Everyman's Encyclopaedia: World Atlas. (Dent. 2ss.)
THE addition of a volume of maps to the last edition of the admirable Everyman's Encyclopaedia is welcome, and for casual reference the volurlie will in most cases be found adequate. But the necessity of con- forming to the size of the previous twelve volumes means that the maps are on too Small a scale for students who need detail ; a double-page map, for example, measures no more than 8f x 7. Against this is to be set the fact that the maps are by Bartholo- mews, who can always achieve marvels of clarity in the smallest space. Fortunately. moreover, they are political, not physical, which means that place-names and bound- aries are not obliterated by heavy shades of brown and grey and green. The atlas is in most cases up-to-date, though Somalia is still described as Italian Somaliland, Jordan is still Trans-Jordan and Israel Palestine, and there is a note, of political optimism in the inscription " Administered by Poland " across the strip of what used to be Germany -- to the east of the Oder-Neisse line. W. P.
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