3 OCTOBER 1914, Page 7

In the popular edition of Woman and Labour, by Olive

Schreiner (T. Fisher Unwin, 2s. net), we note the author's opinion that in future wars women may play a leading part as managers of the commissariat department and inspectors of clothing for the Army, " and that the nation which is the first to employ its women so may be placed at a vast advantage over its fellows."