IF YOU WISH TO HELP PAY FOR THE WAR 



by extending our Commercial Relations throughout 

 Brazil and Latin America, read The 



RUBBER INDUSTRY 



OF THE AMAZON 



And How its Supremacy can be Maintained. 



Based on the experience ot Joseph Fkoudk VVoodkop^fh ; 



Edited and with additional Notes by 



H. Hamel Smith (Editor of '' Tropical Lite "). 



With a Foreword on the Latin-American Indians 



By Viscount BRYCE, O.M., P.C. 



396 pp. + 39 pp. Index and xlvi. pp. of Introduction and Synopsis. 

 Price 21s. net, postage Is. extra. Demy 8vo. 48 Illustrations. 



EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF THE REVIEWS. 



" The Times " commenting on the book said, " This is a work of imporiaiice 

 both for its subject and its treatment. I.ord Bryce, who contributes a Foreword, 

 says that the development of these magnificent regions of Latin America is one 

 of the greatest questions in the future of the world. Both Mr. VVoodrufte and 

 Mr. Hamel Smith are authorities well qualified to deal with the problem." 



"The Contemporary Review." Native labour lies at the root of the 

 rubber problem of Brazil . . . Lord Bryce in his Foreword declares that 

 Mr. Hamel Smith is right "in thinking that an effort should be made to protect 

 these tribes and preserve their labour. . . . The proper xlevelopment of 

 these magnificent regions of Latin America is one of the greatest questions in the 

 future of the world, and you are desei ving well of mankind in calling attention 

 to it and stating the conditions of the problems." 



" The Colonial Journal," under the editorship of Sir \V. H. Mercer, 

 K.C.M.G., one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, points out that " the 

 civilised world is becoming more and more dependent on tropical countries for 

 fooil and necessary commodities, and increasing efforts are sure to be made to 

 bring backward regions into line with those that are well and successfully 

 administered . . . Mr. Ilamel Smith, who is conspicuously qualified to 

 discuss the possibilities, has written this book to suggest mean.> of grappling 

 with the problem." 



"The India-Rubber World," of New York, notes that "The labour 

 question, as it should, occupies the first place, and is treated with the careful 

 consideration due to this subject, upon which the success of tropical ventures 

 invariably depends." 



" De Indische Mercuur " also notices this for it .says, "The editor of ihe 

 book attaches great importance to the treatment of the natives, both the pure 

 Indians as well as the half-castes, and urges that they should be given a practical 

 training in agriculture, so as to enable them to help make the most of an area 

 which must be their sole property." 



JOHN BALE, SONS AND DANIELSSON, Ltd., 

 83-qi, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD ST., LONDON. W. 1. 



