The Queen's Empire Illustrated from Photographs. (Cassell and Co.)—The pictorial
presentment of the Empire contained in the large photographs collected in this handsome book will give people who understand things best by pictures an excellent idea of the Empire. There is a picture to illustrate almost every phase of life and every place in the Queen's domain. We survey the British Empire from China to Australia and from Malta to Canada, and learn how our fellow-citizens live in all parts of the earth. Mr. Arnold-Forster writes a characteristically enthusiastic and readable preface, and from every point of view the book is full of interest and pleasure. One cannot imagine a better present for a boy or a more instructive one. To find out all about the pictures would be a liberal education, and not a bad holiday task.
Another volume in the very interesting and useful "Library Series," edited by Dr. R. Garnett (George Allen), is Library Administration, by John Macfarlane. Mr. Macfarlane treats of five subjects in as many chapters,—" The Library and its Staff," "Acquisition of Books," " Cataloguing," " Arrangement," and " Access and Preservation." He is decidedly critical in many of his remarks, as, for instance, when he speaks of the examina- tions of the "Library Association ; " and, indeed, some of the questions seem to have little relevance. Possibly literary questions are of doubtful utility.
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