30 SEPTEMBER 1905, page 19

The Ever-increasing Number Of Books On Natural History,...

games, and other outdoor matters compels ns to include in one article some to which we would gladly give a longer review. First among the seven volumes before (1) Polo : Past......

Italian Backgrounds.*

THERE is certainly a very wide difference between the traveller of to-day and the traveller of a century ago.. Perhaps the • Italian Backgrounds. By Edith Wharton. Illustrated......