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Tales Of War. T

Tax obvious journalistic way of conveying to people who have never seen a battlefield some idea of what war is like, is to describe the objective side of it—the devastation, the......

The New Europe. Vol. Viii. (constable. 10s. Od. Net.)—the...

volume of this lively and instructive weekly covers the period from July 18th to October 10th last. It is highly interesting to recall the enemy's diplomatic manceuvres during......

Gross Deutschland:: La Belgique Et La Hollande. Par L....

(Brussels and Paris : Van Oast. 3 fr. net.)—This is in the main a study of Dutch neutrality and of the efforts of the German propa- gandists in Holland. M. Pickard thinks that......

The Economic History Of Ireland In The Eighteenth...

George O'Brien. (Dublin : Maunsel. 10s. 6d. net.)—This book contains a great deal of interesting and curious information about Irish agriculture and industry before the Union.......

The Albanian Question. By M. Konitza. (anglo-albanian

Society, 71 Belsize Park Gardens, N.W. 3.)—This short sketch of Albanian history and of the Albanian claim to independence, recognized by the Powers in 1913, deserves attention.......

Independent Bohemia. By Vladimir Nosek. (dent. 3s. 6(1....

is a well-written and instructive account of Bohemia's struggle for the recovery of her lost independence, which has now been crowned with success. It began long before the war.......

Fiction.

THE GREAT HUNGER.* The Great Hunger is not a story of famine but of conflicting aspirations and ambitions ; the root idea being that in the modern world, in which wealth,......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent retietsj Fighting for Sea Power in the Days of Sail. By H. W. Household. (Macmillan and Co. 2s.)—In this......