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The South and East African Year Book, 1926. (Sampson, Low,

Marston. 5s.)—This is one of the most thorough year-books of the kind. There are 1,000 pages and 64 pages of maps in colour which cannot be too highly commended. For the business man with vision, for the settler, sportsman and tourist in Africa this is a book not to be missed on any account. Out of such books, crammed -with facts and palpi- tating with the romance of Empire under their prosaic exteriors, will be built the future of our country, if she con- tinues to preserve her heritage across the seas.