20 SEPTEMBER 1913, Page 23

Oil Fuel. By Professor Vivian B. Lewes. (Collins's Clear Type

Press. Is. net.)—In this new volume of the "Nation's Library " Professor Lewes, after dealing coats* with the supply, value, and means of utilization of a fuel? entAtasines the rapidity with which the world's stores of petroleum, coal,

and shale are being exhausted, and points to alcohol as the ideal motor spirit of the future.