24 JULY 1915, Page 22

Mr. C. R. L. Fletcher has published an admirable Handy

Guide to Oxford (Oxford University Press, ls. net), intended for the use of wounded soldiers from the hospital there. It is written in a delightfully unofficial manner, and conveys quantities of information without being dull for a moment,. The book almost encourages us to make the frivolous sugges- tion that Mr. Fletcher should undertake the work of providing us with the substitutes for "Baedeker" which will become so necessary at the end of the war.