Arthur Ines Adoai, 1894-1916. By Adela Marion Adam. (Cambridge: Bowes.
10s. sa. net.)—This is the record of one of the many bright young lives prematurely cut short in the war. Arthur. Adam was a Winchester boy who won the senior classical scholarship of his year at Balliol. He had finished his second year at Oxford when the war broke out, and had had tLe distinction of writing an epigram in his Hertford scholarship papers which found its way into the Times:— " Labuntur mores ; gestis denarius olim
Vix satin : at lam nil Roma nisi assn facit."
It was a very neat comment on " the Timss for a penny," and it has now some historical value as evidence that in the remote past of 1914 paper was cheap. Adam's letters from school and college and from the front are pleasant reading. He was reported wounded and a prisoner on the Somme in September, 1916, but nothing more was heard of him.
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