26 FEBRUARY 1916, page 22

The Rise Of Rail-power.* •

MOLTKE is reported to have said once in the Reichstag : " The Great General Staff is so much impressed by the advantages of obtaining the initiative at tho outset of a war that......

The Advantages Of Compulsory Military Training.* A Great...

already been written in these columns as to the advantages of compulsory military training, and wo have urged again and again the benefits, physical, moral, and spiritual, which......

Military Sketching.*

THIS is an entirely admirable little book. That Mr. Newton's special abilities have found most full and useful scope is clear from his C.O.'s appreciative introduction, and the......

The Oxford Movement.t " Bestnes, Sir," Said Dr. Johnson, "

it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold." Judged by this standard—no mean one—Canon 011ard has achieved remarkable success.......