SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
(Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.]
The Geographical Journal for December contains a further instalment of Colonel Howard-Bury's wonderful photographs of Mount Everest and the neighbouring peaks, with a general report on the expedition. It is stated that the Mount Everest Committee received over £3,000 for the long telegrams from the explorers and for some of their photographs—a fact which shows
bow great an interest the public is taking in the enterprise. Mr. A R. Rinks contributes some instructive " Notes on the Technique of Boundary Delimitation," which show in detail some of the baffling problems set by diplomatists working with inaccurate maps or by the light of nature to the unhappy experts who have to trace the actual frontiers. Several of these pro- blems relate to the Canadian-American boundaries. One deals with the South Australia—Victoria boundary, which should have been the 141st degree of east longitude, but was inac- curately surveyed, and thus runs two miles west of the meridian. South Australia claimed the intervening strip, but failed to get it.
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