13 FEBRUARY 1915, page 25

German Spies.*

Tins is a disappointing book. On the corm• it bears a most quaint and fascinating reproduction of " the black cow—the mystic sign employed by von Black's spies." We naturally......

Fiction.

RAIN BEFORE SEVEN.* Ma. Lail:arms, who enters the literary arena with an equipment rare in a novice, serves to illustrate a criticism of the late Sir Alfred Lyall in the volume......

Britain's Imperial Destiny.*

IT was s most happy thought which has led to the republica- tion of the late Professor Crumb's lectures on Britain's Imperial destiny. They were originally delivered in the......