Number.”  The best general history and present-day summary of the world’s fur trade is to be found in a recent German work, a genuine Urquellengeschichte. French and English translations will presumably appear in due course.  The statistical tables are wonderfully complete.  The illustrations are the least satisfactory feature.  This book is—­Aus dem Reiche der Pelze.  Von Emil Brass:  Berlin, Im Verlage der Neuen Pelzwaren-Zeitung, 1911.