SIGHT, CLOSELY RESEMBLETH THE MUCH-DESIRED WHISKY. THIS SORT IS ONE
GUINEA PER TOT."]

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_The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days_
(HODDER AND STOUGHTON) is printed on pages the size of a copy
of _Punch_, and with its accompanying case of maps it costs
eighteen-pence to go through the post. It boasts a hundred full-page
photographs, also sketches, charts, maps, panoramas and diagrams _ad
lib._, a foreword by General Lord RAWLINSON and ten appendices; so
really it seems that the much-abused word "sumptuous" may for once
be fairly applied. The author, Major-General Sir A. MONTGOMERY, who
himself helped to "stage" the battles he writes about, has built up a
record which is in some sense unique, for I think it is possible from
this book to trace precisely where any unit of the Fourth Army was
placed, and what doing, at any given hour during the whole of the
victory march from Amiens to the Belgian frontier. Apart from anything
else it is pleasant to have a book that deals only with the days of
victory; but it must be admitted that, to gain a completeness of
detail so entirely satisfactory to those most nearly concerned, the
writer has had to sacrifice something of human interest, for many of
his pages are little more than a bare chronicle of names and places.
Undoubtedly his book should be read with great deliberation,
constant reference to the maps and a lively recollection of personal
experiences on the spot; but the civilian reader may still be content
to skim the text and save himself for the photographs. These, mostly
taken from the air and of exquisite technical quality, form an amazing
series, in themselves worth the heavy price. And who minds heavy
prices when the proceeds are pledged to the service of wounded