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such information as they could get from 

 other religious orders, the old residents 

 and explorers. The first Philippine 

 Commission decided to publish the series 

 for want of anything better, and this 

 was done under the editorship of Father 

 Jose Algue, Director of the Manila Ob- 

 servatory. The maps necessarily are not 

 so recent as the War Department map, 

 which was published as a supplement to 

 the January number of this Magazine. 



Argentina-Chile Boundary. — Therecent 

 acute difficulties between Argentina and 

 Chile have been temporarily settled. It 

 will be remenibered that the recent 

 strained relations were caused by Chile's 

 sending police into certain sections of 

 the disputed territory, and also building 

 roads at alleged strategic points in the 

 territory. In the protocol signed by the 

 two republics Chile declares definitely 

 that the roads were opened merely in 



order to explore the country and to 

 help the experts who were studying the 

 boundary line, and that in no sense did 

 the act of building the roads mean an 

 occupation of the territory. The two 

 republics furthermore agree to police 

 jointly such sections as may need police 

 regulations. About a year ago Argen- 

 tine submitted to the British arbitration 

 committee four quarto volumes of evi- 

 dence and a large portfolio of maps in 

 support of its claims. Chile has at last 

 also submitted its final documents, and 

 it. is hoped a permanent decision of the 

 boundary dispute will soon be reached. 



Dr. Eugene Murray-Aaron, editor of 

 Cram's Atlas, has recently compiled 

 from latest surveys a bird's-eye view of 

 the Maritime Canal and the Isthmus 

 of Panama. It is an excellent piece of 

 work and is published by George F. 

 Cram (Chicago). 



GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



Wandering; in Three Continents. By 

 the late Captain Sir Richard F. Bur- 

 ton. Edited by W. H. Wilkins, 

 M. A. With illustrations. New 

 York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. 

 $3.50 net. 



The volume gives a fascinating ac- 

 count of the bold wanderings of this 

 great traveler. Burton was the first 

 European to enter Mecca and Medina 

 disguised as one of the people, 1853; he 

 penetrated Abyssinia in the days when 

 it was as forbidden ground as Mecca ; 

 with Speke he discovered that vast in- 

 land African lake, Tanganyika, rumors 

 of which had for centuries been whis- 

 pered on the seacoast ; he went on a 

 dangerous mission as British envoy to 

 the King of Dahomey, and was a guest 

 of his wild court and protected by the 

 army of Amazons ; later he explored 

 the interior of Brazil, and in 1870, while 

 consul at Damascus, made an eventful 

 trip to Palmyra. ' ' Wandering in Three 



Continents" Consists of eleven popular 

 essays or lectures on these journeys. 

 Burton wrote many heavy works of 

 travel, but none of a popular form, so 

 that this posthumous volume of popular 

 essays is specially welcome. Five of 

 the essays were read before the Emperor 

 and Empress of Brazil while he was 

 consul at Santos, and the others before 

 distinguished gatherings in England 

 and Scotland. 



Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and 

 Modern. New Census edition. Ed- 

 ited by George F. Cram, Dr. Eugene 

 Murray- Aaron, I. C. Clare, and others. 

 New York and Chicago : George F. 

 Cram, 1901. $10. 



For the general uses of the home or 

 school this atlas is unequaled. The de- 

 sign of the editors has been to publish a 

 volume that would answer the needs of 

 the general reader and student, and to 

 produce it at a moderate price. In ad- 



