Title Page of Recent Library Acquisition

A volume of uncommon beauty and significance, the "List of Etonians who fought in the Great War MCMXIV-MCMXIX," has recently been sent to the Widener Library. The cut shown above is a reproduction of the title page.

Last winter, E. Millington-Drake, of the British Embassy at Brussels, desirous of securing a collection of War books designed for presentation to the Library of Eton College, sent inquiries to the Harvard University Press concerning the small book, "Harvard Volunteers in Europe," and the more extensive publication of five volumes, "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead". The authorities of the Press made the presentation, and President Lowell and M.A. DeW. Howe '87, the author and editor of the "War Memoirs," signed their names to an appropriate inscription.

Since then Mr. Millington-Drake has sent in return the "List of Etonians" already named, with inscriptions by Canon Lyttleton, head master of Eton during the years before and at the beginning of the War, and by the compiler of the volume.

A summary received with the list reveals the fact that the total number of Etonians who served in the War was 5,703, and that the total number of deaths numbered 1,157, not far from one in five. The Harvard record of one in nearly 30 draws a contrast between the meaning of the war in England and America. The cut pictured above appears in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.