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is random, disconnected, and incomplete. 

 The reader would infer from the de- 

 scription that the chief interest of the 

 great castles and palaces is that the 

 Earl So-and-So or the Bishop So-and-So 

 -was imprisoned, tortured, or beheaded 

 in such-and-such a building. What 

 they fought and died for is usually left 

 to the reader to supply. Those who 

 visit Scotland merely to see the historic 

 fortresses and hear the grewsome tales 

 which cling to each should take these 

 volumes with them. 



Wonderland, 1902. By Olin D.Wheeler. 



Illustrated. Published by Charles E. 



Fee, Northern Pacific Railway, St. 



Paul. 



This handsome little book of 100 

 pages describes that part of the north- 

 west which is tributary to the Northern 

 Pacific Railway. The leading chapter 

 tells the story of mining in Montana 

 from the early sixties to the present ; 

 there are also chapters on the Northern 

 Cheyenne Indians, the Yellowstone 

 Park, and the Puget Sound country. 

 Several hundred beautiful pictures are 

 artistically arranged in the text. The 

 publisher announces that the book will 

 be sent to any address upon receipt of 

 six cents, the cost of postage. 



The Scenery of England. By the Right 

 Honorable Lord Avebury (Sir John 

 Lubbock). With illustrations. New 

 York and London : The Macmillan 

 Co. 1902. $2.50. 

 The author does not attempt to de- 

 scribe the scenery of England, but 

 rather to explain wherein the rivers and 

 hills, the moors and fens, and the great 

 cliffs of the coast have had their origin. 

 In other words, he does not directly tell 

 what the country is, but how it has be- 

 come what it is. The book is thus, in 

 a certain sense, a geologic history of 

 England. It is written in Lord Ave- 

 bury 's terse and pointed style, and is an 

 exceedingly valuable work. Some of 



the chapter headings are ' ' Geology, ' ' 

 "The Coast," "The Origin of Moun- 

 tains," "Volcanoes," " The History of 

 a River," " Influence of Rocks upon 

 Scenery," and "Downs, Wolds, Fens, 

 Moors, and Commons." Rarely has 

 any book of this character contained 

 such graphic and real illustrations of 

 the results and working of the different 

 forces of nature. 



Touring- Alaska and the Yellowstone. 



By Charles M. Taylor, Jr. With illus- 

 trations. Philadelphia : George W. 

 Jacobs and Company. 

 Mr. Taylor describes merely the or- 

 dinary tourist's trip by the Canadian 

 Pacific road from the east to Seattle; 

 thence by the steamer Queen to south- 

 eastern Alaska, and by rail from Skag- 

 way to White Horse, on the Yukon. 

 The return journey was made by the 

 Northern Pacific road, stopping a few 

 days in the Yellowstone Park. The 

 book is written in a bright, interesting 

 manner, and the numerous illustrations 

 are well selected and excellently repro- 

 duced. 



China and the Allies. By A. Henry 

 Savage Landor. Two volumes. Il- 

 lustrated. New York : Charles Scrib- 

 ner's Sons, 1901. 



The story of the Boxer uprisings and 

 of the massacres and horrors of the 

 months that followed are graphical^ 

 told. It makes rather superficial read- 

 ing, however, and beyond much excite- 

 ment the reader gains little. The vol- 

 umes are very handsomely illustrated. 



Eastern Peru and Bolivia (H. H. Hill 

 Publishing Company, Seattle) is the 

 title of an interesting little book of 50 

 pages, giving some of the experiences 

 in that country of William C. Ogle, a 

 Yankee engineer who has prospected 

 and worked gold mines all the way from 

 Alaska to Bolivia. 



