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Our Soldiers Have Gone To The Great War In The

spirit of Cromwell's Ironsides, to battle for justice and liberty. We have little doubt that the equipment of most of them, like that of the Ironsides, will comprise a pocket......

Prom Russia To Siam. By Ernest Young. (max Goschen. 10s.

6d. net.)—These sketches of travel have many lands for their background. Mr. Young flits from one place to another with the flickering speed of the cinematograph—from Russia to......

Notes On Torpedo Work In Hm. Ships. By R. P.

(John Hogg. ls. net.)—Now that the deadly torpedo is about to undergo its first practical test on an adequate scale, many civilians will be keenly interested in these notes on......

The Foundations Of Strategy. By Captain H. M. Johnstone....

Allen and Unwin. 5s. net.)—Captain Johnstone, who is Military Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh, here gives us the very book that is needed by those who wish intelligently......

Sea, Land, And Air Strategy. By Sir George Aston. (john

Murray. 10a 6d. net.)—The title of Sir George Aston's lucid and timely treatise shows what a remarkable advance has been vade in warfare since he published his well-known and......

Glamorganshire. By J. H. Wade. (cambridge University...

net.)—The author of this bandy guide has received much assistance from the Cardiff Naturalists' Society : we note that the nightingale is reported " to have been some- times met......

Tactics And The Landscape. By Captain T. Bedford...

and Polden. 3a net.)—Most military students, like the majority of other people, find it difficult to visualize the land- scape represented by a map. Much nonsense is written in......