In Deeds of a Creat Railway (Murray, 15s. net) Mr.
G. R. S. Darroch records " the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway Company during the Great War "—or, as Mr. L. J. Maxse more briefly puts it in his interesting introduction, tells us how that great organization " did its bit." The extensive works of the company at Crewe were soon turned into a munition factory, and Mr. Darroch throws much new light, for the general reader, on the manufacture el
shells, fuses, paravanes, and similar things. He is evidently More expert as an engineer than as a writer, but in spite of his somewhat involved sentences his book may be read with pleasure. It is a timely memorial to the energy and patriotic enthusiasm of- the late Mr. Bowen-Cooke, whose death was announced just before this record of his achievement in feeding the guns made its appearance.
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