... BOOKS ABOUT THE WAR GLIMPSES INTO THE SOULS OF THE BELLIGERENT NATIONS LtJ AUSTRALIA AT THE DARDANELLES TO MR. SYDNEY DE LOGHE, who writes The Straits Impregnable, an attractive book issued by Mr. J ...

... Industrial Loan Bill. Mr. Oswald Stoll has drawn up the first draft of a bill to provide for the granting of industrial loans by banks on property and for the purposes of production, to provide for a ...

... SOME GOOD STORIES FROM NEJK ROOKS On the Fringe of Armageddon.-- Small in bulk, but great in spirit, is Mr. James Milne's News from 'Somewhere,' with its many gleams of great events gathered durin ...

... The fashion of beautiful colour books, which have largely taken the place of the annual Keepsakes of another day (now to be found on the fourpenny bookstall in a sadly foxed co ...

... By a Returned Prisoner of War MONEY is of little help to our countrymen interned in Germany. Butter, ham, bacon, jam, margarine, lard, etc., are all at prices which verge on the fa ...

... In Memoriam, 1914, and After. By Nicholas Kilburn. fNovello. 8d.) I This is music in memory of our brave soldiers and sailors. His War Record is the title of a little diary for soldiers, giving space ...

... This is one of the series of Peoples of Many Lands, which Messrs. A. and C. Black publish from time to time, and which are, perhaps, better described as albums than as books. Very charming albums they are, filled with pictures by capable artists reproduced in colour and by photogravure alternately, with all the necessary racial individuality and per sonal character. Mr. Lance Thackeray is ...

... THE LIBRARY, FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE. UNDER this title Mr. Cuthbert Bradley has recently published, with Messrs. G. Routledge and Co., a companion volume to his book published two years since, entitled Good Sport seen with Some Famous Packs. The new volume, which is not one whit less interesting than its predecessor, consists of a series of chapters describing varied phases of ...

... BABES' OF THE WILD. Mb. Chas. D. Roberts, author of so many good books of natural history, gives us yet another volume treated in the original manner of which he still holds the individuality, even in these times of all-round barefaced imitation. Babes of the Wild deals with young animals of the woods, the lake and by an extension of the ordinary meaning of the title, also of the sea. ...

... To the golfer's library there seems to be no limit. And it is just as well. For, of a surety, there is no limit to the lessons which he can learn. Quite recently it was asserted, on the authority of a famous ex-champion, that the last word on golf instruction had been written. Up to that time it was undeniably the latest but that it was not the last, or for that matter the best, has been ...

... . ALTHOUGH The Faun, the new play by Mr. Edward Knoblauch at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, arouses mixed feelings, I think the prevailing sensation is one of repugnance to the non-human attributes of the chief character. If mortals are to reverence a god, be sure that deity must have human form. Wings may be added, it is true, because we all would dearly love to fly, but at the sight of ...

... . REVUE IN FRENCH.-- I am, of course, in a difficulty if I attempt to express any opinion on the question whether this little affair at the Garrick, called Y'a d'Jolies Femmes, is or is not a witty commentary on passing events. If I say it is not, I lay myself open to the extremely unpleasant suggestion that I probably did not understand most of what the commentators were talking about. I ...