The War Against War. By Professor Christen Collin. With An
Introduction by William Archer. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.) --Professor Collin, the distinguished Norwegian critic, is a warm supporter of the cause of the Allies. A number of......
L'hrough The Iron Bars. By Ernie Carnmaerts. With...
Louis Raenmekers. (John Lane. Gd. net.)—M. Cammaerts describes very clearly in this pamphlet the successive phases of Belgium's martyrdom under the rule of an enemy who has by......
Overseas, The Modest Little Monthly Journal Edited By...
for the Overseas Club and Patriotic League of Britons Overseas, has in its May number a stirring message from the Prime Minister to the hundred and fifty thousand members, and......
The History Of Salonika Is Well Told By Mr. William
Miller in the new number of the English Historical Review (Longmans and Co., 6s.). It was founded by Kassander, King of Macedon, in 315 B.c., and named after his wife......
Character. Of Shakespeare's Plays. By William Hazlitt....
net.)—Hazlitt's engaging essays on Shakespeare have been included in the " World's Classics " just a century after their first appearance. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch contributes......
Some Books Of The Week.
Walks in this column does not necessarily preclude subse q uent ream] To Verdun from the Somme. By H. E. Brittain. (John Lane. 2s. Gd. net.)—Mr. Harry Brittain gives a very......
Romance : Two Lectures. By Sir Waiter Raleigh. (h. Milford.
4s. 6d. net.)—These two attractive and stimulating lectures, delivered at Princeton in 1915, supplement the author's well-known essay on Romance. One deals broadly with the......
Dublin Explorations And Reflections.*
In The Innocents at Home Mark Twain tolls us of a Nevada farmer who made his fortune silver-mining and " went to Europe and travelled. And when he came back he was never tired......
Poems. By Brian Brooke (korongo). (john Lane. 3s. Gd....
racy, rattling verses describing wild adventures in the bush, with beasts of prey, or savages, or the more dangerous Ger- mans, show that British East Africa has already......
Strange Meetings. By Harold Monro. (the Poetry Bookshop....
Monro's new poems are full of ideas, but too often lack poetic form. The title-piece consists of twenty-one brief sections, each in a different metre or rhythm ; it would need a......
A Doctor's Diary In Damaraland. By Dr. H. F. B.
Walker. (E. Arnold. 7s. Gd. net.)—The author of this agreeable book volunteered as a medical officer in General Botha's force which, by its dashing strategy and its great......
Women War Workers. Edited By 0. Stone. (g. G. Harrap.
3s. 6d. net.)—Lady Jellicoe says very truly in her preface that " this is not a men's war,' as wars have been hitherto, but one in which both sexes throughout the Empire must......
Serbski Peame : National Song. Of Serbia. By Owen Meredith.
(Chatto and Windus. 2s. net.)—The first Lord Lytton's spirited metrical versions of Serbian ballads and of the lament over the battle of Kosovo, when Serbia was beaten down by......
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