THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY : 1912-1921. Edited by H.
W. C. Davis and J. R. H. Weaver. (Oxford University Press. 21s.)-The new supplement to the famous " D.N.B." opens with an admirable memoir of the late Sir Sidney Lee by Sir Charles Frith, who does justice to that great Editor and charming man. His- successors have carried on his tradition fairly well. The articles tend to be shorter than before, and some of them are rather dull and
loosely written. The more important memoirs, notably Mr. Joseph Chamberlain by the late Professor Egerton, Lord Fisher by Mr. Vincent Baddeley, Lord Wolseley and Lord Kitchener by Sir F. Maurice, and Sir Herbert Tree by Mr. J. L. Palmer, are competently handled, and men who were not so well known to the general public, like William Aklis Wright, William Stanley Houghton and Robinson Ellis, have found sympathetic and well-informed biographers. At the end of the book is a complete index to this supplement and the preceding one, covering the years from 1901 to 1921.
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