(1) From Pole to Pole (2) Highways and Byways in Somerset (3) A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (4) New Trails in Mexico

Abstract

(1) Dr. SVEN HEDIN'S book, which is for young readers primarily, is onceived on no very formal lines. It is evidently intended to i convey, by means of a light descriptive style, a series of impressions or mental pictures of different regions of the world, rather than to instruct in details. Naturally enough, his text is based in great measure on his own travels, and in the first and larger of the two parts into which the book is divided we find a good deal of personal narrative which cannot fail to attract youthful readers; withal it will serve an educational purpose of no little value as giving an idea of the objects and methods of scientific exploration. In this first part we are conducted across Europe from Stockholm to Constantinople, thence into Persia, India, central Asia, China, Japan, and homeward. In the second part, Africa, the Americas, the South Seas, and the polar regions are given more brief, and in truth less satisfactory, treatment, mainly by means of a choice of individual salient features for description, or isolated facts of history. There are some sketch-maps and good photographs.

(1) From Pole to Pole.

A Book for Young People. By Sven Hedin. Pp. xiv + 407 + xxxix plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) Highways and Byways in Somerset.

By E. Hutton. With Illustrations by Nelly Erichsen. Pp. xviii + 419 + map. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 5s. net.

(3) A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

By E. Heawood. Pp. xii + 475. (Cambridge University Press, 1912.) Price 12s. 6d. net.

(4) New Trails in Mexico.

An Account of One Year's Exploration in North-western Sonora, Mexico, and South-western Arizona, 1909–10. By Carl Lumholtz. Pp. xxv + 411 + plates. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.) Price 15s. net.