The Handy Royal Atlas. By G. H. Johnston. (W. and
A. K. Johnston; _Macmillan. 70s. net.)—The many changes made by the war have necessarily made the pre-war atlases obsolete in respect of political frontiers. This new edition of the Handy -Royal Atlas may be heartily commended for general use, as it embodies the numerous alterations made by the peace treaties in the political maps, especially of Europe and Africa. It contains fifty-three good maps, clearly engraved and well printed in colours, with a full and useful index. The map- makers may be excused for a certain indefiniteness about the borders of Fiume, which are not yet, so far as we know, exactly determined. The plebiscite areas between Poland and East Prussia are generally supposed to have been awarded to the Germans and need not have been marked as if the plebiscites were still to be taken. The tiny speck of land in the Pacific which has excited so much needless controversy is marked only as "Pleasant Island" instead of under its better-known name of Nauru, and is not indexed under either name. The atlas, however, is in the main remarkably accurate and will be most useful.
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