“In place of the average piece of journalistic hack-work, we have here a live book, a book with a character and a soul, a book whose literary skill and deep human feeling justify the prediction that it will be found among the few elect records which survive their hour, and are still remembered and consulted in years to come.”—_Daily Telegraph._ “Admirably written and readable from beginning to end.”—_Morning Post._ “Mr. Souttar is a surgeon with a gift for vivid writing. His book is a quite fascinating record of his experience.”—_Daily News._ EYE-WITNESS’S NARRATIVE OF THE WAR. FROM THE MARNE TO NEUVE CHAPELLE, SEPTEMBER, 1914, TO MARCH, 1915. By LIEUT.-COL. E. D. SWINTON, D.S.O., R.E., and CAPT. THE EARL PERCY. _312 pages. Crown 8vo. Paper_, =1s. net=. _Cloth_, =2s. net=. (_Particulars of the later volume will be found on page 9._) “Pending the time when a full history of the European conflict will be possible, there can be nothing better in the way of a brief general survey of the British operations than ‘Eye-Witness’s Narrative.’”—_Illustrated London News._ A RUSSIAN CLASSIC OF ENTRANCING INTEREST AND GREAT HISTORICAL VALUE. YEARS OF CHILDHOOD. By SERGE AKSAKOFF. Translated, for the first time, from the Russian by J. D. DUFF, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. _Demy 8vo._ =10s. 6d. net.= “‘Years of Childhood’ becomes the more fascinating the more one reads and thinks about it. Aksakoff read a new and ecstatic meaning into things which are banal and tame to most men and women, and the eager eye of his mind scanned deep into the lives and loves of the people round about him.”—_Morning Post._ “A charming Russian book. At this time when so many translations from the Russian are appearing, well advised and ill advised, it is good to be able to put the hand on one superlatively good book. Here is a refreshment for tired eyes and tired souls. It is put into beautiful English.”—_Country Life._ “English readers may well be grateful to Mr. J. D. Duff for his translation of a very unusual book. He promises us a translation of ‘A Family History,’ which carries on the narrative of Aksakoff’s life and gives some account of his family. In the original the two make one book, and all who read this first instalment will welcome the completion of it.”—_Spectator._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 41 & 43 MADDOX STREET, W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note