"The Pomp of Power.'' (Hutchinson.
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"The Pomp of Power'' is published anonymously, but only vis-d-n73 the public. The author cites spccific interviews and letters between himself and various people whick must make his identity plain to most of those directly concerned in his statements and discussions. The general reader who is tempted to speculate upon the subject may perhaps reason that the rarity of references to Kitchener in a book upon the war suggests the hand Of one who has already exhausted himself upon that subject, It is from the side of events in Feance that the long campaigns are here chiefly studied. The author is insistent upon the breakdown of the initial French strategy—'defective at every point"'—and effrms that "when this became apparent, Joffre unfairly and un-
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