18 JULY 1903, Page 23

We welcome the first half-yearly volume of the World's Work,

edited by Henry Norman, M.P. (W. Heinemann, 78. (id.) This is a new magazine which has for its objects "National Efficiency and Social Progress." There are things with which we do not agree. We should traverse, for instance, many statements in the first article," The Education Bill." We do not deify "public control" and "democratic management." There are thousands of parishes where a candidate who should stand on the programme of parents having the power to keep their children to help at home or at work would be returned by a triumphant majority. But there are many things in which we agree with the editor of the magazine; and, of course, there are many neutral subjects of interest.