Railway Enterprise in China. By Percy Horace Kent. (E. Arnold.
125. 6d. net.)—The reader will do well to study the map at the end of the volume before he attempts the volume itself. This .exhibits the lines constructed, in process of construction, and Projected, distinguishing them by different colours which indicate the nationality of the capital with which they have been or are to be built. Of constructed railways, by far the most important is that from Lake Baikal to Port Arthur and Vladivostok. It runs more than a thousand miles through Russian territory, as much more to Vladivostok, and more than as much more to Port Arthur. The existing lines in CII:na are not very extensive, compared, that is, with the extent of the country. But very considerable schemes are in process of execu- tion or have been put into shape. A British line is being made from Antuug to Hsinnsingting (joining an existing system), and a very big affair is contemplated from Chungking on the Yangtse Rivor to Yunnan and Tali, making a connexion with Mandalay and Rangoon. The length of this from its starting-point to the frontier must be nearly a thousand miles. The book itself is full Of information as to the cost of Construction, difficulties financial, political, and other, and many other matters.
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