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Mr. De Foe Defoe. By James Sutherland. (methuen. I2s. 6d.)

MODERN writers on Defoe have mainly devoted themselves to criticism of his work ; for biography we have had to turn to useful but cursory shorter lives or grope with lagging......

The English Soldier

Vain Glory. A Miscellany of the Great War. Edited by Guy Chapman. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) WE had reached a point at which no more War-books of any originality were to be expected,......