15 DECEMBER 1917, page 16

The Turkish Empire.*

Loan EvEnstny has written a highly interesting book on the rise and fall of the Ottoman Turks.' It is the most picturesque, and also the most discreditable, chapter of European......

Sir Arthur Helps.•

THE books of Sir Arthur Helps are little read by this generation, though one of them, The Spanish Conquest in A meriecs, is still • standard work. But this collection of his......