12 AUGUST 1916, page 19

Some Books Of The Week.

(Sofia n this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.) Epidemics Resulting from Wars. By Dr. F. Prinzing. (Clarendon Press. 7a 6d. net.)—The evil effects of past......

Fiction.

THE UNSEEN HOST.t ME. Wenn, who has served with the 9th Argyll and Sutherland High- landers in Flanders, prefaces his collection of stories and studies with a frank caveat to......

Readable Novels.—twilight. By Frank Denby. (hutchinson...

written just before the death of its author, can hardly escape the accusation of being morbid ; but " Frank Denby," who will write no more books for our entertainment, succeeds,......

Second Thoughts Of An Economist.*

" WHEN a scientific man has come up to the limits of his science, he sometimes wants to look over the hedge and ask where his science comes in in the general scheme of things."......

The Slavs Of The War Zone.• " Tim Reason Why

so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything." The class of authors condemned by Bagehot does not include Mr. W. F. Bailey. He has gone......