The P. and 0. Pocket Book. (A. and C. Black.
2s. 6d. net.)— This Pocket Book has, as is proper, its business part and its literary part. In the first we have the management and the agencies, the fleet past and present—it began with the ` William Fawcett' in 1829, a vessel of two hundred and six tons and sixty horse-power, and has as its last addition three ships (in building) of eleven thousand tons and fifteen thousand horse-power—the routes, the ports en route, and many tables giving a variety of useful information. Then there is a map in which the P. and 0. routes are marked, with a supplementary map showing the rail- ways in the United States, and a number of smaller charts. In the literary part we have "Egypt," by E. Talbot Kelly ; " Notes for a Tour through India," by Mrs. F. A. Steel ; "Ceylon," by G. B. Mitten; "China," by Sir R. K. Douglas ; "Japan," by Walter Del Mar ; "Under the Southern Cross," by Beatrice Grimshaw ; and finally an article in French by Le Comte Charles de Lesseps. It is interesting to observe that the British vessels that passed through the Suez Canal in 1907 were 2,681 out of 4,267, with a tonnage of 9,495,868, giving percentages of 63.8 and 64.5. Germany comes next with 15.5 and 15.3.
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