13 MAY 1922, Page 23

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

[Notice to this column does not necessarily preclude subserpumt resins.)

The Geographical Journal for May contains the first part of an account by Mr. Douglas Carruthers of the late Captain Shakespear's last journey in 1914 right across unknown Arabia from Koweit to Sinai. Captain Shakespear, who was Political Agent at Koweit from 1909 to 1915, when ho was killed in a tribal skirmish, made important additions, at the risk of his life, to our knowledge of the interior of Arabia. A valuable War Office map of Northern Arabia, on a scale of twenty-three miles to an inch, illustrates the article. It embodies Captain Shakespear's discoveries.