The usual comprehensive information for the benefit of travellers in the Far East 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 fication of the information made on the first page, in view of the uncertain situation in this country. Travellers are advised. in get- im 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 cases has destroyed 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 im 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 in 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 first person to organize a conducted tour to any place. This tour was from Leicester to Loughborough, where a tem) congress was being held—a distance of twenty-four miles—and proved so popular that it set the fashion for similar trips at frequent intervals Out of this grew the great firm which has now offices in every large city.
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