20 DECEMBER 1930, page 30

Sir Charles Oman Is Much To Be Congratulated On The

completion, after nearly thirty years, of his magnificent History of the Peninsular War, in a seventh volume covering the eight months from the storm of St. Sebastian to the......

Boulton And Watt, Who Introduced The Modem Steam Engine, Are

justly renowned as the founders of the engineering industry. Their enterprise is placed in a clearer light than before by Mr. Erich Roll's remarkable monograph, An Early......

Many Books Have Been Written On France Between 1848 And

1870, but the period was so dramatic and abounded in so many striking personalities that it never ceases to be inter- esting. 'M. Rene Arnaud, who contributes the new volume on......

To Christmas Givers

THE spirit of good will and kindness .will assert itself this Christmas despite all the difficulties occasioned by bad trade• and heavy taxation. But circumstances compel the......