While _The French Twins_ is a war story, soldiers and trenches and battle-fields are nevertheless not the main features; on the contrary, _The French Twins_ depicts the necessary part played by women, children, and old people during the War, and shows how the spirit and aims of the soldiers' families have been the same as those of the soldiers themselves. Self-control, endurance, and cheerfulness at home are proved to be as much a part of true bravery as fearlessness in battle. Since the soldier's part in the War has been held closely to everyone's attention, the reading of this story will supply a balancing view of the other side of war; and the pupils' perspective of the whole cannot fail to gain in scope. Books which may be commended to the teacher, for descriptions of various aspects of the Great War, are: Hay's _The First Hundred Thousand_; Nicolas's _Campaign Diary of a French Officer_; Aldrich's _A Hilltop on the Marne_; Hall's _High Adventure_ and _Kitcheners Mob_; Buswell's _Ambulance No. 10_; Haigh's _Life in a Tank_; Stevenson's _From "Poilu" to "Yank"_; two anonymous books, _The Retreat from Mons_ and _Friends of France_; Paine's _The Fighting Fleets_; and Root and Crocker's _Over Periscope Pond_. For children's reading, we suggest Mrs. Perkins's _The Belgian Twins_, Sara Cone Bryant's _I am an American_, Thwaites and Kendall's _History of the United States_, Tappan's _Little Book of the War_, and such compilations as _Stories of Patriotism_ and _The Patriotic Reader_.