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fauna of the Gas-coal of Bohemia. It has cost the author much 

 money, which we fear he will never be recouped ; but students 

 of palaeontology all over the world cannot fail to be grateful to him 

 for making them acquainted, by means of this work, with tlie rich 

 and varied fauna of the Permo-Carboniferous Series of Bohemia. 



IV. — The International Geography. By Seventy Authors. Edited 

 by Hugh Eobert Mill, D.Sc, F.E.S.E., etc. 8vo ; pp. xx and 

 1,090, with 4:88 Illustrations. (London : George Newnes, 

 Limited, 1899. Price 15s.) 



IF any evidence were wanting in order to prove the vast and 

 ever-increasing importance which a knowledge of geography 

 has of late years assumed, we have but to turn to the enormous- 

 development which the closing years of the century has witnessed 

 in the issue of maps, both geological and topographical, and tli© 

 cheapening of their production so as to bring them within the reach 

 of all who seek for such knowledge as they convey. 



Along with maps of all kinds, come naturally in importance 

 handy books of reference bearing upon all questions of geography 

 which maps portray graphically, but do not explain so fully as can 

 be done in a textbook. Dr. Hugh Eobert Mill, from the vantage- 

 ground of his position as an oflScer of the Eoj'al Geographical 

 Society of London, has been enabled, with the aid of a Avhole 

 army corps of authors, to bring together in a little over 1,100 

 well and clearly printed pages, a complete summary of the globe, 

 arranged under countries, giving in each case an account of its 

 general configuration and geology, its river-systems, climate, natural 

 resources, and a brief notice of its fauna and flora. The several 

 peoples are described as to race, language, history, and mode of 

 government ; with their manufactures and external trade ; and 

 especially the main industries peculiar to each country ; with their 

 system of internal communications. The political divisions are con- 

 sidered individually, together with notices of towns. All towns with 

 populations of 100,000 and upward are separately noticed, and all other 

 towns which are of special importance. In every case where it is 

 possible, the characteristics of the site which determines the position 

 of a town, or the geographical conditions which minister to its 

 prosperity, have been noticed. A statistical table, giving the area 

 and population at the last two censuses of the whole country, and 

 in federal countries of the constituted states ; the average values of 

 exports and imports for three five-yearly periods, ten years apart, 

 e.g., for 1871-75, 1881-85. 1891-95, have been taken, and the chief 

 towns with their population at the two last censuses. 



The introductory general discussions of mathematical, physical, 

 commercial, and political geography are written from a strictly geo- 

 grojyhicnl point of view, and in a purely general manner, referring 

 only to such phenomena or conditions as are not restricted to 

 particular regions. The object has been, not to give a treatise 

 on the subject named, but to supply the few general facts and 



