... Books of the Week A NOVEL AND SOME REMINISCENCES j k_ Views I IN peace days, particularly at this time of the year, it used to be the fashion for the newspapers to start a silly season discussion about any amount of silly subjects. One of them, of course, was the sea-serpent (who knows, by the way, whether our old friend was not a Hun submarine in disguise and another used to be the ...

... Likes and dislikes are not always easily accounted for. In the case of our likes, in particular, some of us are quite content to like without inquiring why. But not all. For the pleasure of liking is really much enhanced by the knowledge that one's penchant say, for instance, for a picture can be translated into words. We all love our Bairnsfather. He has become an institution whether or no we ...

... J |U =^5 BY JINGLE. To judge by the plays about Lancashire that have recently come to Town, the fathers of that salubrious county do not seem to have any sort of luck with their families. They usually begin by ruling with a rod of iron, and end up with a rather badly broken home. Councillor John Clugston, J. P., is the latest sample i of the goods. To begin with, he poses as an aggressively ...

... THE TRENCHES FROM TWO POINTS OF VIEW -4 Mr. Whiteing's C Memoirs A SINGULARLY modest auto biography is given us by Mr. Richard Whiteing in My Harvest (Hodder and Stoughton: Ios. 6d. net). Mr. Whiteing achieved fame with the publication of No. 5, John Street, but a host of friends and the whole of Fleet Street had known all about him long before that admirable work was published. He was meant ...

... P Books of the Week J NOVELS, IMPRESSIONS, AND A MEMOIR Lr Casuals of the Sea MR. William McFee's name will not, perhaps, be very familiar to many readers, but his novel, Casuals of the Sea (Secker: 6s.), is such a fine piece of work that he should speedily find a large public. He belongs to the ultra-modern school. There is no definite plot on counterplot in this detailed history of the ...

... The Menu Some Cheese Dishes AS there are many inquiries for methods of cooking cheese, the following may be useful Rice Croquettes with Cheese Macaroni with Cheese Welsh Rarebit Cheese Pudding Savoury Rice Pudding Corn au Gratin Rice Croquettes with Cheese Wash ½ lb. of rice and simmer slowly in a quart of milk and water until the rice is nicely swollen and the quart of liquid all absorbed. ...

... AN AMERICAN WOMAN ON THE WAR 7 /IaAmsJ American War Letters I MARIE VAN VORST is a well-known American novelist who achieved some success in this country with her Big Tremayne. In War Letters from an American Woman (Lane: 5s. net) she gives a series of her own letters to friends written during the present war. borne were written from France or Italy, others from London or New York. They are ...

... ffllfflliHllBlililMililililiiili 1 Books of the Week 1 g RECONSTRUCTION g Poor Old Party The Recon- structionists are getting busy. Already there is a small library of books dealing with those vast problems which will confront us all when the war is settled and done with. There will be disagreements, of course, and squabbles, and committees, and Com missions, and Blue Books. Blue Books, I ...

... 1 Books of the Week i gj A RUHLEBEN RECORD Jgj piaEEimEEiMBSEBEmEaEaEmiK Prisoners of War THERE are many tricks of the Hun which annoy as much as they distress, but perhaps few of them annoy or distress more than Hunnish accusa tions against our methods of dealing with Huns fortunate enough to be interned in this country. While we are forced to protest against the comfort of the Donington ...

... r n Books of the Week J TWO WAR BOOKS I L 17 v I The War and Thereabouts The war corre spondents have been having rather a better time of it lately. The Tanks, in par ticular. have been a godsend to them. And what with the Somme film and the official photographs those of us who remain in England are beginning to get a pee]) into things as they really are out there. But while columns are ...

... r n Books of the Week J ARNOLD BENNETT'S LATEST I LZI CJ Air. Bennett's Latest THE Five Town have been deserted for Essex and yachts and Paris, and, inci- dentally, the Suffragettes, who, as the ancient periodicals will inform you, flourished in Great Britain circa 1910-1914. But in these new worlds Mr. Arnold Bennett proves himself to be just as well seasoned a traveller as he was in the ...

... BOOKS fa WEEK MORE BOOKS ABOUT RUSSIA Russian Literature To succeed in its purpose a critical study of any writer should have the effect of sending you post-haste to the writer himself. You may then find that you disagree entirely with the critic, or that his interpretation coincides with your own. In either case his work, so far as you are concerned, will not have been wasted. Now in his ...