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Studies in New Zealand Scenery. By B. E. Baughan. (Whitcomb*

and Tombs. 4s. 6d.)—Three of Miss Baughan's seven agreeable essays are enlarged from articles which she contributed to the Spectator. Soma readers will remember " The Finest Walk in the World," describing the wonderful route over the mountains to Milford Sound, in the south- west of South Island. Mies Baughan writes well, and with justifiable enthusiasm, of the extremely varied scenery of New Zealand, with its Alps and its volcanoes, its sub-tropical bush and its temperate wind- swept plains. No Dominion is more favoured by Natin, and its very remoteness has not been without advantage. The book is well illus- trated with excellent photographs.