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Souvenirs De Chasse Aux Sous-marine Allentands. Par...

: Perrin. 3 fr. 50 c.)—This is a well-written and highly interesting account of convoy and patrol work off the Breton coast and at the mouth of the Channel during the war. The......

Ovr Democratic King. By C. L. R. Thomas. (photocrome Co.

4d.)—This is a pleasantly written biography, with a number of photographs. The King's incessant activities during the war are rightly emphasized. The King set a fine example to......

The Freedom Of The Seas Historically Treated. By Sir Francis

Piggott. (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d. net.)—Sir Francis Piggott summarizes in this excellent little treatise the history of the famous disputes over " the freedom of the......

The Case For Liberty. By E. S. P. Haynes. (grant

Richards. 6s. net.)—Mr. Haynes's essay is a spirited though somewhat discursive protest against the tendency of the modern State to interfere in what used to be regarded as......

The Pacific : Its Past And Future. By Guy H.

Scholefield. (Murray. 15s. net.)—This well-informed history of the Pacific. islands from the eighteenth century was very much needed, and will remain a standard work of......