5 MAY 1917, page 16

The Physiology Of Food And Economy In Diet. By W.

M. Bayliss. (Longmans and Co. 2s. net.)—Professor Bayliss has written a very sensible little book on the subject that interests every one just now. His leading maxim is : " Take......

Readable Novels.—the Citadel. By • Cecilia Hill. 'with An...

by Emile Cammaerts. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)— A .novel with a decidedly musical tinge. It ends with. a most Poignant description of the taking of Dinant.—The New Order. By......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude aubseinent review.] THE "May MACazrses.—The Nineteenth Century has an interesting artiole on " The French Solution of the......

Fiction. .

A NEW AMERICAN SATIRIST.* Mn. FREEMAN Tunas: is declared in the publishers' announcement on the wrapper to be the greatest living master of satire in America. This is a large......

We Are Glad To Welcome The Collection Of Mr. C.

L. Graves's poems which has just been published by Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson under the title of War's Surprises, and other Verses (3s. fid. not). As so many of the poems in......

Sir George Reid's Reminiscences.*

As one reads Sir George Reid's agreeable if rather slight reminis- cences one cannot help reflecting how much Australia owes to Scotland. The Scots are a race of pioneers. Among......