16 MAY 1914, Page 26

NEW Etanoxs.—Chambers's Concise Gazetteer of the World. By D. Patrick

and W. Geddie. (W. and It. Chambers. Ga. net.)—This new edition of a handy and accurate work gives statistics in most cases as late as 1911. British Year-Book of Agriculture, 1913-1914. (Vinton and Co. 5s. net.)—The fourth issue of a work describing agricultural societies, dis- coveries, &c., with a "Who's Who " of agriculturists.—Poems of R. W. Emerson. (Humphrey Milford. la. 6d. net.)—This otherwise desirable "Oxford Edition" is disfigured—an unusual thing—by bad misprints on pp. 205 and 253.—Scottish Stories. By It. B. Cunninghame Graham. (Duckworth and Co. la net.)—A collection of stories dealing with Scotland from Mr. Cunninghame Graham's earlier books.—Amongst cheap reprints we note Mr. Hewlett's Little Novels of Italy, The Queen's Quair, Open Country, Halfway House, and Richard Yea-and-Nay (Macmillan and Co., 7d. net each), and five vigorous stories in "The Boy's New Library" (Hodder and Stoughton, 7d. net each).