PATHS OF GLORY

Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front

BY IRVIN S. COBB

AUTHOR OF "BACK HOME," "EUROPE REVISED,' ETC., ETC.

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
--Thomas Gray



To the Memory of
MAJOR ROBERT COBB
(Cobb's Kentucky Battery, C. S. A.)



NOTE

What is enclosed between these covers was written as a series of
first-hand impressions during the fall and early winter of 1914 while the
writer was on staff service for The Saturday Evening Post in the western
theatre of the European War. I tried to write of war as I saw it at the
time that I saw it, or immediately afterward, when the memory of what I
had seen was fresh and vivid in my mind.

In this volume, as here presented, no attempt has been made to follow
either logically or chronologically the progress of events in the