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Pictorial Geography of the British Isles. By Mary 



E. Palgrave. Oblong 4to, pp. 102. (London : Society for Promoting Christian 

 Knowledge. 1887. Price 5s. 



This beautifully illustrated book teaches the elements of Physical and 

 Political Geography by pictures as well as letterpress. Its various chapters 

 describe how our Scenery was made ; a Summary of the British Scenery ; the 

 Coasts, Mountains, and Hills ; Plains and Rivers ; Lakes and Islands ; 

 Historical Scenery ; and the Industrial Geography of the British Isles. The 

 pictures are numerous and effective. 



Physical Geography prepared on a new and original plan. 



By John D. Quackenbos, A.M., M.D., John S. Newberry, M.D., LL.D., 

 Charles H. Hitchcock, Ph.D., W. Le Conte Stevens, Ph.D., Henry Gannett, 

 William H. Dall, C. Hart Merriam, M.D., Nathiel L. Britton, E.M., Ph.D., 

 Geo. F. Kemtz, Lieut. George M. Stoney. Sq. 410. (New York : D. Apple- 

 ton and Co.) 



With such an array of names we are naturally led to look for something 

 unusually good, and we unhesitatingly say we are by no means disappointed. 

 The work is illustrated with a great number of well executed engravings, 

 diagrams, and maps in colours. Each author takes up the special subject for 

 which he was most fitted, and, as a result, we have a work of uncommon 

 excellence. Several schoolmasters, to whom we have submitted the book, 

 speak of it in the highest terms. A chapter at the end of the book is devoted to 

 the Geological History of the Physical features of the United States. 



A Dictionary of Place Names, giving the Derivations. 



By C. Blackie, with an Introduction by John Stuart Blackie. Third edition, 

 revised. Cr. 8vo, pp. xl. — 243. (London : John Murray. 1887.) 



Geographical Etymology is a subject which is not so often studied as 

 perhaps it might be. In this work the root words are arranged alphabetically, 

 and as the names of Foreign as well as of English places are explained, the 

 book will doubtless prove of special and peculiar interest to the tourist. It is 

 undoubtedly the result of much patient research and study. 



Imperial Globe Atlas of Modern and Ancient Geography, 

 with Index of 20,coo Names. (London and Edinburgh : Gall and Inglis.) 

 Price 3s. 6d. 



This capital atlas consists of 33 imperial 410 maps (size, 14^ by iij), nicely 

 coloured and well engraved, and not so overcrowded with names as to be 

 indistinct. The index to the 20,000 names occupy 32 very closely printed 

 pages. This atlas is certainly a marvel of cheapness. 



The Creator, and what we may know of the Method of 

 Creation. By \V. H. Dallinger, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. Svo, pp. S^. (London: 

 T. Woolmer. 1887.) Price 2s. 6d. 



This is the Fernley Lecture for 1887, and is, with the exception of some 

 additional passages, printed as it was delivered. It addresses "thoughtful and 

 earnest minds, not concerned specially with questions of philosophy, metaphy- 

 sics, and science, but alive to the advanced knowledge and thought of our 

 times, and anxious to know, so far as in such a form it could be expressed, how 

 the great foundation of religious belief, the existence of Deity, is affected by 

 the splendid advance of our knowledge of nature." It is a most carefully 

 written discourse, and will unquestionably be read with profit by the thought- 

 ful student. 



