17 OCTOBER 1914, page 21

Six New Volumes Of "daily Telegraph War Books" Are Issued

by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton (1s. net each). By far the most interesting is In the Firing Line, compiled by A. St. John Adcock from the picturesque letters of our soldiers......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent reniew.1 The Clarendon Press sends us another batch of the timely and admirable " Oxford Pamphlets " on subjects......

Fiction.

THE HOLE OF THE PIT.• IT is an open secret that under the pseudonym of "Adrian Ross" Mr. Ropes has for many years contributed to the gaiety of nations as the author of scores,......

The Pride Of Eve. By Warwick Deeping. (cassell And Co.

6s.)—Mr. Deeping has not paid much attention in the first part of his novel to his individual men and women. He has been content to draw two conflicting types—the type of the......

Amongst Other Publications Connected With The War We May...

popular editions of General von Bernhardi's Cavalry and Major Stewart L. Murray's The Reality of War (Hodder and Stoughton, 2s. net each); The Kaiser Unmasked, a study of his......

Readable Novels.—the Toy Of Youth. By Eden Phillpotts....

Hall. 2s. net.)—A new and cheaper edition of Mr. Phillpotta's novel.—The Letter of the Contract. By Basil King. (Methuen and Co. 6s.)—A sincere attempt to analyse the emotions......

Now That We All Realize So Keenly How Much We

owe to the Navy, there ought to be many interested readers for Mr. F. T. Jane's excellent historical account of The British, Battle Fleet (S. W. Partridge and Co., 10s. net),......