_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.