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STONYHURST WAR RECORD. By the Rev. Francis Irwin, S.J., assisted

by Captain Cecil Chichester-Constable. (Stonyhurst College. 21s.)--Stonyhurst sent 1,012 old boys to the War, and 167 of them were killed. The famous school's War record is elaborately set forth in this handsome and well- illustrated quarto. Lieutenant Maurice Dease, who was killed early in the• morning of August 23rd, 1914, while defending the Nimy bridge, north of Mons, was awarded posthumously the first Victoria Cross of the War. Stony- hurst is justly proud of him and has obtained confirmation by the War Office of the claim that he was the first in 1914 to win the Cross by delaying the enemy's advance at a critical moment.