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How To Seep Fit ; Or, The Soldier's Guide To

Health. in Field, Camp, and Quarters. Compiled by Surgeon-Major H. Waite. (Gay and Polden. 3d.)—This excellent little book contains a number of simple health maxims for soldiers......

Some Books Of The Week.

[tinder this heading we notice such Books of the weak as has. not been re served for review in other forms.] Why Britain is at War. By Sir Edward Cook. (Macmillan and Co.......

Readable Novels.—mrs. Vanderstein's Jewels. By Mrs....

6s.)—Few will be able to solve this admirable detective story, the only fault of which is its excessive length.—From an Islington Window. By M. Betham-Edwards. (Smith, Elder,......

Fiction.

THE WALL OF PARTITION.* THOUGH some people may be tempted to condemn novel reading for the time being, on the ground that it is calculated to blunt the edge of the national......

Angel Island. By Inez Haynes Gillmore. (g. Bell And Sons.

6s.)—The author probably intends this book as an allegory. The scene is a desert island and the personages a shipwrecked company of five very terrestrial men, who are presently......

International Law : Topics And Discussions. (u.s. Naval...

very timely publication contains a summary of the discussions on naval questions of inter- national law which were held last year at the American Naval War College at......