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Country Life. Vol. XII. (G. Newnes. 21s.)—This annual volume is

as good as usual, and more we need not say. Wherever you may dip into it you will find something worthy of notice. Our first venture revealed a method by which one can make ..f.80 out of an acre. How ? the reader will ask. By growing walking-sticks. This seems simple enough, but then there is a hitch. The handle of a walking-stick is economically the best part of it, and the handle takes a great deal of growing. There are papers on all kinds of subjects, whether belonging to sport or to business, and everything of the one seems to be lively, and. everything of the latter seems to be sensible.