25 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 16

A Woman and the War. By the Countess of Warwick.

(Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d. net.)—Lady Warwick's papers on the war are some- what vague and colourless, but here and there she speaks out clearly on the grave danger of " race suicide " through the refusal of wives to assume the duties of motherhood, on the weakness of the Govern- ment in dealing with the drink traffic, on the under-payment of women workers, and on the grievous wrong done to the labourer's children by taking them away from school prematurely because there is a tem- porary lank of men. In a chapter on the late King the author says that she does not " remember hearing King Edward utter a single sentence of ill-will to Germany," though he resented the Kaiser's treat- ment of his mother, the Empress Frederick.