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Comrades AU. By Walter J. Mathams. (Chatto and Winans. 2e.)—This

is a volume of addresses—we suppose that they have been spoken to audiences—full of genuine sympathy with the soldier, and of appreciation of his wants. Each is headed by some familiar phrase. One has the beginning of the well-known recruiting advertisement, " Wanted, Men " ; another, " Rising in the Ranks" ; another, " Remember Gordon " ; another, again,

Sentry Go." Lord Roberts prefixes a few words of commenda- tion, which are amply justified.