THE MODERN MARLBOROUGH

Europe's Need--The Plight of France--A Delicate
Situation--The Man of "Grip"--A Magnificent Retreat 116

CHAPTER XII
FRENCH, THE MAN

A Typical Englishman--Fighting at School--Napoleon
Worship--"A Great Reporter"--Halting Speeches and
Polished Prose. A South African Coincidence--Mrs.
Despard and the Newsboy--The Happy Warrior 121

Index 149




SIR JOHN FRENCH

CHAPTER I

EARLY DAYS

A Kentish Celt--A Rebellious Boy--Four Years in the
Navy--With the 19th Hussars--"Captain X Trees"--A Studious
Subaltern--Chafing at Home--The First Opportunity.


"If I don't end my days as a Field-Marshal it will not be for want of