6 FEBRUARY 1915, page 25

Fiction.

BILLIE'S MOTHER,• Teen tendency of a good many modern novelists is to subject a realistic plot to arbitrary, artificial, or melodramatic treat- anent. Mrs. Shrine has adopted......

The Magazines.

In the Nineteenth Century Sir Thomas Barclay writes on the violation of the neutrality of Belgium, emphasizing the points that not only did Germany never denounce the Treaties......

Economic Cycles : Their Law And Cause, By Henry Ludwell

Moore (Macmillan and Co., 8s. 6d. net), discusses, as its title suggests, those large rhythmic economic changes which have long puzzled economists. The author, who holds the......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Igolics in this column does not uccmasily preduat subsequent review.] Is logic concerned with the general forms of all valid reasoning? Does logic, that is to say, enunciate......

A People's Man. By E. Phillips Oppenbeire. (methuen And Co.

6s.)—The central idea of A People's Man is that which inspired Mr. Galaworthy's last play—the conflict between intellect and passion, between the study of economics and the......