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Night Watches. By W. W. Jacobs. (hodder And Stoughton. Sc.

6d.)—Since Mr. Jacobs has already published fifteen volumes of stories of seafaring men, it is scarcely necessary to review at length his last book. This is, therefore, not a......

" The Faith Of Treaties Is The Only Solid Foundation

on which a Temple of Peace can be built up." In these words Lord Bryce concludes his brief but valuable pamphlet entitled Neutral Nations and the War (Macmillan and Co., 2d.),......

The Various "histories Of The War" Which Have Already Been

begun will have to do a good deal of " marking time" before they come to the actual fighting. Thus the first volume of The History of the Great European War, by W. S. M. Knight......

Fiction.

THE PASTOR'S WIFE.* THE reader's usually unmixed delight in acclaiming a new book by Elizabeth of the German Garden will be modified by a certain mixture of feeling at finding......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Swollen-Headed Brilliant. Verses adapted by E. V. Lucas. Drawings by George Morrow. (Methuen and Co. is.......