Canada To - Day and To - Morrow. By A. E. Copping. (Cassell and
Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Copping is an excellent guide to the now famous farming districts of the Canadian North-West. He sets down all that interested him in the methods of prairie farm- ing, thus enabling the Old Country agriculturist to compare notes both as to the practical side of life and its amenities. Then there are interesting pages on lumber, the pulp industry, and the Hudson Bay route, which it is supposed will bring Central Canada so much nearer Europe. One of the most readable chapters in the book is devoted to Quebec Province. Nine out of ten writers on the resources and opportunities to be found in the Dominion seem inclined to skip the Eastern Provinces. As a matter of fact a great deal of land is still waiting for the settler, which in time will be as valuable as any in the older provinces, and their attractions are not one whit the less as regards timber, minerals, game, and fertility of soil. Water alone is an immense asset in Eastern Canada. What is called " white coal" has become one of the wonders of the world. Hamilton, the Birmingham of the Dominion, has four hundred factories, and it is the cleanest of all manufacturing cities. The existence of so much machinery and so little dirt is explained by two words— Niagara and electricity. Mr. Copping writes pleasantly and is never dull.
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