_ ALL ABOUT TEA
By William H. Ukers
These .two--bulky volumes- (New--fork : Tea and Coffee Trade Journal,. $25) form a companion study to the monu- mental treatise on Coffee that Mr. Ukers published 13 years ago. -The writing of the book has absorbed all the author's time since the publication of the earlier_ volume, and he his spent.in all-about 25 years in preliminary research. The U.+ has been well spent, for no detail concerning the production, use, and enjoyment of tea in arty country olat a'ny time appeals to have been neglected. Mr. Ukers has studied the cifitivattlin of tea' himself in every country where it is gr'own, and seems to have consulted every available .authority on the histories), commercial, and social aspects of his subject (the bibliography refers to more than 2,000 publications). Naturally a great deal of the material included, wil) appeal only to a strictly specialist public, but the general reader also will find. nuich interest, particularly in the sections dealing With the hist* of the production of tea in different areas.. Both voluines are amply • and- pleasantly illustrated With photographs' 'a-r41 reproductions of drawings.
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