15 SEPTEMBER 1917, Page 16

Women's Work in War Time. By H. M. Usborne. (1'.

Werner Laurie. 2s. net.)—Mrs. Usborne insists in her Introduction to Chia useful handbook that girls must in future be trained like their brothers for the work which they wish to undertake. Untrained women are not wanted ; half-trained women cannot hope for permanent employment ; but there is always room for those who are properly qualified. Rim Ruth Young in an article on clerical work maintains that the Government is a bad employer of women's labour ; and Miss Zimmern in an article on the Civil Service declares that the Departments, through lack of forethought, have often failed to use women to the best advantage, or to discriminate between those who were well educated and those who were not.