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Messrs. Gale And Polden Issue Two Handbooks Which Should Be

most useful to junior officers, and the numerous civilians who are now engaged in the training of volunteer corps. Squad Section, Platoon, and Company Drill Made Easy (1s. 6d.......

The Three Sisters. By May Sinclair. (hutchinson And Co....

Sinclair's book is as clever as can be. She -writes well, and has a fluent mastery of her emotion and expression ; and she has emphasized delicately and distinctly the......

The First Volume Of The Times History Of The War

(The Times, 10s. 6d. net) contains much valuable information and numerous illustrations; but of course it is impossible as yet to write anything about the war which can......

An Admirable Pocket Anthology Of "daily Thoughts For All Who

are serving their country," The Happy Warrior, by We Hon. Mrs. Gell (A. R. Mowbray and Co., 2d. net paper, 6d. net cloth), contains the last words written for publication by......

The Encounter. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. (edward Arnold....

praise which the publishers bestow on Miss Sedgwick's new novel is justified. It is quite true that she has the power of " dramatically interpreting an idea" : she has also, as......

Fiction.

THE UNPETITIONED HEAVENS.* Mn. MARRIOTT, whose first novel appeared in. 1901, has already some twenty volumes to his credit, but it would be a great injustice to regard him......

We Must Regret That It Should Be Thought Necessary To

translate The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net) into modern English prose— even for American readers. A very little study would surely......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in lids column does act ozccescurily preclude subsequent review.] The Volunteer Training Corps Gazette (Id. weekly ; Offices,. 76-78 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.C.), the......