16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 18

My Life and Work. By Edmund Knowles Muspratt. (John Lane.

7s. 61 net.)—Mr. Muspratt is well known in Liverpool as a good citizen, with a keen interest in higher education, art, and other worthy causes. He is known morn widely as a strong Liberal and Free Trader, and rendered much service to his party in the past by his Financial Reform Almanack. At the age of eighty-three he has written his reminiscences of a happy life, with notes on his travels, and his many friends will find the book interesting.