Mr. Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements 



SIKHIM AND BHUTAN. 



of Hwentg JtJeare on tbe 1Rortb=jastern 



frontier of Snoia. 

 By JOHN CLAUDE WHITE, C.I.E., 



LATE POLITICAL AGENT IN SIKHIM. 



With 7 Photogravure and numerous other Full-page Illustrations and a Map. 



One Volume. Royal 8vo., cloth. 2 is. net. 



Until the recent expedition to Lhasa, the north-east frontier of 

 India attracted much less attention than the north-west, and the 

 regions of Sikhim and Bhutan have remained shrouded in the 

 isolation of inaccessible mountains and shadowed by the proximity 

 of mysterious Tibet. This independence of the outer world makes 

 their inhabitants a most interesting study. The primitive state of 

 society, the influence of the priests and monks, and the way in which 

 the gradual spread of British influence was received, read like a 

 chapter of history from another world. For twenty years Mr. John 

 Claude White has been the one Englishman who has had the key to 

 these remote countries, conducting missions to their rulers, travers- 

 ing their fastnesses from end to end, studying the people and their 

 curious customs. He has had to combine the energy of the explorer 

 with the arts of the diplomatist and administrator, and has been 

 responsible for such measure of development as has been possible of 

 achievement. The present volume owes much to its illustrations, 

 for the author is an expert and enthusiastic photographer, and his 

 zeal has induced him to carry a large camera into spots where most 

 people would find even a Kodak a burden. 



WITH A PRE-HISTORIC PEOPLE. 



Sbe a*fcf=fcu*gu of JBritfsb East Sfrtca. 



By W. SCORESBY ROUTLEDGE, M.A., OXON, 



And KATHARINE ROUTLEDGE (born PEASE), M.A. 



TRIN. COLL., DUBLIN. 



With a great many Illustrations. Medium Svo. i8s. net. 

 This is the first published account of one of the most interesting 

 of African peoples, previously unknown to white men, who have 

 lately come under British rule. The object of the authors, who 

 have just returned from a prolonged sojourn amongst them, is to 

 describe primitive life as it really exists, and the book should be of 

 great value to those who are interested in our Empire and its 

 responsibilities as well as to those of more scientific tastes. It should 

 also prove of material assistance to Government officials, settlers, 

 and travellers in the country described, enabling them to understand 

 native thought and custom. 'The great interest of the subject,' 

 say the authors, ' lies in the fact that the A-ki-ku-yu of to-day are 

 at the point where our ancesters stood in earliest times.' There are 

 over a hundred pages of illustrations from the authors' photographs. 



