Geographical Books of 1907 



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Algiers and Beyond. By M. W. Hilton-Simp- 

 son. Pp. 295. Si4 X 8M inches. Illustrated. 

 New York : D. Appleton Co. 1907. 



Big Game Shooting on the Equator. By 



Captain F. A. Dickenson. With an intro- 

 duction by Sir Charles Norton Eliot. Pp. 

 285. 9/'s X 6 inches. Illustrated. New 

 York : John Lane Co. $4.00. 



In Wildest Africa. By C. G. Schillings. 



Translated by Frederic Whyte. Pp. 711. 



9/4 X 6J4 inches. Illustrated. New York : 



Harper & Brothers. 1907. 

 Admirers of "Flashlights from the Jungle." 

 undoubtedly the most remarkable book of wild 

 life ever published (see NaT. Geog. Mag., 

 August, 1907), will be disappointed in this 

 second vohime by Mr Schillings, which evi- 

 dently consists of pictures discarded by the first 

 publication. 



Across Widest Africa. An account of the 

 country and people of Eastern, Central, 

 and Western Africa as seen during a 

 twelve months' journey from Djibuti to 

 Cape Verde. By A. Henry Savage Landor. 

 2 vols. Pp. 396 + 500. With 160 illustra- 

 tions and map. 7 x 10 inches. New York : 

 Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1907. 



Le Plateau Central Nigerian. Une mission 

 Archeologique et ethnographique au Sou- 

 dan frangais. By Lieut. Louis Desplagnes. 

 Pp. 500. 6}4 X ID inches. With 236 illus- 

 trations and map. Paris : Emile Larose. 

 1907. 



Queer Things About Persia. By Eustache de 

 Lorey and Douglas Sladen. Pp. 381. 

 g]4 X 65^ inches. Illustrated. Philadelphia : 

 J. B. Lippincott. 1907. $3.50. 



The Unveiled East. By F. A. McKenzie. Pp. 

 347. 834 -x 6 inches. Illustrated. Maps. 

 New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1907. 

 $3-50. 



China and America Today. A study of con- 

 ditions and relations. By Arthur Smith. 

 Pp. 239. 7^x5^ inches. New York: 

 Fleming H. Revell & Co. 1907. 



A Handbook of the Philippines. By Hamil- 

 ton M. Wright. Pp. 429. Illustrated. 

 Maps. Chicago: A. C. McCIurg & Co. 

 1907. $1.40. 



Everyday Life Among the Headhunters. 



And other experiences from east to west. 

 By Dorothy Cator. Pp. 212. 7-54 x sl4 

 inches. Illustrated. New York : Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. 1905. 



Lotus Land. Being an account of the country 

 and the people of Southern Siam. By 

 P. A. Thompson. Pp. 312. 9x6 inches. 

 Illustrated. Map. 



The Voyage of the "Discovery." By Captain 

 Robert F. Scott. Vol. I, pp. 210. Vol. 2, 

 pp. 387. 8J4 X 5^ inches. Illustrated. New 

 York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 1907. 2 

 vols. $3.00. 

 This is an inexpensive edition of Captain 



Scott's remarkable book, reviewed at length in 



this magazine in February, 1907. 



Fiji and Its Possibilities. By Beatrice Grim- 

 shaw. Pp. 315. g5^ x 65^ inches. Illus- 

 trated. New York : Doubleday, Page & 

 Co. 1907. $3.00 net. 



The Use of the National Forests. By Gifford 



Pinchot, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Pp. 42. 7% X S inches. Illustrated. 1907. 



The object of this little book is to explain 



what our forest reserves mean, what they are 



for, and how to use them. 



How the World is Fed. By Frank G. Car- 

 penter. Pp. 362. 7j4 X sH inches. Illus- 

 trated. New York: American Book Co. 

 1907. 

 The author takes the reader on personally 

 conducted tours to the great food centers of 

 the world, to the markets of exchange, to the 

 factories, the farms, the forests, and the seas. 

 Interesting for old and young. 



Statistical Abstract of the World. By Henry 

 Gannett. Pp. 84. 6% x 4 inches. New 

 York: John Wiley & Sons. 1907. $0.75. 

 The book consists of tables showing area and 

 population for all or most of the civilized 

 countries of the earth, the' population being 

 classified by race, language, sex, birthplace, 

 literacy, school attendance, conjugal condition, 

 and religion ; population of large cities ; rates 

 of increase of population ; vital statistics ; ille- 

 gitimate births ; defectives ; breadwinners ; 

 financial statistics, and railway mileage and 

 shipping ; the mineral productions, including all 

 metals and minerals of importance; agricul- 

 tural products and consumption ; livestock and 

 fisheries ; manufacturing products and con- 

 sumption ; wooded and cultivated areas ; foreign 

 commerce by countries and by commodities. 



Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt. By 



John Burroughs. Pp. iii. 7^x5 inches. 

 Illustrated. New York : Houghton, Miff- 

 lin & Co. 1907. 



Handbook of American Indians. North of 

 Mexico. Edited by Frederick Webb 

 Hodge. Pp. 972. gyi x 6 inches. Illustrated. 

 Map. Washington : Government Printing 

 Office. 1907. In two parts. Part I. 

 A cyclopedia of the North American Indian. 

 Descriptions of every tribe, of their myths,, 

 dances, and customs are given, as well as bio- 

 graphies of noted Indian characters. 



