AT last a British firm has supplied the atlas for which colleges and universities have been asking for years. For anything between school work and a general reference atlas it used to be necessary to go to Germany. The firm of Bartholomew has now produced something far better than a German atlas, and at a price that would be low even in peace-time. Both in its plan and in its execution the atlas is excellent and is deserving of all praise as the best atlas of its kind that has been published. There are ninety-six plates of maps, each plate 13½ in. by 8¼ in., and a full index of names. Most plates contain plans and inset maps, and all are printed in colours. Every country is shown by an orographical map, which contains also political frontiers, railways, and a considerable number of names. A few countries have separate political maps in addition. All the orographical maps are layer—coloured in brown and green. There are, in addition, vegetation, rain-fall, temperature, and population maps for each continent.