SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the Walk as have not been reserved for renew IS other forms.] War Map. (W. and A. K. Johnston. le. to 6s.)—Thie is a revised and corrected edition in which localities brought into notice by the incidents of the war are marked up to a quite recent date. Even the beat of the maps of South Africa that appeared two years ago offer a considerable contrast to those that we now possess. Verily the old apophthegm that Britons have quite unparalleled opportunities of learning geography has been verified more fully than ever. This map is as plain and legible as circumstances permit, for there are, of course, many names to be given. (The more important places are specially underlined.) The natural features of the country, a more than usually signifi- cant element in this war, are well represented. Much informa- tion as to the course of the war, &c., is given on the back of the map.—With this may be mentioned an interesting record of the past in The Fish River Bush. South Africa, by W. T. Black (Young L Pentland). It contains articles contributed nearly fifty years ago to the Edinburgh New Philosophical Joernal. The Great Fish River Rows into the • Indian Ocean about ton miles north-east of Bathurst, in Cape Colony. The country and its fauna have, of course, greatly changed during the half-century that has passed since these papers were written.
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