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within the present borders of the United States? 

 Where would the most natural boundary have 

 been? 



The "Human Interest" Side. Any student, 

 whether man or boy, is naturally more inter- 

 ested in human beings than in things, and in 

 recent years more and more recognition is 

 being given to this fact. No longer is the 

 seeker after geographic knowledge made to fill 

 his brain with the "topographic features" of 

 every country he studies until any interest he 

 may actually have felt in that portion of the 

 world has died. If there are rugged mountains, 

 broad valleys, marshy coast land, he learns 

 about them, it is true, but they are related 

 in some way to the life of the people. The 

 mountains, perhaps, though barren and inhos- 

 pitable, contain stores of gold, and have thus 

 played a large part in the history of the 

 country by attracting many people; the broad 

 valleys are the most thickly-settled parts of 

 the country, it may be, while the swampy land 

 supports its hordes of people, too, by furnishing 

 just the right sort of land for rice-growing. 



The people their characteristics, their cus- 

 toms, their occupations, their needs constitute 

 the central factor in geography as it is studied 

 to-day, and very interesting is the study of 

 the connection between geography and people. 

 The articles in these volumes on the various 

 countries of the world lay especial emphasis 

 on the people. So far as may be, if the 

 inhabitants are enough alike to make possible 

 any general statements, their physical and 

 mental characteristics are sketched, and some 

 attention is given to their modes of dressing 

 and of living. In many instances, too, the 

 articles are supplemented with pictures which 

 tell more clearly than any description their 

 story of the home life of the people. The 

 way the women of Burma dress, the method of 

 travel in China, the mode of life in an African 

 village these are but a few of the many stories 

 the illustrations have to tell. J.R. 



Study by Outlines. Another modern tend- 

 ency which is too valuable to be a mere pass- 

 ing fad is toward the use of outlines. Too 

 often children acquire information in the most 

 illogical and jumbled manner; the ideas which 

 they gain are correct, to be sure, but have no 

 apparent relation to other ideas, equally cor- 

 rect, which are stored in other pigeon-holes of 

 their brain. Study according to an outline 

 does away with much of this danger, and makes 

 the lessons not only more interesting but easier 

 to remember. These volumes contain a great 



number of helpful outlines on geographic sub- 

 jects. The articles CITY, PROVINCE and STATE 

 have general outlines which may be applied to 

 the study of any city, province or state, while 

 each continent, each important country and a 

 number of the great cities have detailed out- 

 lines fitted for specific study. Questions ac- 

 company most of these outlines. 



Consult Redway's Commercial Geography; 

 Gregg and Kirby's The World by the Fireside; 

 Lyde's Man and His Markets; Carpenter's How 

 the World is Fed, How the World is Clothed, How 

 the World is Housed (three small volumes) ; 

 Rocheleau's Geography of Commerce and In- 

 dustry. 



Related Subjects. In these volumes there are 

 thousands of articles on geographical topics, and 

 no attempt has been made to index them all here. 

 They are all, however, readily accessible if the 

 lists of related topics under many of the follow- 

 ing articles be consulted. Under the article 

 EUROPE, for example, are listed all the political 

 divisions of the continent, such as France, and 

 under each of these, in turn, are indexed the cities, 

 rivers, mountains and other geographic features. 

 Each state and province likewise has its own list 

 of related topics. 



MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY 



Aclinic Line 



Antarctic Circle 



Arctic Circle 



Axis 



Chart 



Day 



Degree 



Equator 



Globe 



Hemisphere ' 



International Date Line 



Latitude 



Longitude 



Longitude and Time 



Map 



Meridian 



Minute 



Month 



Pole 



Seasons 



Sidereal Time 



Standard Time 



Time 



Tropics 



Year 



Zone 



PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 



Air 



Alluvium 



Atoll 



Avalanche 



Basin 



Blizzard 



Bore 



Calms, Regions of 



Canyon 



Cave 



Chaparral 



Chinook 



Climate 



Cloud 



Coastal Plain 



Cyclone 



Delta 



Desert 



Dew 



Divide 



Doldrums 



Dust, Atmospheric 



Dune 



Earth 



Earth Currents 



Earthquake 



Equinox 



Erosion 



Ether 



Fall Line 



Fiord 



Flood 



Flood Plain 



Fog 



Frost 



Geyser 



Glacier 



Gulf Stream 



Hail 



Harvest Moon 



Haze 



Hill 



Horizon 



Horse Latitudes 



Humidity 



Hurricane 



Hydrography 



Icebergs 



