28 AUGUST 1915, page 24

This Year's Edition Of Fighting Ships, By Mr. Fred T.

Jane, has reached US (Sampson Low and Co., 21s. net). The Admiralty has decided that the entire section dealing with the British Navy ninst be omitted from the public edition of......

Readable Novele.—love In Fetters. By Richard Marsh...

es.)—Although this story of mystery by Mr. Marsh—whose recent death we regret to note—is long-drawn- out and rather pointless, it has moments of keen excitement. — The Yellow......

Mr. Joseph Mccabe's The Soul Of Europe (t. Fisher Unwin,

10s. 6d. net) is an attempt at the analysis of the essential characteristics of the different nations taking part in the war, a separate chapter being given to the discussion of......

The Jacket. By Jack London. (mills And Boon. 6s.)— Mr.

Jack London has gone too far. In his last book he raised in our minds the question how far a novelist may be justified in writing of physical horrors ; now, in his analysis of a......

The Plot Of Mr. John Masefield's New Prose Tragedy, The

Faithful (William Heinemann, 3s. 6d. net), is based—though he does not mention the fact—upon an episode in Japanese history at the beginning of the eighteenth century, which has......

The Good Ship Brompton Castle A Novel. By Lady Bell.

(Mills and Boon. 65.)—It will be obvious to Lady Bell's many friends and admirers that she took a long sea voyage before writing her new novel. The most important scenes in The......

We Have All Talked A Great Deal About Warsaw In

the last few weeks, but not many of us have much conception of the city's appearance or of its history. Mr. Rothay Reynolds given us plenty of information on both these points......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in thio column does not necessarily preen& oularcquent review.] The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament : Illustrated from the Papyri and other non-Literary Sources. By J.......

• Wales : Her Origins, Struggles, And Later History, Insti-

tutions and Manners, by Mr. Gilbert Stone (Q. G. Harrap and Co., 7s. ed. net), is an authoritatively written short history of the Welsh • people. Especial emphasis is laid .......