Acknowledgments The Editor desires to express his great indebtedness to the following authors, publishers, and holders of copyrights To the proprietors of Punch for In Flanders Fields To Lord St Davids for the poem by Colwyn Phillips To Mrs Kettle for the poem by Tom Kettle To Mr John Murray for Noel Hodgson's poem Before Action To Mrs Owen and Chatto and Windus for Wilfred Owen's Miners To Mrs Thomas for the poem by Edward Thomas To Mr W. H. Davies and Jonathan Cape for The Kingfisher To the Cambridge University Press for the lines by Charles Sorley To Dean Alington for his lines to Charles Lister To the executors of R. E. Vernede for his poem The Sea is His To Lord Dunsany for the poem by Francis Ledwidge To Messrs Heinemann for extracts from the Life of Walter Page To Celia, Lady Congreve, and Country Life, for Wood Fires To Mr Compton Mackenzie for Song of Parting To Lady Conan Doyle for the poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and to John Murray the publisher To Mrs Chesterton and J. M. Dent and Sons for Mr Chesterton's poem on The Donkey To Sir John Arkwright for 0 Valiant Hearts, appearing in his poems published by Skeffington and Son To Mr Frank Sidgwick and Mr C. C. Lynam for The Strenuous Life by Arthur Hugh Sidgwick To the proprietors of The Times for the poem by Noel Oxland and The Triumph of the Cross To Lord Desborough for Julian Grenfell's Into Battle, and to Lady Dcsborough for the picture by Zoffany To the Hon Maurice Baring for the sonnet to Julian Grenfcll appearing in his Selected Poems, published by Heinemann To John Lane The Bodley Head for the two poems by Francis Burdett Money-Coutts, and for a poem by Edward Wyndham Tennant To Mr Winston Churchill for passages from his History of the Great War, published by Thornton Butterworth To the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Fine Arts Publishing Company for certain pictures To Mr George Eumorfopolous for one of the treasures of his Tang collection And to the following photographers: Herbert Felton, Frederick Hollyer, W. F. Taylor, Donald McLeish, John Swain, Messrs Anderson, Brogi, Bruckmann, and Wildenstein, and George Pulman &«Sons The picture of Queen Elizabeth on page 208 is in St Stephen's Hall in the Houses of Parliament