In writing "Wade In, Sanitary," Dr. Richard Derby has made no commonplace contribution to the already large collection of personal memoirs and reminiscences connected with the Great War.

It is rare that civilian or soldier realizes the pains and organization, not to mention heroism, involved in the maintenance of the medical service at the front. If for this alone the book should be read. Dr. Derby has, however, done much more than tell us of his own arm of the service; he has given a very vital and vivid picture of the 2nd Division.

The long training, the tense waiting, the terrible hours preceding the second battle of the Marne when the fate of civilization and the Allied cause hung in the balance are all described with an intensity and vigor which carries the reader along with the narrator. The story reaches its climax on November 11th, 1918, and the book concludes with a most entertaining chapter dealing with life and conditions in the Army of Occupation in conquered Germany and an appendix containing an imposing list of citations won by the M. C. Men of the 2nd Division.

In generous appreciation of his subordinates and superiors Dr. Derby has shown himself to be an ideal spokesman for the one supremely human and almost uniquely constructive element in the great war-machine--the Medical Corps.

("Wade In, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France." By Richard Derby, Lt.-Col., M. C., U. S. A., Second Division. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1919.)