SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Tim March number of English Life (1s.) has a most interesting list of contributors. Mr. George Lambton writes an article on the "Stamina and Breeding" of thoroughbreds, Lord Darling on Sir Walter Raleigh's letters, Mr. Seymour Hicks on "Lord" George Sanger and Mr. C. B. Cochran, and Sir Edwin Lutyens has a most informative review of "The Smaller English House of 1660-1830." Mr. Bohun Lynch writes of "Respectable Bruisers" and the new Headmaster of Harrow, in a few succinct and powerful paragraphs, urges the necessity for continuing the Cadet. Grant to our Public Schools. The illustrations and printing in English Life are of as high a quality as its contents.
The Efficiency Magazine is full of information for the business man. It circulates, the editor writes in one of his short articles, to 16,000 "middle-class, . competent, managerial people—the people who keep Britain solvent and reliable." There is a mass of suggestion to be found in its pages, some of it wise, and some of it witty. In the latter class we would put an article in a former issue, "Why not give Siberia to America ? in return for the £4,200,000,000 the world owes her ! " The April issue is full of good things : an article, for instance, on Miss Harvey, whose decorations in the window of a well-known teashop at Piccadilly Circus have attracted much attention, a suggestion that all business buildings should have inscriptions such as the following, "Capital :s what you and I have saved out of yesterday's wages," an appeal to help the Polytechnic, a note on Mr. Davidson, the famous Ulsterman whose chain of grocery shops sold £86,000,000 of goods last year—the largest cash volume in the world. Well-calked with optimism, the Efficiency Magazine should certainly sail to further prosperity and usefulness. Its opinions are not always those of the Spectator, none the less anyone who sells anything—whether it is boots or the work of his brain—will be entertained and perhaps edified by this buoyant sixpenny monthly.
The Ulster Year Book (A.M. Stationery Office, 15 Donegal Square West, Belfast, Is. ad.). An excellently cleir map, showing 'railways and canals, forms the frontispiece, and a coloured plate showing how the 110,32,880 of public expenditure was distributed forms an interesting addition. The subject matter is well and clearly arranged. This is a publication to be recommended to all who are interested in the adminstration of Northern Ireland.
Under the editorship of Mr. St. John Adcock, Wonderful London is being issued in a series of fortnightly _parts at Is. 8d. each. The first number has a good map, charming articles by Mr. Alfred Noyes and Sir Phillip Gibbs, "The. Airman's View of London," by Mr. Alan Bott, and othei. excellent articles.
The Daily Mail Motor Road Map of South East England (3s.) shown': all the new arterial and by-pass roads. On the back is a large scale plan of all the roads leading out of London : every motorist should have this.
The Royal Insurance Co. have issued a booklet called Road Risks Illustrated, which is an advertisement, no doubt, but none the less an amusing and instructive booklet for motorists.
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