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The Nitrogen Industry. By J. R. Partington And L. H.

Parker. (Constable. 21s. net.) Great Britain is now "the only power in the world which has not within the gates of her territory the necessary means for the synthetic production......

Christmas Cards And Calendars.

The Medici Society have sent a selection of their beautifully printed Christmas cards and calendars. Many bear repro- ductions in colour of well-known old masters. Calendars......

The Vigorous Society Of Somerset Folk In London Has Pro-

duced an uncommonly attractive annual, containing stories in dialect, verses and folk-lore, with illustrations, as well as an account of Somerset local government, agriculture......

The Director Of The Cambridge Botanic Garden Has Written A

brief guide which is not only botanically impeccable but illuminated by interesting sidelights. A Scotsman who prides himself on referring to porridge as " them " will be......

Elementary Geology. By A. P. Coleman And W. A. Parks.

(Dent. 15s. net.) The authors of this well-written and clearly-arranged text- book are Professors respectively of Geology and Palaeontology in the University of Toronto. They......

Finance-public & Private.

By ARTHUR W. KIDDY. TRADE AND THE EXCHANGES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Another Conference has come and gone, and it cannot be said that financial conditions have......

A Wanderer's Log. By C. E. Bechhofer. (mills And Boon.

8s. 6d. net.) Mr. Bechhofer has the best of all literary equipments for a traveller, the power of vivid description in plain language. This account of his wander-years is a most......

The Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1772-1922.

We congratulate that good old country paper, the Shrewsbury Chronicle, on completing its hundred and fiftieth year. It is a few weeks younger than the Morning Post, having first......

Colonel Sandell Has Written An Excellent Account Of The War

service of the Territorial Battalion which he commanded for its first two years in France. He has wisely refrained from encumbering his pages with any account of military......