25 JULY 1914, Page 25

With Mr. Chamberlain in the United States and Canada. By

Sir Willoughby Maycock. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d. net.)—Sir Willoughby Maycock, who served for forty-one years in the Foreign Office, was attached to Mr. Chamberlain's Eshery Mission in America in 1887. He found his chief a very genial taskmaster, and gives a lively account of his own experiences with politicians, social celebrities and reporters— who would persist in describing him as "large and oval."