Many times have we noticed the appearance of War histories,
both of regiments and divisional, but never as yet that of a medical unit. It is therefore with peculiar pleasure that we greet in Mr. Fetherstonhaugh's No. 3 Canadian General Hospital (Burton's, Montreal, $5) the history of a unit which was born out of the patriotism of McGill Univeraity, and which bore its name—the name of the first University in - our Overseas- Empire. There is, moreover, a special link between- No. 3 C.G.H. and the Spectator, for it was after being informed that the history Of the hospital was being prepared that we published, on June 29th, 1917, those haunting verses, " The Anxious Dead," by the late Lieut.-Colonel John McCrae, a member Of the hospital staff, whose fame lives eternally as the writer of " In Flanders Fields." Mr. Fetherstonhaugh has pro- duced a fine account of a fine achievement—one worthy of what a high authority called " the best medical unit in
France." * * *
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