_Fighting from the Aisne to La Bassée_
_Told by a "Platoon Commander"_
This is the inspiring story of a typical British soldier. "I was
staying in a large house by the banks of the Thames when we heard
the news of the War," he relates. "My hostess was the mother of
soldiers. She took the news calmly, as the mother of soldiers do;
said good-bye to her eldest boy, who was to go with the first troops
who left England, arranged for the outfit of her two second sons,
and sent for her baby from Eton, who she saw dispatched to the Royal
Military College. It was a great house to be in on the outbreak
of War--a house whose sons to the third and fourth generation had
built up the British Empire, and which now, when the Empire was
called upon to fight for its life, stood firm and undismayed." This
platoon commander tells his experiences in a book entitled "With My
Regiment." Many of his stories have appeared in the _Westminster
Gazette_, _The English Review_, and _The London Standard_. Some of
them are reproduced here by permission of his American publishers,
_J. B. Lippincott Company_, of Philadelphia.