... And so on and so on. Ghastly and comic stories of people, European and Asiatic, whom Mr. Montagu has met, are thick as blackberries, and give a very realistic idea of the many sides of war. And for veracious romance it would be hard to beat the stories ...

... his son to fight for the old laud that was for himselfonlya distant mem~ory of daisied meadows and hedges where hie went blackberrying forty or fifty years ago. The old lady with himn must have remembered her own courting days as she saw her stalwart son ...