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London By Night. By George R. Sims. (greening And Co.

is. net.)—Mr. Sims treats a very disagreeable subject with great tact. On the whole, we may conclude that things have mended. It would be rash to affirm that the level of public......

In "stanford's Compendium Of Geography And Travel" (e....

net) we have a "Second Edition, Revised and Corrected," of Asia, by A. H. Keane, LL.D. Dr. Keane points out that since 1895 (the date of the first edition) much has been dis-......

Catalogue Of The Plants Of Kumaon. (lovell Reeves And Co.

5s. net.)--In 1846-48 Lieutenant (now Sir Richard) Strachey explored the mountain ranges westward of Nepal, and the Tibet lake region of Rakas-Ttil and Mansarowar. In the latter......

The New Earth. By W. S. Harwood. (macmillan And Co.

Is. 6d. net.)—This somewhat ambiguous title—it reminds us, by contraries, of a familiar story about "Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds "—is really a book about scientific......