1 AUGUST 1914, Page 23

The Story of Mr. Chamberlain's Life. By A. Mackintosh. (Hodder

and Stoughton. la. net.)—Mr. Chamberlain " was never afraid of ghosts rising from his buried past." This modest and timely biography sketches the main facts in his strenuous career, and shows how " he broke up for a time the two great parties in the State."