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 A Kut Prisoner By Lieut. H. C. W. BISHOP. Illus. 6/6 net. This book is the remarkable story of the first three British officers to escape from a Turkish prison camp. It contains a description of the siege and the march of 1,700 miles to Kastamuni ; of their capture, escape, and dramatic rescue, and finally the voyage in an open boat to Alupka, in the Crimea. The Last Crusade, 1914=1918 By DONALD MAXWELL, Author of "Adventures with a Sketch-Book," " A Cruise Across Europe," etc., etc. With numerous Illustrations by the author in colour, and in black and white. Crown 4to. ^I : 5 : o net. " Adventures with a Sketch-Book " showed how well Mr. Maxwell can sketch and write. During the war he joined the R.N.V.R. and was afterwards attached as an official artist to the Admiralty, and he gives his impressions of Palestine in a volume which, while touching an interesting aspect of the war, is also a finished example of pictorial and literary art, "A multitude of delightful pictures and drawings . . . The coloured plates have great charm, and as beautiful are the delightful monochromes." — Pall Mall Gazette. Tales Retailed of Celebrities By SIR WARREN HASTINGS D'OYLY. Demy 8vo. 7/6 net. Sir W. H. D'Oyly, who has spent a great many years in the Indian Civil Service, retails in this volume a series of amusing stories of men and things. Always bright and witty, he makes what he has seen and heard live again for us, and the book forms an admirable anecdotic history of life in India during the latter part of last century. Poems in Captivity By JOHN STILL, Author of " A Prisoner in Turkey.'' Crown 8vo. 7/6 net. John Still was captured by the Turks in Gallipoli in 1915, and remained in captivity for over three years, during which he found it essential to have some absorbing mental occupation, neccessary to preserve his sanity. He discovered in himself then for the first tune, the power of writing verse. For many years before the war he lived in Ceylon, and the latter part of the book is taken up with poems on its peoples and lost cities, the first part containing the poems inspired by captivity. The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist By E. P. STEBBINQ, Author of "Stalks in the Himalayas," "Jungle Byways," etc. Profusely Illustrated from photographs and sketches by the Author. Demy 8vo. 1 6/- net. Topee and Turban, or Here and There in India. By H. A. NEWELL, Lt.=CoL, I. A. With Illustrations from photographs by the author. Demy Svo. 16/- net. JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO ST., W.i.
 * A very beautiful and inspiring book." — Grapliic.