The massive volume of Country Life, 1903, Second Half-year (G.
Newnes, 21e.), is as full as usual of the ornamental and useful. Various Royal and noble beauties allow us to admire their faces ; there are sundry fine things in houses, gardens, furniture, &c. ; and there is abundance of interesting reading about stock, crops, farming generally. Sport also is represented. In fact, the object of the periodical, to please "all interested in country life and country pursuits," is attained with the usual success. There is one article worth attention, under the title of "The Middleman Abolished," a propos of a recent effort of the Great Western Railway to bring the grower of farm and garden produce into direct contact with the consumer. Why should not the railways which have a terminus in London—not to speak of other great towns—follow the example ? And why should they not extend to their English custoniers the privilege of the " cash-on- delivery " system which they now accord to foreigners ? Why. to furnish an actual instance, should the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway give their help to the trade of a Paris house, and refuse it to that of English firms ?
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