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Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. By E. S. Grew and others. Vol.

L (Gresham Publishing Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—This Life of Lord Kitchener, to be completed in three volumes which are not sold separately, is care- fully written and contains a good deal of new matter, especially in Mr. Turnbull's chapter on "Lord Kitchener's Homes and Upbringing" and Mr. Grew's chapter on the young sapper's work in surveying Pales- tine, with its numerous extracts from his reports to the Palestine Explora- tion Fund. Mr. Wentworth Huyshe describes how Kitchener went up to Dongola in 1884 as intelligence officer to gather news of the Mahdi's doings and to keep in touch with Gordon at Khartum, and how he rose to be Sirdar. The volume ends with the battles of Atbara and Omdur- man and leaves one anxious for more.