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George Elton Sedding. Edited by his Brother. (Letchworth : Garden

City Press. 5s. net.)—This is a memoir, with many extracts from his letters and some of his poems, of a talented artist metal- worker, the son of the late John Bedding, the architect, who was killed near the Hohenzollern Redoubt in October, 1915. The book is an attractive record of a keen and healthy young man, who delighted in wild nature as well as in art, and who gave up much of his time to the work of a boys' hostel in Hoxton before the war. He volunteered, of course, at the outbreak of war, and is gone with many others of our best and bravest.