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The Conquest Of The New Zealand Alps. By Samuel Turner.

(T. Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—Mr. Turner is not an engaging writer, but he is an enthusiastic and experienced climber, and his account of numerous expeditions to Mount Cook and......

The Tony Sarg Marionette Book. By F. J. Mclsaac. (new

York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc. $1.00.)—If your children like to make things and have sufficient perseverance, this little book will give them adequate instructions for organizing a......

Shakespeare's Garden, Stratford-upon-avon. By Ernest Law....

6d. net.)—In this pleasant little book, well furnished with photographs and drawings, Mr. Law describes the new garden that has been formed on the site of New Place,......

Downland Pathways (east Sussex). By A. Hadrian Allcroft....

Combridges. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Allcroft's very readable book shows an intimate knowledge of the South Downs between Lewes and Shoreham and of the history of the district. He has......

Unemployment. By F. W. Pethick Lawrence. (milford. 2s....

little volume, in the useful series entitled " The World of To-Day," states the problem of unemployment, shows that it is extremely complex, and examines briefly some of the......

Some Books Of The Week.

- [Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The Book of the Otter. By Richard Clapham. (Heath Cranton. 78. 6d. net.)—Mr. Clapham has written an......

The Genoa Conference. By J. Saxon Mills. (hutchinson....

Mills, who ie a warm admirer of the Prime Minister, has produced a careful record of the Genoa Conference with Mr. Lloyd George in the limelight from the rise to the fall of the......

In A Russian Village. By Charles Roden Buxton. (labour...

Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It is a relief to find that Mr. Buxton's little book is not a piece of Socialist propaganda, repre- senting Bolshevik Russia as a kind of Paradise, but a......

Labour And Capital In The Engineering Trades. Prepared By...

Labour Research Department. (Labour Publishing Com- pany. Is. net.)—This well-written pamphlet gives a certain amount of information about a complex industry, but is judi-......

The July Number Of The Journal, Issued By The Society

for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. 6d. net), contains a lament by " Sabi " over the official laxity, especially in Africa, that has prevailed......