Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography. (E. Stanford.) —This is
the second series of the "London Atlas." It has been " revised and enlarged," and now presents as complete a picture of the known world as can be found anywhere. Of folio size, and eontaining a hundred maps, admirably executed and all that can be desired for fullness and clearness—two qualities not always co-existent--it does the greatest credit to the publisher's enter- prise, and, in a more general way, to British map-making. It is not "made in Germany," or, indeed, anywhere but in London, which itself, the most surprising fact of modern geography, appropriately gives a name to this, the latest and most complete exponent of the science. The "British Empire" has been made a special feature of the atlas. The "weary Titan "should at least know all particulars about the "too vast orb" under which he is staggering. The "British Isles" are pictured in twenty-six maps, six of them devoted to their physical, commercial, and political aspects, twenty to topographical description. Passing on, we find a whole map devoted to Cyprus, and part of one to Malta, which, with its neighbour Gozo and the little islet of Comino, is figured on the scale of two inches to the mile. Part of this sheet is conveniently utilised to show the chief routes from London to Bombay. Map 51 exhibits the Pamir Region and the British North-Western frontier. India, on either side of the Ganges, and Ceylon are figured in four maps ; British North America in five ; and the various regions of Australasia in nine. We may mention with special praise the map of British Columbia, and the North- Western Territories of the Dominion of Canada. This is a region so rapidly filling up that it is difficult for the cartographer to keep up with the times. This, however, has been done with special care and success in the map in question. The writer of this notice has been able to find localities which he has before searched for in vain. The chief novelties in this edition are a beautifully clear map of Central London in four sheets,—we do not remember to have seen anything of the kind quite so good before,—" Swit- zerland," a piece of work on which it is evident no pains have been spared; Asia Minor and the Euphrates valley (two plates in substitution for one of Turkey-in-Asia in the first edition) ; the Pamir region (already noticed), Siam and Madagascar, and New Guinea, including the Solomon Islands. A most interesting map, in view of the present revival of the spirit of Arctic exploration, is that of the "Countries Round the North Pole." This has been brought up to the times, for we see that Lieutenant Peary's recent station in Eastern Greenland has been marked. An index, not limited to names for which space has been found in the maps, completes the volume. It was probably inevitable that, for want of room, the number of the map should not be given as well as the name. The trouble of having to look in the map-index is but small. The only suggestion that we have to make is that names not found in the maps should be printed in italics.
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