10 My, Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements 
HIGH ALBANIA. 
By M. EDITH DURHAM, 
AvuTuor oF ‘THE BurDEN OF THE BALKANS’ AND ' THROUGH THE LANDS OF THE SERB.’ 
Ilustvated from the Author's Sketches and Photographs, with Map. 
One Volume. Demy 8vo. 148. 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. 
$ncluding a Visit to the Manchurian Battlefields. 
By Major H. H. AUSTIN, C.M.G., D.S.0O., R.E., 
AuTHoR oF ‘WirH MACDONALD IN UGANDA,’ ETC. 
With Illustrations and Maps. One Volume. Demy 8vo., cloth. 15s. net. 
Major Austin is a keen-eyed and practised observer, with a 
remarkable flaiy 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 
