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Those who have leisure to study the deeper causes of

the present war will be glad to possess the new edition of Dr. J. Holland Rose's admirable study of The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900 (Constable and Co., 7s. 6d. net). also welcome a timely reprint of Mr. John S. C. Bridge's picturesque study of the expansion of England, From Island to Empire (Chatto and Windus, 2s. net).