The War in the Cradle of the World : Mesopotamia.
By Eleanor Franklin Egan. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. net.)—Miss Egan, au American lady, was permitted to visit Baghdad in the summer of 1917, and has written a highly interesting book about her
experiences. She says little about the fighting, but is content for the most part to describe what she saw on her journey up the Tigris and iu Baghdad. What she says about the elaborate.organization of railways, river traffic, engineering works, hospitals, and so forth which the British Army has built up in a desert land will bs new and surprising to moat readers. She saw much of General Maude, and was present at the theatrical performance, given in his honour by the Baghdad Jews, at which ho incautiously drank raw milk with his coffee and thus contrasted cholera. Her tribute to that great man is well worth reading.
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