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Messrs. Thornton Butterworth Ltd. have issued in the Horne University Library three books (2s. Gd. each) which will be of great assistance to the general reader. They are The Great War, 1914-1918, by Major-General Sir George Aston; Some Economic Consequences of the Great War, by Professor A. L. Bowley ; and The Political Consequences of the Great War, by Professor Ramsay Muir. All of them are simply written by scholars of their subjects, and incorporate the results of the latest research in a very small and convenient compass. For those who have not the leisure for the works which they summarize these books are indispensable.