The usual comprehensive information for the veneflt of travellers in the Far Bast is contained in "Cook's Far Eastern Traveller's Gazette," a copy of which has been received by this journal. "There is a very necessary qualification of the Information made on the first page, in view of the uncertain situation in this country. Travellers are advised to get in touch with the local agency of Thomas Cook Son before making plans for journeys. in China, where the war has made" means of transport uncertain and in many eases has des-toyed them completely. With this caution in mind, the volume is of the greatest value, and the intending traveller can work out for himself the cost and time taken for any trip in this part of the world, In addition there is useful information about some of the big events in other parts of the world this year—the Australian sesquicentennial celebrations Sydney, for instance; and the British Industries Fair, the New York World's Fair. and the Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, to mention a few others. There, is also a history of the growth of Thomas Cook & Son, from its small beginnings ninety-six years ago to its present world-wide organization, Thomas Cook, it will be interesting to note, was the Mrst person 10 organize a conducted tour to any place. This tour was from Leicester to Loughborough, where a temperance congress was being held—a distance of twenty-four miles—and proved So popular that it set the fashion for similar ips at frequent intervals. Out of this grew the great frm which has low offices in every large city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.