19 DECEMBER 1914, Page 25

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is a collection of addresses by a Head-Master to his pnpils, with a preface in which the Secretary of the Cavendish Association reminds us of the great responsibility that rests on the Public-School boy at the present time. Although these addresses were written before the war, their publication is timely, for they inculcate just the lesson of disciplined self- sacrifice on a just appreciation of which it may well be said that the fate of our vast Empire depends.