SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this coiumn does not necessarily preclude subsevent review.]
Amongst books on subjects connected with the war we may mention Chivalry and the Wounded (L. Upcott Gill and Son, is. net), in which Miss E. M. Tenison gives a striking account of the work done in diminution of human suffering by the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, from 1014 to the present year, and makes an appeal for help to the modern Ambulance of St. John.—Row the War Came About, by J. Holland Rose (Patriotic Publishing Co., 4d.), is an extremely lucid account of "a great and complex crisis," written by a scholar of the highest historical eminence and authority for the use of boys and girls in all English-speaking countries— Mr. C. F. Tweney's Dictionary of Naval and Military Terms (T. Fisher ITnwin, 2s. 6d. net) explains most words and things relating to modern war ; in especial, it includes a useful list of the principal British warships, with their size and arma- ment.—The Unspeakable Prussian, by C. Sheridan Jones (Cassell and Co., 2s. net), is a study of Prussian policy from Frederick the Great to Bismarck and the present Kaiser—or, as the author calls it, "a history of progressive deceit."
The War and the World's Wheat (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 3d. net) deals with the probable effects of a shortage in the European harvests next year, and suggests measures which should be taken in this country to guard against them.— Four sermons on the war by the Rev. Alexander Connell, of Liverpool, are reprinted under the title of The National Crisis (Liverpool Booksellers Co.).—Short Cuts to First Aid (Stanley Paul and Co., 7d. net) is a handy pocket-book of hints by a Metropolitan police surgeon.
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