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Mr. H. Milford is publishing a new series of small

•handbooks, edited by Mr. Victor Gollancz, under the general title of The World of To-day (2s. 6d. each volume). It opens well with an able and spirited essay by Sir Harry Johnston on The Backward Peoples and Our Relations with Them, and includes also The Anglo-American Future, by Mr. A. G. Gardiner ; Industrial Ideals, by Mr. Victor Gollancz ; A Capital Levy and a Levy on War Wealth, by Professor Pigcni ; Why Prices Rise and Fall, by F. W. Pethick Lawrence ; and Dominion Home Rule in Practice, by Professor A. Berriedale Keith, who describes the present situation. The handbooks are well planned, and are, on the whole, commendably impartial, as they ought to be.