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THE ANGELS OF MONS

additions, a reprint of the Introduction to the first edition of "The Bowmen," which was published on August 10th. As the book was going through the press I received, through the courtesy of the editor of The Occult Review, the advance sheets of an article by Miss Phyllis Campbell, which appeared in the August issue of that periodical. The article was called "The Angelic Leaders."

Miss Campbell says that she was in France when the war broke out. She became a nurse, and while she was nursing the wounded she was informed that an English soldier wanted a "holy picture." She went to the man and found him to be a Lancashire Fusilier. He said that he was a Wesleyan Methodist, and asked "for a picture or medal (he didn't care which) of St. George . . . because he had seen him on a white horse, leading the

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