io Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 



ABYSSINIA OF TO-DAY. 



Bn account of tbe fftrst dfctssfon sent bg tbe American Government 

 to tbe Iking of -Rings. 



By ROBERT P. SKINNER, 



COMMISSIONER TO ABYSSINIA, 1903-1904 ; AMERICAN CONSUL-GENERAL ; FELLOW OF THE 

 AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY ; Soci DOU FELIRRIGE. 



Demy Svo. With numerous Illustrations and Map. 125. 6d. net. 



The object of this American Mission to the Emperor Menelik 

 was to negotiate a commercial treaty. The Mission was extremely 

 well received, and the expedition appears to have been a complete 

 success. The picture drawn by Mr. Skinner of the Abyssinians and 

 their ruler is an exceedingly agreeable one ; and his notes on this 

 land of grave faces, elaborate courtesy, classic tone, and Biblical 

 civilization, its history, politics, language, literature, religion, and 

 trade, are full of interest ; there are also some valuable hints on the 

 organization and equipment of a caravan. 



WESTERN TIBET AND THE 

 BRITISH BORDERLAND. 



By CHARLES A. SHERRING, M.A., F.R.G.S., 



INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE; DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OK ALMOKA. 



Royal 8vo. With Illustrations, Maps and Sketches. 2 is. net. 



During the last few years Tibet, wrapped through the centuries 

 in mystery, has been effectively ' opened up ' to the gaze of the 

 Western world, and already the reader has at his disposal an 

 enormous mass of information on the country and its inhabitants. 

 But there is in Western Tibet a region which is still comparatively 

 little known, which is especially sacred to the Hindu and Buddhist, 

 and in which curious myths and still more curious manners abound ; 

 and it is of this portion of the British Borderland, its government, and 

 the religion and customs of its peoples, that Mr. Sherring writes. 



The book contains a thrilling account by Dr. T. G. Longstaff, 

 M.B., F.R.G.S., of an attempt to climb Gurla Mandhata, the highest 

 mountain in Western Tibet, with two Swiss guides. 



