Some Books Of The Week.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] Enforced Peace. (New York : League to Enforce Peace.)—This little reprint of the proceedings of the......
Russian Court Memoirs, 1914-1916. By A Russian. (herbert...
6d. net.)—Much of this book seems curiously pro- phetic to-day in the light of the events which have marched so rapidly in Russia during the past few months. The author writes......
Readable Novels.—contraband. By Randall Parrish....
the adventures of a party of people who go for a cruise on a yacht in the early days of the war.— Teddy, R.N.D. By Edith Mary Moore. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.)—A sentimental......
Fiction.
CHANGING WINDS.* Changing Winds may perhaps be not unfairly described as a set of variations on the theme of Mr. St. John Ervine's book, Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster......
Major-general Sir Henry Hallam Parr : Recollections And...
Edited by Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale. (T. Fisher Unwin. 15s. net.)—General Hallam Parr's letters and diaries contain interesting references to the Zulu War, on which he......
The Street Of Lnk. By H. Simonis. (cassell And Co.
7s. 6d. net.)— If any layman turns the pages of this gossipy book about Fleet Street and " the provinces," he will suggest as a motto for it the old music-hall refrain, "......
In Good Company. By Coulson Kernahan. (john Lane. Ffs....
Kernahan writes pleasantly in this book of friends so diverse as Swinburne, Watts-Dunton, Whymper, Oscar Wilde, and the Rev. S. J. Stone, who wrote " The Church's One......
A Supplement To The Forty-fifth Annual Report Of The Local
Government Board, 1915-16, contains a Report on Child Mortality by Sir Arthur Newaholme, Medical Officer of the Board (H.M. Stationery Office-, Is. net). This is the fourth......