4 DECEMBER 1926, Page 41

Lord Clarendon's and Mr. Terence Macnaghten's official report of their

Visit to Canada (Hodder and Stoughton, ls.) has just been published. The authors do much in their report to dispel the idea of the terrors of the Canadian winter. They analyse_ the causes of failure and success amongst British settlers, and while maintaining a judicial and strictly non-propagandist view, the tenour of the report is encouragingly optimistic. We learn, for instance, that in their opinion the Three Thousand Families Scheme " promises to become the most successful effort in colonization under- taken by any Government of modern times." We hope this able report will attain a far wider circulation than most Government publications.

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