Shorter Notices The Stage is Set. Future Books Vol. II.
(Collins. 5s.) 'IT is pleasant to welcome the second volume of Future Books, which improves on the already high standard set by its predecessor. Although the subject-matter of this miscellany is admirably selected and written, being largely the product of a system of communal research by teams of experts, it is in the realm of production that interest principally lies. At last a British periodical is appearing that bears comparison with its German and American rivals. The off-set printing and the four-colour letterpress (used most effectively in the advertising displays) are fully up to pre-war Continental standards. The price is high, but it is to be hoped that this is due to an artificially restricted circulation and that soon it will be possible to bring it within the purse of a wider public. There are several excellent sur- veys in the present issue, those on domestic service and the steel and film industries being especially good, and the diagrams which illus- trate them, designed by the Isotype Institute, are novel and clear. This series, in fact, is evidence that at long last someone in England is seriously attempting to catch up the enormous lead that other countries hold in practically every sphere of periodical production.
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