This is no narrative of travel, though evidently written by one who has been for a considerable time an eyewitness of Indian affairs, and by a man of acute mind and quick and comprehensive perception, thoroughly versed in the history and condition of India.

The British barrage was without a flaw, says an eyewitness.

In the words of an eyewitness, the Germans fought like cornered rats among the shell holes and wire incumbrances of "No man's Land," where the struggle raged, bomb and bayonet being the principal weapons.

AMERICANS CAN FIGHT AND YELL An eyewitness of the first days of the Chateau Thierry battle thus describes the capture of the Beauleau wood: "The Americans moved stealthily with fixed bayonet until they got into the edge of the woods and atop of the German machine gun-tiers.

Lt. Col. Chipperfield was a participant in as well as an eyewitness of the whole engagement.

Volunteers remained behind to signal information to the French batteries, and an eyewitness of the attack described what followed thus: "The French seventy-fives immediately concentrated on the hostile trench line.

An eyewitness who watched the beginning of the battle from a hill said that overwhelming as was the power of the guns, yet as the gathering of human and mechanical material proceeded, "the grim and significant spectacle was the sight of detachments of infantry moving forward in field-fighting equipment, until finally the dugouts were hives of khaki ready to swarm out for battle.

William Philips Simms, an eyewitness with the Canadian forces, gave a graphic account of the attack, which was typical of much of the fighting on the Somme.

Even in his most grotesque creations, the reader never loses the sense of reality, of being present as an eyewitness of the most impossible events, so powerful and convincing is Swift's prose.

These anecdotes, from the mouth of one who was an eyewitness of, probably a participator in, the horrors of that day, will enable the reader to form an adequate notion of the thirst for blood which stimulated the soldiery, and of the cruelties which they exercised on their defenceless victims.

Be the facts what they may with regard to this case of the fort of Manonvillaif that be its proper nameI am prepared to speak with the assurance of an eyewitness concerning the effect of the German fire upon the defenses of Maubeuge.

Having been an eyewitness to the causes that begot this condition and to the condition itself, I feel it my duty to tell the story as I know it.

Even the casual eyewitness gets it.

Leo Afer speaks of many of his countrymen so cured, without all other physic: amongst the Negroes, "there is such an excellent air, that if any of them be sick elsewhere, and brought thither, he is instantly recovered, of which he was often an eyewitness."

Bishop of Cuseo, an eyewitness. 306.

Vice-Consul Van Hee, standing in the doorway, was an eyewitness of what followed.

Nor do we gain much enlightenment from the "Eyewitness" with G.H.Q., though his literary skill in elegantly describing the things that do not matter moves our admiration.

This seems borne out by the fact that, in the four volumes in which an 'eyewitness', making use of the king's private correspondence and personal notes, has minutely described the first fifteen years of the reign, the peasant question is entirely ignored.

[Footnote 1: The 'eyewitness' was Dr. Schaeffer, formerly tutor to Prince Carol.]

"'The train baggage man was the only eyewitness.

Doddridge's "Settlements and Indian Wars," (133) written by an eyewitness; it is the most valuable book we have on old-time frontier ways and customs.

Next day, the 15th of July, Charles V., embarking on board one of the king's frigates, went and returned the visit at Aigues-Mortes, where Francis, with his whole court, was awaiting him; after disembarkation at the port they embraced; and Queen Eleanor, glad to see them together, "embraced them both," says an eyewitness, "a round the waist."

Of the master assault by which they attempted to do this I was not an eyewitness.

"They appeared"so an eyewitness described the scene"rather like leaders in a position to dictate terms than men sharing in an act of clemency."

' The following statement is from the mouth of an eyewitness: 'A party of natives left their village, with the intention of being absent some time, on a pig-hunting expedition.