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Handbooks on British Colonies. Compiled by Walter Paton, M.A. (Emigrants'

Information Office. 2s.)-The Colonies included in this publication are Canada, Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, and Queens- land), Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa (Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Orange River Colony). Each handbook is illustrated with a map. The volume also contains a " Professional Hand- book" (" there is very little inducement for a person to emigrate on the chance of obtaining an appointment under a Colonial Government"; nevertheless, the regulations of the different Colonies for all kinds of professional workers, and not a few others, are given). Yet another handbook concerns emigration from (1) the United Kingdom, (2) England and Wales, (3) Ireland, (4) Scotland ; industrial schools, &c. ; Colonial restrictions, &c.