Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Columbia, New York https://books.google.com/books?id=rsZfIsTmZtQCSketches about the British soldier reprinted in part from the Daily Chronicle, Westminster Gazette, and Novel Magazine. Elsewhere this book is stated to be one of the books in the  1916 Hodder & Stoughton series “The Soldier Books”, although this wording may have only appeared on the cover.  For one of the other books in this series, there is a comment that the book had small dimensions “4¾ inches wide x 7¼ inches tall”, so possibly the smaller size made it easier to be carried by a soldier. For an image of the stiff card cover, see http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page48.html (Scroll down)  (archived https://web.archive.org/web/20240325051501/http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page48.html  )The link https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@N00/52439674275/  says “Dell Leigh, who wrote several travel related books, is better known as the author E P Leigh Bennet”.   Elsewhere it is stated Ernest Pendarves Leigh-Bennett (c.1882-1937) was a magazine journalist and novelist (see http://www.britishtransporttreasures.com/product/come-abroad-with-us-by-e-p-leigh-bennett-and-leonard-richmond-southern-railway-c1929-ebook/    )