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VOLUME VI of the Oxford Junior Encyclo- paedia, which is

called Farming and Fisheries (O.U.P. 30s.), is in every way as excellent as its predecessors. One—an adult as well as a child one—could hardly fail to find pleasure and profit wherever it may be opened. Its range is world-wide, and if this necessarily means that a few useful details—e.g. how to deal with woodlice, water-mills, lampreys —are lacking, there _are, for recompense, a lot of interesting facts one didn't even know one was curious about. The production is; of course, excellent, and the illustrations are imaginatively chosen, though the reproduc- tion of photographs sometimes leaves some-