With the Peshawar Column. By Richard Gillham Thomsett. (Digby, Long,
and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Colonel Thomsett begins with an interesting account of the state of feeling which immediately preceded the Pathan outbreak of 1897. He attributes no little importance to the effect produced by the defeat of Greece by Turkey, and he hints pretty strongly that the A weer had some- thing to do with it. After this he tells the story, beginning with the loss of the Khyber Pass ; and tells it in a plain, practical fashion. There are not a few curious things in it. Not the least strange is the anecdote of the Afridi officer in one of our regiments who had to pay 63 rupees as his share of the fine imposed on his tribe by the Indian Government.—Another book of adventure, this time of a peaceful kind, is A Visit to the Russians in Central Asia, by Isabelle Mary Phibbs (Began Paul, Trench, and Co., 6s. net). Mrs. Phibbs illustrates her book with some excellent photographs and a map.—Africa as Seen by its Explorers, by E. J. Webb (E. Arnold, 2s.), is a book of extracts from various travellers in Africa, beginning with Herodotus. It is divided into eight parts,—(1) Egypt and the Nile ; (2) The Deserts; (3) Circumnavigation of Africa ; (4) The Niger; (5) South and South-Central Africa; (6) The Congo; (7) North Africa; (8) Miscellaneous. A useful and interesting volume.
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