We have received endless maps of the seat of war,
all bearing marks of hasty manufacture. The cheap maps, in particular, are atrocious, the railways running apparently according to the drafts- man's discretion, and half the most necessary places being omitted. The maps issued by the daily papers are almost equally bad, though for another reason,—an indistinctness as to boundaries, due in part to the unavoidable absence of colour. We are, how- ever, strongly under the impression that the draftsman who pre- pared the chart first issued by the Times believed Saxony to be a non-federated State. The clearest, on the whole, perhaps, is Wyld's, but that might be very much improved by greater distinctness in the delineation of railways and minor rivers. Mr. Bacon has hit on a good idea in his " large print maps," but it is very imperfectly worked out, at the cost of omissions which make them entirely use- less. An enlarged copy of Petermann's map of North-East France, published in " Stieler's Hand Atlas," if corrected for railways would be worth five-sixths of all the rubbish now offered to the public.
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