This book, together with
A Book of Broadsheets
makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by
The Times
to members of H.M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. The volume contains a wide variety of rich literature form before the war and was designed to give soldiers entertainment. It includes extracts from the works of Francis Bacon, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens.