Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements * 3 
SIKHIM AND BHUTAN. 
Experiences of Twenty Wears on the Wortb=Eastern 
Frontier of Fndia. 
By JOHN CLAUDE WHITE, C.LE., 
Late Poriticat AGENT IN SIKHIM. 
With 7 Photogvavuve and numerous other Full-page Illustrations and a Map. 
One Volume. Royal 8vo., cloth. 21s. 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 PREHISTORIC PEOPLE: 
The A-kicku-pu of British Last Africa, 
By W. SCORESBY ROUTLEDGE, M.A., Oxon, 
and KATHARINE ROUTLEDGE, M.A. 
Trin. Coti., DuBLin. 
With a great many Illustrations, Medium 8vo. 18s. 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-ki-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. 
