6 JUNE 1896, Page 27

Asia: Vol. I., Northern and Eastern Asia. By A. H.

Keane. (E. Stanford.)—This is a volume of the new issue of " Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel." The book is largely changed, being brought up to date from recent experiences of traveL In the matter of illustrations the change has been great, a large proportion being new.

Four volumes of a series which we have more than once men- tioned with sympathy, "The Animal Life Readers" (Bell and Sons), are Feather/and, by G. Manville Fenn, and by Edith Car- rington, Nature's Wonders, Friendship of Animals, Tuypy : the Story of a Donkey.

We have received the half-yearly volume (September, 1895— March, 1896) of The Churchwoman (157 Strand), a new periodical to which we wish all success.