29 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 19

We congratulate the National Book Council (3 Henrietta Street, W.C.

2) on the excellent series of pamphlets they are issuing, called Readers' Guides. They are brief reviews, very well printed and arranged, of all the most important books, being published this autumn. They should be invaluable to the reading public and may be obtained free on application to the Council above mentioned. The pamphlets issued deal with Literature, Sociology, Natural Science, Useful Arts, History, Children's Books, Religion,- Sports, Games and Pastimes, Philosophy, General Works and Philology and Fiction. We recommend our readers to join the National Book Council : it is not a trade organiza- tion nor a profit-making concern, but a committee of people who want to set the nation reading.