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It is quite probable that the reader does not know of the death of George Boon, and that "remains" before his name upon the title-page will be greeted with a certain astonishment. In the ordinary course of things, before the explosion of the war, the death of George Boon would have been an event -- oh! a three-quarters of a column or more in the _Times_ event, and articles in the monthlies and reminiscences. As it is, he is not so much dead as missing. Something happened at the eleventh hour -- I think it was chiefly the Admiralty report of the fight off the Falkland Islands -- that blew his obituary notices clean out of the papers. And yet he was one of our most popular writers, and in America I am told he was in the "hundred thousand class. " But now we think only of Lord Kitchener's hundred thousands.