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Some Books Of The Week.

Metes in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review:I The Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer. By Eric Fisher Wood. (New York : Century Company. 81.75.)—Major......

Weekly Meat Rations : Taylor's Tables. (mathieson....

for rapidly calculating purchasing value of coupons from 4- to 24 " will be invaluable to the puzzled housewife who is trying to use the family meat-cards to the best advantage......

Fiction.

BEFORE THE 1VIND.t Miss JAN= Larva has given us a war novel in which the scene is laid at home and the plot developed with freshness and originn-lity. Ann Charteris became......

The Conditions Of Social Well-being Considered In The...

the War. By Richardson Evans. (Wimbledon : E. Trim. 6d.)—In this pamphlet, notable for its even temper and good sense, Mr. Richardson Evans records the impressions left on his......

The University Of Louvain And Its Library. By T. W.

Koch. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 6d. net.)—Mr. Koch, of the library of Congress, gives in this pamphlet a short account of the University of Louvain and of the deliberate destruction......

Mrs. Holmes: Commandant. By R. E. Forbes. (edward Arnold....

net.)—No one who has any intimate knowledge of Auxiliary Military Hospitals can fail to find great entertainment in this volume. From the mobilizing of the Great Woman who gives......

- Neglected British History. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. (h.

Milford, for the British Academy. 2s. net.)—Professor Flinders Petrie, turning from ancient Egypt to early Britain, champions the claims of the Welsh chronicle of Tysilio to be......

The Trustees Of Sir John Swine's Museum, In Lincoln's Inn

Fields—an interesting collection that is far too little known— have published a shilling set of Postcards with photographs of the museum and its attractive, though somewhat......

The Epistle To The Hebrews. Edited By A. Nairne. (cambridge

University Press. 4s. 6d. net.)—This new volume of the " Cam- bridge Greek Testament for Schools " is very ably edited: Mr. Nairne's historical and entice' survey of the problem......

Messrs. George Philip Have Published Two Excellent Maps...

our two Eastern campaigns. One is a Strategical Map of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2s. 6d. net) on a scale of forty- eight miles to an inch ; the other is a Strategical Map of......

The Journal Of The Royal United Service Institution For...

(6s.) contains an important article on the battle of Charleroi, in August, 1914, by Major T. E. Compton, and a highly instructive translation of " A German Captain's Narrative......