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Baedeker's Central Italy and Rome. With 11 Maps, 46 Plans, a Panorama of Rome, etc. Thirteenth Revised Edition. London : Dulan and Co., 1900. Pp. 454. M. 7.50.

Baedeker's Southern Italy, Sicily, etc. With 28 Maps and 19 Plans. Thirteenth Revised Edition. London : Dulan and Co., 1900. Pp. 431. M. 6.

The Baces of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography. By J. Deniker, Sc.D. (Paris). With 176 Illustrations and 2 Maps. London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1900. Pp. 576. Three Appendices and Index. Price 6s.

The Story of West Africa. By Mart H. Kingsley. ("The Story of the Empire Series.”) London : Horace Marshall and Son, N.D. Price 1s. 6d. Pp. 165 and Index.

The Story of West Africa is of extreme interest, and from Miss Kingsley's previous work one was led to expect that it would be well told, nor are we disappointed, for she has managed, with great ability, to give the history of the West

The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study. (Lowell Institute Lectures.) By William Z. Ripley, Ph.D. Accompanied by a Supplementary Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology of Europe. Published by the Public Library of the City of Boston. London : Kegan Paul, 1900. Pp. 608 and Index, and 160. 222 Portrait Types, and 87 Maps and Diagrams. Price 18s. net.

Natal, the Land and its Story. A Geography and History, with Maps. By Robert Russell, Superintendent of Education, Natal. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899. Pp. 280 + Index ix. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Journals and Papers of Ghauncy Maples, D.D., F.R.G.S., late Bishop of Likoma, Lake Nyasa, Africa. Edited by Ellen Maples. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.

Twelve Pioneer Missionaries. By George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. With Portraits. Pp. 304. London, Edinburgh, and New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1900. Price 7s. 6d.

Bougie, die Perle Nord‐Afrikas. Prag : Heinr. Mercy Sohn, 1899. Folio. Pp 122.     

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Facts and Fancies about Java. By Augusta de Wit. London : Luzac and Co., 1900. Pp. 259. Price 7s. 6d. net.

A Guide to Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc. By Edward Whymper.

A Guide to Zermatt and the Matterhorn. By Edward Whymper. London : John Murray. Fourth Annual Edition, 1900. Price 3s. net each.

Murray's Handbook for Ireland. Fifth Edition. Revised and Edited by John Cooke, M.A. With Maps and Plans. Pp. 516. Price 9s.

Murray's Handbook for Central Italy. Twelfth Edition. Rewritten by the Rev: Herbert H. Jeaffreson, M.A. With Maps and Plans. Pp. 313. Price 9s. London : John Murray, 1900.

The Rise of the Russian Empire. By Hector H. Munro. London : Grant Richards. Pp. viii + 334. Price 10s. 6d.

The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and Northern Italy. Being the Report presented to the Court of the University of Wales on a visit to Switzerland and North Italy in 1898, as Gilchrist Travelling Student, by Joan Berenice Reynolds, B.A. London : C. J. Clay and Sons, 1899. Pp. xii + 112.

The “Contour” Road‐Book of England—Western Division, including Wales. By Harry R. G. Inglis. With 500 Maps and Plans. London and Edinburgh : Gall and Inglis. India paper edition, 3s. 6d. net.

Year‐Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. Compiled from Official Sources. London : Charles Griffin and Co., Limited, 1900. Pp. viii + 292.

Illustrated Guide to the Vale of Yarrow. By James M. Menzies. Paisley and London : Alexander Gardner, 1900. Pp. 108.

Viajes de Fray Francisco Menendez a Nahuelhuapi. Publicados i comentados por Francisco Fonck. Valparaiso : Carlos F. Niemeyer, 1900. Pp. xix + 528.

Congrès National des Sociétes Françaises de Géographie, xix^e Session. Marseille, 1899. Pp. 538.

Atti del Terzo Congresso Geografico Italiano. Volume primo, pp. 319 ; volume secondo, pp. 671. Firenze, 1889.

Highways and Byways in Normandy. By Pearcy Dearmer, M.A. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1900. Price 6s.     

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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.     

Notes on Venezuela

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Highways and Byways in South Wales. By A. G. Bradley; with Illustrations by Frederick S. Griggs. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. Pp.418. Price 6s.

Côtes et Ports Français de la Manche. By Charles Lenthiérie. Paris: Plon, Nourrit et Cie. Pp. 319, with 8 Maps. Price 5 francs.

The Survey Atlas of England and Wales. John Bartholomew and Co., The Geographical Institute, Edinburgh. Under the patronage of the Royal Geographical Society, 1903.

Botany of the Fæeröes, based upon Danish Investigations. Part II. Copenhagen: Det Nordiske Vorlag, Ernst Bojesen. 1903.

ASIA.

Formosa wider the Dutch, described from Contemporary Records. By Rev. Wm. Campbell, F.R.G.S., English Presbyterian Mission, Tainan. London: Kegan, Paul and Co., 1903. Pp. 629. Price 12s.

Le Japon d'aujourd'hui. Par G. Weulebsee. Paris : Armand Colin, 1904. Pp. 364. Price 4 fr.

L'Armée Chinoise. Par Général H. Frey, de l'Armée Coloniale. Paris : Hachette et Oie, 1904. Pp. 173.

Fasciculi Malayenses. Anthropological and Zoological Results of an Expedition to Perak and the’ Siamese Malay States, 1901–1902, undertaken by Nelson Annandale and Herbert 0. Robinson, under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh and University College, Liverpool. Anthropology: Part I. Zoology : Part I, Published for the University Press of Liverpool by Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, and Bombay. 1003.

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Beautiful Biskra. By C. Howard Tripp. Derby, London, and Watford : Bemiose and Sons, Ltd., 1903. Pp. vi + 93. Price 1s.

St. Helena: the Historic Island. By E. L. Jackson. London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., Ltd., 1903. Pp. iv + 343. Price 6s.

A Search for the Mashed Tawareks. By W. J. Harding King, M.R.A.S., F.RG.S. London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1903. Pp. viii + 334. Price 12s. 6d.

Dawn in the Dark Continent of Africa and its Missions : the Duff Missionary Lectures for 1902. By James Stewart, D.D., M.D., etc. Pp. 400. With Maps by J. G. Bartholomew. Edinburgh and London : Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier.

La Vérité sur le Congo. Bruxelles : J. Lebègue et Cie.

America

Jamaica as it is, 1903. By B. Pollen‐Barry. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Pp. xv + 240. Price 6s.

AUSTRALASIA.

Western Australian Year Book for 1900–1. By Malcolm A. C. Fraser. Government Statistician and Registrar‐General for Western Australia, Perth, 1902.

Two Awheel and Some Others Afoot in Australia. By Arthur Jose. London: J. M. Dent and Co. Pp. 216. 24 Illustrations. Price 3s. 6d. net.

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Geographen‐Kalender, herausgegeben von Dr. Hermann Haack. Erster Jahrgang, 1903–1904. Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1903. Pp. xv + 124. Price M. 3.

The Scottish Historical Review, being a new series of The Scottish Antiquary established 1886. Glasgow : MacLehose and Sons.

The Text and Versions of John de Piano Carpini and William de Rubruquis, as printed for the first time by Hakluyt in 1598, together with some shorter pieces. Edited by C. Raymond Beazley, M. A., F.R.G.S. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Sooiety, 1903.

The Mutual Relations of the Sun and Earth. By C. Robertson, M.D., M.R.S.G.S., Edinburgh : St. Giles Printing Company, 1903. Pp. 59.

A Monograph on the Tsetse Flies, genus Glossina (Westwood), based on the collection in the British Museum. By Ernest Edward Austen. With a chapter on mouth parts by H. J. Hansen. “Pp. ix + 319. London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1903.     

Six months in the Himalaya

The Pentland Hills : their Paths and Passes. By W. A. S. With a Map. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. 1885. Price 6d.

South France—From the Loire to the Mediterranean, and from the Bay of Biscay to the Rivers Arno and Po. The Island of Corsica, By O. B. Black. Fourth Edition. 1885. 38 Maps and 23 Plans. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. Price, 7s. 6d.

North France—From the North Sea to the Loire, exclusive of Paris, and from the Bay of Biscay to the Rhine. By C. B. Black. New Edition. 1885. 19 Maps and 20 Plans. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. Price, 7s. 6d.

Belgium—Rotterdam, Flushing, etc. By C. B. Black. New Edition. 1885. 10 Plans and 5 Maps. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black. Price, 2s. 6d.

China and the Roman Orient: Eesearches into their Ancient and Medi?val Relations, as represented in Old Chinese Records. By F. Hirth, Ph.D. Leipsic and Munich: Georg Hirth. Shanghai and Hong‐Kong : Kelly and Walsh. 1885.

Our South African Empire. By Wm. Greswell, M.A., F.R.C.S. In two volumes. London : Chapman and Hall (Limited), 1885.

Visitors’ Guide to Siena and San Gimignano. By J. L. Bevir, M.A. London : Edward Stanford. 1885. Pp. viii, and 232, including 4 pp. of Index.

Brazil and Java. Report on Coffee Culture in America, Asia, and Africa, to His Excellency the Minister of the Colonies. By C. F. van Delden Laërne. London : W. H. Allen and Co. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1885.

Notices Coloniales—Publiées à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle d'Anvers au 1885. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1885. Two volumes.

The Purple Land that England Lost. Travels and Adventures in the Banda ‐Oriental, South America. By W. H. Hudson. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1885. 2 vols.; pp. 286 and 256. Price 21s.

Der Papua des dunkeln Inselreichs: im Lichte psychologischer Forschung. Von Adolf Bastian. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1885. Price 7 marks. Pp. 368, Index.     

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The Scenery of Scotland viewed in connection with its Physical Geology. By Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.E.S., etc. 2d Edition, pp. 472. Two Maps, Index, and copious Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. Price 12s. 6d.

St. Kilda and the Kildians. By Robert Connell. London and Glasgow : Thos. D. Morison, 1887. Price 2s. 6d.

The British Umpire. By Sir George Campbell, M.P. Cassell and Co., London, 1887. Pp. 184. Price 3s.

The Great Silver River. Notes of a Residence in Buenos Ayres in 1880 and 1881. By Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart, K.C.M.G. With Illustrations, partly from Sketches by R. S. Wilkinson, C.E. London : John Murray. 1887. Pp. xiv. + 330. Price 12s.

Ten Tears in Melanesia. By the Rev. Alfred Penny, M.A., late of the Melanesian Mission. With Chart and six Engravings. Pp. 232. London : Wells Gardner and Co., 1887. Price 5s.

Uebersichten der Weltwerthschaft. Von Dr. F. X. von Neumann‐Spallart. Jahrgang 1883–84. Stuttgart, 1887.

The Teaching of Geography: Suggestions regarding Principles and Methods for the Use of Teachers. By Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. Mac‐millan and Co., London, 1887. Pp. 202. Price 2s.

Longman's New Geographical Readers: The First Reader for Standard I. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1887. Pp. 128. Price 9d.

Great Waterfalls, Cataracts, and Geysers. By John Gibson. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London and Edinburgh, 1887. Pp. 238. Price 2s. 6d.     

The Cape‐to‐Cairo railway

Among the Berbers of Algeria. By Anthony Wilkin. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Pp. xiv + 263. Price 16s.

The Siege of Kumassi. By Lady Hodgson. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Price 21s.

Hints to Travellers : Scientific and General. Edited for the Council of the Royal Geographical Society. By John Coles, F.R.G.S., F.E.A.S. Eighth Edition. London : The Royal Geographical Society, 1901. 2 vols.' Price 15s. net.

The Indian Borderland, 1880–1900. By Colonel Sir T. Hungerford Holdich, K.C.I.E., etc. With twenty‐two illustrations and a map. London: Methuen and Co., 1901. Pp. xii + 402. Price 15s. net.

Un Séjour dan l'Ile de Ceylan. Per Jules Leclercq. Paris : Plon‐Nourrit et Cie., 1900. Pp. xii + 293.

The Statesman's Year‐Book Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1901. Edited by J. Scott Keltie, LL.D., with the assistance of I. P. A. Eenwick, M.A., LL.B. Thirty‐eighth Annual Publication. London : Macmillan and Co., 1901. Pp. 1320. Price 10s. 6d.

The Civilisation of the East. By Dr. Fritz Hommel. (“The Temple Primers.”) London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1900. Pp. xii + 140.

Ethnology. By Dr. Michael Hoberlandt. Translated by J. H. Loewe. (“The Temple Primers.”) London : J. M. Dent and Co., 1900. Pp. viii + 169.

Chinese Pictures. Notes on Photographs made in China. By Mrs. J. F. Bishop, F.R.G.S. London : Cassell and Co. Price 3s. 6d.

A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages. By Stanley Lane‐Poole. London : Methuen and Co., 1901. Pp. 382. Price 6s.

The Story of the War in South Africa, 1899–1900. By Captain A. T. Mahan, U.S.N. With Map and Portrait of the Author. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, 1900. Pp. vi + 322, including Index. Price 10s. 6d.     

Some shore features in South‐East Ireland

The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam, and Malaya. By Henry Norman. With 60 Illustrations and 4 Maps. Pp. xvi + 608. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. Price 1 Guinea.

The Story of Africa and Its Explorers. By Robert Brown, M.A., Ph.D., etc. Vol. IV. Europe in Africa—Colonies and Colonists—The Scramble for an Empire—A Continent under Companies. With 200 . original Illustrations. London : Cassell and Co., Limited, 1895. Pp. 300 and Index to the four volumes. Price Is. 6d.

A travers l'Afrique Australe. Par Jules Leclercq. Paris: Plon, 1895. Pp. 312.

The Diversions of a Prime Minister. By Basil Thomson. Edinburgh : Black‐wood and Sons, 1894. Pp. viii + 407. With a Map and numerous Illustrations. Price 15s.

Mes Grandes Chasses dans L'Afrique Centrale. By Edouard Foa, Explorateur. Paris: Firmin‐Didot, 1895. Gr. 8vo, pp. 340. 76 Figs.

Korea—Eine Sommerreise nach dem Lande der Morgenruhe, 1894. Von Ernst von Hesse‐Wartegg. Dresden and Leipzig : Carl Eeissner, 1895. Pp. iv + 220.

La République d'Haïti : Son Présent, Son Avenir Économique. Par Paul Vibeht. Paris : Berger‐Levrault &; Cie., 1895. Pp. 360. Price 5 frs.

The Story of the L.M.S., 1795–1895. By C. Silvester Horne, M.A. With Maps and many Illustrations. London : Snow &; Co., 1894. Pp. 444. Price 2s. 6d

Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides. By Maggie Wiiitecross Paton. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Pp.382. Illustrations and Map. Price 6s.

Supplement au Volume V. du T'oung‐Pao. Die Lander des Islam nach chinesischen Quellen. Von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hirtii. Leyden : E. J. Brill, 1894. Pp. 64.

Instructions to Observers of the Indian Meteorological Department. By J. Eliot, M.A., F.E. Met. Soc., Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1894. Pp. iv + 103. Price 3 Rupees.

Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel (new issue). Africa: Vol. I., North Africa. By A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S. London: Edward Stanford, 1895. 8 Maps, and 77 Illustrations. Pp. 624. Price 15s.

The Great Dominion. Studies of Canada. By George R. Parkin, M.A., Hon. LL.D., University of New Brunswick. With Maps. London : Macmillan &; Co., 1895. Pp. viii + 251.

Outlines of English Industrial History. By W. Cunningham, D.D., and Ellen A. M'Arthur. Cambridge : University Press, 1895. Pp. xii+274.

Egypt. Handbook for Travellers. Edited by Karl Baedeker. Part First: Lower Egypt and the Peninsula of Sinai. With 14 Maps, 7 Views, and 7 Vignettes. Third Edition, revised and augmented. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1895. Pp. 280 and Index. Price 12s.

Leitfaden der Qeographie für höhere Lehranstalten. Von Dr. E. Lanqenbeck, Oberlehrer am protestantischen Gymnasium zu Strassburg. Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann, 1894. 2 Teile. Pp. viii + 125 and vi + 340. Price 2 M. 10 Pf.; boards, 2 M. 40 Pf.

L'Afrique : Anthologie Géographique. Par Noël Garnier. Paris : Delagrave, 1894. Pp. 566. Price 4 Frs.

D'Alger à Tanger. Par Marius Bernard. 120 Illustrations, par A. Chapon. Paris : Henri Laurens, n.d. Pp. 388. Price 10 Frs.; bound, 13 Frs.

Bibliotheca Geographica, herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. Bearbeitet von Otto Baschin unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Ernst Wagner. Band i. Jahrgang 1891 und 1892. Berlin : W. H. Kühl, 1895. Pp. 506.     

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EUROPE.

Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. By J. A. Harvie‐Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. With Coloured Plates and other Illustrations and 4 Maps. Two volumes. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Price £3, 3s.

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Promenades Lointaines, Sahara, Niger, Tombouctou, Touareg. Par le Lieutenant H. Paulhiac. Paris : Librairie Plon. Plon‐Nourrit et Cie., Imprimeurs‐Éditeurs. Prix 5 francs.

AMERICA.

Geografía de la Provincia de Córdoba. Por Manuel B. Río y Luis Achával, inge‐nieros civiles, etc. Escrita por encargo del Exemo. Gobierno de la Provincia. Publicación Official. Buenos Ayres, 1904.

Panama. Edited by Edward James Cattell. Foreign Commercial Guide. Published by the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1905. Pp. 17, with Map.     

New books

Le Tour D'Asie, ij. L'Empire Du Milieu. By Marcel Monnier. Paris : Librairie Plon. Pp. 373. 1899.

A ‘Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500–1870. By W. H. Woodward. Cambridge : The University Press, 1899.

In Dwarf‐Land and Cannibal Country. A Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa. By A. B. Lloyd, with Introduction by the Right Hon. Sir John H. Kennaway, Bart., M.P. 14G Illustrations and Maps. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Pp. xxiv + 385. Price 6s.

Notes sur l'Inde, with 30 Illustrations. Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch. Paris, n.d.

The Civilisation of India. By Romsh C. Dutt. (The Temple Primers.) 146 pp., 16mo.

B. Bradshaw's Dictionary of Bathing‐Places, Climatic Health‐Resorts, Mineral Waters, Sea Baths, and Hydropathic Establishments. With Maps and Plans. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1900. Pp. xl + 374. Price 2s. 6d.

The Natal Almanac, Directory, and Yearly Register, 1900. Pietermaritzburg : P. Davis and Sons. Pp. xxx + 928 + 371.

Maryland Weather Service. Volume I. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1899.     

Obituary

The Land of the Pigmies. By Captain Guy Burrows (Captain Commandant, Congo Free State). With an Introduction by H. M. Stanley, M.P. With Illustrations from Photographs, Sketches by the Author, and Maps. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1898. Pp. xxx + 299.

Das Republikanische Brasilien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Von Oskar Canstatt, früherem Kaiserlich‐Brasilianischen Coloniedirecktor. Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt und Sohn, 1899. Pp. 656. Price M. 12.

Round the World on a Wheel. By John Foster Fraser. London: Methuen and Co., 1899. Pp. 532. Price 6s.

Kreta in Vergangeriheit und Gegenwart. Geschildert von H. Bothmer. Leipzig: Woerl, 1899. Pp. 104. Price 2 mark.

New Climbs in Norway. By E. C. Oppenheim. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Pp. 257. Price 7s. 6d.

Physical Geography. By William Morris Davis, Professor of Physical Geography in Harvard University; assisted by William Henry Snyder, Master of Science in Worcester Academy. Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Company, 1898. Pp. xviii + 428. Price $1.25.

Grundzüge der Pflamenverbreitung in den Kaukasusländern. By Dr. Gustav Kadde, Director of the Caucasus Museum at Tiflis. 13 Figures in the text, 7 Photo‐engravings, and 3 Maps. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1899. Pp. xii + 500.

Pocket Guide to Paris. Conty's Practical Guides. Paris: Conty's Guides Office, N.D. Price 2s. 6d. net.     

The Siberian Railway

History of the New World called America. By Edward John Payne, Fellow of University College. Volume I. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892. Pp. xxviii + 546.

Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886. By Dr. Wilhelm Junker, Translated from the German by A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. Pp. viii + 586. Price 21s.

Up the Niger. Narrative of Major Claude Macdonald's Mission, to the Niger and Benué Rivers, West Africa. By Captain Mockler‐Ferryman, F.R.G.S. F.Z.S. With Maps and Illustrations. London : George Philip and Son, 1892. Pp. 326. Price 16s.

Cinq Années de Séjour aux Iles Canaries. Par le Dr. R. Verneau, Chargé de Missions Scientifiques. Ouvrage illustré de 42 gravures, 4 planches, et 1 carte. Couronné par l'Académie des Sciences. Pp. xvi + 412. Paris : A. Hennuyer, 1891.

Studies in Mohammedanism, Historical and Doctrinal, with a chapter on Islam in England. By John B. Pool. London: A. Constable and Co., 1892. Pp. xvi + 420. Price 6s.

Sicily (Story of the Nations): Phænician, Cheek, and Roman. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A., Hon. D.C.L., LL.D. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Pp. xvi + 378. Price 5s.

Afrihanische Petrefahten. Ein Versuch die grammatischen Bildungen und Formwurzeln der afrikanischen Sprachen durch Sprachvergleichung festzustellen. By A. W. Schleicher. Berlin : Theodor Fröhlich, 1891. Pp. 93.

Die Triangulation von Java, ausgeführt vow, Personal des geographischen Dienstes in Niederländisch Ost‐Indien. Dritte Abtheilung. Von Dr. J. A. C. Oudemaks. Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1891. Pp. 180.

Das Verebnen der Kugeloberflache fur Qradnetzentiviirfe. Von Dr. A. Bretjsing. Leipzig : Verlag von H. Wagner und E. Debes, 1892. Pp. 69. Price 3 m.

Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. Illustrated. With Railway Maps, Plans of Cities, and Table of Railway and Steamboat Fares. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1892.     

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.

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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.     

Climatic influences in some ancient Mediterranean religions

L'Indo‐Chine française : Étude politique, économique et administrative sur la Cochinchine, le Cambodge, l'Annam et le Tonkin. Par J.‐L. de Lanessak, etc. Avec 5 cartes. Paris : Félix Alcan, 1889. Pp. 760.

The Civilisation of Sweden in Heathen Times. By Oscar Montelius, Ph.D., Professor at the National Historical Museum, Stockholm. Translated from the second Swedish edition, revised and enlarged by the Author, by Eev. F. H. Woods, B.D., Vicar of Chalfont St. Peter. With Maps and 205 Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. Pp. xvi. and 214. Price 14s.

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness. Vol. xiii., 1886–87. Inverness : Northern Chronicle Office, 1888. Pp. xiv. + 372.

The Tour of Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory, through Sutherland and Caithness in 1760, with Introduction and Notes by Daniel William Kemp. Printed at the Darien Press. Published by The Sutherland Association. Edinburgh, 1888.

Sketches from a Tour through Holland and Germany. By J. P. Mahaffy and J. E. Rogers. London : Macmillan and Co., 1889. Pp. xv. and 271. Price 10s. 6d.

The Land of Rubens: A Companion for Visitors to Belgium. By Conrad Burken Huet. Translated from the Dutch, and edited by Albert D. Vandam. London : Sampson Low and Co., 1888. Pp. 232. Price 3s. 6d.

Switzerland: its Mountains, Valleys, Lakes, and Rivers. With 250 Illustrations. New and revised edition. London : J. S. Virtue and Co., 1889. Pp. 388. Price 15s.

A Winter in Albania. By H. A. Brown ; Illustrations by 0. H. Brown. Pp. viii. and 395. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh. 1888. Price 10s. 6d.

Naples in 1888. By E. N. Rolfe and H. Ingleby. London : Trübner and Co. Price 7s. 6d, Pp. 262.

The First Ascent of the Kasaï, being some Records of Service under the Lone Star, By Chaeles Someeville Lateobe Bateman, sometime Captain and Adjutant of Gendarmerie in the Congo Free State. With 57 Illustrations and 2 Maps. London: George Philip and Son, 1889. Pp. 185. Price 21s.

The Least of all Lands : Seven Chapters on the Topography of Palestine. By William Miller, C.I.E., LL.D., Principal of the Madras Christian College, and Fellow of the University of Madras. London : Blackie and Son, 1888. Pp. 247.

The Statesman's Year‐Booh for 1889. Edited by J. Scott Keltie, Librarian to the Royal Geographical Society. Twenty‐sixth Annual Publication. London : Macmillan and Co., 1889. Price 10s. 6d.

Commercial Geography: based on the latest Researches and Statistical Returns. A complete Manual of the Countries of the World, their chief Centres of Trade and Means of Communication, their Natural Productions, Mineral Resources, Exports, Manufactures, etc. By Dr. Cael Zehden, Professor in the Handels‐Akademie of Vienna. Translated by Findlay Muiehead, M.A. London : Blackie and Son, 1889. Pp. 592.

The Colony of New Zealand: Its History, Vicissitudes, and Progress. By William Gisboene. London : E. A. Petherick and Co., 1888. Pp. 360. Price 7s. 6d.

The Northern Counties Red Book : Inverness, Northern Chronicle Office.

Durch Bosnien. Von Svetozak Boeoevio’. Wien: Buch und Kunstdruckerei “ Stegermiihl.”

The Florida of To‐day : A Guide for Tourists and Settlers. By James Wood Davidson, A.M. Pp. 254 ; with Maps and Illustrations. New York and London : D. Appleton and Co., 1889. Price 5s.

A Guide to Trinidad: A Hand‐booh for the use of Tourists and Visitors. By J. H. Collens, Port of Spain. Second edition. London: Elliot Stock, 1888. Pp. 287. Price 6s.

Making a Start in Canada : Letters from Two Young Emigrants. With an Introduction by Professor Alfred J. Church, M.A. Pp. xx. and 224. London : Seeley and Co., 1889. Price 2s. 6d.