The climatic, racial, and social differences between the nations of the East and of the West are too great to render it easily possible for a member of either to sum up for or against the general moral condition of the other. The present writer, while believing that the evolutionary laws of growth and development apply as well to nations as to animals and plants, is well content to leave to others the task of estimating the intrinsic value of Siam's present moral and social condition; hoping only that his attempts to portray briefly some of the manners and customs, the ideas and interests of her people, as he has actually seen them in daily life and intercourse, may help to give a truer notion of their condition and prospects, than would more lengthy criticisms founded on general observations of those merely political matters which necessarily bound the horizon of the casual and passing traveller. FINIS. Andrée and his Balloon Expedition By HENRI LACHAMBRE and ALEXIS MACHURON With coloured Frontispiece and 40 full-page Illustrations. Cr. 8vo. 6s. This volume contains an accurate account of the making and equipping of Mr. Andrée's balloon, and a detailed account of the first attempt made in 1896, when, owing to the bad weather, Andrée and his two companions could not start, and a detailed and authoritative account of the final preparation and start for the famous flight into the Unknown. The volume is fully illustrated, and contains a short biography of Andrée. The two authors accompanied the Expedition to Spitsbergen, the one author in 1896, and the other in July, 1897. This work is being published simultaneously in four different languages. A Northern Highway of the Czar By AUBYN TREVOR-BATTYE _Author of "Ice-bound on Kolguev."_ Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 6s. The dedication of this volume has been graciously accepted by His Majesty the Czar of Russia. Travels and Life in Ashantee By R. AUSTIN FREEMAN Fully Illustrated from drawings by the Author and from Photographs. Two Maps. Demy 8vo. 15s. Through China with a Camera By JOHN THOMSON, F.R.G.S. With about 100 Illustrations. Foolscap 4to. _One Guinea net._ This work contains probably the finest series of pictures of China ever published. Ice-Bound on Kolguev A CHAPTER IN THE EXPLORATION OF ARCTIC EUROPE. TO WHICH IS ADDED A RECORD OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ISLAND. By AUBYN TREVOR-BATTYE, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., With numerous Illustrations by J. T. NETTLESHIP, CHARLES WHYMPER, and THE AUTHOR. _Second Edition._ Demy 8vo. £1. 1s. net. The Alps from End to End By Sir WILLIAM MARTIN CONWAY With 100 full-page Illustrations by A. D. M'Cormick. _Second Edition._ Large 8vo, half buckram, gilt top. 21s. net. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE and COMPANY, Westminster. Farthest North By FRIDTJOF NANSEN Two Vols. Large Demy 8vo. £2 2s. net. _Dedicated by special permission to Her Majesty the Queen._