“As one reads these letters written home, one finds that he does not think of them as letters at all but as boys: Enzo, Antonio, Robert, Arthur, Gaston, William, Marcel, Harry, Victor. And one is filled with pity that they are boys--‘mere men,’ as more than one of them says, pitted against professional soldiers, experts in the refined arts of modern war. But if one thing more than another is revealed in the letters, it is that the writers do not want to be pitied, rather envied. All express in one way or another that death has no terrors for ‘the good soldier.’” “In such a collection ... the letters themselves are their own best comment. A mere reviewer has no place with these offerings.... They are such important matters as history leaves out, but hearts remember.”--_N. Y. World._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York * * * * * WINSTON CHURCHILL’S NEW BOOK A Traveler in War-Time With an Essay on “The American Contribution and the Democratic Idea” BY WINSTON CHURCHILL Author of “The Inside of the Cup,” etc. _Illustrated, cloth, 12mo, $1.25_ Here we have an account of Mr. Churchill’s experiences in France and England during the latter half of 1917. Many privileges were extended to the distinguished American novelist on his trip abroad, with the result that he has a most interesting story to tell as to conditions in the warring countries in the third year of the great conflict. He writes of famous battlefields which he visited, of distinguished people with whom he conversed and of the spirit and temper of the times. Not the least compelling section of the volume is the final one, occupying nearly one hundred pages, entitled The American Contribution and the Democratic Idea. “Coming as it does at a most timely moment, it is a great document.... Mr. Churchill has written a chapter in the history of American thought, and one to be considered faithfully by all true Americans.”--_N. Y. Times._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York * * * * * H. G. WELLS’ NEW BOOK In the Fourth Year BY H. G. WELLS _Cloth, $1.25_ “He pleads the cause of the League of Nations idea with all his well-known vigor, daring, forcefulness and unconventionality.... It is as a forceful argument for the establishment of a League of Nations and for seeing to it at once that such a league shall be under democratic control rather than under that of men of the old-style diplomatic school, and as a vigorous setting forth of the alternative, that Mr. Wells’ new book challenges and merits attention.”--_N. Y. Times._ “ ...The abundant thought which Mr. Wells’ genius has clarified and presented to his readers with his usual bold lucidity. The book is replete with vision and modernism, and affords a tremendous amount of solid food for thought.”--_Philadelphia Public Ledger._