_Country Life._--"More exciting than any novel.... The book is a record or almost incredible courage and inventiveness." _Bystander_.--"It is one of the most unexpected and engaging books for which the War has been responsible." _Pall Mall Gazette_.--"A really entertaining account of a wonderfully successful and useful rag on an unusually big scale." _Westminster Gazette_.--"Lieuts. Jones and Hill displayed an inventiveness, an ingenuity, and a patience worthy of the greatest admiration." _Outlook_.--"The book deserves to become a classic." _Illustrated London News_.--"It is an amazing story, humorously told, of a subtle and successful conspiracy to escape. But it is also a most telling indictment of the spiritualistic craze." _New Age_.--"As a mere story of adventure and suffering the book is one of the most remarkable known to me; it is an epic of human ingenuity and human endurance." _Queen_.--"Sensational and amazing ... absorbingly interesting." _Daily Mail_.--"A really striking and diverting story." _Evening News_.--"The tale of the two lieutenants is perhaps the noblest example of the game and fine art of spoof that the world has ever seen, or ever will see ... their wonderful and almost monstrous elaboration ... an amazing story." _Everyman_.--"One of the most amazing tales that we have ever read. The gradual augmentation of the spook's power is one of the most preposterous, the most laughable histories in the whole literature of spoofing. Lieut. Jones has given us a wonderful book--even a great book." * * * * * THE SILENCE OF COLONEL BRAMBLE By ANDRE MAUROIS. _Translated from the French._ Second Edition. With Portrait. 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."