“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian humour.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19 80w
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3 (3c) Doran 940.3
v 5–6 The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.
Volume 5, covering the first half of the year 1918, “carries the story of the German attack to its close.” The battle of the Somme is given seven chapters, with the battle of the Lys and the battles of the Chemin des Dames and of the Ardres treated in the concluding chapters. Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are illustrated with maps and plans.
“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
+ − Ath p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5) Ath p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6) Booklist 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6) + Cath World 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − N Y Times p6 D 19 ’20 380w Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)