26 SEPTEMBER 1914, page 23

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in tisis column does not sueessartly preclude eubaeiruent review.] well-known Professor of History—is an admirable presentation of our case in the form of " a village......

The Caddis-worm. By C. A. Dawson Scott. (hurst And Blackett.

6e.)—When the intelligent reader discovers that both the doctor hero of this story and his mother have what is commonly known as "a past" he will be inclined to muse on the......

The French President.*

WE learn from the preface to this anonymous sketch that it was finished before the outbreak of the war, and owing to this fact some of the passages in it which deal with foreign......

Fiction.

THE HAPPY RECRUIT.* THE title of Mr. Pett Ridge's new novel suggests a story of red-hot appropriateness to the present situation. As a matter of fact, it is nothing of the sort.......