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The Illustrated Guide to Algiers. A Practical Handbook for Travellers. By Joseph C. Hyam. Profusely illustrated by full‐page Engravings and numerous Illustrations in the Text, also Maps and Plans. Algiers : The Anglo‐French Press Association, 1899. Pp. xii + 230. The Welsh People: Chapters on their Origin, History, Laws, Language, Literature, and Characteristics. With two Maps. By John Rhys, M.A., and David Brynmor‐Jones, LL.B. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. Pp. 678 + xxvi. Glacières or Freezing Caverns. By E. S. Balch. Philadelphia : Allen, Lane, and Scott, 1900. 8vo. Pp. 337. The Colombian and Venezuelan Republics. With Notes on other parts of Central and South America. By William L. Scruggs. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1900. Pp. 350. Price 12s. 6d. net. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. London : Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1900. South Africa: its History, Heroes, and Wars. By Professor W. Douglas Mackenzie, assisted by Alfred Stead. London: Horace Marshall and Son. (English Edition.) Pp. 675. With Illustrations. Russia in Asia: A Record and a Study, 1558–1899. By Alexis Krausse. Second edition, 1900. London : Grant Richards. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1900. Pp. xxx + 411. Price 10s. net. Scrambles in the Eastern Graians, 1878–1897. By George Yeld. London: T. Fisher Unwin. Pp. 275. With Illustrations, Map, and Index. In the Ice World of the Himálaya : Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan. By Fanny Bullock Workman, M.R.A.S., F.R.S.G.S., and William Hunter Workman, M.A., M.D., F.R.G.S. With 3 Maps and 67 Illustrations. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1900. Pp. viii + 204. Price 16s. La Hollande. Par MM. François Bernard, C. H. B. Boot Louis Bresson, etc. Paris : Librairie Laroupe. Lieutentant‐Colond John Haughton, Commandant of the 36th Sikhs, a Hero of Tirah. A Memoir by Major A. C. Yate, 2nd (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluch Battalion, F.E.G.S. London: John Murray, 1900. Pp. xvi + 238. With 3 Maps and numerous Illustrations. Hazell's Annual for 1901. Edited by W. Palmer, B.A. London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., 1901. The Guide to South Africa. Edited annually by A. Samler Brown and G. Gordon Brown. 1900–1901 edition. London : Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., Ltd.; Cape Town : J. C. Juta and Co. Pp. 416. Price 2s. 6d.