944 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
IOUS. INIO MIC eS, 
LIPPINCOTT’S PRONOUNCING GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD: pp. 2478 large Octavo: 
J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia 1880. Fur sale by H. H. Shepard. 
$10.00. 
It is difficult adequately to conceive of the vast strides made in geographical 
knowledge within a few years,except by comparison of old works with new ones, 
and this will be found an especially truthful statement by the student who com- 
pares any Gazetteer more than five years old with that recently published by J. B. 
Lippincott & Co. He will find that it now takes nearly 2500 pages, double column, 
fine print, to describe what was fully described a few years since in far less space- 
He will also be surprised to learn not only that many new and important places 
have sprung into existence and become important commercial centers, but 
that so many which were in former editions mentioned as thriving cities and towns, 
even in our own country are now utterly abandoned andunknown. _ It is astonish- 
ing to see how perfectly the work under consideration has been made up. It not 
only contains recent and authentic information respecting the countries, islands, 
rivers, mountains, cities, towns, &c., in all portions of the globe, but it actually 
gives an account of more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand places, with 
correct spelling and pronunciation indicated in all instances. We have been surpris- 
edand have quite surprised several friends, by the extreme minuteness of the infor- 
mation contained in this work as well as by its extent. Of course, tosecure such 
perfection a vast amount of labor has been expended in consulting similar works 
in all languages, books of history and travel, official documents, and by a most 
extensive private correspondence all over the globe. 
In addition to the vastly increased number of places noticed, such particular 
attention has been paid to orthography, pronounciation, ancient and modern 
names of places and signification of geographical names as to render them charac- 
teristics of the work. 
For public libraries, schools, teachers, ‘and all persons requiring books of 
reference, this is a book of sterling value and of the most reliable character. 
First ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND GEOLOGY OF THE 
Srate oF INDIANA. 1879, pp. 514, Octavo: Indianapolis, Douglass & Car- 
lin, 1880. 
It is a little singular that at this late day the State of Indiana is publishing 
her first Report of this kind. With her exhaustless resources of almost every kind 
it would naturally be supposed that they would have been long years since; made 
known to the world in every practicable way. 
But though late in beginning, the work has been well done, and no one can 
