16 NOVEMBER 1918, page 16

A Correspondent At The Front Sends Us A Little German

pamphlet, one of a series of " Trench Books," which he picked up in an enemy trench. In this adroitly written pamphlet a Dr. Negenborn, of Silesia, discusses Germany as a State......

Readable Novels. —a Love Offensive. By F. E. Penny. (chatto

and Windus. 6s. net. )—A novel about Ceylon in which gypsy snake-charmers and a native background play a large part. The vast forests are picturesquely described. It is a war......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subvwent review.] Parliamentary Elections under the Reform Act, 1918. By J. Renwiok Seeger. (P. S. King. 5s. net.)—Mr.......

The State Versus Man.* " Hegiclian," Says Mr. Wells, "

fills the mouth and warms the mind ; it is as good as cursing." Professor Hobhouse, on the contrary, thinks that it empties the mind and poisons the soul ; and in the present......

The White Eagle Of Poland. By E. F. Benson. (hodder

and Stoughton. 6s. net.)—Mr. Benson's interesting statement of the Polish problem is worth reading. His account of the nefarious German and Austrian dealings with occupied......

Fiction.

SClioNBRUNN.* THERE is something almost tragic in the appearance of this extra- ordinary novel ; a posthumous work, with no Preface or explanation of the delay in its......