19 JANUARY 1918, Page 16

short . extracts arranged under six heads—autobiography, the philosophy of life,

love and marriage, politics, religion and war. They are not all wise or sincere, but they are all interesting. "A nation ought never to do anything contrary to honour, for in that case she will be the last of all ; it is better to perish." "Not every man is an atheist who would like to be." "In war the first rule of a Commander-in-Chief is to conceal all that he thole:" "Time has a very different value in war from its Value in peace. Every delay in war is deadly." "Mobility is the keynote of war."