PERCY E. MARTIN’S Egypt Old and New, a general account with many illustrations in colour.
PERCY EDWARD NEWBERRY’S The Valley of the Kings, which includes the discoveries by the late Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in a general account of thirty years’ explorations.
ARTHUR WEIGALL’S Tut-Ankh-Amen and Other Essays is the work of an Egyptologist and former Inspector-General of Antiquities in Egypt. Mr. Weigall was special correspondent for the London Daily Mail, New York World and other newspapers at the opening of the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen.
A Group of Books About China.
Audacious Angles on China, by ELSIE MCCORMICK, introduces the reader to Chinese life as the Western resident there sees it. The humorous side of such experiences is to the fore, and one part of the book is devoted to “The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby”—an American child’s view of the intimacies of Eastern life.
Swinging Lanterns, by ELIZABETH CRUMP ENDERS, is a vivid narrative of what an American woman saw while living and travelling in China. It contains much that is unusual, including such matters as the Yellow Llama Devil Dances, never before described. Fine illustrations.
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS’S Across Mongolian Plains.
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS’S and YVETTE BORUP ANDREWS’S Camps and Trails in China.
HERBERT A. GILES’S A History of Chinese Literature, a historical account written with much charm and taste and offering translations of the work of various Chinese writers.
The Far East.