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Guide de l'Immigrant à Madagascar. Publié par la Colonie avec le concours du Comité de Madagascar. Paris : Armand Colin et Cie., 1899. 3 vols. and Atlas. Pp. 409, 587, and 439 respectively. Price 40 frcs.

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. By Mrs. J. F. Bishop, F.R.G.S. London : John Murray, 1899. Pp. xii + 557. Price 21s. net.

Pictures of Travel, Sport, and Adventure. By George Lacy ("The Old Pioneer"). London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1899. Price 15s. Pp.420.

The Chronology of India from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. By C. Mabel Duff (Mrs. W. R. Rickmers). Westminster : Archibald Constable and Co., 1899. Price 15s. net.

Portuguese Nyassaland. An Account of the Discovery, Native Population, Agriculture and Mineral Resources and present Administration of the Nyassa Company, with a review of the Portuguese rule on the East Coast of Africa. By W. Basil Worsfold. Pp. 258. 2 Appendices, Index, 24 Illustrations, 2 Maps in cover. London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1899.

A White Woman in Central Africa. By Helen Caddick. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Pp. 242. Price 6s.

Historical Geography of the Holy Land. By S. R. Macphail, M.A. With 42 Illustrations, Views, and Sketches. Edinburgh : T. and T. Clark, 1899. Pp. 188. Price 6d.

The Madeira Islands. By Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. London : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1900. Vol. i. pp. 324. Vol. ii. pp. 207. Price 20s. net.

Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. A Complete Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. With numerous Illustrations and sixty Maps. Vols. v. and vi. London : Cassell and Co., Ltd.

Modern Spain, 1788–1898. By Martin A. S. Hume. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Pp.374. Price 5s. ("The Story of the Nations Series.”)

Neu‐Guinea. Von Dr. Maximilian Krieger. Mit Beiträgen von Professor Dr. A. Freiiierrn von Danckelmann, Professor Dr. F. von Luschan, Kustos Paul Matshie, und Professor Dr. Otto Warburg. Mit Unterstützung der Kolonial‐Abteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes, der Neu‐Guinea‐Kompagnie und der Deutschen Kolonial‐Gesellschaft. Berlin : Alfred Schall. Preis : brosch.—mk. 11.50, geb. mk. 13.50.

Journals and Papers of Chauncy Maples, D.D., F.R.G.S., late Bishop of Likoma, Lake Nyasa, Africa. Edited by Ellen Maples. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Pp. 278. Price 6s. 6d.

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

Whitaker's Naval and Military Directory and Indian Army List, 1900. London : J. Whitaker and Sons. Pp. 918. Price 5s.

Macdonald's Scottish Directory and Gazetteer, 1899–1900. Edinburgh. Pp. 1117. Edinburgh : Wm. Macdonald and Co., Ltd. Price, for Great Britain, 21s.

Vingt‐deux mois de campagne autour du monde. Journal d'un aspirant de marine. By Le Comte Henry de Menthon. Paris : E. Plon, 1900. Pp. 312 and Map.

The Story of the Nations—Modern Italy, 1748–1898. By Pietro Orsi. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Pp. 404. Price 5s.

Das Meer als Quelle der Völkergrösse; eine politisch‐geographische Studie. By Friedrich Ratzel. Leipzig : E. Oldenbourg, 1900. Pp.85. M. 1.20.

Corfon et les Corfiotes. By Dr. Arthur de Claparède. Geneva : H. Kündig, 1900. Pp. 176.

Einundwanzig Jahre in Indien—I. Theil : Borneo. By Dr. H. Breitenstein. Leipzig : Th. Grieben, 1899. Pp. 254. M. 5.50.

Assyrien und Babylonien nach den neuesten Entdeckungen. By Dr. Franz Kaulen. Fifth edition. Freiburg, i. B., 1899. Pp. 316. M. 5.

The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D. By George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. Fourth English edition. Eevised and abridged. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. Pp. xv + 383. Price 6s.

Historical Atlas of Modern Europe. Edited by Reginald Lane Poole, M.A., Ph.D. Oxford : Clarendon Press.