SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The first place amongst war books this week must be given to a, manly and heartening volume of sermons, In the Day of Muster, by Professor W. P. Paterson, of the University of Edinburgh (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. net). Professor Paterson reminds us that " the virile tradition of the Scottish Church is utterly inconsistent with Quaker principles."— We must confess to a feeling of disappointment with the uncertain note struck in Friends and the War (Headley Bros.), a collection of addresses delivered at a recent Conference. We prefer the attitude of the Quaker in Napoleon's time, whose principles restrained him from fighting, but who thought it his duty to drive a powder-cart.---To the Daily Telegraph series are added four interesting volumes on Aircraft in War, by Eric Stuart Bruce; Motor Transports in War, by Horace Wyatt; The Russian Advance, by Marr Murray; and Hacking through Belgium, by Edmund Dane (Hodder and Stoughton, ls. net each).—Mies Gladys Lloyd, who was caught in a Belgian village by the outbreak of war, writes a cheery account of An Englishwoman's Adventures in the German Lines (0. Arthur Pearson, Is. net).—Deeds that wilt Never Die, by John Foster Fraser (Cassell and Co., le. net), is a collection of stories of heroism in the great war, taken from the letters of our soldiers and sailors.—Two new volumes of the excellent "Imperial Army Series," edited by E. John Solano, and based on the latest official manuals, deal respece timely with Field Entrenchments, and Ceremonial, Camps, Cooking, &c. (John Murray, 1s. net each).—We have received a timely reprint of the late Mr. Price Collier's picturesque description of Germany and the Germans (Duckworth and Co., 2s. net).
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