6 SEPTEMBER 1913, page 17

Gold Win Smith's Correspondence.*

IT is to-day too often the misfortune of departed greatness to suffer from what may, perhaps, be called a certain importunity of admiration. No sooner is a man of any......

Books.

THE NAVAL AND MILITARY SITUATION OF THE BRITISH ISLES.* A PORTION of these extremely interesting essays was pub- lished a year ago in the TVestminster Gazette, when they not......