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Pages 169-188 | Published online: 27 Feb 2008
 

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EUROPE.

Heinrich Heine's Italian Travel Sketches. Translated into English by Elizabeth Sharp. New Illustrated Edition. London : Foulis, 1927. Price 6s.

Mallorca the Magnificent. By Nina Larrey Duryea. London : Faber and Gwyer Ltd., 1927. Price 12s. 6d.

The Booh of the Clyde : Being a Connected Series of Drawings and Observations of the River from its Source to the Firth. By Donald Maxwell. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927. Price 10s. 6d.

Windmills and Waterways : The Log of a Summer Cruise through Holland. By Laurence Irving. London : Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1927. Price 8s. 6d.

Things seen in the Pyrenees. By Capt. Leslie Richardson. London : Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1928. Price 3s. 6d. net.

Holidays in the Perthshire Highlands. By John Mackintosh. Edinburgh : Turnbull and Spears, n.d. Price 3s. 6d.

The Balearics and their Peoples. By Frederick Chamberlin, LL.B., F.R.G.S., etc. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927. Price 18s.

ASIA

Through Jade Gate and Central Asia: An Account of Journeys in Kansu, Turkestan, and the Gobi Desert. By Mildred Cable and Francesca French, with an Introduction by the Rev. John Stuart Holden, D.D. London : Constable and Co. Ltd., 1927. Price 10s.

In Borneo Jungles. By William O. Krohn, Ph.D., M.D. London : Gay and Hancock Ltd., 1927. Price 21s. net.

Sport and Travel in the Highlands of Tibet. By Sir Henry Hayden and Caesar Cosson. London : Richard Cobden‐Sanderson, 1927. Price £1, 1s.

Sidelights on Peking Life. By Robert W. Swallow. Peking : China Booksellers Ltd. ; Agents, Luzac and Co., London, 1927. Price 18s.

AFRICA

In the Country of the Blue Nile. By C. F. Rey, F.R.G.S., Commander of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia, Author of Unconqrtered Abyssinia as it is To‐day, etc. With a Foreword by Major‐General Lord Edward Gleichen, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. London : Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 1927. Price 25s. net.

Through the Congo Basin. By Douglas Fraser, Author of Impressions : Nigeria, 1925. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1927. Price 16s. net.

The Breath of the Desert. By Ferdinand Ossendowski. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1927. Price 16s. net.

In Barbary, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Sahara. By E. Alexander Powell, Author of By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne, etc. London : John Long Ltd., 1927. Price 18s. net.

AMERICA

Mexico. By Karl Sapper, Ordinary Professor in the University of Würzburg. Vienna : Seidel und Sohn, 1928. Price, stitched, 8s. ; bound, 9s.

Jungle Paths and Inca Ruins. By W. M. McGovern. London : Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., n.d. Price 21s.

A Nomad in North America. By Ben Assher. London : Robert Holden and Co., 1927. Price 12s. 6d.

The Spell of French Canada. By Frank Oliver Call, M.A. Boston : Page and Co., 1926. Price $3.75.

AUSTRALASIA

The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People. By Sir Baldwin Spenceh and the late F. J. Gillen. 2 vols. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd. Price 36s. net.

A Vagabond in Fiji. By Harry L. Foster. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1928. Price 12s. 6d.

GENERAL

Manual of Forest Engineering and Extraction. By J. F. Stewart. With a Foreword by Professor E. P. Stebbino. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1927. Price 15s.

Lawrence and the Arabs. By Robert Graves. London : Jonathan Cape, 1927. Price 7s. 6d.

Henry Hudson. By Llewelyn Powys. The Golden Hind Series. Edited by Milton Waldman. London : John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927. Price 12s. 6d.

The Mediterranean and Beyond. By Norma Lorimer. London : Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1927. Price 21s. net.

The Glamour of Near Hast Excavation. By James Baikie, F.R.A.S. London : Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1927. Price 10s. 6d. net.

On Ancient Ways: A Winter Journey. By Lady Sybil Lubbock. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Price 7s. 6d.

Isostasy. By William Bowie. New York : E. P. Dutton and Co., 1927. Price $5.

Adventures in Five Continents. By Lieut.‐Colonel P. T. Etherton. London : Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1928. Price 18s.

Ancient Civilisations: From, the Earliest Times to the Birth of Christ. By Donald A. Mackenzie, Author of Ancient Man in Britain, etc. London and Glasgow : Blackie and Son Ltd., 1927. Price 12s. 6d. net.

EDUCATIONAL

Climate and Geography. By O. J. R. Howarth, Secretary of the British Association. London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. Price 1s. 6d. net.

The Preliminary Geography. By E. G. Hodgkinson, B.A., F.R.G.S. Fourth Edition. London : University Tutorial Press Ltd., 1927. Price 2s. 6d.

An Intermediate Commercial Geography. By L. Dudley Stamp, D.Sc., B.A. Part I. Commodities and World Trade. With Maps and Diagrams. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. Price 7s. 6d.

Traité de Géographie Physique. Par Emm. de Martonne. Tome Troisième. Biogéographie. Paris: Armand Colin. 1927. Prix 60 francs.

The Climate of the Continents. By W. G. Kendrew, M.A. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1927. Price 21s. net.

Geography through Map‐Reading.—Book III. The British Umpire, 1s. ; Book IV. Africa, 1s. ; Book V. Asia, 1s. 3d. London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927.

A Preparatory Geography. By J. H. Grieve, B.Sc., F.R.G.S. London : Deane and Sons, 1927. Price 2s. 6d. net.

World Geography.—Book I. General Geography ; Book II. Continents and Countries ; Book III. Commercial Geography. By Ed. J. S. Lay. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1'927. Prices 1s., 1s. 3d., and 2s. 3d.

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