High courage, deep sympathy without sentimentality, and an all-saving sense of humour amid dreadful and depressing conditions are the salient features of this diary of a war nurse. She has been “over the top” in the fullest sense; she has faced bombardments and aërial raids; she has calmly removed her charges under fire; she has tended the wounded and dying amid scenes of carnage and confusion, and she has created order and comfort where but a short time before all was confusion and discomfort. All the while she marvels at the uncomplaining fortitude of others, never counting her own. Many unusual experiences have befallen the “war nurse” and she writes of them all in vivid, gripping fashion. “Unlike most volumes which have dealt with this subject, the nurse gives some delightful reminiscences which are more closely identified with impressions recorded in her heart than with conventional entries in a diary. The inspired recollections of the author constitute an important contribution to war literature.”--_Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger._ “To say that ‘A War Nurse’s Diary’ is an unusual book, the only one of its kind, would be putting the matter much too mildly. In fact, it seems nothing short of a miracle that any woman should be willing to enlist for such service as the author of this volume, and, having enlisted, that she should survive to write about it.”--_Chicago Evening Post._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York * * * * * “The Good Soldier”: A Selection of Soldiers’ Letters, 1914-1917 WITH COMMENT BY N. P. DAWSON _Cloth, $1.25_ Mrs. Dawson has made an admirable selection of soldiers’ letters, some of them written to mothers, others to sweethearts, sisters and friends. It is an interesting and appealing book, and gives a more intimate picture of the soldier than can be gained from almost any other single volume. “Here are boys,” writes the editor in her Introduction to this collection, “all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American; young artists, budding novelists and poets; musicians; drab and spectacled London office clerks just off a stool; an auctioneer from Brixton; elderly married men as old as thirty-five and ‘little nephews’ of sixteen; Catholics, Protestants, Christians, Jews; grave young students in arms; Crusaders of France; Oxford and Cambridge men and French school boys; American college men and American rich men’s sons from New York and California....