This record of my experiences may seem somewhat disjointed, by reason of the many omissions I have deemed it Wise to make, chiefly on personal grounds, in respect to living individuals. When I first put to paper a word of it, it was on the Leas at Folkestone in the peaceful summer time of 1913, before the disaster of this war had come upon the earth. NO aircraft was to be seen in the Skies, no sign of the submarine on the sea; the innocent waters lay blue and sunlit before us. I was thinking of Disraeli at the Sultan's Ball at the Guildhall many years before, and making a note of it, with no particular Object, and certainly without a thought that a volume Of this kind would come about; but the note of one circum stance led to another, and they have now all so arranged themselves as to develop into this. If it yield to the reader but a trifling proportion of the interest I have experienced in writing it, I shall be sufficiently pleased and abundantly grateful.

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