War libraries and allied studies . -? >H X 4 pc! CQ H J rt o — >; >H (h r£ c CC M q; ^ 2 w » « 53 ,C co HH be H _C K o be i—i DO Q ^ ^ W cC jS ^ !m Oh X W £2 rt ,s Oh 71 o z — w 03 oo * O o CQ 6 THE WORK OVERSEAS . 53 writing. In the afternoon I endeavored to forget mysurroundings by plunging into the intricacies of Brown-ing, and between the showers I got through twothousand lines of The Ring and the Book. The men of the American Expeditionary Force needand appreciate books just as much as do the Britishsoldiers. Alan Seeger wrote on the fly leaves of acopy of Rousseaus Confessions:

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War libraries and allied studies . -? >H X 4 pc! CQ H J rt o — >; >H (h r£ c CC M q; ^ 2 w » « 53 ,C co HH be H _C K o be i—i DO Q ^ ^ W cC jS ^ !m Oh X W £2 rt ,s Oh 71 o z — w 03 oo * O o CQ 6 THE WORK OVERSEAS . 53 writing. In the afternoon I endeavored to forget mysurroundings by plunging into the intricacies of Brown-ing, and between the showers I got through twothousand lines of The Ring and the Book. The men of the American Expeditionary Force needand appreciate books just as much as do the Britishsoldiers. Alan Seeger wrote on the fly leaves of acopy of Rousseaus Confessions: We put in avery pleasant week here — nine hours of guard atnight in our outposts upon the hillside; in the daytimesleep, or foraging in the ruined villages, loafing in thepretty garden of the chateau or reading in the have cleaned this up now, and it is an altogethercurious sensation to recline here in an easy chair,reading so

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