Many a U. S. officer attached to British and Canadian divisions in 1917-18 remembers a small Official Artist with gleaming spectacles and a serious expression who wandered about Division Headquarters in a shaggy goatskin tunic and trench helmet drawing pictures of Generals. Those who talked with him discovered that he knew an enormous number of famous people. Intellectuals realized that this little man was the Will Rothenstein celebrated in Max Beerbohm's Enoch Soames. When the first volume of his autobiography appeared in the U. S. last month,* readers had a chance to...
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