14 NOVEMBER 1908, page 23

Climate.*

As there is no more comm* topic of conversation than the weather, a ,book on climate ought to be interesting. And apart from the technical passages in Mr. Ward's work, there is......

The Empress Josephine.*

THE private affairs of all who were related by blood or marriage to Napoleon have been so pitilessly ransacked of late years that it is no reproach to Mr. Sergeant's volumes if......

The Potters Of Tadcaster.*

IN all ages the growth of the "new men" is a fascinating- study, whether they be the merchant aristocracy of the later- Plantagenets, or the Tudor nobility enriched by Abbey......

The Honey.bee.t It Is Certain Not Only That We Know

a great deal more about the ways and manners of the honey-bee than it was possible • Climate. By B. de Conroy Ward. London : John Murray. [6s. net.] The Lore of the Honey-Bee.......