Really they are of a character to make the wildest
imaginings of JULES VERNE, friend of my youth, or Mr. WELLS, companion of
my riper years, read like the peaceful annals of a country rectory. To
quote again from the publishers, "only the man who created _Tarzan_ could
write such stories." If _Tarzan_ were in any way comparable with the
present volume, it would perhaps not be unfair to add the corollary that
only those readers who appreciated the one could swallow the other.
Mercifully, Mr. BURROUGHS writes so continually at the top of his voice
that after a time the clatter comes to have an effect merely soporific.
* * * * *
Since Major-General Sir C.E. CALLWELL has, in _The Dardanelles_
(CONSTABLE), added a volume to a series called _Campaigns and Their
Lessons_, it is clear that he is writing mainly for military students, but
none the less at least one man in the street--meaning myself--has been
glad, after reading plenty of merely descriptive accounts of the Gallipoli
affair, to find a book that frankly and justifiably does lay claim to
technical proficiency.
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