Excerpt from Subject Index of the Books Relating to the European War, 1914 1918, Acquired by the British Museum, 1914 1920

The present Index registers all the books and printed documents relating to the Great War acquired by the British Museum from the beginning of August 1914 to the close of 1920, including the entries already printed in the Subject Index of Modern Works acquired in the years 1911 - 1915. It also registers the books and do'cuments connected with the Peace and Reconstruction issued and acquired in the same period. It thus forms the largest contribution to the bibliography of the War which has yet been published. The general principles of arrangement which have been found to work well in the previous volumes of the general Subject Index have been applied to this many-sided subject to the best of the ability of the compilers. Ah effort has been made to break up the larger headings by grouping together books written in the languages of each of the combatant countries and neutrals, and again by keeping together the books of the same year to mark the stages of the conflict at Which they were written. A conspectus of the headings and sub-headings follows this Preface, and em alphabetical index to subheadings is printed at the end of the text. The books having already been entered in the General Catalogue of Printed Books under their authors or the authorities which issued them, the provision of an index of Authors has been regarded as at luxury of which circumstances do not permit.

While the poetry of the War and religious books have been admitted, hetion in the form of war novels is not here registered. Regimental news papers are entered, but the vest contribution to the literature of the 7e made by the periodical Press of all countries is necessarily excluded.' Finally, while the Index registers cartoons it omits the war posters used to stimulate recruiting and subscription to war loans. At the beginning of the War some arrangements were made for collecting such. Posters issued in our own and allied countries, but the effort was abandoned in order not to duplicate work which was being done by the Imperial War Museum. A fine collection of French posters which had been acquired 11s been transferred, on account of its artistic interest, to the Department of Prints and Drawings.

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