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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JAN. e, 1917.

writer does good service in his main contention, that the War has made education a matter of most vital urgency. We were grateful to Mr. John B. C. Kershaw for summing up his article on ' Economic Aspects of the War ' with so much hopefulness. 'The general trend of the number and it is well it should be so is extremely grave.

THE new Nineteenth Century contains no fewer than four articles of psychological (under which word we would include psychical) interest. Mr. J. A. Hill and Sir Herbert Stephen discuss the question of communication with the dead, the

one pro, the other contra. It seems to us that they both leave the matter as they found it, though

each argument is interesting, and Mr. Hill's provides also some curious illustrations. Mr. Harold F. Wyatt writes on ' If a Man die, shall he live again ? and, while he rejects religious

dogmas and the idea of any_ revelation having been made to man on this subject, he seems to think that a life after this is more probable than not. His article is to be continued. Mr. F. I. Paradise on ' Does the National Mission interpret the National Soul ? ' makes some highly disputable statements, and, on the whole, strikes us as but a superficial interpreter. Dr. Grundy entitles his paper ' Political Psychology : a Science which has

yet to be Created,' and thereby, we think, commits himself to adherence to a scheme of thought which will soon undergo radical modification, if not more. But the paper itself is one of the best worth attention in the number. The broad interest of the articles on current topics is reconstructive : it is thus with Dr. Shadwell's ' Ordeal by Fire ' ; Mr. J. A. B. Marriott's ' The Problem of the Commonwealth ' (a weighty and well-reasoned contribution) ; Mr. W. J. Maiden's ' The Greater Agriculture ' ; ' The Nobler Politics before Us,' by Mr. George A. B. Dewar ; and, above all, in Lord Sydenham's important discussion of Indian affairs and his indication of the kinds of reform with which we should meet the develop- ment of real danger. Two papers of great interest as showing foreign points of view are Countess Zanardi Landi's ' The Only Hope for Austria '- a decidedly revolutionary production ; and ' Germany and South America : a Brazilian View,' by Senor Edgardo de Magalhaes. ' The Reward of Labour : an Eirenicon,' by Mr. W. S. Lilly, has the usefulness, by no means to be undervalued, of an academic view of a burning topic. Major Kenneth Bell is refreshing and diverting, after the sober consideration of so many problems, in his ' Joys and Sorrows of a " Town Major " in France.' Mr. W. G. FitzGerald on ' President Wilson's Dream ' is at once sound and lively. Sir John Macdonell discusses a matter of greater moment than might at first sight appear ' The Lawyer's Place in the Modern State.'

IN the January Cornhill there is a very effective bit of fiction by Mr. William Hope Hodgson en- titled ' The Real Thing : " S.O.S. ' It describes the dash of a great liner a hundred and seventeen miles against the wind to save another liner on fire, punctuating the long onward rush with the talk between the wireless operators on the two vessels. That and Mr. Edmund Gosse's ' Battle- fields of the Ourcq ' are the two papers out of this number which have fixed themselves most firmly in our memory. Mr. Gosse imprints on the mind for ever his vision of the waving little

tricolour flags which like flowers, now thick set, now sparse, mark the spots where a soldier lies buried. Lieut. W. E. de B. Whittaker gives a vivid account of a journey into and back out of Germany between July 27 and Aug. 5, 1914. We noticed one good detail about the manage- ment of the German army : the men, at the start, were made to wear their new boots of undressed leather, carrying in their kit their old ones, in order that the new boots might be broken in and grow comfortable before it came to fighting, and also that when wearied with marching they might have the old ones to change into for relief. Sir Charles Lucas contributes an article on Augustus Lord Howe and Roger Townshend ' Two Monuments in Westminster Abbey ' ; and the Dean of Norwich writes pleasantly about Gray and the Ibicentenary of his birth. There is also the first chapter of a serial by Maud Diver, in which appear a subtly disagreeable young lady and a nice-minded and agreeable one ; but we pricked up our ears on learning that the nice one had just been " going through a course of massage and magnetic healing." Mr. Boyd Cable tells an incident of the first Christ- mas of the Old Contemptibles, and Dr. Fitchett * writes with his accustomed eloquence on ' The War in Perspective.'

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MR. W. FLETCHER. We think an application to a good second-hand bookseller would be the quickest way of obtaining the work desired.

CORRIGENDA. 12 S. ii. 540, col. 2, in the para- graph announcing Sir Richard Temple's contribu- tion ' The Correspondence of Richard Edwards, for " the lovely picture they give of the Anglo- Indian life of the period " read the lively picture, &c. 12 S. ii. 538, col. 1, 1. 8 from foot, for "Cuenca" read Cuenca.