READABLE NOVELS.—My Chinese Days. By Gulielma F. Alsop. (Hutchinson. 10s.
6d. net.)—A series of sketches of the exciting adventures of an American woman doctor, who is also a missionary, in China. There is plenty of local colour, and the escapes of the heroine from flood and fire are excellent reading. —How They Did It. By Gerald O'Donovan. (Methuen. 8s. net.)—Only readers who never suffer from pessimism can ven- ture to read this terrible indictment of the way in which the war was managed. The waste, not to put it more strongly, in certain Army Departments is only equalled by the awful picture of the civilian Ministries which existed only for the employment of armies of staff. The knowledge that, although the book is an exaggeration, there i3 a certain amount of truth at the bottom of its allegations, makes the whole volume extremely depressing reading.
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