Messrs. Stanford's new publications include a finely engraved map of
Italy on a Beale of twenty miles to an inch (is. 6d.) and sit excellent map of Germany on a scale of eighteen miles to an inch (15s.)—with the various States in strongly contrasting colours, the names in good bold lettering, and the railways clearly marked. They also publish a valuable and interesting Sketch Map of the Linguistic Areas of Europe on a scale of fifty stiles to an inch, in four sheets (fl 2e.), which presents a great deal of information in a graphic form. The Babel of tongues in Austria-Hungary, tho Balkans, and Western Russia, for example, is illustrated most clearly iu the patches of different colours, emphasized by lettering. Asiatic Turkey is included in the mop, which will repay a careful study both from the linguistic and from the geographical point of view.
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