PHILIPS' HANDY GENERAL ATLAS To commemorate their centenary anniversary as
map publishers, Messrs. George Philip & Son have issued a fourth edition of Philips' Handy General Atlas. The scheme of the Atlas has been thoroughly revised and expanded ; in its new form it provides by far the most comprehensive and reliable geographical survey of the world available. The maps of the world are admirably up to date (there is a map indicating world -air routes in addition to those illus- trating climates, races, population, languages, &c.), and the treatment of separate countries is equally thorough : 28 pages, for instance, are allotted to the British Isles, with separate plates indicating physical features, communications, political divisions, population. All the maps are on a com- mendably large scale : with the exceptions of Russia and Scandinavia all the European countries are mapped on a scale of 24 miles to the inch. The atlas is priced at £4 4s. bound in cloth and at £5 5s. in half-leather, and neither price •is excessive. Equally serviceable for the purposes for which it is intended is the atlas on a smaller scale (Philips' Record Atlas : Centenary Edition), published by the same firm at half a guinea. Messrs. Philips could have com- memorated their centenary in no more acceptable way.
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