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The Royal Geographical Society have published a compact handbook, Alphabets

of Foreign Languages Transcribed into English, by Lord Edward Gleichen and Mr. J. H. Reynolds (7s. 6d. net), which will be of great value not only to geographers but to many students of foreign languages. It is the work of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, and many scholars, headed by King Faisal of Irak, have assisted in the compilation. The book contains fifty-five foreign alphabets, with the nearest English equivalents and the pronunciation. All the European languages, with Hebrew and Amharic, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Malay and Armenian, are included. Irish, Gaelic and Welsh are treated very fully.