16 DECEMBER 1916, page 17

The Round Table.

Tree Round Table for December has two important articles, on " Industry and Finance " and on Labour and Reconstruction." The first is a dispassionate comparison of English and......

Readable Novels.—william By The Grace Of God. By Marjorie...

(Methuen and Co. 5s. net.)----An admirable novel with William of Orange as its hero.—The Dividing Sword. By Harold Spender. (Mills and Boon. Os.)—An account of the sad fate of a......

Gift - Books.

SOME BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.t Nursery Rhymes of London Town' is a fascinating little book of verses. They have the authentio rhythm and- swing of " the old ago," and are......

Fiction.

THE OLD BLOOD.* Mn. FREDERICK PALMER, one of the very best of the American war correspondents, has been our good friend as a recorder of what he has seen, and he continues to be......

The Potsdam Diary.•

TIIE third year of the war brings us the third issue of The Potsdam Diary. Mr. Masse once again shows himself our champion quota- tionist, both as regards the old and the new.......