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The World's Work. January. Edited by Henry Norman, M.P. (W.

Heinemann. is. net.)—The "fiscal battle" is, as one might suppose, as much in evidence here as anywhere. Mr. E. S. Grew has found a "ruined industry,"—the aniline dye manufacture. It began here,—the originator is still alive. But it has gone to Germany, because we were too indolent to keep it. And indolence is precisely the fault that Protection is apt to foster. Other articles show no little of the variety which befits the magazine's title. Still, there are provinces of this " work " which, useful and meritorious as they are, debent abseondi. One of the illustrations of "Modern Surgery" ought not to have appeared.