24 JANUARY 1914, page 20

The Young Officer's Guide To Knowledge.*

SHORTLY after the South African War an amusing little skit appeared upon the customs, regulations, and traditions of the British Army, entitled " Tactics and Military Training,......

Madame De Chevreuse,

OF all the beautiful women in the seventeenth century who shone at Courts, who plotted against Ministers and Govern- ments, who raised wars and rebellions for their own......

Schools And School-books.*

GOOD ideas do not grow old, for they are always being reborn ; all the oldest and noblest arts have been discovered afresh by each successive master. The teacher's art, at......