... A report of an inquiry organised by Viscount Astor and B. Seebohm Rowntree This report, as it turns out, is an attack on the National Farmers' Union and a number of other very influential bodies, including the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Council of Agriculture. The attack is on the policy, not the honesty, of those who think that the basis of agriculture in this country must ...

... The Book of the Golden Retriever, by W. M. Charlesworth Fletcher and Son, Norwich). No one has had longer experience of the golden retriever than Mrs. Charlesworth, and she has given us an excellent monograph on the breed. It is practical and informa tive throughout, and contains much helpful advice on breeding to type. The chapter on kennels and house training is very useful, as is that on ...

... Part-Time Farmer, by C. N. j Barclay (Sijton Praed, Ltd. 15s.). I This little book will encourage a I lot of people to try to make their I country dreams a reality, for the I author is far too optimistic. He I deals only with smallholdings, not I farms, and though there is much of ,il good sense we doubt if a large jj garden and an acre of orchard will make a net profit of £200 a year, even ...

... Whitehall 1212, by Richard I Harrison (Jarrolds 15 s.). Crime I from a different angle. Here is a j history of London's police force I and an account of the work which falls to the City Police, Port of I London Authority, Railway, :fl B.O.A.C. police, including a vivid I description of the Yard as nerve- I centre for detection of crime. From B organisation the author turns to I the practical ...

... Pioneers of Fertility, by Grichton Porteous (Fertiliser Journal t-ia., 110, cannon street, 1. on clou, E.C. 4; ios.). Devoting only five or six pages to each man, the author has succeeded in presenting a pic ture of the life-work of twenty-two of the greatest men in agriculture, from Fitzherbert of Norbury, whose Bohe of Husbandry was published in 1523, to Robert H. Elliot, who died in 191 4. ...

... Birds in Britain, by Frances Pitt Macmillan and Co. 25 s.). Books on birds, as Miss Pitt admits in her preface, are legion, but as she has the happy gift of imparting natural history knowledge to the amateur in far more readable form than most, room will undoubtedly be found for this work on many a shelf. In addition to information on the species, there are chapters on the bird's place in ...

... Fruit Farming,. Young Farmers' GluD LSooklet no. 21, puDiisned Dy Evans Brothers Ltd. at is. 6 d. This does not seem quite up to the stan dard of the pre-war handbooks of the series. The trouble is that to try to cover in 48 pages fruit- farming from suitable soils to methods of grading and storing is attempting too much to be really helpful. It seems that this subject might have been dealt ...

... : Dr. Gyril D. Darlington, F.R.S., has edited the whole of the John Innes Leaflets issued by the Institution to date, including the latest No. 6 on seed production. The interest shown in composts, soil sterilisation, the fertility rules in fruit planting and other subjects studied by horticulturalists is shown by the fact that 60,000 copies of the five leaflets were sold during the war. This ...

... by Playbill THE theatre has probably never meant so much, both in London and the 'provinces, as it does to-day. That is not to say that every theatrical produc- tion is full of meaning; many of them, in- cluding some of the most popular, mean precious little. But there is a probably unprecedented boom, and the living drama, from Shakespeare to pantomime, is being supported (most London ...

... Revudeville DAUNTLESS and indefatigable is the little Windmill Theatre, where the present revue has reached its 143rd year, or 143rd edition-- I forget which, but it is pro- bably the latter. Among the new items is a Paris and the Golden Apple episode, in which the Venus (Miss Margot Harris there is not much of her, and not much on her) is certainly not 143 years old. I am told, indeed, that ...

... Biography and Autobiography Last Viceroy Rear-Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, by Ray Murphy Jarrolds 21s.). The author, an American, explains how he was tempted to write this biography. The exceptional person ality and governing abilities of the Earl, Mr. Murphy decides, could only have been produced by the British Empire, and in a study of this career he hopes to reveal a form of ...

... The Official Report of the London Olympic Games (World Sports 5 s.). Athletes all over the world will welcome the publication of the British Olympic Association's Official Report of the 1948 Olympic Games. It contains complete re ports of every section of the Games, specialist articles and photographs illustrating each series of events; some of the pictures are coloured. ...