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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

votice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Eye-Witness. By H. Belloc. (T. Nelson and Sons. Is. net.)— We welcome this cheap reissue of Mr. Belloc's clever attempts to " reconstruct " various historical episodes from his personal knowledge of the scenes where they occurred and from his reading. " Drouet's Ride " through the wooded hills of the Argonne to intercept the fleeing Louis XVI. at Varennes is especially good ; every foot of the ground over which he rode is now seamed with trenches or torn with shells, for it is a battlefield. Schoolchildren should be encouraged to read these vivid sketches.