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snow peak of the Ruwenzori range. 

 Here is the largest lake in Africa, which 

 gives birth to the main branch of the 

 longest river in that continent. There 

 may be seen here perhaps the biggest 

 extinct volcano in the world — Elgon. 

 The protectorate, lying on either side 

 of the equator, contains over a hundred 

 square miles of perpetual snow and ice. 

 It also contains a few spots in the rela- 

 tively low-lying valley of the Nile, where 

 the average daily heat is perhaps higher 

 than in an}' other part of Africa. 



' ' Within the limits of this protector- 

 ate are to be found specimens of nearly 

 all of the most marked types of African 

 man — Congo pigmies and the low, ape- 

 like types of the Elgon and Semliki for- 

 ests; the handsome Baliima, who are 

 negroids as much related to the ancient 

 Egyptians as to the average negro; the 

 gigantic Turkana, the wiry, stunted 

 Andorobo, the Apollo-like Masai, the 

 naked Nile tribes, and the scrupulously 

 clothed Baganda. These last again are 

 enthusiastic, casuistic Christians, while 

 other tribes of the Nile province are 

 fanatical Mohammedans. The Bahima 

 are, or were, ardent believers in witch- 

 craft. The Basoga polytheists are bur- 

 'dened with a multiplicity of minor dei- 

 ties, while the Masai and kindred races 

 have practically no religion at all. 



' ' Cannibalism lingers in the western 

 corners of the protectorate, while the 

 natives of the other parts are importing 

 tinned apricots or are printing and pub- 

 lishing in their own language summaries 

 of their past history. This is the coun- 

 try of the okapi, the whale-headed stork, 

 the chimpanzee, and the five-horned gi- 

 raffe, the rhinoceroses with the longest 

 horns, and the elephants with the big- 

 gest tusks." 



Animals Before Man in America. By 

 F. A. Lucas. Illustrated. Pp. 285. 

 5 x 7 -'4 inches. New York : D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co. 1902. $1.25 net. 



So little is generally known of the 



animals that ages ago lived on the 

 American continent that this book by 

 Mr Lucas will be very welcome, espe- 

 cially as it is written in simple, untech- 

 nical language. 



Europe. By Frank G. Carpenter. With 

 maps and illustrations. Pp. 456. 

 5*4 x 7^2 inches. New York: Amer- 

 ican Book Co. 1902. 70c. 

 This volume is one of Carpenter's 

 geographical readers for children. It 

 is a simple, reliable, and interesting de- 

 scription of the countries of Europe. 



A Ribbon of Iron. By Annette M. B. 

 Meakin. Illustrated. Pp. 320. 5% 

 x 8 inches. Westminster: Archibald 

 Constable & Co. New York: E. P. 

 Dutton & Co. 1902. $2 net. 



Miss Meakin describes the incidents 

 and sights of a trip on the Siberian 

 Railway in 1900, just before the Boxer 

 troubles. 



The Land of the Amazons. Translated 

 from the French of Baron de Santa- 

 Anna Nery by George Humphery. 

 With illustrations and map. Pp. 405. 

 6x9 inches. London: Sands & Co. 

 New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 

 1 90 1. 



The first edition of this standard work 

 on Brazil appeared in 1884; a second 

 edition followed in 1899. The author 

 gives a very complete account of the 

 nature of the county, of the character 

 and life of the inhabitants, native and 

 foreign, and of the explorations of the 

 Amazon. Mr Humphery has made 

 such a free and smooth translation that 

 the fact that the work is a translation 

 does not appear. 



Strange Lands Near Home. Illustrated. 



Pp.138. Boston: Ginn&Co. 1902. 



W. E. Curtis, H. Butterworth, Fred- 

 erick Schwatka, and other entertaining 

 authors contribute to this little volume 



