4 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 24

The River Severn from Source to Mouth is the attractive

subject of a small book by Miss M. Lanchester, illustrated by a map and some sixty pen-and-ink drawings by the author (Murby and Co., 2s. 6d. net). The Severn has been said to " do everything that a well-conducted river ought to do," and it is partly on account of its being a typical river and of the variety of its course that Miss Lancliester has chosen it for her description. The work may thus be said to combine the purposes of a geography lesson and of a guide-book.