30 DECEMBER 1911, page 25

The Farmer's And Stockbreeder's Year-book (6 Essex...

and The Farmer's Red-Book (Marls Lane Express, is. net) are two books which sufficiently declare their purpose and contents by their titles.......

We Have Received An Edition Of The Revised Version Of

the Holy Bible. (Cambridge University Press.)—This gives the text without references or marginal notes. The verse-form is pre- served, but the reviser's paragraphs are......

The Year 1911 Illustrated (the Daily News, 2s. 6d. Not)

is "a Record of Notable Achievements and Events." The volume is, so to speak, inaugurated with a notice of the death of Leo Tolstoy, with a portrait. A great variety of items......

A Magician In Many Lands. By The Late Charles Bertram.

Edited by Professor Hoffman. (G. Routledge and Sons. 7s. 6d.) —This is an amusing account of a number of curious experiences. Mr. Bertram travelled widely. He tells us of......

The Monster Book Of Carols. (walter Scott Publishing Ce. Is.

net.)—It is sufficient to say that this book of "Carols for Church and Home" contains 101 carols, with all the old favourites, as far as we can see, among them.......

Whitaker's Alenanack (112 Warwick Lane, Is. And 2s. 6d.)...

needs any notice beyond the announcement that it has made its annual appearance. Subjects of the day are, as is the custom, specially mentioned. Among them we notice aviation......

Of The Beaten Track In Busses. By Arthur Stanley Cooke.

(S. Combridge : Hove. 7s. 6d. net)—There is an interesting little group of books which has to do with Sussex scenery, architecture and history, and this is one of them. No......

A Fifty - Year Diary. (a. Bradford, Camberley. Is. 6d....

are many of us who would hardly be justified in starting a " Fifty-Year Diary." On the other hand, the book might well be an acceptable present to a boy beginning to think......