15 AUGUST 1908, Page 26

Defenders of our Empire. Edited by C. Gilbert-Wood. (Naval and

Military Press. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is the first number of a quarterly publication which is to give us "Biographies of the Nation's Heroes," illustrated with photographs. In the volume before us there are twelve memoirs, of which, we see, nine are of soldiers, the Duke of Connaught, Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberts, and Sir John French being among them, and three of sailors, Lord Walter T. Kerr, Sir J. C. Dalrymple Hay, and Lord Charles Beresford. The memoirs are interesting and of a reasonable length, and the portraits, each with a facsimile signature, of a good quality.