The romance of Czechoslovakia

EUROPE.

La Lorraine Métallurgique: Axel, Somme, Nancy, etc. Paris: Editions Berger‐Livrault, 1930.

Abbeys of Old Romance. By Charles G. Harper. London: Cecil Palmer, 1930. Price 15s.

Russia at Random. By Oliver Tweedy. London: Jarrolds, 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

European Encounters. By Hubert Griffith. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

1. Between the River and the Hills. By Sisley Huddleston. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

2. Travels in Normandy. By Roy Elston. London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

3. Folktales of Normandy. By W. Branch Johnson. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1929. Price 7s. 6d.

Russia Unveiled. By Panait Istrati. Translated from the French by R. J. S. Curtis. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 10s.

French Leaves. By E. V. Lucas. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 5s.

Beautiful Mountains: In the Jugoslav Alps. By F. S. Copeland. Split: The Jugoslav Bureau, n.d. Price 5s.

Italy Yesterday and To‐Bay. By A. Marinoni. New York: The Macmillan Company Ltd., 1931. Price 21s.

The Economic Life of Soviet Russia. By Calvin B. Hoover, Ph.D. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

ASIA.

A Journey to China, or Things which are Seen. By Arnold Toynbee. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 15s.

The Japanese Population Problem: The Coming Crisis. By W. R. Crocker. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1931. Price 10s. 6d. net.

Conflict: Angora to Afghanistan. By Rosita Forbes. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 15s.

AFRICA.

Across Africa on Foot. By Ronald A. Monson. Photographs by J. Hunter Wilson. London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1931. Price 18s. net.

The Lonely Island. By Rose Annie Rogers. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 7s. 6d.

The Red Men of Nigeria. By Captain J. R. Wilson‐Haffenden, T.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. London: Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 21s. net.

AMERICA.

New Brunswick, Canada: Its Natural Resources and Development. By L. O. Thomas, B.Sc. Ottawa: Natural Resources Intelligence Service, 1930.

British Policy and Canada, 1774–1791. By Gerald S. Graham. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 10s. 6d. net.

POLAR.

Little America. By R. E. Byed. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 21s.

GENERAL.

The Mysterious Universe. By Sir James Jeans. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. Price 3s. 6d. net.

Jungle Islands: The "Illyria” in the South Seas. By Sidney N. Shurcliff. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., 1930. Price 42s.

Trodden Ways: 1895–1980. By Sir Ian Malcolm. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 12s. 6d.

The Island of Penguins. By Cherry Kearton. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 10s. 6d.

Turkey: Yesterday, To‐day, and To‐morrow. By Sir Telford Waugh. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1930. Price 18s.

Dark Trails: Adventures of a Naturalist. By George K. Cherbie. With a Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., Price 15s.

Changing Conditions of Imperial Defence: Essays on Military Geography. By Capt. D. H. Cole, M.B.E. London: Sifton, Praed and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 6s.

Downhill Ski‐Racing. By Harold Mitchell. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 5s.

Vancouver—A Life: 1757–1798. By George Godwin. London: Philip Allan and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 15s.

Kultur im Spiegel der Landschaft. Das Bild der Erde in seiner Oestaltung durch den Menschen. Ein Bilderatlas. Von Nikolaus Creutzburg. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut A.G., 1930. Preis RM. 45.

Peru from the Air. By Lieutenant George R. Johnson. With Text and Notes by Raye R. Platt. New York: American Geographical Society, 1930. Price $5.

The Autobiography of a Wanderer. By Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore, F.R.G.S. London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., n.d. Price 18s. net.

Through the Caucasus to the Volga. By Fridtjof Nansen. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.. 1931. Price 12s. 6d. net.

Chorus to Adventurers. By Roger Pocock. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Impacts: The Trip to the States, and other Adventures of Travel. By Douglas Goldring. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Price 7s. 6d.

EDUCATIONAL.

Geographische Kausalprofile: Eine Beispielsammlung aus der Praxis fur die Praxis. Von Dr. Kurt Keause. Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, 1930. Preis RM. 2.50.

The Peoples of the World. Vol. II. People and Homes in Many Lands. By F. G. Moss, B.A. Illustrated. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. Price 2s. 6d.

An Introduction to Regional Surveying. By C. C. Fagg and G. E. Hutchings. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. Price 7s. 6d.

Introductory Studies in Geography. By E. Irene Daughtry, B.A. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. Price 2s. 3d.

The Seal Princess, by C. A. Dawson Scott, and With the Australian Aborigines, by E. L. Grant Wilson. “New Prospect” Readers. London: George Philip and Son Ltd., 1930. Price 8d. each.

The World‐Wide Geographies. Book IV. The World We Live In. By J. H. Stembridge. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1930. Price 1s. 9d.

Individual Geographies: North America. By R. Finch. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1930. Price 1s. 6d.

Progressive Studies in Geography. Book II. The Atlantic Hemisphere. Book III. Euro‐Asia. By H. Sankey and E. A. Meerett. London: George Philip and Son Ltd., 1930. Price, Book II., 10d.; Book III., 9d.

A Text‐Book of Geography. By G. C. Fey, M.Sc. 7th Edition. London : University Tutorial Press, 1930. Price 6s. 6d.

Earth and Sky. By C. H. Dobinson, M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1930. Price 3s. 6d.     

The Origins of the Castle in England the Institute's Research Project 1

This paper, based mainly on hitherto unpublished material, describes the building-activities of the Duke of Lauderdale in the years following his second marriage to the Countess of Dysart. During this period the Duke's three northern houses, comprising Thirlestane Castle, Lethington, and Brunstane, were extensively remodelled under the direction of the Scottish Surveyor-General, Sir William Bruce. Bruce also played a part in the alterations and additions carried out at the Lauderdales' principal English seat, Ham House, the main responsibility in this case, however, being undertaken by the gentleman-architect William Samwell. The Scottish houses were fitted out and decorated by a team of Anglo-Dutch craftsmen recruited chiefly in London, while another Dutchman, John Slezer, was employed as surveyor and draughtsman both in Scotland and at Ham.     

Colonial Cottage to State House: One Century of Housing Styles in Gisborne,New Zealand

The small New Zealand city of Gisborne, with its roots in the lute Wth century, contains house styles characteristic of New Zealand's urban residential history. Small cottages, Colonial bungalows, simple Colonial Georgian and Regency styles, Victorian Gothic style houses, “villas,” “Bay Villas,” “California Bungalows” and “State Houses” are all found in Gisborne. Questions of the origin of each style and whether these styles display any distinctive New Zealand characteristics are addressed in this study.