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CRUMPS. The Plain Story of a Canadian who went 1917. By Louis Keene, of the Canadian Expeditionary Force; with a prefatory note by General Leonard Wood. Illustrated by the Author. Pages, 156. Price, 1.25. Houghton Mifflin Co. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Many are the books on the war, which consist, from first to last, of the personal experiences of soldiers at the front. told by themselves. Captain Keene has written such a book and it is one of the best among them. In the summer of 1914, Keene, who was an artist by profession was sketching in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec, when his newspaper wired him to come to Montreal and do war sketches. When war came he enlisd, and was sent to the great training camp at Valcartier, Quebec. Here the autnor joined the First Auto Machine Gun Brigade, and a few weeks later he was aboard that first great transport fleet of thirty transports which carried Canada's first noble contribution of 35,000 men to Europe. The story of Captain Keene's experiences is told in a chatty and most readable way, with touches of humor and anecdote which bring one into very intimate touch with the stirring events of these early days of the war. The test is largely in the form of letters home, and they convey just that kind of information which the average person who has, or expects to have, relatives and friends at the front, wishes to know. Captain Keene has a touch of the dramatic in his style; the scenes, on the ship, in camp at Salisbury, England, or in Flanders (presumably Ypres) are very realistic, and the sketches are admirably done. One gathers from this book a sense of the amazing physical condition of the men; thus: Always raining. Everything is wet, and I am sleeping in a rotten tent which leaks. Still, we are all so flt that what would kill an ordinary man doesn't worry us much. And the life leaves its mark on mind as well as body; thus we read: It is very strange the lightness with which serious things are taken by men here, and it took me some time to understand it. A young captain of the Royal Marine Artillery was telling me how one of his mortars and the crew were wiped out by a direct hit. He referred to it as though saying that he had just missed his train. This book is a decided addition to the useful literature of the war. Hendricks' Commercial Register of the United States. New York: S. E. Hendricks' Co., 1917. 4to.; 2,227 pp. Price, 10. It would be hard indeed to lay too great a stress on the value of this massive collection of industrial and mercantile information, or on the sterling service it renders to the busing world. 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