19 JANUARY 1889, Page 23

The British Hive. By H. C. Miall Smith, B.A. (W.

Isbister and Co.)—This is a popular account of British industrial arts and manufactures, and fisheries, shipbuilding, lighthouses, bridges, agriculture, both tillage and live stock, work in the Fens, and forestry. It has upwards of one hundred good illustrations, is well and easily written, with no technicalities, and compactly arranged. It should suceeed in giving the ordinary reader a quantity of useful if somewhat superficial general knowledge, and is altogether a most readable and instructive volume.