8 APRIL 1911, Page 26

Wo have received the seventh yearly issue of the Commercial

Handbook of Canada, edited by Ernest Heaton, B.A., and J. Beverley Robinson (Heaton's Agency, Toronto. 50. net). It gives a great variety of information, political, mercantile, &c. The Customs tariff is an interesting subject which our readers might study with advantage. First comes Schedule A with 744 items, followed by appendices giving duties under French, Belgium and Netherlands, and Italian Treaties ; Schedule B has 20 articles, and Schedule C 11. How different from the delightful simplicity of Free Trade! There is a list of "Prohibited Books" containing about seventy titles; of these, sixty come from the United States, five from England, four from Paris, and one from Rome.