On behalf of the International Information Committee, whose Chairman is
the Duke of Newcastle, Messrs. Allen and Unwin have begun to publish a valuable series of shilling handbooks on the British Empire. In the first volume, Dr. Watson Chico gives a very clear exposition of The Resources of the Empire, drawing freely on the Reports of the Dominions Royal Commission, and adding some most instructive• statistics of trade and production. In the second volume Mr. Archibald Hurd describes in broad outline The Defences of the Empire, with special reference to the principles of naval and military organization, which had been gradually formulated before the outbreak of war. Both these books are excellent of their kind, and the series, for which the editor, Mr. Rene Francis, has planned nearly twoscore volumes already, should do much to diffuse a more exact knowledge of the Empire among its citizens all over the world.
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