20 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 38

War, Famine, and Our Food-Supply. By R. B. Marston. (Sampson

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Marston marshalls here a number of formidable facts. We do not grow a quarter of our food. How are we to make sure that the supply shall not be so seriously curtailed as to cause an outbreak ? There is certainly a most formidable multitude of people to whom even a moderate rise in prices would mean huneer if not starvation.