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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......

Native Races And Peace Terms. By John H. Harris....

Society, Denison House, S.W. 3d.)—An eloquent plea by the well- known and energetic Organizing Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society that " within one year of the declaration of......

Charles Stewart Parnell. A Memoir By His Brother, J. H.

ParnelL (Constable and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—The author of this unpretentious memoir aimed, he says, at being a Bourrienne rather than a Carlyle. He describes Parnell's early life......

Traveir In The Middle East. By Captain T. C. Fowle,

40th Pathan. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—In his preface Captain Fowls says that his object in writing this book has been to please the reader, and " to answer the......

Stale Control Of The Liquor Traffic. By Arthur Sherwell,...

(P. S. King and Son. ld.)—Our readers will remember the series of articles contributed by Mr. Sherwell to the Spectator, in which he set forth very clearly the case for State......

Mosquito Control In Panama. By Joseph A. Le Prince, C.e.,

A.M., and A. G. Orenstein, M.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sone. 10a. fkL net.)— As Dr. L. 0. Howard points out in his introduction, " President Roose- velt early appreciated the fact that......

The Stalesman'a Year-book, 1916. Edited By J. Scott...

M. Epstein. (Macmillan and Co. 10s. 6d. net. )—The fifty-third issue of this familiar and invaluable reference-book has swelled to sixteen hundred pages, and, despite the......