19 AUGUST 1916, page 16

Some Military Books.*

WHEN half the world suddenly embraces a new profession a new biblio- graphy arises as inevitably as darkness yields to dawn. Only those who began the new way of life in that......

Fiction.

A SLAV 801314 Mn. Mulls's) WILLIAMS, in the chapter on Literature in his admirable Russia of the Russians, places Kuprin among the realists. "He is a born story-teller with a......

Filibusters And Financiers.*

Wrimisss WALKER is dimly remembered as the American adventurer who set Nicaragua in a blaze in the middle of the last century. The son of a Scotsman who had settled at......