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Messrs. Nelson have added to their series of cheap and

good reprints that fascinating book, Mr. Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands (Is. net), with Lord Rosebery's able hook on Napoleon : The Last Phase (Is. 3d. not) ; Richard Jeffories'a Wild Life in a Southern County (Is. 3d. not) with its memorable pictures of un- changing and yet over-varying Nature ; and Mr. Stewart E. White's book of African travel, The Land of Footprints (le. 3d. not), which, though concerned with the country north of Mombasa, gives a good idea of the bush in which General Van de Venter is operating against the Germans.