Everyman.—­“One of the most amazing tales that we have ever read.  The gradual augmentation of the spook’s power is one of the most preposterous, the most laughable histories in the whole literature of spoofing.  Lieut.  Jones has given us a wonderful book—­even a great book.”

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THE SILENCE OF COLONEL BRAMBLE

By ANDRE MAUROIS.

Translated from the French.

Second Edition.  With Portrait. 5s. net.

Westminster Gazette.—­“The Silence of Colonel Bramble is the best composite character sketch I have seen to show France what the English gentleman at war is like ... much delightful humour....  It is full of good stories....  The translator appears to have done his work wonderfully well.”

Daily Telegraph.—­“This book has enjoyed a great success in France, and it will be an extraordinary thing if it is not equally successful here....  Those who do not already know the book in French, will lose nothing of its charm in English form.  The humours of the mess-room are inimitable....  The whole thing is real, alive, sympathetic, there is not a false touch in all its delicate, glancing wit....  One need not be a Frenchman to appreciate its wisdom and its penetrating truth.”

Star.—­“An excellent translation ... a gay and daring translation....  I laughed over its audacious humour.”

Times.—­“This admirable French picture of English officers.”

Daily Graphic.—­“A triumph of sympathetic observation ... delightful book ... many moving passages.”

Daily Mail.—­“So good as to be no less amusing than the original....  This is one of the finest feats of modern translations that I know.  The book gives one a better idea of the war than any other book I can recall....  Among many comical disputes the funniest is that about superstitions.  That really is, in mess language, ’A scream’.”

New Statesman.—­“The whole is of a piece charmingly harmonious in tone and closely woven together....  The book has a perfect ending....  Few living writers achieve so great a range of sentiment, with so uniformly light and unassuming a manner.”

Observer.—­“The flavour of M. Maurois’ humour loses little in this translation....  The admirable verisimilitude of the dialogue....  M. Maurois’ humorous gift is unusually varied....  He tells a good story with great vivacity.”

Holbrook Jackson in the National News.—­“The Colonel is an eternal delight....  I put the volume under my arm, started reading it on the way home, and continued reading until I had finished the same evening....  That ought to be sufficient recommendation for any book....”

Times Lit.  Supplement.—­(Review of French Edition.)—­“M.  Maurois ... is indeed so good an artist and so excellent an observer that we would not for worlds spoil his hand, or do more than merely introduce to English readers by far the most interesting and amusing group of British officers that we have met in books since the war began.”