Summits of Success. By James Burnley. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is
an eminently readable book. It reminds one of the story-books in which the hunting for, and finding of, a treasure is the main incident. In Mr. Burnley's pages many sorts of people find treasures,—merchants, shipbuilders, iron- masters, owners of oil-fields, great " purveyors," brewers, coal- owners, and so forth. " Bookland." even, appears as one of the provinces of El Dorado ; the ore is not so rich as it is elsewle re, but there is metal in it. Mr. Burnley has been diligent in collecting facts, but he has written about so many things that he does not know, we fancy, very much about any one. If only some one would, or could, write the real history of a " coal famine,' he would give the world a very interesting, and, in a way, edif) ing, volume. The only really successful " corners " bare been made in. coals. Every one must have them ; few only can store them. So from time to time some monstrous combination is formed, and the consumers are mulcted in millions.
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