BOOKS BY STEPHEN GRAHAM A Vagabond in the Caucasus Undiscovered Russia A Tramp's Sketches Changing Russia With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem With Poor Emigrants to America Russia and the World The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary Through Russian Central Asia Priest of the Ideal Russia in 1916 The Quest of the Face A Private in the Guards Children of the Slaves The Challenge of the Dead...

The suns shines and a strong wind lifts the waves toward the land; the blue sea, in happy commotion, throws armfuls of white spray across the long stone breakwater which is called Zeebruges Mole. The white stone way goes two miles out to sea, and is swept by a marine healthiness. Upon it at intervals stand the German guns with the ends of their barrels burst out like thistle-heads. They point o'er the sea; they have their armoured shelter on the inner side of which on the level with the gunner's

The afternoon train speeds from Maubeuge to Paris. "Am I right for Paris?" you ask, and a Frenchman replies facetiously "Nach Paris, nach Paris." In a few hours you roll up the whole Western front. You traverse infinite graveyards and scenes of desolation like an arrow of thought, and alight where the German soldiers wished to be. The train has come from Berlin: it has passed through Cologne and the zone held by the occupying army. It roars forward to St. Quentin, Noyon, Compiègne, like the symb