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THE NEW COUNTRIES. Edited by Hector Bolitho. (Cape. 75. 6d.)—This

volume contains a selection of short stories, with a sprinkling of poems, by Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African authors. Mr. Bolitho includes writers, like Katherine Mansfield and Professor Gilbert Murray, who, while of Colonial birth, are hardly representative of " the new countries." But he also presents us with a variety of work by lesser-known hands, which truly and interestingly reflects the Colonial spirit, and substantiates his claim that Overseas Britain is rapidly acquiring a definite culture of its own.