Map Work. By Seymour Bryant and T. H. Hughes. (Clarendcn
Press. 5s. net.)—As a stock-pot for lecturers on topography and field-surveying. Map Work will be warmly welcomed by teachers of such subjects, both military and civil. An excellent feature that is far too often absent from such books is the attention given to the correct and intelligent visualization of the map in terms of actual country, the conversion, as it wero, of plans into elevations, and vice-versd. Even the oft-told tale of " contours," " scales," and such-like is presented with a certain freshness that comes gratefully after four long years of " officialese-and-water." There is nothing dull about maps, but there would seem to have been some sort of convention ordaining that this romantic subject be universally treated in a spirit of detached and ponderous solemnity. This book gives hope of better days ahead.
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