21 JULY 1917, Page 16

Woman's Effort. By A. E. Metcalfe. (Oxford B. H. Blackwell.

7s. Gd. net)—Miss Metcalfe has written a history of the Woman's Suffrage movement from 1906, with a brief summary of preceding events from the late "sixties," when John Stuart Mill advocated Woman's Suffrage in the Notice. Miss Metcalfe can hardly be called a dispassionate chronicler, but she may fairly claim to havo compiled a narrative of what actually occurred, whether creditable or discreditable to the persons concerned. The " physical force " section most recognize by this time, we should hope, that their senseless acts had greatly injured their cause. Mr. Laurence Housman contributes an ironical Preface.