Reveille. Edited by John Galsworthy. No. 3. (Stationery Office. 2s.
6d. net.)—Mr. Galsworthfs semi-official quarterly devoted to the disabled sailor and soldier opens with a caricature of Mr. Sargent by Mr. Max Beerbohm, and contains some poems and prose papers by well-known authors, but it fulfils its main purpose of providing information about the work that is being done or that ought to be done for the men who spent themselves for their country. On the whole the reports on the progress of the training schemes are encouraging ; but the electrical engineer to the Great Western Railway says that " compara- tively few of the disabled men who started work have kept their original jobs." , The disabled are so numerous, perhaps half-a- million in all, that continuous effort on the part of the State, societies, and employers will be needed if all the men are to be found suitable work, with treatment as long as it is needed. Dr. Forteseue Fox's account of the Village Centres, the first of which will be at Enham in Hampshire, is full of promise. An anony- mous paper on "The Cost of Consumption," with special refer- ence to the fifty thousand soldiers discharged as tuberculous, reminds us, however, that this single phase of the problem is terribly complex, and that very much remains to be done.
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