SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.]
The Geographical Journal for February is of exceptional interest, inasmuch as it contains the full text of the papers read last December by Colonel Howard-Bury and Mr. Mallory on the Mount Everest expedition of last summer. These are illustrated with a series of twenty-two remarkable photographs of Everest, and with two maps, which are the first to represent the mountain in its relation to the main range of the Himalayas. The map of the immediate surroundings of Everest was made from panoramic photographs. This number also contains a noteworthy paper by Sir Aurel Stein on an eighth-century Chinese expedition across the Pamirs and Hindukusb, which resulted in the temporary occupation of Gilgit and Chitral.
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