Geographic Literature 



447 



are 435 colored maps, diagrams, and 

 charts that present in graphic and terse 

 form much information for which there 

 would otherwise be no space. This is 

 the third volume in the series of Tarr 

 and McMurry's Geographies. 



The Great Desetts and Fofcsts of North 

 America, By Paul Fountain. Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. $3.75. 

 The volume consists of a series of 

 rambling but entertaining notes of the 

 author's travels in the western United 

 States, for the most part made some 

 thirty years ago. The title is mislead- 

 ing, for the book is in no sense descrip- 

 tive of what its name implies. 



Atfstralia — The Commonwealth and 



New Zealand. By Arthur W. Jose. 



New York : The Macmillan Co. 



$0.40. 



The author lived for seventeen years 

 in the four colonies of eastern Australia, 

 and speaks with an intimate knowledge 

 of his subject. In this little volume of 

 150 pages he gives a summar}' of the 

 exploration, development, and experi- 

 ments at self-government in the island 

 continent and in New Zealand. 



In the Ice World of the Himalaya* By 



Fann}^ Bullock Workman and Wil- 

 liam Hunter Workman. With maps 

 and illustrations. New York : Cas- 

 sell & Co. $4.00. 



' ' In the Ice World of the Himalaya ' ' 

 is the modestly told story of record climb- 

 ing among the great peaks of the Hima- 

 laya. Mrs. Workman is the champion 

 woman mountain-climber of the world, 

 but speaks as modestly of reaching the 

 summit of Koser Gunge, 21,000 feet, or 

 Mount Bullock Workman, 19,450 feet, 

 as though she were walking down Fifth 

 Avenue. As the authors very trul}" re- 

 mark, mountain-climbing in the Hima- 

 laya is quite different from mountain- 

 eering in Switzerland and the Tyrol. 

 Instead of hotels and villages within a 

 few hours distance, and shelter-huts and 



a corps of guides, the mountaineer in 

 the Himalaya must march many days 

 beyond even the last semi-civilized vil- 

 lage, and then fight his way up the 

 mountain handicapped by coolies whom 

 he must coax and bully along. A num- 

 ber of excellent pictures from photo- 

 graphs give a graphic idea of the great 

 peaks. 



The Highlands of Asiatic Turkey* By 

 Earl Percy, M. P. New York : Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. $3.75. 

 Karl Percy gives the record of a jour- 

 ney in 1899 through Asia Minor from 

 Constantinople to Busra, on the Persian 

 Gulf. Two detail maps of the country 

 are published. There is much informa- 

 tion in the volume, but presented in a 

 somewhat heavy manner. There is the 

 usual plaintive chapter appealing to the 

 British Government to wake up and take 

 a definite policy in western Asia. 



The Bureau of Forestry has published 

 ' ' Notes on the Red Cedar, ' ' by Charles 

 Mohr (Bui. No. 31), and " Practical 

 Forestry in the Southern Appalachians, ' ' 

 by Overton W. Price. The former con- 

 tains a map showing the present distri- 

 bution of red cedar in the United States. 

 The densest growth of cedar is in Ten- 

 nessee, west Florida, and central Ala- 

 bama, while west of the loist meridian 

 there is none at all. Mr. Price explains 

 the growing need of systematic forest 

 management in the southern Appala- 

 chians, and makes a number of practical 

 suggestions. 



The great industrial depression in Ger- 

 many, which has rendered idle more 

 than one-fourth of her workingmen, is 

 the subject of a special report by the 

 U. S. consul general at Berlin, Frank 

 H. Mason (Consular Reports, Novem- 

 ber 9, 1 90 1, No. 1 185). 



The Chinese protocol^ signed September 

 7, 1 90 1, is published in full in the Con- 

 sular. Reports for November 5 (No. 

 1 180). 



