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Letters To Jane From Jamaica (1788-1796) Edited By...

Mrs. Mozley has made a pleasant little book of the letters that her great-great-grandmother; Mrs. Brodbelt, wrote from Jamaica to a daughter at school in England (West India......

Mr. Jepson Has Produced A Handy Pocket Guide (times Of

India, Bombay, 6s.) for the use of travellers by the overland route from Bombay to London. Few regular travellers use this route from choice, and most of those who have to......

Books Which Consist Largely Of Accounts Of Big-game...

obviously of very limited appeal, unless they happen to possess such qualities of style and matter as give them general interest. Death by Moonlight (Collins, r5s.) has a small......

Official History Of The Canadian Forces In The Great War

By Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid Canada is late in' beginning to produce her official War history, but Colonel Duguid's first volume (Ottawa : Patenaude) shows that the work, when......

Forty Years Ago Mr. Kearton Began His Career As A

nature photographer by taking some of the earliest photographs of birds in a wild state in the woods of Kenley in Surrey. And now, after a lifetime of wandering in nearly every......

St. Christopher

By Christopher. Johnson • Mr.' Johnion's Well-illithrated little boa " (published by himself at To Stafford Street, Edinburgh, 2s. 6d.) is designed to show how widely Si.......

The Week-end Book Was Too• Good An Idea To Be

left alone. We have had week-end books for horsemen, for motorists, for golfers, for anglers, and now—why not before ?—for yachtsmen (Seeley, Service, 8s. 6d.). There are notes......