Map of China. By A. Brotachneider. Supplemantary Maps. Engraved and printed by A. Tliin, St, Petersburg, 1898, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Ld.
The title page of this portfolio has a curious misprint, the author bring really Dr. E. Bretschneider, as appears on the maps themselves. Dr. Brotschneider's Map of China, which was published in 1896 to illustrate his History of European Botanigal. Diseoveries en China, is perhaps the best existing map of this empire after or with the map issued annually with our Desk Hong List, and we have in the present. portfolio six shoots giving enlargements of (1) A part of Northern Chihli, showing the great plain of Poking and the hills which dominate it on the north and west, (2) The mountains west of Peking, with a small inset map of the Eight Comples of Patschu, Peking itself is almost on a scale large enough to show, as was pointed out by a recent English military visitor to the capital, that the city was originally laid out as a camp, with the Emperor, as Commander-in-Chief, in the centre, surrounded by his Tartars, the Chinese city on the south reprosenting the separate quarters of the eampfollowers.
The wide avenues, which the capital from other Ohi-which the tentpegs require should be represent the wide spaces
left between the lines of tents. The Tientsin-Peking Railway is duly marked on these maps. (3) Mid-China, and the Yangtze Valley from the sea to Chungking, in two sheets, showing clearly the grea plain of Kiangsu, and the great inland plain, once doubtless a great lake, which stretches from Anlu on the north to the Tangting Lake on the south, and from Wuchang on the east to Sungtze, between Shasi and Ichang, on the west. (4) The Great Rivers of the Canton Province, with inset enlargements of Canton city and its neighbourhood, and Amoy and the adjacent islands, up to Changchou on the west. (5) Two sketches of parts of Yunnan, the one from Suifu in Szechuan on the north to Loutien in Yunnan on the south, and the other from the Kinsha river on the north to Yunnanhien on the south, showing Lake Teli and its surround: ings. Those who are familiar with Dr. Bretschneider's map of China do not need to be told how well these supplementary maps of China have been executed by Mr. A. Tliin of St. Petersburg. It is an amusing commentary on the recent statement of our French contemporary that Great Britain has fo higher claim on China than any other Power, that all Dr. Bretschneider's maps, except the two last-named sketches, though executed at
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.