SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Noticd in this column does not ttecetear;ly preclude subsequent vesicle.] The publishers of the Quarterly Review announce that, in order to keep better apace with the rapidity of changing events on the Continent, they are breaking the January number into two halves. The first portion of it has just appeared, while the second will be published in the middle of January. Each of these halves is to cost three shillings. The greater part of the number before us is naturally concerned with the war. The actual military operations are dealt with in three articles —the war ou land by Colonel W. P. Blood, the war at sea by Mr. Archibald Hurd, and a third article upon the war in Serbia, written, of course, before the recent victory, by Mr. Setam-Watson, whose valuable work is familiar to our readers. A strongly written editorial article discusses " Recruiting and the Censorship," and in the course of it we notice what is to our knowledge the first completely outspoken reference to the much-discussed "naval incident." The remaining articles are all of interest, but we may especially notice a -discussion by Mr. G. F. Abbott of the possibility of a revolt •of Islam, and an anonymous paper upon the attitude of Italy in the struggle.
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