29 MAY 1915, Page 23

A Short History of Belgium and Holland, by Alexander Young

(T. Fisher Cowin, 5s. net), is he reality a new edition of a book published as long ago as 1886 under the title of A Short History of the Netherlands. The last chapter has been brought up to date, but by far the larger part of the book is devoted to the earlier history of the Low Countries, and especially to the sixteenth century.