TOPICS OF THE TIMES 



SOUTH AFRICA ^z CHINA n? THE EAST 



The Great Boer War 



I By A. CONAN DOYLE 



THERE have been many books already written about the Boer War, but 

 none so fair and lull in its lacts as this one, the latest and the best. One 

 thing among many others, the lact that Dr. Doyle's book gives the one 

 adequate and satisfactory record of the events alter Pretoria, is enough to make 

 " The Great Boer War " pre-eminent among contemporaneous accounts. 



Five maps. Cloth, i2mo. $i.jO. 



An American Engineer 



in China 



\ By WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS 



MR. PARSONS' book would be well worth buying if it were only lor its 

 great gallery of pictures among which are numerous snapshots of the 

 persons most intimately connected with the recent crisis and the 

 present diplomatic complications. But of course the pictures are secondary to the 

 account of the author's experience in one ol the most inaccessible corners ol China, 

 where he was engaged in perhaps the most remarkable of modern engineering 



feats. 



68 half-tones. Cloth, i2mo. $1.50. 



The Awakening of the East 



By PIERRE LEROY-BEAULIEU 



UNDER the divisions Siberia, China and Japan, the author has traced the 

 development of Asia Ironi their golden age of long ago down to the 

 modern present. He treats comprehensively the evolution of Japan, the 

 astonishing development of Russia in Siberia, and the changes in China. 

 "Altogether," says the Nation^ "this is a very timely and very able book by an 

 author who gathers without prejudice his lacts at first hand." 



With an Introduction by Henry Nor/nan. Cloth, i2mo. $1.50. 



