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The Insect Book. By W. Percival Westell. (John Lane. 3s.

net.) —Mr. Westell has written a very interesting little book on a subject in which he is an expert. He tells us about insects of the garden, of the waterside, of the wood, and, we may say, of the country generally ; finally, about insects of the house. Of course, he is a friend of the insect tribe as a whole; but he con- cedes that the cockroach is "an unmitigated nuisance" in many houses. It came over to this country in the sixteenth century, a heavy per contra when we are reckoning up the benefits of that epoch.

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