136 ^REVIEWS 



Termier's tribute to the distinguished translator of the Antlitz is 

 well merited and may here take the place of the poor words of the 

 reviewer. He continues: 



I recall my astonishment and the admiration which I immediately con- 

 ceived for the character of Emmanuel de Margerie, still unknown to me, upon 

 that day of the year 1S90 when Marcel Bertrand said to me the simple words: 

 "De Margerie has the intention of translating the Antlitz, you will see that he 

 will go to the end. " Once more Marcel Bertrand has been a good prophet. 



Open now the French edition alongside the German edition and compare 

 them volume by volume, chapter by chapter. You will be amazed, not alone 

 at the scrupulous exactitude of the translation, not alone by the reverent 

 fidelity, truly fihal, of the disciple in retaining the accent of the master and 

 reproducing his thought even to its exact shade, but even more at the magnifi- 

 cent prodigahty with which the disciple has enriched the work of Eduard Suess. 

 The farther one penetrates into the work, the more this enrichment becomes 

 manifest. In place of tiring, of exhausting himself, the translator expands 

 his erudition and feels his enthusiasm growing, and here it is that he adds to 

 each fact cited by the author ten other facts which complete the first and place 

 it in the full light. So that the French edition which guards in the body of the 

 text the moderation and the clarity of the German text, offers to its reader in 

 addition a world of documents, notes, maps, or sketches of which each is in 

 its proper place and supplies valuable information. 



Thus you will understand the affection of Eduard Suess for Emmanuel 

 de Margerie. I have never spoken to the master of his French translator 

 without seeing the tears appear in his splendid eyes, where they appeared to 

 reflect the majesty of the universe.^ 



In truth, Emmanuel de Margerie has deserved well of science. He has 



opened fully and definitely to all scholars of the Latin race the access to the 



"magnificent temple." Thanks to him into our half of the scientific world 



Suess's work will penetrate with greater richness and comprehensibility, and 



in the other half many a savant who has read Das Antlitz der Erde, will prefer 



La Face de la terre. 



William Herbert Hobbs 



Geology of Missouri. By E. B. Branson. University of Missouri 

 Bulletin. Vol. XIX, No. 15. 1918. Pp. 172. 

 This bulletin gives a summary of the geological history of Missouri, 

 with a very brief description of the principal formations and the principal 



I The same warm affection Suess cherished for Marcel Bertrand, and the reviewer 

 ■can testify that his eyes welled with tears as he referred to the darkened years which 

 closed the career of this great French savant. It is worth our while to remember this 

 in these days of race hatreds without parallel. 



