24 JANUARY 1920, page 19

General Palest, The Well-known French Military Historian,...

Anglo-French Review for January, subjects Lord 'French's account of the days preceding the battle of the Mame to a severely critical examination. He contends that Lord French's......

The English Historical Review For January (longmans, 75....

contains interesting articles on Erasmus by Dr. Whitney and on the late Professor Haverfield by Dr. Craster. Mr. Neale prints for the first time an official record of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

/Notice in this column does not necessarily prelude subsequent ree!as.) THE QUARTERLIES.—The Edinburgh Review opens with a trenchant article by the Bishop of Hereford on " The......

Readable Novels.—married Quarters. By David Lyall....

net.)—Gives an account of an unequal marriage during the war. The end is perhaps not very convincing, but the description of the hero's home over the grocer's shop at Stoney......

Discovery (murray, 6d. Net), A New " Monthly Popular Journal

of knowledge," has made a promising start. It has been founded by a number of Societies interested in education, including the Head-Masters' Conference, the National Union of......

Fictio N . .

THE PLOUGH.* Miss Finmon's new novel is so far a war story that it begins , with a , dinner-party in the last days of July, 1914, and ends with the Armistice. In the interval......