Welsh Journals

able value to the practical farmer or stock-breeder who, in addition to his practical knowledge knows something of the scientific aspect of the question, the book will be most interesting and valuable. The author is evidently an enthusiast who has a very wide knowledge of the subject, and who has gone to a lot of trouble in forming a useful digest of a huge mass of material. This highly-laudable enthusiasm leads the author sometimes to adopt explanations which other Mendelians might hesitate to subscribe to. We strongly sympathise with Mr. Wilson's desire to eliminate, as far as possible, the use of technical terms we think, however, that the employment of certain widely known and useful terms would have helped to make the book clearer. Apart from the few points above specified, the book is likely to prove a very useful one the chapters that are of the greatest interest to the practical man are those on egg-laying, the improvement of milk, and on the interesting Svaloff experiments in the improvement of cereals. W. Odd Shots. By One of the Jocks.' Hodder & Stoughton. Is. Will anyone after this war venture to challenge the humour of the Jocks, particularly after enjoying Ian Hay's First Hundred Thousand and Campbell's Spud Tamson ? To say that One of the Jocks is a literary disciple of Ian Hay is enough for most to recommend Odd Shots. Readers of the Outlook have already had an opportunity of appreciating his quality in the sketch We have exploded a mine published in our May number, and in the current number Leave comes from his pen. Odd Shots consists of a number of prose sketches interspersed with verse, all obviously records of personal experiences in the War, written in a vivid but restrained style and illuminated by a delightfully subtle and refreshing humour. We can readily picture one of his Jocks in hospital with a Welshman occupying a bed in the same room. After a brief and breezy competition in strong adjectives the pair fell to discussing Rugger A long and acri- monious series of debates might ultimately have shed much light on the dark deeds of the Welsh forwards had the M.O. not forbidden further mention of football owing to its injurious effect on his patients' temperatures." The dedication casts an interesting light on one side of the personality of a well-known Cardiff University professor. To that Prince of Letter- writers, H. J. W. H." Are Welsh soldier writers devoid of the sense of humour ? May we not receive from them some pictures of the lighter side of the boys of the Rhondda and other Battalions ? The Life of Amanda Smith By H. M. Cadbury, with an introduction by J. Rendel Harris, M.A., D.Litt., LL.D. Birmingham, Cornish Bros., Ltd.. 39, New Street. 1916. Pp.84. Price Is. 6d. net. This little volume reveals the force of a remarkable personality. Interspersed as it is with pungent humour and intense love of humanity, it will provide a stirring inspiration to further effort on the part of all interested in religious and missionary movements. The book contains vivid extracts from the auto- biography of the coloured washerwoman who became a lovely monument of Divine Grace-in ebony and ample testimony of her untiring zeal and patience may be seen in the Orphanage for coloured children which she established at North Harvey, Illinois. The account of this remarkable missionary's vicissitudes in many lands, so pleasingly related in this neat little volume, would prove an interesting study for any young people's missionary or mutual improvement society. Price 3d. Order Now. THE MOBILISATION OF MONEY in the September War and Peace THE DERBY SCHEME APPLIED TO PROPERTY AN ORIGINAL AND DARING SCHEME FOR Honied Shirkers CALL UP NEXT PAYING THE Millionaires FOR THE NATION'S FIRST 1 WAR WEALTH and solving AFTER-THE-WAR PROBLEMS. From oil N«»mg«nhi or from "War AIU, Piuok," LTD., 18, Bride Lane, Lotxiou, E.O,