5 JUNE 1915, page 18

Schools And School-books.—i.°

IF the new century is not itself producing much great literature as yet, it is studying what the old centuries have left it with a zeal that befits its youth. The history of......

Our National Finances.*

SOME experts say that our whole system of national finance, like so many other well-established institutions, is now in the melting-pot of war—that it will have to be......

British Birds.* Tins Splendid Work, Which Is Promised Us...

in four volumes by the autumn of 1916, is a fine addition to the literature of British ornithology. Every one knows and • British Birds. Written and Illustrated by A. Thorburn,......