Produced by Greg Bergquist, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) OVER HERE ============================= THE STORY OF "OVER THERE" EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ IT ----------------------------- HOW TO LIVE AT THE FRONT BY HECTOR MACQUARRIE, B.A., Cantab. Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery Illustrated, $1.35 net "A Masterpiece"--NEW YORK SUN _Your Son, Brother or Friend in Arms_ It is your duty to instruct and advise him as to what is in store for him at the front. This book will give you the facts,--read it and counsel your boy for his physical and spiritual good, or better still send him a copy and call his attention to the chapters that you think will be of the greatest value to him. _If You Are an American_ Read it for the true facts it will give you of the living and working and fighting under actual war conditions. It will help you understand what difficulties face our army, both officers and men, in France. You will thereafter read the war news and letters from the front with deeper sympathy and greater understanding. [Illustration] OVER HERE IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA BY A BRITISH OFFICER HECTOR MACQUARRIE, B.A., Cantab. SECOND LIEUTENANT, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY AUTHOR OF "HOW TO LIVE AT THE FRONT" [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1918 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED APRIL, 1918 PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER A MacQUARRIE OF ULVA WHO DIED ON DECEMBER 24, 1917 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED PREFACE A DEFENSIVE BARRAGE During a year spent largely in Pennsylvania, with occasional visits to other states, I have found little to criticise, but rather much to admire, much indeed to love. America now means a great deal to me, since it contains so many people that I have learnt to care for, so I want to let my cousins as well as my own countrymen know my thoughts. From the day that I landed in New York until the present moment, I have been treated with a kindliness that surpasses anything I thought possible in this world. I have been able to see, I hope, where misunderstanding has arisen, and, being a Highland Scotchman, I am able to express my feelings. I have written more about persons than about places. Sometimes I laugh a little, but never unkindly; and I do this because I realize that American people rather appreciate a joke even at their own expense.