Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793–1860: An Illustrated and Comparative Study. By Edward V. Thompson

Mapamundi. The Catalan Atlas of the year 1375. Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1978. Colour facsimile on 6 panels. Pp. 93.

Vesconte Maggiolo: Atlante nautico del 1512 (Der Seeatlas vom Jahre 1512). Edited with commentary by Georges Grosjean. Dietikon‐Zurich : Urs Graf Verlag, 1979. Colour facsimile. Pp. 88.

La géographie de la renaissance (1420–1620). By Numa Broc. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980. (Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques: Mémoires de la Section de Géographie, no. 9). Pp. 252.

Wall‐maps of the 16th and 17th centuries. A series of full‐size facsimiles of wall‐maps published in the Low Countries. Edited by Günther Schilder. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1977‐. 1: The world map of 1624 by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Jodocus Hondius (1977). Pp. 17, pl. A‐U. 2: The world map of 1669 by Jodocus Hondius the elder and Nicolaas Visscher (1978). Pp. 35, pl. 20.

The compleat plattmaker. Essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Norman]. W. Thrower. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. 241.

County atlases of the British Isles 1579–1810. A bibliography compiled by ?R. A. Skelton. Folkestone: Dawson, 1978. Pp. viii+262.

Christopher Saxton and Tudor map‐making. By Sarah Tyacke and John Huddy. London: The British Library, 1980. Pp.64.

The A to Z of Elizabethan London. Compiled by Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor. Introductory notes by John Fisher. Lympne: Harry Margary, in association with the Guildhall Library, London, 1979. Pp. 62.

Plan of the parish of St. Marylebone in the county of Middlesex, by Peter Potter, c. 1832. London: Westminster City Libraries in association with the St. Marylebone Society, 1979. Pp. 2, 6 sheets.

Yorkshire maps and map‐makers. By Arthur Raistrick. Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books, 1979. Pp. 72.

Ireland from maps. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 1980. Pp. 20, 16 sheets.

Abriss der Kartographie des Fürstentums Kalmbach‐Bayreuth. By Hans Vollet. Kulmbach: Stadtarchiv, 1977. Pp. 175. (Die Plassenburg. Schriften für Heimatforschung und Kulturpflege in Ostfranken, vol. 38).

Die Pläne von Berlin von den Anfängen bis 1950. By Paul Clauswitz and Lothar Zögner in collaboration with Elke Günther and Gudrun K. Zögner. Berlin: Verlag Richard Seitz, 1977. Pp. 241.

Romancero del topónimo fueguino. By Juan E. Belza. Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones historicas Tierra del Fuego, 1978. Pp. 239.

[Agrave] la découvert de la terre. Dix siécles de cartographie. Trèsors du Départment des Cartes et Plans (mai‐juillet 1979). Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1979. Pp. xvi + 122. Ill.     

Books received

FOLKLORE STUDIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENARY CONFERENCE OF THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY. Ed. VENETIA J. NEWALL. D. S. Brewer, 1980. Pp. 463, ill. £35.00. Reviewed by Jacqueline Simpson.

NINE LIVES: CATS IN FOLKLORE. By KATHARINE M. BRIGGS. Routledge and Kegan Paul. London and Henley, 1980. Pp. 222. ill. £7.95. Alicia C. Percival.

THE FOLKLORE OF STAFFORDSHIRE. By JON RAVEN. Batsford, London. 1978. Pp. 222. £4.95. Reviewed by Derek Froome.

A GUIDEBOOK TO ARTHURIAN BRITAIN. By GEOFFREY ASHE. Longman, 1980. £7.50. Reviewed by Richard Barber.

ÖSTERREICHS MÄRCHENSCHATZ by KARL HAIDING. Vienna 1980 (Kremayr &; Scheriau) 448 pp. ill. Reviewed by Ruth Michaelis-Jena.

PRIMITIVE RELIGION AND HEALING: A STUDY OF FOLK-MEDICINE IN NORTH EAST BRAZIL. By PAUL V. A. WILLIAMS. Brewer. Cambridge 1979. 212 pp. £12.00. Reviewed by Douglas Gifford.

ITALIAN FOLKTALES. Selected and retold by ITALO CALVINO. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. New York and London, 1980. Pp. 763. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

TOCHER: TALES, SONGS, TRADITIONS 33. School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, 1979. Pp. 71 £0.50. Reviewed by Neil Philip.

DER UNBEKANNTE BRUDER GRIMM. Edited by GERD HOFFMANN &; HEINZ RÖLLEKE. Düsseldorf (Verlag Eugen Diederichs) 1979. Pp. 144. 2 plates and 3 facsimiles. Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.

DAS ALTE VOLKSSCHAUSPIEL DES BURGENLANDES. By LEOPOLD SCHMIDT. Theatergeschichte Österreichs vol. viii. Burgenland 1. Vienna (Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1980. Pp. 358. 6 maps, 15 plates (1 coloured). ZUNFTZEICHEN; ZEUGNISSE ALTER HANDWERKSKUNST. Salzburg (Residenz Verlag) 1973. Pp. 160, 54 plates (48coloured). Reviewed by Ellen Ettlinger.     

A British high commissioner for Canada, 1927–28

Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: The Manyika and their Portuguese and African Neighbours, 1575–1902 by H.H.K. Bhila. Salisbury: Longman, 1982. Pp. xvi + 291, maps; £7.lb50.

Indo‐Portuguese History: Sources and Problems edited by John Correia‐Afonso. Bombay: Oxford University Press India, 1981. Pp. xii + 201; £7.lb75.

The Sack of Panama by Peter Earle. London: Jill Norman &; Hobhouse, 1981. Pp. 304, maps and illus.; £9.lb95.

Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links between Scotland and America in the 18th Century by William R. Brock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 293; £10.00.

The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment by P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. London: J.M. Dent, 1982. Pp. 314; £16.lb50.

Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue 1793–1798 by David Geggus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 492, maps; £28.lb00.

The Peopling of Newfoundland. Essays in Historical Geography edited by John J. Mannion. St John's; Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977. Pp. x + 289, maps, tables, illus.; $12.lb50.

Delhi Between Two Empires 1803–1931: Society, Government and Urban Growth by Narayani Gupta. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 260, maps, illu's.; Rs. 90.

The Other Side of the Frontier: An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia by Henry Reynolds. Townsville: James Cook University, 1981. Pp. 261; $A 7.lb50.

The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820–1854 by Basil A. Le Cordeur. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 314, maps, illus.; NP.

Rule Britannia: The Victorian Navy; by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 246, illus.; £8.lb95.

Studies in the History of Plateau State, Nigeria edited by E. Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xvi + 288, maps and illus.; £25.lb00.

Varieties of Christian Experience in Nigeria edited by Elizabeth Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 211, map and illus.; £17.lb50.

Britain and the War for the Union, by Brian Jenkins. Montreal and London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2 vols., 1974 and 1980. Pp. 315, 470; $17.lb50 and $26.lb50.

Egypt for the Egyptians! The Socio‐political Crisis in Egypt 1878–82 by Alexander Schölch. London: Ithaca Press (for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford), 1981. Pp.xiv + 386, maps; £14.50.

Gentlemen Emigrants. From the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier by Patrick A. Dunae. Vancouver: Douglas &; McIntyre, 1981. Pp. 276; NP.

The Far Eastern Telegraphs. The History of Telegraphic Communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981. Pp. 226, maps and illus.; NP.

Anglo‐Russian Rivalry in Central Asia: 1810–1885 by Gerald Morgan, with an epilogue by Geoffrey Wheeler. London: Frank Cass, 1981. Pp. xix + 264, maps; £15.

Imperialism. The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914 by Winfried Baumgart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 239; cloth £15.lb00, paper £5.lb95.

Economic Control and Colonial Development. Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain by R.M. Kesner. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp. xvii+ 305; £23.lb25.

Julian S. Corbett, 1854–1922: Historian of British Maritime Policy from Drake to Jellicoe by Donald M. Schurman. Royal Historical Society, Studies in History Series No. 26. London: Swift Printers, 1981. Pp. x + 216; £15.lb75/$US39.lb89.

British Malaya. A Bibliographical and Biographical Compendium by Robert Heussler. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981. Pp. xvii + 193; $30.

Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth: Essays presented to Sir Edgar Williams edited by Frederick Madden and D.K. Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. vii + 167, 1 plate: £11.lb95.

British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905–1939 by S.R. Ashton. London Studies on South Asia, No. 2. London: Curzon Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 231, map; £6.lb75.

The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry by Geoffrey Jones. London: Macmillan, in association with Business History Unit, University of London, 1981. Pp. xi + 264, maps, tables and figures; £20.lb00.

Mahatma Gandhi A Biography by B.R. Nanda. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 542; Rs. 80.

Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939–1945 by Roy Maclaren. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xv + 330, maps and illus.; NP.

British Army Aid Group: Hong Kong Resistance, 1942–1945 by Edwin Ride. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 347, maps and illus.; £14.lb00.

The Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy, 1938–1948 by R.D. Pearce. London: Frank Cass, 1982. Pp. 223; £15.lb00.

Domestic Roots of India's Foreign Policy 1947–1972 by A. Appadorai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 244; Rs. 80.

New History: Studying Australia Today edited by G. Osborne and W.F. Mandle. Sydney: George Allen &; Unwin, 1982. Pp. 216.

Inventing Australia. Images and Identity 1688–1980 by Richard White. Sydney, London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. x + 205, illus; £10.lb00.

Sind Through the Centuries by Hamida Khuhro (ed.). Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 301, 23 plates; £17.lb00.     

The racial politics of criminal jurisdiction in the aftermath of the Anglo-American ‘destroyers-for-bases’ deal, 1940–50

Monopolists and Freebooters by O.H.K. Spate. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983, Pp.xxi + 426, 28 maps, 19 plates; £29.95.

John Hawkes worth: Eighteenth‐Century Man of Letters by John Lawrence Abbott. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 241, frontispiece; £16.90.

The Papers of William Penn. Volume 1:1644–1679 edited by Mary Maples Dunn and Richard S. Dunn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp.xv + 703; $28.50.

Settlements, Trade and Politics in the 17th Century Gold Coast by Ray A. Kea. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp.475; £23.50.

White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis by David W. Galenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 291; £22.50.

Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies edited by J.E. Inikori. London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa, 1982. Pp.349, bibliography, index, maps and tables; £12.95 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West. Volume II, 1654–1763 by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp.ix + 270, maps and illus.; £12.50.

A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763–1765 by John L. Bullion. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Pp.xv + 317; £18.

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763–1789 by Robert Middle‐kauff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xvi + 696, maps and portraits; £15.

Liberty and Empire: British Radical Solutions to the American Problem 1774–1776 by Robert E. Toohey. London: University of Kentucky Press, 1978. Pp.xiv + 210; £12.

Evangelicals United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre‐Victorian Britain, 1795–1830 by Roger H. Martin. Studies in Evangelicalism, No. 4. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 230. NP.

Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies by Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 389, maps and illus.; £25.

Readings in Caribbean History and Economics: An Introduction to the Region edited by R. M. Delson. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 1981. Pp.xxi + 336; $35.

Tubbo: ‘The Great Peter's Run’ by Paul de Serville. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.256; £19.50.

The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al‐Nafis) by Raja Ali Haji Ibn Ahmad; translated and annotated by Virginia Matheson and Barbara Watson Andaya. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xix + 476, maps and illus.; £29.50.

A Collection of Treaties and Other Documents Affecting the States of Malaysia 1761–1963 edited by J. de V. Allen, A. J. Stockwell and L. R. Wright. London, Rome, New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1981.2 vols. Pp. xviii + 504, 683; $85.

Young Logan Campbell by R.C.J. Stone. Oxford University Press/Auckland University Press, 1983. Pp.287, illus.; £18.

Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada by Judith Fingard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 292, illus.; £9.25

City of Blood Revisited: A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897 by Robert Home. London: Rex Collings, 1982. Pp.xv + 141, maps and illus.; £8.75.

British Imperialism and African Response: The Niger Valley, 1851–1905 by A. D. Nzemeke. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1982. Pp.379, maps and tables; DM 58.

John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman by Phyllis Lewsen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 431, maps and illus.; £31.

Black People and the South African War 1899–1902 by Peter Warwick. African Studies Series No. 40, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.256; £25.

British Economists and the Empire by John Cunningham Wood. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Pp.299; £15.95.

Social Engineering in the Philippines; The Aims, Execution and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900–1913 by Glenn Anthony May. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp.xxvii + 268, photographs; £16.95.

European Colonial Rule, 1880–1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa by Rudolf von Albertini with Albert Wirz; translated by John G. Williamson. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 581, maps and tables; £27.50.

WITS. The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Its Precursors 1896–1939 by Bruce K. Murray. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1982. Pp.xvii + 389, photographs; R 10,00.

Verwaltung in einem afrikanischen Bauernstaat: das koloniale Französisch‐Westafrika 1919–1939 by Gerd Spittler. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981. Pp.208, maps; DM38 (paper).

Peasant Movements in Colonial India: North Bihar 1917–1942 by Stephen Henningham. Australian National University Monographs on South Asia No. 9. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1982. Pp.xvi + 286; NP.

Peasant Movements in India 1920–1950 by D. N. Dhanagare. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xiii + 254, 6 maps; £12.

Readings in the Constitutional History of India 1757–1947 edited by S. V. Desika Char. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xcii + 789; £29.

The Transfer of Power 1942–7 (Constitutional Relations Between Britain and India) edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon. Vol. XI: The Mount‐batten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan; Vol. XII: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes, Partition and Independence. London: HMSO, 1982–3. Pp.cxxiv + 1021; cvxi + 851, maps and illus.; £70 each.

The Commonwealth Experience. Vol. I: The Durham Report to the Anglo‐Irish Treaty. Vol. II: From British to Multi‐racial Commonwealth by Nicholas Mansergh: Revised edition. London and Toronto: Macmillan and University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 275 and 299; £35 (cased); also available in paperback.

European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Woodruff D. Smith. Chicago: Nelson‐Hall, 1982. Pp.ix + 273; $20.95 (cased), $10.95 (paper).

Prime Ministers and Diplomats: The Making of Australian Foreign Policy, 1901–1949 by P.G. Edwards. Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1983. Pp.240; $24.99.

Asia: The Winning of Independence edited by Robin Jeffrey. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp.xv + 337, maps and illus.; £15 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Sir Charles Arden‐Clarke by David Rooney. Rex Collings, London, 1982. Pp.222, maps and photos; £12.50.

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.xxvii + 211; £16.

Britain, Europe and the World 1850–1982: Delusions of Grandeur by Bernard Porter. London: Allen and Unwin, 1983. Pp.xv + 173; £10.

Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond and John English. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 489, illus.; £12.     

Aesthetic Cartography: The Cultural Function of Portolan Charts from 1300 to 1700

The earliest printed maps 1472–1500. By Tony Campbell. London: The British Library, 1987. ISBN 0 7123 0133 X. Pp. xii, 244, illus. £40.00 (cloth).

Die ?Caerte van oostlant? des Cornells Anthonisz‐ 1543: die alteste gedruckte Seekarte Nordeuropas und inhre Segelanweisung. By Arend W. Lang. Schriften des Deutschen Schifiahrtsmeums Bd. 8. Hamburg: Ernst Kabel Ver‐lag, 1986. ISBN 3 8225 0012 7. Pp 168, 108 plates. DM 68.00.

Gilded scenes and shining prospects: panoramic views of British towns 1575–1900. By Ralph Hyde. Catalogue of an exhibition held 9th October to 15th December 1985. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Centre for British Art, 1985. ISBN 0 930606 49 3. Pp. 207, illus. £23.00.

L'Inventaire du Monde: géographic et politique aux origines de I'Empire romain. By Claude Nicolet. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1988. ISBN 2 213 02020 5. Pp. 345, illus. FF160.00 (paper).

Espace français: vision et aménagement, XVI^e XIX^e siècle. Exposition organisé par la Direction des Archives de France, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Paris: Archives Nationales, 1987. ISBN 2 86000 135 2. Pp. 192, col. plates. FFI20 (paper).

Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays‐Bas Méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à la fin du xvii^e et au xviii^e siècle. By Claire Lemoine‐Isabeau. Centre D'Histoire Militaire, Travaux 19. Bruxelles: Musée Royal de L'Armée et Centre d'Histoire Militaire, 1984. ISBN 2 87051 0055. Pp.296, 30 plates. [Musée Royal de L'Armée et Centre d'Histoire Militaire, Pare du Cinquantenaire, 3, B‐1040 Bruxelles.]

Civil War maps: an annotated list of maps and atlases in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Richard W. Stephen‐son. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988. ISBN 084405981. Pp. viii, 410, illus. US$46.00 (cloth).

Island, Grönland und das nördliche Eismeer im Bild der Kartographie seit dem 10. Jahrhundert. By Oswald Dreyer‐Eimbcke. Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft im Hamburg 77. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1987. ISBN 3 515 05102 3. Pp. iv, 170, illus. DM65.00. [Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Birkenwaldstraße 44, Postfach 347, 7000 Stuttgart 1.]

L'analse de la carte ancienne: essai méthodologique: la carte du Bas‐Canada de 1831 de Joseph Bouchette. By Claude Boudrea. Rapports et Mémoires de recherche du CELAT 7. Québec: Université Laval, 1986. Pp. viii, 170, plates. [Centre d'études sur la langue, les arts et les traditions populaires des francophones en Amérique du Nord (CELAT), Faculté des Lettres, Universié Laval, Cité universitaire, Québec G1K 7PA.]

La Città de Napoli tra Vedutismo e Cartografia: Piante e Vedute dal XV al XIX Secolo. A cura di Giulo Pane e Vladimiro Valero. Napoli: Grimaldi &; C. Editori, 1987. Pp. 438, illus. [Grimaldi &; C. Editori, Via Bausan 61, 80121 Napoli.]

Exploration and mapping of the American West: selected essays. Edited by Donna P. Koepp. Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, Occasional Paper 1. Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press for The Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, 1986. ISBN 0 932757 01 4. Pp. viii, 184, illus. US$18.95 (cloth).

Explorations in the history of Canadian cartography: a collection of essays. Edited by Barbara Farrell and Aileen Desbarats. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, 1988. ISBN 0 9690682 6 3. Pp. xii, 274, illus. CDN$25.00 (paper). [Associationof Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, c/o Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division, National Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3.]

Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteen and nineteenth‐centuries. By B. W. Higman. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., 1988. ISBN 976 8017 08 2. Pp. xvi, 308, illus. £20.00 (paper) [Institute ofjamaica Publications Ltd., 2A Suther‐mere Road, Kingston 10, Jamaica.]

The Sanuto sixteenth‐century Venetian globe gores: Chicago: Holzheimer Research and Publications Project and Hermon Dunlap Center for the History of Cartography, 1987. 24 sheets. Published with: The Holzheimer Venetian globe gores of the sixteenth‐century by David Woodward. Madison: The Juniper Press, 1987. Pp. iv, 20. US$395.00 (boxed).

Printed maps of the British Isles 1650–1750. By Rodney W. Shirley. Tring: Map Collector Publications; London: The British Library, 1988. ISBN 0 7123 0142 9. Pp. 168, illus. £48.00 (cloth).

The city in maps: urban mapping to 1900. By James Elliot. Published by the British Library to accompany an exhibition held from June 1987 to December 1987. London: The British Library, 1987. ISBN 0 7123 0134 8. Pp. 88, 58 illus. £9.95 (paper).

Keyguide to information sources in cartography. By Alan G. Hodgkiss and Andrew F. Tatham. London: Mansell Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0 7201 1768 2. Pp. x, 253. £25.00 (cloth),

Maps and map‐makers of the Aegean. By Vasilis Sphyroe‐ras, Anna Avramea, and Spyros Asdrahas. Translated by G. Cox and J. Solman. Athens: Olkos Ltd., 1985. ISBN 0892414553. Pp.263, 166illus, col. plates. $100.00.

Maps with the news: the development of American journalist cartography. By Mark Monmonier. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. ISBN 0 226 53411 1. Pp. xiv, 331, illus. £19.95 (cloth).

Origem e desenvolvimento da cartografia Portugesa na Epoca dos descrobrimentos [The origins and development of Portuguese cartography at the time of the Discoveries]. By Alfredo Pin‐heiro Marques. Descoberta do Mundo. [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional ‐ Casa da Moeda, 1987. Pp. 228, 16 illus. 2,100 Escudos (cloth).

The charts &; Coastal views of Captain Cook's voyages, 1: The voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771. Edited by Andrew David, Riidiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Hakluyt Society Extra Series 43. London: The Hakluyt Society (with Australia Academy of the Humanities), 1988. ISBN 0 904180 23 9. Pp. lxiv, 328, illus. £100.00 (cloth). [The Hakluyt Society, c/o The British Library, Map Library, Great Russell Street, London WCIB 3DG],

Plantation acres: an historical study of the Irish land surveyor and his maps. By J. H. Andrews. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1985. ISBN 0 901 905 35 6. Pp. xxiv, 462, illus, 29 plates. £16.50 (cloth). [Ulster Historical Foundation, 68 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast BT9 6NY, Northern Ireland].

Indian maps and plans from earliest times to the advent of European surveys. By Susan Gole. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1989. ISBN 8h 85054 58 4. Pp.207, Illus. £45.00. [Jaya Books, 240^b Kentish Town Road, London NW5 1DD, or South Asia Books, PO Box 502, Columbia, Missouri 65205],     

Report of the progress of the ordnance survey

The Great Frozen Land : Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras, and a Sojourn among the Samoyads. By Feed. George Jackson, F.E.G.S., leader of the Jackson‐Harmsworth Polar Expedition. Edited from his Journals by Arthur Montefiore. London : Macmillan and Co., 1895. With 46 Illustrations and 3 Maps. Pp. xviii + 297. Price 15s. net.

A Vagabond in Spain. By C. Bogue Luffmann. London : John Murray, 1895. Pp. xv+ 345.

Vikings of To‐day ; or, Life and Medical Work among the Fishermen of Labrador. By Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.E.O.S.E., L.R.C.P. Illustrated from original photographs. London: Marshall Bros., 1895. Pp. xvi + 240. Price 3s. 6d.

Five Years in Canada. By W. M. Elkington. London : Whittaker and Co.; Eugby : Geo. E. Over, 1895. Pp. 138. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes. By Major C. S. Cumberland. With Frontispiece, Map, and Index. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Pp.274.

Au Congo: Comment les Noirs travaillent. Par le Lieutenant Lemaire (Ch.). Bruxelles : Imprimerie Scientifique, 1895. Pp. 139.

Nord‐Kamerun. Schilderung der im Auftrage des Auswärtigen Amtes zur Erschliessung des nördlichen Hinterlandes von Kamerun während der Jahre 1886–1892 unternommenen Reisen. Von Eugen Zintgraff. Berlin : Verlag von Gebrüder Paetel, 1895. Pp. ix + 468.

Vedic India, as embodied principally in the Big‐Veda. By Zénaïde A: Ragozin, Member of the Eoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. etc. ; Author of “The Story of Chaldæa,” “The Story of Assyria,” “The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia,” etc. London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, mdcccxcv. Pp. xii+457. Price 5s.

Glimpses of the Eastern Archipelago: Ethnographical, Geographical, Historical. Translated from the Dutch by Geo. G. Batten. Pp. 137.

Daendels—Raffles: A Dissertation on the two Celebrated Governors of Java. By M. L. van Deventer. Translated from the Indische Gids by Geo. G. Batten. London : E. Marlborough and Co., n.d. Pp. 128.

Bogen wad Pfeil in Central‐Brasilien. Ethnographische Studie von Dr. Herrmann Meter. Leipzig: Druck vom Bibliographischen Institut, n.d. Pp. vi + 54.

Anthropogeographische Beiträge, Zur Gebirgskunde, vorzüglich Beobachtungen über Hohengrenzen und Hohengürtel. Herausgegeben im. Auftrage des Vereins fur Erkunde und der Carl Ritter‐Stiftung zu Leipzig. Von Friedrich Ratzel. Mit zehn Karten und zahlreichen Illustrationen. Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker u. Humblot, 1895. Pp. 362.

Petrology for Students: An Introduction to the Study of Rocks under the Microscope. By Alfred Harker, M.A., F.G.S. (Cambridge Natural Science Manuals.) Cambridge : University Press, 1895. Pp. viii + 306. Price 7s. 6d.

Ritters Geographisch‐Statistisches Lexikon. Erster Band. A—K. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1895. Pp. 1064. Eighth edition. Edited by Jons. Penzler. Pp. 1064.

A New Geography on the Comparative Method. With Maps and Diagrams. By J. M. D. Meiklejohn, M.A., Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St. Andrews, etc. Thirteenth Edition— Seventieth Thousand, Revised and Corrected. London : Alfred M. Holden, 1895. Pp. 1 + 504. Price 4s. 6d.

London in 1895. Originally Compiled by Herbert Fry. London : W. H. Allen and Co. Pp. 252. Price 1s.

Horne's Guide to Whitby.’ Whitby: Horne and Son, Gazette Office, 1895. Pp. 136. Price: Paper, 6d; Cloth, with Maps, 1s.

Illustrated Guide to Perthshire and Central Scotland. By Thomas Hunter. Perth : Thomas Hunter, 1895. Pp. 15 + 262.

Deeside. By Alex. Inkson M'Connochie. Aberdeen : Lewis Smith and Son, 1895. Pp. 157. Price, Boards, 1s.; Cloth, 2s.

Bruckmann's Illustrated Guides. The Highlands of Bavaria, with Salzburg and the Adjacent Parts of the Tyrol. By Dr. Gsell Fels. Pp. xvi + 238. Price 2s. 6d. Munich. By Dr. Gsell Fels. Pp. xvi+61. Price 1s. Munich: A. Bruckmann ; London : Asher and Co., 1895.

An Oriental Holiday. Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Handbook for the Tourist. By Henri Moser. Drawings by Georges Scott. London: 14 Cockspur Street, 1895. Pp. 76.

The Guide, to South Africa for the Use of Tourists, Sportsmen, Invalids, and Settlers. Edited annually by A. Samler Brown and G. Gordon Brown, London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. ; Cape Town : J. C. Juta and Co.. 1895. Pp. xlii + 354. Price 2s. 6d.

Guides of the Swedish Tourists Club, No. 8. Swedish Scenery and Places of Interest. Some Hints for Visitors to the “Land of the Midnight Sun.” Second edition. Stockholm : Wahlström and Widstrand, 1894. 14 Illustrations. Pp. 56.

Wegweiser des Schwedischen Touristenvereins, No. 10. Stockholm, die Havptstadt Schwedens. Stockholm : Wahlström and Widstrand. Leipsig : K. F. Koehler. With 60 Illustrations. Pp. 147.     

Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine

Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797 by Peter Hulme. London: Methuen, 1986. Pp. xi + 399; maps and illus. £25.

The Aggressions of the French at Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific, by George Pritchard, edited by Paul De Deckker. Auckland: Oxford University Press (New Zealand), 1985. Pp.253. £35.00.

A History of Christianity in India 1707–1858 by Stephen Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xiv + 578. £45.

Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World edited by Gad Heuman. London: Frank Cass &; Co., 1986. Pp. vii + 199; maps. £19.50.

Victorian Shipping, Business and Imperial Policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and Southern Africa by A.N. Porter. Royal Historical Society Studies in History 49. Woodbridge: Boydell &; Brewer, 1986. Pp. 332. £29.50.

Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography edited by R.P.T. Davenport‐Hines, London: Frank Cass &; Co.Ltd., 1986. Pp. viii + 139. £21.00.

Julius Vogel, Business Politician by Raewyn Dalziel. Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. 368, illus. NZ $45.00.

Kipling and ‘Orientalism’ by B.J. Moore‐Gilbert. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 228; £18.95.

The Imperial Imagination, Magic and Myth in Kipling's India by Lewis D. Wurgraft. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. Pp.xxi + 211; £7.95.

A Short History of Tasmania by L.L. Robson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp.xii + 189. £7.95.

Horace Plunkett, Co‐operation and Politics: An Irish Biography by Trevor West. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1986. Pp. xviii + 288, illus. £12.95.

The Canadian Career of the Fourth Earl of Minto: The Education of a Viceroy by Carman Miller. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980. Pp.225.

Lord Minto's Canadian Papers: A Selection of the Public and Private Papers of the Fourth Earl of Minto, 1898–1904 edited by Paul Stevens and John T. Saywell. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1981. Vol. I. Pp. lxxix + 467.

Robert Thorne Coryndon: Proconsular Imperialism in Southern and Eastern Africa, 1897–1925 by Christopher P. Youe. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 241; maps, tables, and illus. $29.95.

The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism, and the State in Twentieth‐Century Natal by Shula Marks. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 171; illus. £13.75.

Oil Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century by Fiona Venn. London: Macmillan, 1986. Pp.xii + 228. £7.95 (paperback); £25.00 (hardback).

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by F.R. Nicosia. London: I.B. Tauris, 1986. Pp.343. £24.50.

Old Sinister: A Memoir of Sir Arthur Richards, GCMG by Richard Peel. Privately printed, n.d. Pp. 196, £8.

Yanks Down Under 1941–45: The American Impact on Australia by E. Daniel Potts and Annette Potts. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xxiii + 455, illus. £29.50.

Anthony Eden: A Biography by David Carlton. London: Allen &; Unwin Paperbacks, 1986. Pp.528: illus. £8.95.

Anthony Eden by Robert Rhodes James. London: Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1986. Pp. xiv + 665; map and illus. £16.95.

The English‐Speaking Alliance‐ Britain, the United States, the Dominions and the Cold War 1945–1951 by Ritchie Ovendale. London: George Allen &; Unwin, 1985. Pp. 308; bibliography and index. £30.

Black Africa 1945–1980: Economic Decolonisation and Arrested Development by D.K. Fieldhouse. London: Allen &; Unwin Ltd., 1986. Pp.xix + 260. £22.50 (hardback), £9.95 (paperback).     

The place‐names of canada

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European Population Transfers, 1939–1945. By Joseph B. Schechtman. Preface by Adolph Lowe. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xi+532. 3 sketch maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. $5.00, or 21s.

Land and Landscape. By Brenda Colvin, F.I.L.A. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xii+266. 17 figs. 106 illustrations. London: John Murray, 1947. 21s.

Planning and the Countryside. By Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. 7 1/2 x 5. Pp. 60. 12 figs. Glasgow and London: Art and Educational Publishers Ltd., 1946. 2s 6d.

I Return to Scotland. By S. P. B. Mais. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 274. 15 plates. 11 sketch maps. London: Christopher Johnson, Publishers, Ltd., 1947. 10s 6d.

The Cathedral and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall. By John Mooney, F.S.A.Scot. 9 1/2 x 6. Pp. xv+251. 19 illustrations. Kirkwall: W. R. Mackintosh. Second edition, 1947. 21s.

Natural History in the Highlands and Islands. By F. Fraser Darling, D.Sc., F.R.S.E. 8 1/2 x 6. Pp. xv+303. 46 photographs in colour, 55 in black‐and‐white. 24 maps and diagrams. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1947. 16s.

Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands. By Seton Gordon, C.B.E. Foreword, and a glossary of place‐name elements with aids to pronunciation, by W. J. Watson, M.A., L.L.D., D.Litt. Velt., Hon. F.E.I.S. 7 1/2 x 5. Pp. xv+419. Illustrations by Sir D. Y. Cameron, r.a. Map. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1948. 10s 6d.

In the High Grampians. By Richard Perry. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 173. 32 photographs, a maps. London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1948 15s.

The Lake District and the National Trust. By B. L. Thompson. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.viii+223. 24 illustrations. Map (1: 126,720). Kendal: Titus Wilson and Son Ltd., 1946. 10s 6d.

Cornwall. By Peggy Pollard. 9x7. Pp. 48. Drawings and water‐colours by Sven Berlin. 47 photographs. 2 maps. London: Paul Elek (Publishers) Ltd., 1947. 9s 6d.

The Mountains of Snowdonia in History, the Sciences, Literature and Sport. Edited by Herbert R. C. Carr, M.A., F.R.G.S., and George A. Lister, B.Sc. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xiii+312. 15 figs. 27 plates. 6 sketch maps. London: Crosby Lock‐wood and Son Ltd. Second edition, 1948. 15s.

The Atlantic Islands: A Study of the Faroe Life and Scene. By Kenneth Williamson. Foreword by Eric Linklater. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 360. 35 photographs. 4 sketch maps. Glossary. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1948. 16s.

Fahrten in Island. By Rudolf Jonas. Appendices by F. Nusser. 9 x 6. Pp. 199. 3 figs. 80 photographs. Map of Iceland (1: 1,970,000) and of Vatnajokull (1: 800,000). Vienna: L. W. Seidel und Sohn, 1948. $3.50.

Bergens Byområde og dets geografiske Utvikling, 1900–1940. By Tore Sund. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2. Pp. 156. 88 figs. Skrifter fra Norges Handelsh0yskole i Rekken Geografiske Avhandlinger, No. 2. Bergen: J. D. Beyer A.S., 1947.

The Land of France. By Ralph Dutton and Lord Holden. Foreword by Raymond Mortimer. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xvi+152. 133 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. Second, revised, edition, 1946. 12s 6d.

How do you do, Tovarish? By Ralph Parker. gx6J. Pp. 64. 16 isotype charts. 32 photographs. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1947. 7s. 6d.

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Middle East Journey. By Richard Goold‐Adams. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. viii+195. 22 photographs. Sketch map. London: John Murray, 1947. 15s.

Syrian Pageant: The History of Syria and Palestine, woo B.C. to A.D. 1945. By Wilfred T. F. Castle, M.A. 9x6. Pp.184. 16 illustrations. Sketch map. London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., N.D. 21s.

Soil and Water Conservation in the Punjab. By R. Maclagan Gorrie, D.Sc., F.R.S.E. Foreword by Sir Evan M. Jenkins, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. 10x7. Pp. viii+290. 47 figs. 27 plates. Lahore: Punjab Government (Book Depot), 1946. Rs. 5, or 7s 6d.

Tibetan Venture: In the Country of the Ngolo‐Setas. Second Guibaut‐Liotard Expedition. By Andre Guibaut. Translated by Lord Sudley. 8 3/4 x 5. Pp. ix+206. 23 illustrations. 2 maps. London: John Murray, 1947. 16s.

AFRICA

Liberia. By Charles Morrow Wilson. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.226. 27 illustrations. New York: William Sloane Associates Inc., 1947. $3.75.

In the Forests of the Night. By James Riddell. 9 1/2 x 6. Pp. xiv+229. 97 illustrations. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1948. 15s.

Wild Life in South Africa. By J. Stevenson‐Hamilton. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.364. 2 sketch maps. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1947. 12s 6d.

AMERICA

Outlines of the Geography, Life and Customs of Newfoundland‐Labrador (The Eastern Part of the Labrador Peninsula). By V. Tanner. 10 x 6 1/2. Vol. I. Pp. 1–436. Figs. 1–209. Vol. II. Pp. 437–909. Figs. 210–342. Bibliography: Pp. 827–909. Cambridge: University Press, 1947. 50s for the two volumes.

Newfoundland: Economic, Diplomatic, and Strategic Studies. Edited by R. A. Mackay, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. Contributors: The Editor, S. A. Saunders, M.A., Ph.D., A. M. Fraser, M.A., G. S. Graham, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., A. R. M. Lower, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., G. S. Watts, M.A. Foreword by Sir Campbell Stuart, G.C.M.G., K.B.E. 9x6. Pp. xiv+577. Diagrams. 4 sketch maps. End‐paper maps. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946. London: Geoffrey Cum‐berlege. 30s.

Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By Miguel Covarrubias. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4. Pp. xxviii+435+viii. 92 line drawings. 8 colour plates. 91 plates (photographs). London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1947. 45s.

Mexican Kaleidoscope. By Norman Pklham Wright, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.viii+175. 54 photographs. End‐paper sketch maps. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947. 15s.

Land of the Condor; By Hakon Mielche. Translated from the Danish by M. A. Michael. 8 1/2 x 6. Pp. 1352. Marginal drawings. 13 photographs. Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London: William Hodge and Co. Ltd., 1947. 12s 6d.

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Grtnlands Historie: En Oversigtfra'ca. 1500 til 1945. By Finn Gad. 10 x 6 1/2. Pp.272. Illustrated. Det Grønlandske Selskabs Skrifter, XIV. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaards Forlag, 1946. Kr. 10.

South ivith Mawson: Reminiscences of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914. By Charles Francis Laseron. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 223. 17 illustrations. Endpaper sketch maps. Sydney: Australasian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1947. 12s 6d.

CARTOGRAPHY

Catalogue of Maps in the Essex Record Office, 1566–1855. Edited by F. G. Emmison, F.S.A., f.r.hist.s. Foreword by E. Lynam, d.utt., f.s.a. 11 x 8 3/4. Pp. xx+106. 4 figs. 6 plates in colour. 28 maps in half‐tone. Map of Essex Hundreds and Parishes (1: 126,720). Chelmsford: The Essex County Council, 1947. 21s.

Geschiedenis der Kartografie van Nederland, van den Romeinschen Tijd tot het Midden der 19de Eeuw. By S.J. Fockema Andreae and B. van't Hoff. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2. Pp. viii +127. English summary: pp. 104–121. 25 plates. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff N.V., 1947. 15f.

BIOGRAPHY

Douglas of the Fir: A Biography of David Douglas, Botanist. By Athelstan George Harvey. 9x6. Pp. x+290. Bibliography. 7 illustrations. 4 maps. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1947. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. $4.00, or 22s.

Arabian Days: An Autobiography. By H. St. J. B. Philby. 9 1/2 x 6. Pp. xvi+336. 52 illustrations. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1948. 21s.

In Memory of J. M. Shokalsky. Edited by I. J. Krachovsky. 10 x 6 1/2. Pp. 375. 30 illustrations. Bibliography. Moscow and Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1946. 38 roubles.

Mariner of the North: Captain Bob Bartlett. By George Palmer Putnam. Pp. x+246. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce Inc., 1947. $3.50.

EDUCATIONAL

This is Kenya. 5 x 7 1/4. Pp. 112. 104 photographs. Nairobi: The Kenya Information Office, 1947. 2s.

GENERAL

Glacial Geology and the Pleistocene Epoch. By Richard Foster Flint. 9x6. Pp. xviii+589. 88 figs. 6 plates. Bibliography. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1947. $6.00, or 36s.

Plough and Pasture. By E. Cecil Curwen. 7 1/2 x 5. Pp. iii+122. 21 figs. 14 plates. Past and Present, Vol. 4. London: The Cobbett Press, 1946. 7s 6d.

Revolution of Environment. By E. A. Gutkind. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. ix+454. 60 figs. 74 plates. 3 maps. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd., 1946. 30s.

World Words: Recommended Pronunciations. By W. Cabell Greet. 9 1/2 x 6. Pp. liii+608. New York: Columbia University Press, by arrangement with the Columbia Broadcasting System. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1948. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. $6.75, or 37s 6d.

Compass of the World: A Symposium on Political Geography. Edited by Hans W. Weigert and Vilhjalmur Stefansson. 8+5$. Pp. xvi+466. 39 figs., with maps by Richard E. Harrison. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd.,1946. 15s.

British Sources of References and Information: A Guide to Societies, Works of Reference, and Libraries. Edited by Theodore Besterman. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. ix+56. London: Aslib (for the British Council), 1947. 6s, or 5s to Aslib members.

Britain and Her Export Trade. Edited by Mark Abrams. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 329. London: Pilot Press Ltd., 1946. 15s.

A Book of Voyages. Edited by Patrick O'Brian. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.274. Decorations by Joan Burton. London: Home and Van Thai Ltd., 1947. 15s.

Portuguese Voyages, 1408–1663. Edited by Charles David Ley. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4. Pp. xxii+360. Everyman's Library, No. 986. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1947. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc. 4s 6d.

A Book of Recent Exploration. By Charles E. Key, M.A., F.R.G.S. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4. Pp.233. 13 illustrations. 11 sketch maps. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1946. 8s 6d.

MAPS AND ATLASES

The "Contour” Road Book of Scotland. By Harry R. G. Inglis, F.R.S.G.S. Revised and extended by R. M. G. Inglis. 6x3 1/2. Pp. xvi+288. 500 maps and plans. Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis. Twentieth Revision, n.d.

Norway in Maps. By Tore Sund and Axel Sømme. 10 x 7 1/2. A. Text‐Volume. Pp. 96. B. Sketch Maps and Photographs. Pp. 52. 82 figs. C. Maps (Norges Geografiske Opmaling). Index map (1: 2,800,000). 19 maps (1: 200,000). Skrifter fra Norges Handelsheyskole i Rekken Geografiske Avhandlinger, Nos. 1–2. Bergen: A. S.John Griegs Boktrykkeri, 1947.

Kleine geologische Overzichtskaart van Nederland op de Schaal 1:600,000. Geologische Stichting, Afdeling Geologische Kaart. Explanatory text, and summary in English. 11 1/4 x 8. Pp. 16. Map: 22 1/4 x 19 1/2. The Hague: Staatsdrukkerij, 1947.

Maly Atlas Polski [Little Atlas of Poland], Edited by Jerzy Kondracki. 8 x 12 1/4. 28 maps in colour. Warsaw: G16wny Urzad Pomiarow Krajy [Head Office . of Survey], 1947.     

Review of the Alaska boundary question

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Language as a Social and Political Factor in Europe. By Stanley Rundle. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8. Pp. 207. 11 sketch maps. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

Britain's Structure and Scenery. By L. Dudley Stamp, C.B.E., B.A., D.Sc. 8 1/2 x 6. Pp. xvi+255. 47 colour photographs. 40 photographs in black and white. 74 maps and diagrams. London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1946. 16s.

Climbing in Britain. Edited by J. E. Q. Barford. 7 x 4 1/2. Pp. 160. 47 figs. 18 photographs. Pelican Books, A 160. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd., 1946. 1s.

Scotland before the Scots. The Rhind Lectures for 1944. By V. Gordon Childe. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. viii+144. 24 figs. 16 plates. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

On Scottish Hills. By B. H. Humble. Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. 10 x 7 1/2. Pp. 128. 75 photographs. End‐paper sketches. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1946. 18s.

The Promise of the Years. By Edward Grace. 9 1/4 x 7. Pp.120. 26 illustrations. London: Sylvan Press Ltd., 1946. 16s.

The Lure of Lakeland. By E. D. Tinne. 6 1/2 x 8. Pp.64. 22 illustrations by the author. End‐paper sketch map. London : Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1946. 7s 6d.

Henley‐in‐Arien : An Ancient Market Town and its Surroundings. By William Cooper, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xii+195. 14 illustrations. 2 maps. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1946. 21s.

The River Windrush. By Wilson MacArthur. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. viii+184. 46 photographs. London : Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1946. 10s 6d.

This Land of Sweden. By Prince William of Sweden. Translated by Elizabeth Kjellberg. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 395‐ 17 illustrations. Stockholm : P. A. Norstedt och Söners Förlag, 1946. 16 kr.

La Route Française, son Histoire, sa Fonction. By Henri Cavaillès. 9 x 5 1/2. Pp. 399. 7 figs. Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1946. 370 fr.

The Matterhorn. By Guido Rey. Translated from the Italian by J. E. C. Eaton. Revised and two additional Chapters by R. L. G. Irving. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2. Pp. x+278. 37 illustrations. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1946. 15s.

The Growth of Modern Germany. By Roy Pascal. 7 1/2 x 5. Pp. viii+145. 11 photographs. 5 charts. 3 sketch maps. Past and Present, Vol.2. London: Cobbett Press, 1946. 7s 6d.

The Republic of Austria 1918–1934: A Study in the Failure of Democratic Government. By Mary Macdonald. 7 1/4 x 5. Pp. viii+165. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London: Oxford University Press, 1946. 8s 6d.

Under the Carpathians : Home of a Forgotten People. By J. B. Heisler and J. E. Mellon. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.124. 79 illustrations. London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

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Paysans de Syrie et du Proche‐Orient. By Jacques Weulersse. 9 x 5 1/2. Pp. 329. 69 figs. 16 plates. Le Paysan et la Terre, No. 3. Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1946. 360 fr.

Black Borneo. By Charles C. Miller. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.220. 23 photographs. London: Museum Press Ltd., 1946. 15s.

The Philippine Islands. By W. Cameron Forbes. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xv+424. 31 illustrations. Map. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press. Revised edition, 1945. 85.00 or 23s 6d.

A Presença de Portugal em Macau. By António da Silva Rego. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4. Pp. xiii+III. Lisbon : Agência Geral das Cólonias, 1946.

Asia on the Move : Population Pressure, Migration, and Resettlement in Eastern Asia under the Influence of Want and War. By Bruno Lasker. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xiii+207. End‐paper sketch maps. New York : Henry Holt and Company Inc., 1945. S3.00.

AFRICA

The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines. Edited by J. P. R. Wallis. 10 x 6 1/2. Vol.1. Pp. xxxviii+1–278. 9 illustrations (colour and half‐tone). 2 maps. Vol. II. Pp. viii+279–598. 12 illustrations. 1 map. Vol. III. Pp. viii+599–855. 8 illustrations. 2 maps. Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia : Oppenheimer Series, No. 3. London: Chatto and Windus, 1946. 90s per set of three volumes.

AMERICA

Quebec: Historic Seaport. By Mazo de la Roche. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xii+212. 17 illustrations. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

AUSTRALASIA

Soil Erosion in Australia and New Zealand‐ By J. Macdonald Holmes, Ph.D. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4. Pp.296. 63 figs. 62 plates. Sydney and London : Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1946. 17s 6d.

POLAR REGIONS

Bibliography of Bibliographies on the Arctic. By Rev. Artheme Dutilly, O.M.I. 10 x 7. Pp. 47. Map. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1945. $1.00.

Life on an Icefloe. By Ivan Papanin. Translated from the Russian by Fanny Smitham. 9 x 6. Pp.240. 20 photographs. Map. London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., N.D. 18s.

EDUCATIONAL

The Raw Materials of the World. By J. Gentilli. Foreword by Dr. G. L. Wood. 7 1/4 + 4 3/4. Pp. xi+306. 50 diagrams. 48 maps. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth : Whitcombe and Tombs Pty. Ltd., N.D. 8s 6d.

Fundamentals of Economic Geography. By Nels A. Bengtson and Willem van Royen. 9 x 6. Pp. xxvii+802. 299 maps and illustrations. New York : Prentice Hall Inc. Revised edition, 1946. $6.00.

GENERAL

Dating the Past: An Introduction to Geodironology. By Frederick E. Zeuner, D.Sc., F.Z.S., F.G.S. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xviii+444. 24 plates. 103 diagrams. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1946. 30s.

Ports of the World. Edited by Sir Archibald Hurd. 8 x 5 1/2. Pp. xxxiv+1065. London: The Shipping World Ltd., 1946. (Post free) 30s.

Snow on the Hills. By F. S. Smythe. 12 1/2 x 10. Pp. 119. 47 plates. London: Adam and .Charles Black Ltd., 1946. 20s.

ATLASES

The Compact Atlas of the World. By John Bartholomew. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4. Pp. xvi+128+30. Edinburgh : John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. 2nd edition, 1945. 6s.

Bacon's All Essentials School Atlas, containing maps showing contours, isobars, isotherms, rainfall, vegetation, population, productions, communications, political boundaries, etc., and a complete alphabetical index to names. 9 3/4 x 7 1/4. Pp. 47. Edinburgh : G. W. Bacon and Co. Ltd., [1946]. 3s 6d.     

The “Mounth” passes over the Grampians

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Our Rivers. By J. W. Kempster. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xi+300. 20 plates. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948. 25s.

The Outer Hebrides in Relation to Highland Depopulation. By William Adams Hance. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+148. 9 maps. Bibliography. [Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University.] Lithoprinted. New York : William A. Hance, 1949.

St. Columba and Hinba and Na h'Eileacha Naomha. The Whirlpool of Corrievreckan. By the Hon. Arthur Murray, C.M.G., D.S.O. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 28. g illustrations. Chart and sketch map. Privately printed, 1949.

A Hundred Tears in the Highlands. By Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie of Inverewe. Edited with an additional chapter by M. T. Sawyer of Inverewe. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 221. 9 illustrations. Map. London : Geoffrey Bles Ltd. New and revised edition, 1949. 12s 6d.

The Buried Barony. By Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+163. Frontispiece. 54 illustrations. London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Cairnhill. By Hamilton More Nisbett and the late Stair Carnegie Agnew. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.215. 18 illustrations. Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1949. 16s.

Bedfordshire. By Laurence Meynell. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+366. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1950. 15s.

The West of England. By Ruth Manning‐Sanders. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+152. 117 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. [The Face of Britain Series.] London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Midland England. A Survey of the Country between the Chilterns and the Trent. By W. G. Hoskins. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+120. 108 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. [The Face of Britain Series.] London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Severn Stream. By Brian Waters. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 206. 17 illustrations. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Ulster. By Hugh Shearman. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+427. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1919. 15s.

Ireland. Edited by L. Russell Muirhead, M.A. (Cantab.). 6 1/4 × 4. Pp. Ixxii+296+ (atlas) 31. 15 maps and plans. [The Blue Guides.] London : Ernest Benn Ltd. Second edition, 1949. 15s

Dublin: A Study in Environment. By John Harvey. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+116. 161 illustrations. End‐paper maps. ["British Cities” Series.] London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Iceland Yesterday and To‐day. By Horace Leaf, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+205. 18 Photographs. Coloured map. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1949. 15s.

The Viking Lands. By Gordon Young. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.154. 17 illustrations. Endpaper sketch maps. London : Evans Brothers Ltd., 1949. 9s 6d.

The Norway Tear Book, 1950. Edited by Sverre Mortensen and A. Skøien. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp. 419. Frontispiece. Oslo : Johan Grundt Tanum, 1950.

ASIA

A Handbook for Travellers in India and Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, including the Portuguese and French Possessions and the Indian States. Edited by Sir Gordon Hearn, C.I.E., D.S.O. 7 1/4 × 4 3/4. Pp. cxxiv+792. Maps and plans. London : John Murray. Sixteenth edition, 1949. 42s.

Robert Knox in the Kandyan Kingdom. Selected and edited by E. F. C. Ludowyk. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp. xxviii+175. 4 photographs by the late Lionel Wendt. End‐paper map. London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press (Indian Branch), 1948. Rs 6, or 9s.

White Stranger : Six Moons in Celebes. By Harry Wilcox. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 384. 24 illustrations. Sketch map. London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1949. 16s.

MADAGASCAR

Madagascar. By Hubert Deschamps. 7 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.188. 16 photographs. 3 sketch maps. Paris : Éditions Berger‐Levrault, 1947. 165 fr.

AMERICA

Histoire de la Grande Pêche de Terre‐Neuve. By Robert de Loture. 7 1/2 × 4 3/4. Pp.255. 1 fig. 2 sketch maps. Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1949. 325 fr.

Grassland Historical Studies : Natural Resources Utilization in a Background of Science and Technology. Vol. 1. Geology and Geography. By James C. Malin. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+377. 3 illustrations. 2 maps. [Lithoprinted.] Lawrence, Kansas : James C. Malin, 1950. $2.50.

South America called Them : Explorations of the Great Naturalists Charles‐Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Richard Spruce. By Victor W. von Hagen. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xiv+401. 28 illustrations. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 21s.

A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco. By Sir John Graham Kerr, F.R.S. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xi+235. 24 plates. 2 sketch maps. Cambridge: University Press, 1950. 21s.

OCEANIA

Island Administration in the South West Pacific: Government and Reconstruction in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the British Solomon Islands. By Cyril S. Belshaw. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+158. 4 maps. London and New York : Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1950. 12s 6d.

Fijian Village. By Buell Quain. Introduction by Ruth Benedict. 9×6. Pp. xvii+459. 17 plates. 7 sketch maps. Glossary. Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, 1947. London: Cambridge University Press. 27s 6d.

Polynesian Trade Wind. By Sverre Holmsen. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Bulman. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 186. 29 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. London : James Barrie Publishers Ltd., 1949. 15s.

The Kon‐Tiki Expedition : By Raft across the South Seas. By Thor Heyerdahl. Translated from the Norwegian Kon‐Tiki Ekspedisjonen (1948) by F. H. Lyon. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 235. Frontispiece. 18 plates. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1950. 12s 6d.

POLAR REGIONS

We Live in the Arctic. By Constance and Harmon Helmericks. 9×6. Pp. xiv+321. 3 diagrams. 30 illustrations. Decorative end‐paper sketch maps. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1949. 20s.

OCEANOGRAPHY

The Sea and its Mysteries. By John S. Colman. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp.285. 17 plates. 36 figs. Map. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1950. 12s 6d.

Les Richesses de la Mer.: Technologie biologique et océanographique. By Noël Boudarel. 10 × 6 1/2. Pp. 549, 1006 figs. [Encyclopédie Biologique, XXIX.] Paris : Paul Lechevalier, 1948. 1500 fr.

Sea‐Shore Life of Britain. By L. R. Brightwell, F.Z.S., F.R.H.S., M.B.A. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+116. 94 illustrations. [The British Nature Library.] London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. [1947], 1948. 12s 6d.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Badger. By Ernest Neal, M.Sc. (Lond.). 8 × 5 1/2. Pp.xv+158. 12 figs. 1 colour photograph by the author. 29 black‐and‐white photographs. [New Naturalist Monographs, 1.] London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1948. 12s 6d.

EDUCATIONAL

Modern World Geography—Economic and Social. By Earl C. Case and Daniel R. Bergsmark. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+746. Diagrams, sketch maps, photographs. 6 coloured maps. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company. Revised edition, 1949. 21s.

A Regional Economic Geography. By Samuel Newton Dicken, 10 1/2 × 7 1/2. Pp. xii+516. 263 figs. End‐paper maps. Boston, Massachusetts : D. C. Heath and Company, 1949. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd. 25s.

GENERAL

The Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World. Selected from his Journals and edited by Christopher Lloyd. 8×5. Pp. xxiii+384. End‐paper maps. London : The Cresset Press Ltd., 1949. 9s 6d.     

Wind as a factor in mountain ecology: Some data from the Cairngorm Mountains

EUROPE

The Domesday Geography of Midland England. Edited by H. C. Darby and I. B. Terret. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. xv+482. 159 maps. Frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 55s.

Nottinghamshire (The County Books). By C. Marsden. 9×6. Pp. v+325. 49 plates. 1 map. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1953. 18s.

The Royal Burgh of Ayr : Edited by Annie I. Dunlop. 9×5 3/4. Pp. v+342. 5 plates. Edinburgh and London : Published for Town Council of Ayr by Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 12s. 6d.

Europe and the Mediterranean. By N. J. G. Pounds. 10×7 1/2. Pp. vii+437. 246 figs. London : MacGraw‐Hill Publishing Co. Ltd, 1953. 42s.

The Evolution of Germany. By J. A. Hawgood. 6 3/4×4 1/2. Pp. ix+206. 21 maps. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1955. 8s. 6d.

Czechoslovakia : A Geographical and Historical Study. By Harriet Wanklyn (Mrs. J. A. Steers). 8 3/4×5 1/2. Pp. vi+446. 77 figs. 4 end paper maps. London : George Philip and Son Ltd, 1954. 39s.

Cornwall: An Illustrated Essay on the History of the Landscape. By W. G. V. Balchin. 9 1/4×10 1/4. Pp. xi+128. 13 figures+1 general map. 61 plates. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1954. 16s.

ASIA

What the World Showed Me. By Per Høst. Translated by K. Johnson. 8 1/4×5 3/4. Pp. 223. 69 plates (13 colour). London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1953. 18s.

Forerunner to Everest. By R. Dittert, G. Chevally, R. Lambert. Preface by Sir J. Hunt. Translated by M. Barnes. Pp. 256. Maps and sketches. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1954. 15s.

Our Everest Adventure. By Sir J. Hunt. 9 3/4×7 1/2. Pp. 128. 150 figs, and maps. Leicester : Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1954. 12s.

South Col. By W. Noyce. 9×6. Pp. xvi+303. 16 sketches. 52 plates (4 coloured). 5 maps. London : Heinemann, Ltd, 1954. 21s.

Alone to Everest. By E. Denham. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. 255. 13 figs. 4 maps. London : Collins, Sons &; Co. Ltd, 1954. 16s.

AMERICA

Viking Times To Modern. The Story of Swedish Exploring and Settlement in America. By E. W. Fleisher and J. Werbull. 10 1/4×8. Pp.115. Photographs and figs. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1953. $4.50.

Geography of North America. By G. J. Miller, A. E. Parkins and B. Hudgins. 8 1/4×6 1/4. Pp. vii+664. Maps, diagrams and photographs. New York : Wiley and Sons Inc. Third edition, 1954. 60s.

The Pacific Northwest. By O. W. Freeman, H. H. Martin, et al. 8 3/4×6 3/4. Pp.540. 24 plates. 59 maps and diagrams. New York : Wiley and Sons Inc. Fourth edition, 1954. 68s.

Regional Geography of Anglo‐America. By C. L. White and E. J. Foscue. 10×7 1/2. Pp. vii+518. 230 figs. 15 tables. London: Constable and Co. Ltd. Second edition, 1955. 57s. 6d.

Les Antilles. By E. Revert. 6 1/2×4 1/2. Pp.220. 10 figs. Paris : Armand Colin, 1954.

Symposium on the Geography of Puerto Rico. Edited by C. F. Jones and R. Pico, 9 1/4×6 1/2. Pp. xxviii+503. 186 figs. 13 plates. Rio Piedras (P.R.). University of Puerto Rico Press, 1955.

CLIMATOLOGY

The English Climate. By C. E. P. Brooks. 8×5 1/2. Pp. vi+213. 27 figs. London : English University Press Ltd, 1954. 12s. 6d.

Further Outlook. By F. H. Ludlam and R. S. Scorer. 8 3/4×6 3/4. Pp. 174. 25 figs. 13 plates. London : Allan Wingate Ltd, 1954. 15s.

Glacier Variations and Climatic Fluctuations: Bowman Memorial Lectures. Series three. By H. W. S, Ahlmann. 9×6. Pp. v+51. 11 figs. 4 plates. New York: American Geographical Society : George Grady Press, 1953. $2.50.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Soils of Europe. By W. L. Kubiëna. 10 3/4×7. Pp.318. 21 plates (coloured and black/white). London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1953. 75s.

Soil. By G. V. Jacks. 8 1/8×5 1/2. Pp. ix+221. 7 figs. 10 plates (3 coloured). London and Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1954. 12s 6d.

Vegetation and Watershed Management. By E. A. Coleman. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. xiii+412. 6 figs. 16 plates. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1953. $ 7.

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Les Fondements de la Géographie Humaine : Tome III. L'Habitat. Conclusion Général. By Max Sorre. 10×6 1/2. Pp. 499. 32 figs. Paris: Armand Colin, 1952. 1,500 Fr.

EDUCATIONAL

Africa : Studies and Exercises in Human Geography. By D. C. Money. Illustrated by W. R. Dalzell. 11×8 1/2. Pp.48. 85 figs. 82 plates. London: University Tutorial Press Ltd, 1955. 3s. 9d.

Geographical Film Strips. Educational Productions Ltd, Wakefield.

ATLASES

Kultur‐Geografisk Atlas. By J. Humlum. 10 1/2×7 1/4. I. Atlas. Pp. xx+127. II. Tekstbind. Pp. 302. Copenhagen : Glydendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag. 3rd Ed., 1955. Danish kroner 20.50 (19.50) and 31.50 (26.50), cloth and paper bound respectively.

*Atlas of Economic Geography. By J. Humlum. Pp. xii+127. London : Meiklejohn and Son Ltd., 1955. 15s. ($2.50).

Edinburgh World Atlas. Prepared and Edited by John Bartholomew. 14 1/2×10. Pp. 1+108 (atlas)+160 (index). Edinburgh : The Geographical Institute, John Bartholomew &; Son Ltd, 1954. 36s.

Atlas of Australian Resources. Prepared by the Department of National Development, Canberra.     

Overseas relations

EUROPE

The Making of the English Landscape. By W. G. Hoskins. 8 3/4×7. Pp. 240. 82 plates+frontispiece. 17 maps and plans. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1955. 25s.

The Highlands in Colour. Photographed by W. S. Thomson : introduced by W. H. Murray. 10×7 1/2. Pp. 64 (7 text+54 pages of photos). Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1954. 12s 6d.

Scotland. By G. S. Fraser and Edwin Smith. 12 1/4 ×9. Pp. 62+191 black and white and 3 colour plates. 1 map. London : Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1955. 42s.

Ulster Folklife. Issued by the Committee on Ulster Folklife and Traditions, 9 3/4×7 1/4. Pp. 56. 6 plates. Belfast, 1955.

Highlights of the Donegal Highlands. By H. P. Swan. 9×6. Pp. xv+186. 97 plates. 2 endpaper maps. Belfast: H. R. Carter Publications Ltd, 1955. 12s 6d.

AFRICA

Southern Africa. A Geographical Study. By John H. Wellington. Two volumes. 9 1/2 ×6 3/4. Vol. I. Pp.528. 97 photographs. 96 figures and maps. 4 maps in end pocket, 70s. : Vol. II. Pp. 283. 14 photographs. 25 figures and maps. 4 maps in end pocket. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1955.

A. MacP.

ASIA

To the Third Pole. By G. O. Dyhrenfurth. Translated by Hugh Merrick. 10×7 1/2. Pp. xxvi+233. 47 plates. London : T. Werner Laurie, 1955. 30s.

Kanchenjunga. By John Tucker. 9×6. Pp. 224. 35 plates and figs. London : Elek Books Ltd, 1955. 21s.

AMERICA

Virginia at Mid‐Century. By Jean Gottmann. 9 1/2×6 1/4. Pp. vii+584. 64 maps and graphs. 197 photos. New York : Henry Holt and Co. Inc., 1955.

CARTOGRAPHY

Die Kartographie 1943–54 (Eine bibliographische Uebersicht). By Hans‐Peter Kosack and Karl‐Heinz Meine. 8×11 5/8. Pp. 216. Lahr Schwarzwald: Astra Verlag, 1955. German marks 26.

GEOMORPHOLOGY

New Zealand Geomorphology. By C. A. Cotton. 8 1/2×51/2. Pp. 281. 16 plates. Wellington : New Zealand University Press, 1955. 42s.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origin and Distribution of the British Flora. By J. R. Matthews. 7JX5. Pp.176. 6 figs. London : Hutchinson's University Library (Biological Series), 1955. 8s. 6d.

BIOGRAPHY

Alicella : A Memoir of Alice King Stewart and Ella Christie. By Averil Stewart. 81/2×6. Pp. xxiv+311. 10 plates. London: John Murray Ltd, 1955. 21s.

The Seasons Return. By John R. Allan. 8 3/4×53/4. Pp. 219. 17 plates. London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1955. 15s.

GENERAL

Four Archaeological Studies

Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers. By Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 7 1/8×5 1/4. Pp.224. 20 figs. 30 plates. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1955‐ 3s. 6d.

Roman Britain. By I. A. Richmond. The Pelican History of England, Volume I. 7 1/8×51/4. Pp‐240. 8 plates. 12 figs. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1955. 2s 6d.

Roman Roads in Britain : 1. South of the Foss Way—Bristol Channel. By Ivan D. Margary. 10×1/2. Pp.253. 16 plates+frontispiece. 11 maps+1 folded end map. London : Phoenix House Ltd, 1955. 42s.

The Problem of the Picts. Edited by F. T. Wainwright. 9 1/4×63/4. Pp. xi+187. 12 plates. 16 figs. 7 maps. Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1955. 21s.

Historical Geography. By J. B. Mitchell. 71/2×5. Pp. xvi+356. 52 figs. London: English Universities Press Ltd. [Teach Yourself Geography], 1954. 10s 6d.

The Ordnance Survey Annual Report, 1954–55. 13 1/2×81/2. Pp. 5–23. 10 plates. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955. 5s.

ATLASES AND MAPS

A New Map of the World: The Trystan Edwards Homalographic Projection. 40×30. London : B. T. BatsfordLtd, 1953 reprinted 1955. 42s. Explanatory Brochure.     

The calendar

EUROPE

Land Potential. By T. W. Evans, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Foreword by Sir R. George Stapledon. 8×5 1/4. Pp.144. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

Portraits of Islands. Edited by Eileen Molony. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.147. 10 illustrations. London : Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1951. 9s 6d.

Orkney. By Hugh Marwick. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+287. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The Scottish Scene. Photographs by Alfred Furness. Text by John L. Weir. 11×8 1/2. Frontispiece. 105 plates. Pp. lvi. [Immortal Britain, No. 2.] London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 30s.

Undiscovered Scotland. By W. H. Murray. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. vii+232. 24 illustrations. 13 maps and diagrams. End‐paper maps. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Highland Welcome. By A. A. Thomson. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.318. 15 photographs. Index. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. 16s.

The Goat‐Wife : Portrait of a Village. By Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 319. 45 illustrations. Decorative end‐paper map. London: Museum Press Ltd. Revised and enlarged edition, 1951. 16s.

The Skye Scene. By Eric G. Meadows. 9 1/2 × 7 1/2. Pp. 96. 67 photographs. Sketch map. Edinburgh and London : Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1951. 18s.

The Island of Staffa. By Donald B. MacCulloch. 7 1/2×5. Pp.60. 9 illustrations. Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1951. 3s 6d.

Arran with Camera and Sketchbook. By V. A. Firsoff. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.230. 49 photographs and 23 line illustrations by the author. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Scientific Survey of South‐Eastern Scotland. Edited by C. J. Robertson. Prepared for the Meeting held in Edinburgh 8th to 15th August 1951. 9 3/4×7 1/4. Pp. 207. 39 figs. 3 photographs. Coloured topographical map. Edinburgh : Published for the British Association by the Local Executive Committee, 1951. 15s.

The Kingdom of Fife and Kinross‐shire. Edited by Theo Lang. 7 3/4×5 1/2. Pp.xiii+238. 108 photogravures. Sketch map. [The King's Scotland.] London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The Gareloch as Military Port No. 1. By Arnold Fleming. 9 1/2×6. Pp.28. 6 photographs. 2 sketch maps. Helensburgh : Macneur and Bryden Ltd, 1948. 3s.

Lancashire. By Walter Greenwood. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+303. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 15s.

Buckinghamshire. By Alison Uttley. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xxvi+410. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s.

Cornwall. By Arthur L. Salmon. Revised by H. Ronald Hicks. 6×3 3/4. Pp. xii+183. 60 illustrations. Map. [The Little Guides.] London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, and B. T. Batsford Ltd. Ninth edition, revised, 1950. 7s 6d.

Isle of Man. By Canon E. H. Stenning. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xiii+448. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s.

A History of the Isle of Man. By R. H. Kinvig, M.A. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.180. 50 figs. Map. [Published under the Auspices of Tynwald by the Manx Museum and Ancient Monuments Trustees.] Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool. Second edition, 1950. 7s 6d.

Ireland: Its Physical, Historical, Social and Economic Geography. By T. W. Freeman. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xvi+536. 96 figs. 8 plates. 2 folders. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1950. 32s 6d.

The Belgian Kempenland. By F. J. Monkhouse, M.A. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xiv+252. Frontispiece. 71 figs. [Liverpool Studies in Geography.] Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1949. 17s 6d.

Switzerland. By John Russell. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+152. 96 illustrations. Endpaper sketch maps. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1950. 15s.

Calabria. 8 3/4×5 3/4. Firenze : Il Ponte (Rivista mensile di Politica e Letteratura. Edited by Piero Calamandrei), 1950, 6 (9–10) : 969–1352.

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

The Soviet Union : The Land and its People. By Georges Jorré. Introduction by A. Perpillou. Translated by E. D. Laborde. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xviii+353. 44 figs. 24 photographs. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1950. 21s.

Beyond the Caspian. By Douglas Carruthers, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xx+290. 6 colour plates. 18 black‐and‐white plates. Map. Edinburgh and London : Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1949. 22s 6d.

ASIA

Village Development in Palestine during the British Mandate. By Henry Kendall, O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.I, and K. H. Baruth, A.M.T.P.I. Information on Soil Conditions by S. H. Shaw, N. A. Pharaon, and A. Y. Goor. 10×8. Pp. 84. 16 plans. 42 photographs. Map. London : The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1949. 10s 6d.

The Antique Land. By Diana Shipton. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp.219. 23 plates. End‐paper sketch maps. Decorations by Jill Davis. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1950. 20s.

AFRICA

Algérie. By Marcel Larnaude. 7 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 230. 10 figs. 20 photographs. [L'Union Française.] Paris : Editions Berger‐Levrault, 1950. 300 fr.

O Distrito de Moçâmedes nas Fases da Origem e da Primeira Organização (1485–1859). By Manuel Júlio de Mendonça Torres. 9×6 1/4. Pp. 535. 29 plates. Lisboa : Agência Geral das Colónias, 1950.

African Journey. By André Siegfried. Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. 8×5 1/4. Pp. 159. 5 maps. London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1950. 10s 6d.

AMERICA

The St Lawrence. By Henry Beston. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 272. Illustrated. End‐paper maps. [Rivers of America.] Edinburgh and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1951. 10s 6d.

Pleasure Island: The Book of Jamaica. Edited by Esther Chapman. Historical Section by H. P. Jacobs, B.A. Geographical Section by Mary M. Carley, B.Sc.(ECON.). 8 1/4×5 1/2. Pp. xvi+316. Illustrated. Kingston, Jamaica : The Arawak Press, 1951. $1.50, or 10s 6d.

OCEANIA

Myths and Legends of Maoriland. By A. W. Reed. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.230. Illustrated by George Woods and W. Dittmar. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 15s.

POLAR REGIONS

North of the Circle. By Frank Illingworth. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 254. 32 illustrations. Edinburgh, Glasgow and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica. By Thomas R. Henry. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xii+211. 8 illustrations. Map. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1951. 16s.

CARTOGRAPHY

Imago Mundi, VI. 1949. Edited by Leo Bagrow. 11 1/2×8 1/2. Pp.110. Text figures. 15 plates. Stockholm : Kartografiska Sällskapet, 1950. London and New York : Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles (Sole Agents for Great Britain and North America).

OCEANOGRAPHY

The Sea Around Us. By Rachel L. Carson. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. vii+230. Drawings by Katherine L. Howe. 1 plate. End‐paper charts. Bibliography. London : Staples Press Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Sea Shore. By C. M. Yonge, D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.R.S. 8 1/2×5 3/4. Pp. xvi+311. 88 figs. 61 colour photographs. 62 black‐and‐white photographs. [The New Naturalist, No. 12.] London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd, 1949. 21s.

BIOGRAPHY

Hugh Robert Mill. An Autobiography. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xii+224. 6 illustrations. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928–1933. By Freya Stark. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. xvi+341. 52 illustrations. Sketch map by H. W. Hawes. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. London : John Murray, 1951. 25s.

EDUCATIONAL

A Food and People Geography. By Amabel Williams‐Ellis. 8×5 1/2. Pp. 63. 4 figs. 21 photographs. London : University of London Press Ltd, 1951. 2s 9d.

Our Food and Our Clothes and Some Other Things. By S. Alnwick. 10×7 1/2. Pp.96. Drawings. Graphs and sketch maps. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1951. 7s 6d.

Europe. By A. R. Barbour Simpson, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E. 7 1/2×5. Pp. xii+257. 108 figs. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1950. 5s 6d.

Roads and Streets. By Patrick Thornhill. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 49. Diagrams and sketches. [The ‘Get to Know’ Series.] London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1951. 2s.

GENERAL

Nelson's Encyclopaedia. Compiled and edited by H. L. Gee. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. vii+743. 300 line drawings and diagrams. 80 half‐tone plates. 16 plates in colour. Edinburgh and London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1951. 25s.

Geography in the Twentieth Century : A Study of Growth, Fields, Techniques, Aims and Trends. Edited by Griffith Taylor. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+630. 56 figs. New York : Philosophical Library Inc. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1951. 30s.

The Scope and Methods of Geography and The Geographical Pivot of History. By Sir H. J. Mackinder. Reprinted with an Introduction by E. W. Gilbert. 9 1/2×6. Pp.44. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1951. 2s 6d.

L'Homme et le Sol. By Henri Prat. 9×5 1/2. Pp.293. 16 figs. 16 plates. [Géographie humaine, 22.] Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1949. 670 fr.

Men against the Desert. By Ritchie Calder, C.B.E. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.186. 15 plates. 13 sketch maps. End‐paper maps. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

Insects as Human Food: A Chapter of the Ecology of Man. By F. S. Bodenheimer. 8 1/4×6. Pp.352. 47 figs. The Hague: Dr W. Junk, Publishers, 1951. fl 10.

Les Bretons à l'Aventure: Explorateurs et Colons. By Jean Choleau. 8×5 1/1. Pp. 221. 15 figs. Vitre : Unvaniez Arvor, 1950.

ATLASES AND MAPS

Maly Atlas Geograficzny. By Eugeniusz Romer. 11 1/2×7 3/4. 12 map sheets. Wroclaw : Ksiaznica‐Atlas. Fifteenth edition, 1951. Zlotys 4.00.

Maly Atlas Historyczny. By Cz. Nanke, L. Piotrowicz, and Wl. Semkowicz. 11 1/2×7 3/4. Pp. 12. Wroclaw: Ksiaznica‐Atlas, 1951. Zlotys 7.20.

Atlas Polski Wspólczesnej. By E. Romer and J. Wasowicz. 8 3/4×7 1/2. Pp. 16. Wroclaw : Ksiaznica‐Atlas. Fifth edition, 1951. Zlotys 3.60.

The West End of London. 30×16. 1:3600. Revised third edition. Edinburgh: C. J. Cousland and Sons Ltd, 1951. 2s 6d.

Map of Israel—Including Plans of Jaffa‐Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Middle East. Scale 1 : 285,120. Produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, f.r.g.s. 40×30. Index of place‐names. London: Prepared for The Jewish Chronicle by Geographers’ Map Co. Ltd. Third edition, 1951. 2s 6d.     

Rhodesia: Report on the Administration of Rhodesia. The British South Africa Company. Impressions of South Africa. James Bryce

EUROPE

A Geography of Europe. Edited by George W. Hoffman. 9×6. Pp. ix+775. 156 figs. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1953. 52s 6d.

Die Landschaften der britischen Inseln. By Johann Sölch. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Erster Band. England und Wales. Pp. xii+1–850. Figs. 1–154. Zweiter Band. Schottland und Irland. Pp. 851–1350. Figs. 155–225. Wien : Springer‐Verlag. Vol. I, 1951. Vol. II, 1952. DM 232, or £19, 17s.

Scottish Industry : An Account of what Scotland makes and where she makes it. Edited by C. A. Oakley. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Bilsland, M.C., D.L., LL.D. 8 1/2×6. Pp. xvii+332. Plates. Sketch maps. Glasgow: The Scottish Council (Development and Industry). William Collins and Sons Ltd, 1953. 25s.

Orkney Miscellany. 8×6 1/2. Pp. 104. 6 illustrations. Kirkwall: Orkney Record and Antiquarian Society Papers, Vol. 1, 1953. 8s 6d.

The Glasgow Story. By Colm Brogan. 7 3/4×5. Pp. 223. Drawings by Keir. London : Frederick Muller Ltd, 1952. 15s.

Devonshire Studies. By W. G. Hoskins and H. P. R. Finberg. 8 3/4 × 5 6/8. Pp. 470. 8 plates. 11 maps and plans. London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1952. 36s.

In Search of Winter Sport. By Monk Gibbon. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. 223. 17 illustrations. End‐paper sketch map. London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1953. 18s.

Three Rivers of France: Dordogne, Lot, Tarn. By Freda White. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 232. 49 illustrations. Map. London : Faber and Faber Ltd, 1952. 25s. Reprinted, 1953. 15s.

ASIA

South China in the Sixteenth Century : Being the Narratives of Galeote Pereira ; Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P.; Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550–1575). Edited by C. R. Boxer. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. xci+388. 8 figs. 12 plates. [Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CVL] London. 1953. 40s.

AFRICA

The Suez Canal in World Affairs. By Hugh J. Schonfield. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+174. 9 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. [Constellation Books.] London : Vallentine, Mitchell and Co. Ltd, 1952. 15s.

AMERICA

Highland Settler : A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia. By Charles W. Dunn. 9×6. Pp. xii+180. Frontispiece. 2 sketch maps. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1953. $4.00. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. 32s.

POLAR REGIONS

John Roe's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration, 1844–1855. Edited by E. E. Rich, M.A., assisted by A. M. Johnson. Introduction by J. M. Wordie, C.B.E., and R. J. Cyriax. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. cvi+401+xiv. 2 illustrations. Sketch map and 2 maps. London : The Publications of The Hudson's Bay Record Society, XVI, 1953.     

Book reviews

RODERICK STACKELBERG. Idealism Debased: From Völkisch Ideology to National Socialism. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1981. Pp. XIII, 202, 3 plates. $18 (US). Reviewed by Lawrence D. Stokes

JEROME CH'EN. China and the West: Society and Culture 1815–1937. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. Pp. 488. $25.90 (Can.) Reviewed by David P. Barrett

FREDERICK W. MARKS ill. Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 247. $15.00 (US). Reviewed by Raymond A. Esthus

CRAIG L. SYMONDS. Navalists and Antinavalists: The Naval Policy Debate in the United States, 1785–1827. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980. Pp. 252. $17.50 (US). Reviewed by Reginald C. Stuart

BERNARD RANSOM, Connolly's Marxism, London: Pluto, 1980. Pp. 126. Reviewed by Desmond Bowen

THOMAS A. BAILEY and PAUL B. RYAN, Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared War. London: Collier Macmillan, 1979. Pp. 302. £7.45. Reviewed by Ronald W. Pruessen

M.A. HICKS, False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence; George, Duke of Clarence, 1449–1478. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, and Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Humanities Press, 1980. Pp. 270. $22.00 (US). Reviewed by Robert Tittler

MURIEL ATKIN, Russia and Iran, 1780–1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 216. $20 (US). Reviewed by M.E. Yapp

J.K. FEDOROWICZ. England's Baltic Trade in the Early Seventeenth Century: A Study in Anglo-Polish Commerical Diplomacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. XIII, 334. $35 (US). Reviewed by David S. Macmillan

MICHAEL CROWDER. Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays. London: Frank Cass, 1978. Pp. 341. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by John Flint

PETER GRAF KIELMANSEGG. Deutschland und der erste Weltkrieg. 2. Auflage. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980. Pp. XI, 755. Reviewed by Henry Cord Meyer

PIOTR S. WANDYCZ. The United States and Poland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. XVI, 465. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by Stanislaw Bobr-Tylingo

FREDERICK COOPER. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Colonial Kenya, 1890–7925. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 328. $25 (US). Reviewed by Mike Mason

DONALD E. QUELLER. Medieval Diplomacy and the Fourth Crusade. London: Variorum Reprints, 1980. Pp. 322. £22. Reviewed by Bernice M. Kacznski

CHRISTINE MOSS HELMS. The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia: Evolution of Political Identity. London: Croom Helm, &; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Pp. 313. $25.00 (US). Reviewed by Ray L. Cleveland

CHRISTOPHER H.D. HOWARD, editor. The Diary of Edward Goschen, 1900–1914. London: Royal Historical Society (Camden Fourth Series, Vol. 25), 1980. Pp. xn, 315. £10. Reviewed by Briton C. Busch     

New maps

The Ruin of the Soudan: Cause, Effect, and Remedy. A Résumé of Events—1883–1891. By Henry Russell, resident for twelve years on the Red Sea Littoral, assisted by William Gatty. With Maps and Illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1892. Pp. 407. Price £1, 1s.

Tanganyika: eleven years in Central Africa. By Edward Coode Hore, Master Mariner. London : Edward Stanford, 1892. Pp. 306.

Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria. From the French of G. Maspéro. London : Chapman and Hall, 1892. Pp. 376. Price 5s.

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. By Henry Barth, Ph.D., D.C.L. With full‐page Illustrations of the original Woodcut Illustrations. London, New York, and Melbourne : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1890. Pp. 548. Price 2s.

Island Life; or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a Revision and attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. By Alfred Russel Wallace. Second and Revised Edition. London : Macmillan and Co., 1892. Pp. xx + 563. Price 6s.

The Chinese, their Present and Future: Medical, Political, and Social. By Robert Coltman, Jr., M.D. Illustrated with Fifteen Fine Photo‐Engravings. F. A. Davis : Philadelphia and London, 1891. Pp. 212.

Arménie, Kurdistan, et Mésopotamie. Par le Comte de Cholet. Paris : E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1892. Pp. 394.

Mexico: Its Progress and Commercial Possibilities. By E. J. Howell, F.S.S. London : W. B. Whittingham and Co., Limited, 1892. Pp. x + 203. Price 5s.

The Mediterranean Shores of America. Southern California: Its Climatic, Physical and Meteorological Conditions. By P. C. Remondino, M.D. Fully Illustrated. F. A. Davis : Philadelphia and London, 1892. Pp. 160.

Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present. By R. Lydekker, B.A. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. Pp. 248. Price 6s.

Nomina Geographica. Sprach‐ und Sach‐Erklärung von 42,000 Geographischen Namen aller Erdräume. Von Dr. J. J. Egli. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Erste Lieferung. Leipzig: Fr. Brandstetter, 1892. Pp. viii. + 40.

Geography of Africa south of the Zambesi, with Notes on the Industries, Wealth, and Social Progress of the States and Peoples. By the Rev. William Parr Greswell, M.A. Oxon., F.R.C.I. With three Maps. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892. Pp. xii + 400. Price 7s. 6d.

Elementary Geography of the British Colonies. By George M. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S., Assistant Director, Geological Survey of Canada, and Alexander Sutherland, M.A., Carlton College, Melbourne. With Illustrations. London : Macmillan and Co., 1892. Price 3s.

Sound the Empire. For the use of schools. By George E. Parkin, M.A. With a Preface by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, K.T. London : Cassell &; Company, 1892. Pp. 263. Illustrated. Price 1s. 6d.

About England: or, First Lessons in English Geography. By M. J. Barrington‐Ward, M.A. London : George Bell and Sons, 1892. Price 1s. 4d.

Bartholomew's Pocket Guide, to Edinburgh and Neighbourhood. With 9 Maps and Plans. John Bartholomew and Co.: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1892. Pp. 87. Price 1s.

Cassell's Complete Pocket Guide to Europe. Revised and Enlarged. Planned and edited by Edmond C. Stedman. Compiled by Edward King. New York : Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. Price 6s.

The Canadian Guide‐Book. The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada and Newfoundland. By Charles G. D. Roberts. London : Wm. Heinemann, 1892. Pp. 270.

Meyers Konversations‐Lexikon. Band xix. Heft 1. Vierte Auflage. Bibliographisches Institut. Leipzig und Wien: 1892. Pp. 64. Price 50 Pfennig.

Geographical Society. Illustrated with a set of 14 maps specially designed by E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. Second Edition. London and Liverpool: George Philip &; Son, 1892. Pp. vii + 307. Price 7s. 6d.

The Year‐Book of Commerce for 1892. Compiled under the authority of the London Chamber of Commerce, and edited by Kenric B. Murray. London : Cassell &; Co., Limited. Pp. 282.

The Year Book of Science. Edited for 1891 by Professor T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. London : Cassell and Co., Limited, 1892. Pp. xii.+473.

The Distribution of the Produce. By James C. Smith. London : Kegan Paul and Co., 1892. Pp. 77.

Comparative View of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Governments of the United States, France, England, and Germany. By John Wenzel. Boston, U.S.A. : D. C. Heath and Co., 1891. Pp. 22.

Air and Water. By Vivian B. Lewes, F.I.C., F.C.S. London: Methuen and Co., 1892. Pp. 183. Price 2s. 6d.

Tours in Norway, Denmark, and Germany. The Leith, Hull, and Hamburg Packet Company.

The Hand‐Book for Travellers in Spain. By the late Richard Ford. Revised and Corrected. Eighth Edition. London: John Murray, 1892. In Two Parts. Price 20s.