26 MAY 1917, Page 18

Messrs. Hutchinson have begun to issue in fortnightly parts (Sbd.

each net) a new work oh The Splendour of France, with very numerous photographs. The first part contains some interesting views of tho Roman amphitheatre at Orange, of Carcassonne and Grenoble and Joan's birthplace at Domremy, together with some trivial Salon pictures that do not come under the title of the book.