman.—“There is only one possible verdict on this volume—well
done.”
SAPPER
DOROTHY LAWRENCE
The Only English Woman Soldier
Late Royal Engineers, 51st Division, 179th Tunnelling Coy., B.E.F.
With Portraits. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
Daily Mail.—“Her very astonishing tale ... an extraordinary
performance.”
Daily Chronicle.—“Miss Lawrence’s book is interesting and
well done.”
Scotsman.—“Her exploit supplies the materials for a fine tale
of adventure, and she tells her story uncommonly well.”