"Jy tue Sipp Suows," by Capt.
Wedgwood Benn, m.r., D.8.0., pre. (Hodder & Stoughton).
This book is described on its outside paper cover as "Observations by a Flier on Five Fronts" and the description is perfectly true, it is, however, not nearly comprehensive enough for the "Observations" are not confined to flying as one might be led to suppose, nor to five fronts; the an ur served on six fronts and was pr sent at many battles, but in addition to this actual war experiences (as to which it is to be noted he is characteristically modest where his own performances are concerned) his observations extend to many other things and in dealing with such matters as the "Military System" and the Government of Egypt" Capt. Benn shows that besides proving himself a capable soldier in the field and the air, he had a keen eye for the administrative side of the war. Very much the same things have been said before on the subject of the military machine, but we doubt if they have ever been put in quite so clear and convincing, yet withal, so simple a form as they are in Capt. Benn's book. The accounts of actual warfare are most interesting and the many little personal touches, with which they abound, make them very pleasant reading. Capt. Benn served with the Yeo-maury in the Dardanelles and afterwards joined the Air Service fighting in the well known seaplane "Ben-ma-Chree," he also served in the Aden Hinterland, on the Adriatic and on the Italian front. Capt. Benn writes as a soldier, but we are glad to know he is a Bouse of Commons ready to do his politician who will go back to the "Despuau Hanp," by Lucas Malet.'imagine it can go as far as to (Methuen 7/-). make " woman denounce her lover It is pleasant to find the author! to the Committee of Public Safety, of "Sir Richard Calmady" giving!45 Eustico de Gaelans docs, mere-us another specimen of her work|1y because he happens to wish to and the appearance of "Deadham|™atry another woman.
Nicole—Hard" will be welcomed.
There|the "other woman" would have are not many authors who have|been more convincing if she had such an attractive way of describing been more strongly drawn, She is people—as in all her books the|"ther a poor creature. The hero, characters are equally as important|Jacque de Marignon, is by far as the plot and perhaps this isthe best of the lot and the even more marked in "Deadham|fe#der gets fond enough of him to Hard" than in any of her other|e Pleased when he marries Nicole books. The plot is an interesting|@8d lives happily ever after. lone and the effect of the discovery lof her father's lapse from the straight and narrow path upon \Damaris Varity, daughter of Sic ifatnd is now an independent Charles Verity of "Deadham Hard"
most convizeingly portrayed. Sir Whatever mistakes labour may Charles Verity is a splendid type make, it will be impossible. to of man and his daughter worship-bring the world to a worse posi: ped him and set him upon a tion than it is in at the present: pedestal above all other men. Sir moment.—Mr. J. H. Thomas, wy. Charles, however, had made a mis-Gradually one sees a finer Eng-take in' his past' of which he was land shaping and emerging out of constantly reminded by the pre-ithe chaos that was—Mr. John fence in the same village of his|asefeld. illegitimate son and Damaris dis-I hope the day may come when covers this.
There is a strong|that misleading term "public romantic theme running through the book and the only criticism which is not wholly favourable is that the story is a trifle too long drawn out—bowevor, it is difficult to have too much of a good thing. schools" will disappear from our educational vocabulary, common to all seminaries of sound. learning—Dr, W. W. Vaughan.
Labour stands for national justice for all the people and not for a class—Mr. Arthur Hender~ son, MP.
"a P. sce," by Mi 5 W. Kaye. (Stanley Paul araior oF Fraxce," by Michael O in a few eases have the demands of my constituents been So many books have been written junreasonable—Mr. J. W. Lorden, about the French Revolution that Period that is new, The "Scarlet pr, there is little more to write of that Musi has usually been taught tne, Sbsurd assumption that Pimpernel" has exhausted all daring rescues and thrilling escapes, and any other novel now is almost bound to go over the same ground as that popular hero covered. Mr. Kaye has chosen his characters well, and the story is interesting, before a child can be brought into communion with beauty in sound it must be compelled to learn the technique of some instrument—Mr. Stewart Macpherson.
Work is a moral duty. Ho who doos not work, he who exploits the best to alter a system, with which' but it would be more so if it were labour of others, has'no right to ho has had an opportunity of deal-' written with less affectation and if call himself a man.—The Presiing with at first. hand and has'he had omitted the short "tag" dent of Czecho-Slovakia, found wanting, and who will bring' at the end of neatly every chapter! It wns anticipated that it would his knowledge, gained by actual—such as "But the smile of take at least 10 years to make experience, to bear towards the Eustice de Gaelans was not good prohibition an "issue" in Eng-furtherance of the future of avia-'to see."
That charming lady's land. It has become an "issue" in tion, as to which he has no un-character is overdrawn. Jealousy Less than 10 months.—Rev. Paut decided opinions. goes far, but it is difficult to Hutchinson,
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