GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 
Hanrlhook of Arctic Discoveries. Columl>ian Knowledge Series. ByA-W. 
Greely, ]jri<radier-General, United States Army ; Chief Signal Otficer. 
Pp. XI -I- 257, with 11 maps. Boston: Roberts Bros. 1890. $1.00. 
Tliis work is a perfect storehouse of arctic facts and figures, from the 
time of brave old Barents and 'Willoughby down to the present. As the 
title indicates, it is a “ handbook ” and not a narrative of arctic discov- 
ery ; but the little volume “ represents more than 50,000 pages of original 
narrative, from which the author has faithfully endeavored to comi^ile 
such data of accomplished results as may subserve the inquiries of a busy 
man who often wishes to know what, when, and where, rather than 
how.” Beginning with a chajder on the scope and value of arctic ex- 
ploration, fifteen succinct chaptei's are devoted to a description of the 
north polar regions and of the successive explorations by which they 
have been made known ; each of these chapters is followed by a special 
bibliography, while a general bibliography forms a final chapter, and the 
volume ends with an excellent index. The little book is a model of con- 
densation and logical arrangement ; it cannot be other than a godsend 
to the student of arctic literature; it shows immense reading and study* 
with jiatience and perseverance beyond the average man ; and its vivid 
and forceful style carries the writer back over years of arctic research 
and hundreds of volumes of arctic literature to his own voyages on icy 
seas. O. W. Melviu.e. 
Crater Ixikc Special Map. Klamath County, Oregon. United States Geo- 
logical Survey. 'Washington, 189fi. 
Rami, McXalhj ib Co.'s Indexed County and Railroad Pocket Map and Ship- 
pers’ Guide. INIa.ssachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Washington, 
and other states: Quebec. British Columbia, and other provinces of 
Canada. New edition. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. 1890. 25 cents. 
Occupations of the Negroes. By Henry Gannett, of the United States Geo- 
logical Survey. Pp. 10, with 12 diagrams. Baltimore: The Trustees 
of the John F. Slater Fund. Occasional Papers. No. 0. 1895. 25 cents. 
The Foreign Commerce and Navigatiem of the United States for the Year endinn 
June 30, 1895. Prepared by the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, 
Treasury Department. Washington, 1890. Pp. xcix -f .110b -r 83, 
with diagrams. 
S'atistical Abstract of the United States. 1895. Eighteenth number. Pre- 
pared by the Bureau of Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Treasury. Pp. xii + 412. Washington, 1896. 
A commendable departure recently made by the Geological Survey is 
well exemplified in the case of the topographic sheet devoted to Crater 
lake, Oregon, which contains three very instructive as well as attractive 
illustrations, together with an interesting description of the lake and its 
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