SOME REFERENCE BOOKS
The Year Book of the Universities of the Empire (Bell, 7s. 6d.) is full of useful information and makes interesting reading for all who share our belief in the future, of the Empire. A couple of random instances of the money spent in education overseas : Acadia University at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, received no less than £55,000 for new buildings and endowments, a notable sum for a comparatively poor province and small population ; again, at Point Grey in British Columbia, three thousand miles away, buildings to the value of more than £400,000 were opened last October, to house the University of British Columbia. In Australia and India the tale is the same. As our Empire grows in population, so its inhabitants value more and more the learning of which they are the inheritors.
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