20 AUGUST 1932, page 24

Monsieur Thiers By John M. S. Allison

Orator, journalist, historian and statesman, Monsieur Thiers is wittily portrayed in a compact biography by Pro- fessor J. M. S. Allison of Yale (Allen and Unwin : 10s. 6d.).......

The Many Ways In Which Geography Influences History Are Well

illustrated in Professor Ellen C. Semple's able and erudite Geography of the Mediterranean Region : Its Relation to Ancient History (Constable, 21s.). The American author says......

Travel

Central Africa : The Cost of Copper Fort days we had been pushing on through the primeval forest in the very heart of Africa. From Northern Rhodesia we had crossed the Luapula......