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The Railways of the World. By Ernest Protheroe. (George Routledge

and Sons. 7s. 6th net.)—If grown-up people are as fond of reading about railways as children are of playing with toy trains, there should be a wide demand for Mr. Protheroe's entertaining and comprehensive book. In his first two hundred pages he gives an account of the development, construction, and working of railways in general. The next three hundred are given to a detailed description of British systems, and the last two hundred to those of other lands.