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Sea Wake And Jungle Trail. - By H. Warington Smyth, C.m.g.

(Murray. 16s.) From beginning to end this is a really hearty book. The chapters on 'jungle-travel are en- thralling and the elephant stories such as the capture and ; education......

Our Children And Our Future

THAT the quality of the race is rapidly deteriorating is the thesis of an intensive propaganda in favour of birth control, and a crop of books about eugenics. What are the facts......

Whalers And Whaling. 13y -e. Keble • Chatteron. (t. Fisher

Unwin. 12s. 6d.). Steam and the harpoon gun with its bursting charge have taken much of the sport and glamour from whaling ; but the need for hard bitten qualities of nerve and......

The Last Cruise Of The 'shanghai.' By F. De Witt

Wells. (Hurst and Blackett. 15s.) Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky of the Norse sagas Showed the way to the author and his crew in taking the' Shanghai,' a small ketch, over the......