SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
fir/dim in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The National Review for October contains Mr. W. M. Aeworth's valuable address to the British Association on " The Problem of Railway Reconstruction." He says that the annual wages- bill has increased from £47,000,000 before the war to over £120,000,000 at present. Materials, especially eoal, cost£30,000,000 more. Apart altogether from the £48,000,000 of interest on capital, the railways are spending £12,000,000 more than they earn. Mr. Acworth sees no hope of making up this heavy deficit by a general increase of goods rates, already very high. The remedy, he thinks, lies in labour-saving devices of all kinds, in fewer and slower passenger trains, in larger trucks and higher charges for quick delivery. Colonel Preston gives an admirably clear account of the great cavalry maroh into Galilee and on to Damascus in September, 1918, which settled the fate of the Turkish armies. Mr. Cope Cornford pays an eloquent tribute to the late lord Bereefurd. Mr. Mane discusses in detail the
Bullitt episode in the dealings of the Allies with the Bolsheviks, and says some caustic things about " amateur diplomacy."
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