28rd November, Mr. Arcuipatp Lirrtr's latest book, with the above title, printed at Oxford at the Clarendon Press, and published by Mr. Henry Frowde, the publisher to the University, is one of those books which, when they reach us, make us wonder how we have done without them so long. Ib is certainly the most interesting of the series of " Regions of the World" books, of which it is the sixth. To describe such a vast area of the world's surface, and such a series of countries and people, in a volume of 344 pages, is a great undertaking for an author who can only devote " the intervals of business" to the work our wonder increases when we realise that not only has the author achieved a remarkable accuracy in his description, but that, assisted by a personal acquaintance with the greater part of the region he describes, his work is so far from being a dry compilation, that it is actually fuscioating to read, Mr. Little's style is so pleasant, ea clear and flowing, that the reader may open it at any point and be sorry when he has to put it down, While it is primarily geographical, as Mr. C. C. Adams says, it is saturated from beginning to end with the practical aspects of the countries as they are seen today. It-is the. mission of the writer to place before usa clear and succinct account of the human factes, and of the. physical
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