25 MAY 1907, Page 22

Sons of Valour. By Kate Stanway. (Henry J. Drone. ls.

net.)--This is a "complete record of the Victoria Cross heroes from its institution to the present date." More than five hundred Crosses have been given, and perhaps a third of the recipients are still alive, the eldest dating back the deed which was thus honoured—throwing a live bomb overboard—to the year 1854, two years before the institution of the Cross.