Abstract
Mr. Treves gives some excellent word-pictures of life in a field hospital on the desolate veldt of South Africa during the Boer war. The horror of war is seen by the army surgeon as by no one else, and this little book contains many vivid descriptions of ghastly experiences. Some of these are pathetic in the extreme, and others are amusing, though sad. The book is not written especially for medical readers, but these will be most interested in it. The author shows no mean ability as a descriptive writer, and his account of how a surgeon won the Victoria Cross is given in a way that few novelists could equal. The book is beautifully gotten up, with flexible morocco cover.
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