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Amongst books on matters connected with the war we may

note an excellent little handbook of Drill and Field Training, edited by E. John Solaro (John Murray, Is. net); Guns and Projectiles, by Lieut.-Commander R. H. C. Verner, and Five Minutes to One Bell, which gives landsmen a notion of what is meant by " keeping watch " on a warship (Gieve, Matthews, and Seagrove, ls. 6d. net each); The Navy of To-Day, by P. A. Hieam (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 6d. net); A War Cookery Book for the Sick and Wounded, by Jessie M. Laurie (T. Werner Laurie, 6d. net); An A B C Guide to the Great War,

by E. B. d'Auvergne (same publisher, ls. net); Lloyd's A B of the War (Hodder and Stoughton, 6d. net); and reprints of Right of War, a sermon by Dr. James Martineau (Longmans and Co., 2d. net), and General G. T. Chesney's famous pamphlet of The Battle of Dorking (Grant Richards, 6d. net).