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Messrs. Methuen's Announcements 3 campaigning on the upper nile and niger. By Lieut. Seymour Vandeleur. With an Introduction by Sir G. GoLDiE. With two Maps, Illustrations an,: Plans. Large Cr. %vo. os. 6d. A narrative of service (i) in the Equatoriril Lakes and on the Upper Nile in i8g5 and 1856 ; and (2) under Sir George Goldie in the Niger campaign of January 1897, describing the capture of Bida and Ilorin, and the French occupation o'i Boussa. The book thus deals with the two districts of Africa where now the French and English stand face to face. THE NIGER SOURCES. By Colonel J. Trotter, R.A. With a Map and Illustrations. Crown ^vo. ^s. A book which at the present time should be of considerable interest, being an account of a Commission appointed for frontier delimitation. LIFE AND PROGRESS IN AUSTRALASIA. By Michael Davitt, M.P. With two Maps. Crown Svo. 6s. 500 pp. This book, the outcome of a recent journey through the seven Australasian colonies, is an attempt to give to English readers a more intimate knowledge of a continent colonised by their own race. The author sketches the general life, resources, politics, parties, progress, prospects, and scenery of each colony. He made a careful examination of the West Australian goldfields, and he has paid special attention to the development of practical politics in the colonies. The book is full of anecdotes and picturesque description. History and Biography A HISTORY OF THE ART OF WAR. By C. W. Oman, M.A., Fellow of All Souls', Oxford. Vol. II. Medieval War- fare. Demy %vo Illustrated. 21s. Mr. Oman is engaged on a History of the Art of War, of which the above, though covering the middle period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the general use of gunpowder in Western Europe, is the first instalment. The first battle dealt with will be Adrianople (378) and the last Navarette (1367). There will appear later a volume dealing with the Art of War among the Ancients, and another covering the 15th, i6th, and 17th centuries. The book will deal mainly with tactics and strategy, fortifications and slegecraft, but subsidiary chapters will give some account of the development of arms and armour, and of the various forms of military organization known to the Middle Ages. RELIGION AND CONSCIENCE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. By W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D. Fully Illustrated. Crown %vo. 2s. 6d. This volume deals mainly with the historical growth of the Egyptian religion, and the arrangement of all the moral sayings into something like a handbook. But far larger interests are also discussed as the origin of intolerance, the fusion of religions, the nature of conscience, and the experimental illustration of British conscience. SYRIA AND EGYPT FROM THE TELL EL AMARNA TABLETS. By W. M. Flinders Petrie, D.C.L., LL.D. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. This book describes the results of recent researches and discoveries and the light thereby thrown on Egyptian history.