Asia Minor. By W. A. Hawley. (J. Lane. 12s. 6d.
net.)— This is a pleasant and well-written book about Anatolia. The author was more keenly interested in the Hittite monuments and the excavations at Sardis and elsewhere than in modern problems ; he describes with care the romantic cloister of the Whirling Dervishes at Konia, but he has nothing to say about the Baghdad Railway scheme, except indeed in, the Preface. Mr. Hawley has done well to leave politics to others. His descrip- tions of the chief towns or ruins are distinctly interesting, and he impresses the reader with the charm of the vast solitudes that Anatolia, unhappily for itself, has to show. If all the Turks in the world were confined to Anataa, that country would still be very scantily peopled. The Turkieh schemes of annexation in the Caucasus and beyond are not merely immoral but ludicrous when large parts of .Anatolia itself lie waste for want of inhabitants.
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