26 JUNE 1915, Page 24

In The World's Cotton Crops (A. and C. Black, 10s.

net) Mr. John A. Todd has aimed at giving an account of the sources of supply of raw cotton in a form sufficiently non-technical to be understood alike by the average grower and consumer. The volume is well equipped with statistics and references, and contains an additional chapter on the effects of the war upon the cotton industry in so far an they can yet be esti- mated.