25 MARCH 1916, page 16

Fiction.

THE RED CROSS BARGE.• ARTILLERY fire may achieve an accuracy once thought impossible, but Cupid, as Mrs. Belloc Lowndes in effect reminds us, throws his darts as erratically as......

The Turn Of The Tide. By Arnold F. Graves. (john

Murray. Is. net.) —A further collection of Mr. Graves's rhymed chronicles of the war. As readers of The Long Retreat know, Mr. Graves's " doggerel " often reaches a much higher......

The Fourteenth Annual Report Of The Society Of Somerset Men

in London (Western Gazette, Yeovil, ls.) contains, besides some charming articles in the Somerset dialect, the words and music of a Somerset song which is now to us. It is......

Readable Novels. —some Further Adventures Of Mr. P. J....

By Lord Frederio Hamilton. (Eveleigh Nash. 3s. Od. net.)—" P. J." is already well known as a detective on the track of German spies. This second series of adventures is even......

Some Books Of The Week.

Notice in this column does op: necessarily preclude subsepsenl realm.] The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. By H. W. Fincham. (W. H. and L. Collingridge. 6s.......

The Call Of Belgium. By J. A. Randolph. (the Architect

Office. ls.) —Most of the contents of this paper-bound lock were written for the Architect : we are not told at what date. The writer gives an account of the buildings, mainly......

The English Itrfe.t The Book Before Us Is One On

which we desire to congratulate, not only the author and the publishers, but the University of Oxford, beneath whose shadow the learning has been amassed which has made it......

Readings Front Indian History For Boys And Girls. By Ethel

R. Sykes. Part I., " Vedic Times to the Coming of the English.' Christian Literary Society for India, 35 John Street, Bedford Row- 28. net.)—Miss Sykes has compiled an excellent......