12 DECEMBER 1908, Page 27

Letters of a Remittance Man to his Mother. By W.

H. P. Jarvis. (John Murray. 35. 6d. net.)—It is no uncommon thing, we under- stand, in Canada to see under an advertisement for labour, "No Englishman need apply." If any one would like to know why this should be so—and it is much to the interest of many people that they should know—let him read this book. Here many useless or almost useless persons continue to get along somehow. The test of usefulness is applied much more quickly and firmly in a new country. One thing is quite certain. The failure here will be an even worse failure there,—worse, and far more costly.