Excerpt from More Ballads of Field and Billet: And Other VersesWe find their simplicity and sincerity very refreshing as refreshing as 'cold water the day after - as a change from the superheated, pumped-up patriotism of the average war poet. Workmanlike verse that scores a psycho logical bull's-eye in every other stanza, and never gets off the target in the rest. Finally let it be said that Mr. Holmes can make a picture with the best of the art-poets.Mr. Holmes deserves all the encouragement that comes his way, for there is more of the high, humorous spirit of our New Army (which is child and heir of the old one) in his verse than in all the work of the professional practitioners. -morning Post.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.