Our Sudan : its Pyramids and Progress. By John Ward,
(John Murray. 21s. net.)—Mr. Ward modestly says that we may skip his letterpress and content ourselves with looking at the photographs. Of these there is, it is true, a quite marvellous collection ; but, at the same time, we are glad to have the narratives, explanations, and comments which accompany them. These cover a wide range of subject. There is the geography of the Upper Nile and the countries that border it, both below and above Khartoum. There are particular accounts of Darfur and Bahr-el-Ghazal, and a glance at Abyssinia. In history we have an account of our dealings with the Mandi and the Khalifs and of the Fashoda incident. Then, as regards the future, we have a reprint of Lord Kitchener's despatch on the subject of the irriga- tion of the Soudan, a vast region which has potentialities greater, in some respects, than those of Egypt. All these subjects, and others which we need not enumerate, are continuously illustrated by photographs. These give us faithful representations of places and people, portraits of soldiers and statesmen, snap-shots of battles, landscapes taken from plain and river, ruins, hiero- glyphics, Soudanese soldiers as the Egyptian Kings knew them millenniums ago and as the Soudan knows them now,—such a variety, in fact, as defies enumeration.
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