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defined curve was obtained over the same range, 
the curve linking up the ranges o to 25° and 50° 
to go°. It is definitely stated that, although difh- 
cult to measure, the position of the centre of 
pressure for any inclination was always unique. 
THREE BOOKS OF TRAVEL. 
(1) "T° HE type of travel-narrative to which Sir 
Edward Thorpe’s volume belongs is one 
of the commonest among books, but his manner 
of treating his subject is by no means common. 
The book bears upon it the stamp of a labour 
of love; to any reader who is attached to France, 
attracted by river navigation, or even generally 
Fic. 1.—Ba'albek, temple of Jupiter and Anti-Libanus. 
interested in the 
architecture, it will make exquisitely  plea- 
sant reading; the personal element in the 
narrative, which introduces the companions 
who made the voyage, is never (as it often 
is in such books) given an exaggerated pro- 
minence, and withal there appears here and there 
indications of the scientific authority of the writer 
which suffice to give the book a further peculiar 
value. The journey with which the book deals 
picturesque in scenery or 
1 (x) ‘* The Seine from Havre to Paris.” By Sir Edward Thorpe. Pp. xxi+- 
493. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.. 1913.) Price. 12s. 6d. net. 
(2) ** The Fringe of the East. A Journey through Past and Present Pro- 
vinces of Turkey.” By H.C. Lukach. Pp. xiii+273+plates. (London : 
Maemillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 12s. net. 
(3) “(A Naturalist in Cannibal Land.” By A. S. Meek. Pp. xviii+238+ 
plates. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, n.d.) Price ros. 6d. net. 
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was made in a steam yacht across the Channel, 
up the Seine to Paris, and back. It was made, 
it would appear, leisurely, and gave ample oppor- 
tunity for the travellers to become well acquainted 
with the many beautiful places on the river, and 
for one of them, Miss Olive Branson, to prepare 
the admirable series of sketches with which the 
book is mainly illustrated, though some of the 
pictures are drawn from another source, and there 
is also a series of large-scale maps (1 : 125,000) 
of the rivers; these last will be found of real 
service to those who follow Sir Edward Thorpe on 
this fine river, as will the directions he gives in 
regard to its navigation and the official arrange- 
ments connected therewith. 
From ‘‘ The Fringe of the East.” 
(2) Mr. Lukach, in the sub-title of his book, 
describes his journey as lying ‘“‘through past and 
present provinces of Turkey.” He has visited 
Mount Athos and other Levantine monasteries, 
and the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, to each 
of which he devotes chapters. With the Holy 
Land, and especially Jerusalem, he deals at greater 
length, and his travels, which are dealt with in 
this volume, extended along the Syrian coast, 
alone the north-and-souvth line from 
Jerusalem and the Dead Sea through Damascus, 
Hama and Aleppo, and as far as the Euphrates 
at Tell Ahmar, a village-name famous in associa- 
tion with Hittite and Assyrian remains. 
Much of the book consists merely of the 
