In the Firing Line: Stories of the war by Land and Sea

by Arthur St John Adcock

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210 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1914

About the author

Arthur St John Adcock (17 January 1864 in London – 9 June 1930 in Richmond ) was an English novelist and poet, known as A. St John Adcock or St John Adcock. He is remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies. He was the father of the also writers Marion St. John Webb and Almey St. John Adcock

He was a Fleet Street journalist for half a century, as an assiduous freelance writer. He worked initially as a law office clerk, becoming full-time as a writer in 1893. He built up a literary career by unrelenting efforts in circulating his manuscripts, initially also working part-time as an assistant editor on a trade journal. He was a founder member in 1901 of Paul Henry's literary and performing club, with Robert Lynd, Frank Rutter and others.

The acting editor of The Bookman from 1908, Adcock, according to A. E. Waite who knew him, did all the work of the Bookman, nominally under its founder William Robertson Nicoll. In 1923 he became also its titular editor. As an influential critic, he has been classed with conservatives such as Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Gosse, Henry Newbolt, E. B. Osborn and Arthur Waugh.

He was the last editor of The Odd Volume (1917), an annual that folded during World War I.