March 1901 



Messrs. Methuen's 



ANNOUNCEMENTS 



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Travel, Adventure and Topography 



THE INDIAN BORDERLAND: Being a Personal Record 

 of Twenty Years. By Sir T. H. Holdich, K.C.I.E. Illustrated. 

 Demy Svo. l^s. net. 

 This book is a personal record of the author's connection with those military and 

 political expeditions which, during the last twenty years, have led to the con- 

 solidation of^ our present position in the North-West frontier of India. It 1=; 

 a personal history of trans -frontier surveys and boundary demarcations, com- 

 mencing with Penjdeh and ending with the Pamirs, Chitral, and Tirah, 



MODERN ABYSSYNIA. By A. B. Wylde. With a Map and 



a Portrait. Demy Svo. l$s. net. 

 An important and comprehensive account of Abyssinia by a traveller who know; 

 the country intimately, and has had the privilege of the friendship of King 



Menelik. 



THE RELIEF OF KUMASI. By Captain H. C. J. Biss. 



With Maps and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s. 

 A narrative both of the siege and of the march of the relieving force, by an officer 

 who took part in the advance. 



THE REAL CHINESE QUESTION. By Chester Hol- 

 COMBK. Cro7vn Svo. 6s, 



NAPLES : PAST AND PRESENT. By A. H. Norway, 

 Author of ' Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall.' With 

 40 lUustr.itions by A. G. Ferard. Crown %vo. i>s. 

 In this book Mr. Norway gives not only a highly interesting description nf modern 

 Naples, but a historical account of its antiquities and traditions. 



History and Biography 



THE PASSING OF THE GREAT QUEEN : A Tribute to 

 the Noble Life of Victoria Regina. By Marie Corelli. Small 

 ^to. \s. 

 In this book Mi^s Marie Corelli endeavours to interpret the high lessons of the 

 Queen's life and the secret of her extraordinary success. It is a book which deals 

 not only with the personal factor, but also with the commencement of the new era 

 which the death of the Queen has brought about. 



A HISTORY OF EGYPT, FROM THE Earliest Times to 

 THE Present Day. Edited by W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., 

 LL.D., Professor of Egyptology at University College. Fully Illus- 

 trated. In -Six Volumes. Crown %vo. 6.r. each. 

 Vol. YI. Egypt in the Middle Ages. By Stanley Lane- 

 Poole, M.A., Litt.D. 



