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THE WAR MAKER. By Alan Hillgarth. (Nelson. 7s. 6d. net.)--Although

The War Maker is not quite as entertaining as Mr. Alan Hillgarth's last novel, The Princess and the Per- jurer, every reader who has been interested in the campaign of Abd-el-Krim will enjoy this account of gun-running as organized by two unscrupulous English adventurers in Morocco. The author conveys with much success the pictures of the hills and scrub lands of Morocco, of the crowded market place of Tangier, and especially of the charming city of Tetuan, with its low houses gleaming on the brown hillside. The ad vnitures and escapes are exciting and the villains magni- ficently callous and unscrupulous.