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On Ancient Central Asian Tracks. A Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North‐Western China. 9½" × 6¾". Pp. xxiv + 342. Illustrations. Colour plates. Panoramas. Map. London: MacMillan. 1933. 31s. 6d.

The Empty Quarter. Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub'al Khali. By H. J. B. Philby, C.I.E. Pp. xxiv + 433. Illustrations and maps. 21s.

Hadramaut: Some of its mysteries unveiled. By D. Van der Meulen and Dr. H. von Wissmann. 9¾" × 6½". Pp. xxv + 248. Illustrations. Map. Leyden: E. J. Brill, Ltd. 1932.

The Census of Palestine, 1931. Vols. I. and II. By E. Mills. 13½" × 8¾". Pp. viii + 345; vi + 595. Map and diagrams. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, Ltd. 1933. 10s.

A Wanderer in the Promised Land. By Norman Bentwich. Pp. xii + 263. The Soncino Press. 1932. 7s. 6d. net.

Tell Halaf: A New Culture in Oldest Mesopotamia. By Baron Max von Oppenheim. Translated by Gerald Wheeler. Pp. 337. 3 plates in colour, 64 in half‐tone. 23 figures in text. Putnam's. 1933. Price 21s.

The Independent Arab. By Major Sir Hubert Young, C.M.G., D.S.O. 9" × 5¾". Pp. xi + 344. Maps. John Murray. 1933. 15s.

In the Margin of History. By Sir Harry Luke. 7¾" × 5¼". Pp. xiv + 270. 40 illustrations. 12 maps. Lovat Dickson, Ltd. 1933. 12s. 6d.

Japan: A Short Cultural History. By G. B. Sansom. 10" × 6½". Pp. xvi + 537. 19 plates. 39 illustrations. The Cresset Press. 1931. 30s.

Natural History of Central Asia. Vol. I.: The New Conquest of Central Asia. A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921–1930. By Roy Chapman Andrews, A.M., Sc.D. With chapters by Walter Granger, Sc.D., Chief Palæontologist; Clifford H. Pope, B.S., Herpetologist; Nels C. Nelson, M.L., Archæologist. With 128 plates and 12 illustrations in the text and 3 maps at end. Published by the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Fairfield Osborn, President. New York, 1932.

Russia and Asia. By Prince A. Lobanov‐Rostovsky, Assistant Professor of History in the University of California at Los Angeles. 9" × 6". Pp. 334. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1933. 14s.

The Tinder Box of Asia. By George E. Sokolsky. 8½" × 5¾". Pp. ix + 376. Maps. Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.

Manchuria Year Book 1932–33.

Japan, Mistress of the Pacific? By Col. P. T. Etherton and H. Hessell Tiltman. 9½" × 6". Pp. 302. Illustrations and maps. Jarrolds. 1933. 16s.

The Hazards of Asia's Highlands and Deserts. By Walter Bosshard. 8¾" × 5½". Pp. 139. Illustrations. London: Figurehead Press, 18, Adam Street. 5s.

The Tragedy of Amanullah. By Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. 10" × 6¼". Pp. xiv + 274. Illustrations. Alexander‐Ouseley, Ltd. 1933. 18s.

Up from Poverty in Rural India. By D. Spencer Hatch, B.Sc., M.Sc. in Agr., Ph.D., Directing Rural Demonstration, Travancore and Cochin District. Oxford University Press.

England's Quest of Eastern Trade. By Sir William Foster, C.I.E. 9" × 5¾". Pp. xiv + 354. Maps. A. and C. Black. 1933. 15s.

Incomparable India: Tradition, Superstition and Truth. By Colonel Robert J. Blackham. 9" × 5½". Pp. xviii + 302. Illustrations. Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd. 12s. 6d.

The Great Wall of India. By Ian Hay. 7¾" × 8¼". Pp.96. Hodder and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.

India Marches Past. By R. J. Minney. Pp. 292. Map and 12 illustrations. Jarrolds. 16s.

Kamni. By Sir Jogendra Singh. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur and Sons.

Les Héritiers de la Toison d'Or. By Louis Coquet, Colonel breveté d'Etat — Major en retraite. Pp. 256. Paris: Maisonneuve Frères. 1931.

Hunter's Moon. By Major Leonard Handley, M.C., F.R.G.S. 8¾" × 5¾" Pp. xiv + 267. Illustrations. Macmillan and Co. Price 15s.

Assyrians in ‘Iraq.

Open Court Magazine. Vol. II. Series 2. Russian and Chinese Central Asia.