... genius of the ra.ee.”—The Times. JANUARY CONTAINS: The Scene of War.—lV. By Odysseus. The British in France -Tanks the Battle of the Somme The Commander-In-Chief. Increased Agricultural Production. By Professor Somerville, Oxford University. Tales of Gaspipe ...

... merits are well sustained. The last two weekly parts to reach deal respectively with the Navy’s work in 1910 and the Battle of the Somme (second part). The former is especially welcome, for it breaks somewhat new ground for a work of this character. Although ...

... grave inferiority of quality, even if allowance be made for the plain superiority of the French artiUery. When the Battle of the Somme was well under way, and the German offensive at Verdun petered out, and von Hindenburg began to collect his striking ...