io Mr, Edward Arnold's Autumn Announcements 



HIGH ALBANIA. 



By M. EDITH DURHAM, 



AUTHOR OF ' THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS ' AND ' THROUGH THE LANDS OF THE SERB." 



Illustrated from the Author's Sketches. One Volume. Demy 8vo. 

 145. net. 



No writer on the Balkan peoples displays more intimate know- 

 ledge and sympathy than Miss Durham, and it is fortunate that she 

 should have taken up her pen again at the present moment when so 

 much attention is focussed on Turkish affairs, for the warlike and 

 independent Albanians are nominally within the Ottoman Empire, 

 despite the fact that there is no conscription and Albanians cannot 

 be tried by Turkish law. Miss Durham's new volume is the first 

 book to deal with the whole district, and is written mainly for the 

 purpose of recording manners and customs that will soon be extinct, 

 and which belong to a very early period of the world's history. The 

 humour and spirit of tolerance that distinguish her other works is 

 again present, and the author contributes her own very effective 

 illustrations. 



A SCAMPER THROUGH THE 

 FAR EAST. 



5nclu&tn0 a Visit to tbe d&ancbutian JBattlefiel&e. 

 By Major H. H. AUSTIN, C.M.G., D.S.O., R.E., 



AUTHOR OF ' WITH MACDONALD IN UGANDA,' ETC. 



With Illustrations and Maps. One Volume. Demy Svo., cloth. 155. net. 



Major Austin is a keen-eyed and practised observer, with a 

 remarkable flair for the minor details and incidents which make a 

 narrative of travel pictorial and lively. The story of his scamper 

 across Siberia, and through China, Corea, and Japan, would have 

 been well worth telling even if he had enjoyed no privileges and 

 experiences of an exceptional character ; but the record of this 

 accomplished soldier's visit, in the company of veteran Japanese 



