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Abstract ASIA. India on Trial. By J. E. Woolacott. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1929. Price 10s. An Avatar in Vishnu Land. By Stanley Warburton. London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Price 12s. 6d An Indian Journey. By Waldemar Bonsels. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1929. Price 7s. 6d. Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria (1894–5‐6). By Marmaduke Pickthall. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. Price 3s. 6d. The Pagans of North Borneo. By Owen Rutter, F.R.G.S., etc. With an Introduction by Professor C. G. Seligman, F.R.S. London: Hutehinson and Co. Ltd., 1929. Price 30s. net. AFRICA. Angolan Sketches. By T. Alexander Barns, F.B.G.S., F.Z.S. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1928. Price 12s. 6d. net. The Low‐Veld: Its Wild Life and its People. By Lieut.‐Col. J. Stevenson‐Hamilton. London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1929. Price 12s. 6d. AMERICA. A Canadian Panorama. By Yvonne Fitzroy. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1929. Price 10s. 6d. net. Combing the Caribbees. By Harry L. Foster. London : John Lane (The Bodley Head, Ltd.), 1929. Price 12s. 6d. Maps and Sketches: used by Sir Henry Clinton while in command of the British Forces operating in North America during the war for Independence, 1775–1782. ... A descriptive list of the original Manuscripts and Printed Documents now preserved in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. By Randolph G. Adams. Ann Arbor: The William L. Clements Library, 1928. Price $1.50. AUSTRALASIA. The. Early History of New Zealand. By T. M. Hocken. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer, 1914. Price 5s. net. POLAR. The Voyage of Captain Thomas James for the Discovery of the North‐ West Passage, 1631. By Commander R. B. Bodilly, R.N. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1928. Price 6s. GENERAL. The New British Empire. By L. Haden Guest, M.C. London : John Murray, 1929. Price 7s. 6d. net. The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453. In the collections of the American Geographical Society. By John Kirtland Wright, Ph.D., Librarian American Geographical Society. With a note on the reproduction of the map by A. B. Hoen. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. Price with map, $15.00; book only, $1.50. The Statesman's Year‐Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the Stales of the World for the Year 1929. Edited by M. Epstein, M.A., Ph.D. Sixty‐sixth Annual Publication. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1929. Price 20s., The Life of Charles M. Doughty. By D. G. Hogarth. London : Humphrey Milford (Oxford University Press), 1928. Price 18s. Some Notable Surveyors and Map‐Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries, and their Work: A Study in the Art of Cartography. By Sir Herbert George Fordham. Cambridge : at the University Press, 1929. Price 6s. Science of the Sea: an Elementary Handbook of Practical Oceanography for Travellers, Sailors, and Yachtsmen. Prepared by the Challenger Society for the promotion of the study of Oceanography. Originally edited by G. Herbert Fowler, B.A., Ph.D. Second Edition edited by E. J. Allen, D.Sc., F.R.S., Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1928. Price 15s. The Coral Beef Problem. By William Morris Davis. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. Price $6. Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages. By George Bruner Parks, Ph.D. American Geographical Society Special Publication No. 10. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. Price, $5. William Dampier. By Clennell, Wilkinson. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1929. Price 12s. 6d. EDUCATIONAL. New Regional Geographies. Book IV. The World. By Leonard Brooks. University of London Press Ltd., 1927. Price 7s. 6d. Longmans New Geographical Series. The World: A General Geography. By L. Dudley Stamp, B.A., D.Sc, F.R.G.S. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. Price 5s. A Geography of Western Europe. Written by five members of the Publications Sub‐Committee of the Standing Committee for Geography in Public Schools. Edited by E. D. Laborde. London: University of London Press, 1928. Price 8s. 6d. A Geographical Grammar. By C. C. Carter, M.A., Assistant Master, Marlborough College. London : Christophers, 1929. Price 3s. 6d.