Nzw Er:wrier:ie.—In the series of "English People Overseas" (Constable and
Co. 4s. 6d. net) we have a second edition of India, by A. Wyatt Selby. It has been revised throughout and two new chapters have been added : one on the "Maratha War" ; the other, of especial interest and importance, on "The Ocean Highway of Britain." This brings together a number of facts relating more or less directly to our line of communication with India. The story of the Suez Canal, for instance, is told, with the masterly retrieving of our initial blunder by the purchase from the Khedive of a block of the Canal shares. The purchase money was .23,976,000, and in 1908-1909 the incense was .21,171,466. That is a pretty good investment, not to speak of the incalculable advantage of securing a commanding place in the management. Yet it was fiercely assailed by the Liberals, as it would have been, of course, by the Conservatives if they had been in Opposition. —Function of Religion in Man's Struggle for Existence, by George Burnam Foster (Cambridge University Press, 4e net), one of the studies published by the University of Chicago Press.—Canada As It Is. By J. F. Fraser. (Cassell and Co. 66.)—Mr. Fraser tells us that the book has been thoroughly revised and the statistics brought up to date. This may be the case so far as the statistics are concerned, but it scarcely holds good of the book as a whole. The great development which has recently taken place in British Columbia is not dealt with.—The Art of Revolver Shooting. By Walter Wynans. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 21s. net.)
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