We gladly acknowledge the seasonable appearance of• a new map
of the Far Eastern region, upon which the public attention is now fixed. This is Stanford's Map of Eastern China, Japan, and Korea (3s. & 5s.) It clearly illustrates the political situation. A Russianised Korea would, we see, be a permanent menace to Japan. The Korean Channel is little more than a hundred miles wide, and an uninterrupted railway communication from St. Petersburg and Moscow to Fusan is only a matter of time. An enclave gives us a map of Korea on an enlarged scale.--Two other maps showing the same region in detail call for notice. These are the "Daily Mail" Special Map of the Far East (G. Philip and Son, is. net), and The Far East, by George Stanford (Oxford Geographical Institute, 1B. net). It is needless to intimate a preference for either of these. A. careful examination will discover slight diversities in the way of signs and nomenclature, but substantially they are of equal merit. The Daily Mail map has what we may call a summary, exhibiting the whole scene of recent and present controversies, with the British Isles in the North-West and the Philippine Isles in the South-East. The Oxford map supplies an interesting representation of "Routes to the East."
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