"Would you like whisky-and-soda, or beer, or lemonade?" he questioned me. This sounded pleasant to my ears, but I only asked for a lemonade. As the train drew out of the station, one caught a last glimpse of warfare--an aeroplane, wheeling round in the evening sky amongst a swarm of tell-tale smoke-puffs, the explosions of "Archie" shells. * * * * * PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * * * * * The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects. Ambulance 464: Encore des Blesses BY JULIEN H. BRYAN _Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo._ Here we have the story of the experiences of a Princeton Junior--a boy of seventeen, who went to the war and drove an ambulance car in the Verdun and Champagne sectors. He tells exactly what he saw and heard in the American Ambulance Corps, bringing his story down to August, 1917. His accounts are modest, interesting, sometimes amusing--always vivid. War books by soldiers are very popular these days. The author-fighter has contributed some of the most informing volumes that have been issued on the great conflict. Of all of those who have been to the front and have returned to write about it, no one, perhaps, has had more unusual experiences than fell to the lot of this youth. He has written a book in which he tells what happened to him and his immediate associates; a book that is remarkable for the thrilling character of its narrative, the spirit of good humor, of adventure and excitement which runs through it. Mr. Bryan had his kodak with him and his text is illustrated with many altogether unusual pictures, giving a new and clear idea as to the war and its method of prosecution. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York _MASEFIELD'S NEW WAR BOOK_ The Old Front Line BY JOHN MASEFIELD _Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. $1.00_ What Mr. Masefield did for the Gallipoli Campaign, he now does for the Campaign in France. His subject is the old front line as it was when the battle of the Somme began. His account is vivid and gripping--a huge conflict seen through the eyes of a great poet, this is the book. Of the importance of the battle, Mr. Masefield writes: "The old front line was the base from which the battle proceeded. It was the starting place. The thing began there. It was the biggest battle in which our people were ever engaged, and so far it has led to bigger results than any battle of this war since the Battle of the Marne. It caused a great falling back of the enemy armies. It freed a great tract of France, seventy miles long, by from ten to twenty-five miles broad. It first gave the enemy the knowledge that he was beaten."