Cassell's Atlas. By J. G. Bartholomew. (Cassell and Co. 12s.
6d. net.)—This handy atlas, with its eighty-eight maps in a volume of modest size and moderate weight, will be found a very useful addition to the bookshelves or table of the ordinary reader. We observe that it does something to supply a defect on which we have commented more than once in noticing this class of book. France, to take one instance, is most insufficiently represented in atlases by a single map. Here we have at least two, the second being in two divisions, one of which gives Nor- mandy and Brittany, the other the Riviera. This is something ; but other European countries might be dealt with in the same way. Take Italy. Is it not absurd, when we consider how frequent is the intercourse between England and Italy, that there should be but one map on the scale of sixty mike to the inch ?
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