11 AUGUST 1906, Page 24

In "Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel" (E. Stanford, 15s.

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- covered in the region treated of here (Northern and Eastern Asia). And besides explorers, statesmen and soldiers have been at work. There have been the breaking down of the isolation of Tibet and the Russo-Japanese War. No more momentous change in the political aspect of Asiatic geography has taken place since the definite establishment of British supremacy in India.