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BOOK REVIEWS 



Japanese Goldfish. By Dr Hugh M. Smith, 

 Deputy U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. 

 Many illustrations and lo colored plates. 

 Washington, D. C. : W. F. Roberts & Co. 

 Price, $2.00 net. 



Dr Smith, well known to the readers of the 

 National Geographic Magazine, is one of the 

 world's foremost authorities on fishes, and his 

 volume on Japanese Goldfishes is the result of 

 a close study of the subject and will be re- 

 garded as an authority. The plates of the gold- 

 fish are splendid reproductions in natural colors 

 and the book can be recommended in the 

 highest terms. J. O. L. 



The Gaiezvay to the Sahara. By Charles Wel- 

 lington Furlong. Pp. 300, d^A x Sj^. 35 

 illustrations and 3 maps. New York: 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. 

 By word and picture the author, a well- 

 known traveler, gives an insight into the most 

 native of the Barbary capitals, its odd and 

 fascinating customs and industries, and a view 

 of those strange and interesting people who 

 inhabit Tripolitania. It was Mr. Furlong who, 

 in 1904, discovered the wrecked hull of the 

 United States frigate PhUadclphia below the 

 waters of Tripoli harbor, and the book gives 

 the dramatic episode of the vessel's destruc- 

 tion and finding a hundred years later. 



J. O. L. 



London Town, Past and Present. By W. W. 

 Hutchins, with a chapter on the Future of 

 London by Ford Madox Hueflfer. 2 vols. 

 Pp. 1130, S%x8y2. Several hundred illus- 

 trations. New York : Cassell & Company. 

 Price, $6.00 net. 

 No work of greater importance, or one more 

 likely to hold a permanent place, than "London 

 Town, Past and Present," has yet been pub- 

 lished. It is unique, comprehensive, and of 

 marked value. It limits itself to no one period 

 of time or to no one part of the capital, and 

 discusses no abstruse or antiquarian questions. 

 It recounts in vivid language all the important 

 and arresting events from Roman times to the 

 present day. Mr. Ford IMadox Hueflfer, in a 

 clever and suggestive chapter, essays to lift a 

 corner of the veil behind which is hidden the 

 future of London, and presents, in characteris- 

 tically rich and pregnant diction, some ingen- 

 ious speculations on that theme. J. O. L. 



Women of All Nations. Edited by T. Athol 



Joyce and N. W. Thomas. 2 vols. Pp. 772, 



SyiyiSyz. Several hundred illustrations 



and series of color plates. New York : 



Cassell & Co. Price, $12.00 net. 



"Women of All Nations" is an authoritative 



work by such men as the late Prof O. T. 



Mason, Dr Grumberg, Archibald Colquhoun, 



and others, being a record of the characteristics, 



habits, manners, customs, and influence ol 



women ranging from the toilette of the Paris- 



ienne down to the scanty skirt of the Fijian 

 belle. The volumes give in word and splendid 

 picture the psychological characteristics of the 

 women of every race. You may read how the 

 gentler sex of China, Samoa, India, or Sweden 

 live and work, together with their curious 

 forrns of courtship and marriage. The volumes 

 are illustrated with a collection of rare photo- 

 graphs gathered from every part of the world 



J. O. L. 

 Hunting In British East Africa. By Percy C. 

 Madeira. Pp. 290, 6^x9. 130 illustra- 

 tions and 2 maps. Philadelphia : J. B. Lip- 

 pincott Co. 



A very interesting narrative from the pen of 

 a big game hunter telling of his experience in 

 that sportsman's paradise, British East Africa. 

 Starting with the initial arrangements for the 

 big game hunt, the reader is taken step by step 

 through the wildness of jungle and plain into 

 the heart of the animal kingdom and hardly 

 realizes the study of natural history he is 

 absorbing so_ graphic is Mr. Madeira's story. 

 The illustrations, actual photographs, are very 

 fine and the maps comprehensive. J. Q. L. 



Jl'anderings In the Roman Campagnia. By 

 Rodolfo Lanciani. Pp. 370, 7^x95^. 112 

 illustrations. Boston : Houghton, IMifBin 

 Co. 



Camp and Camino in Lozver California. By 

 Arthur Walbridge North, with introduc- 

 tion bv Rear Admiral Roblev D. Evans, 

 U. S. N. Pp. 346, 7^ X gVs. ' 32 illustra- 

 tions and 2 maps. New York : The Baker 

 & Taylor Co. Price, $3.00 net. 

 A book of adventure and exploration in 

 Lower California, a land of desert and moun- 

 tains. Few regions on the globe are less known 

 than this country at our very door. The 

 volume contains much that is fascinating along 

 the lines of hunting and adventure, at the same 

 time giving valuable description and records of 

 scientific exploration. J. O. L. 



The Great PaciHc Coast. By C. Reginald L. 

 Enock. Pp. 356, 6]4 X 9. 63 illustrations 

 and several maps. New York : Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. Price, $4.00 net. 

 The book from the pen of this well-known 

 writer on Latin American subjects is rather 

 unique, treating as it does for the first time of 

 the vast region of the Pacific Coast of North 

 and South America as a physical and political 

 entit}'. Seen from the viewpoint of an experi- 

 enced traveler, the subject is one of great in- 

 terest, and especially fine are the photographic 

 illustrations. J. O. L. 



Soil Fertilifv and Per)nanent Agriculture. By 

 Cyril G. Hopkins. Pp. 650, 6x8]^. 

 Numerous maps and tables. Boston : Ginn 

 & Co. 



The book is written primarily for American 

 land-owners, who must either think and plan 

 for the preservation of the land or allow its 



