3 JUNE 1899, Page 25

History Up to Date, by William A. Johnston (H. R.

Allenson. 6s.), is a " Concise Account of the War of 1898 between the United States and Spain," a war which, according to the author, "found the United States of America a thriving young Republic, a healthy boy, who had never been away from home ; " and " left it one of the Powers of thd world, a full-grown man gone forth in search of adventures." Some of the photographs referred to in Mr. Ford's volume are given here.