Geographic Literature 



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San Dieguito ; land grant and valley, San 



Diego County, California (not San Diegito 



nor San Digitas). 

 San Emigdio ; creek, land grant, and moun- 

 tain, Kern County, California (not San 



Emedio, San Emidio, nor San Emidion). 

 Sbawangunk ; mountains, Ulster County, New 



York (not Millbrook). 

 St Peters ; creek and district, Somerset County, 



Maryland (not St Peter nor St Peter's). 

 Tia Juana ; post-office and river, San Diego 



County, California (not Tijuana). 

 Tyler; pond irr Goshen, Litchfield Count}', 



Connecticut (not Marshapauge, Tyler's, 



nor West Side). 

 Wachocastinook ; brook, or creek in Salisbury, 



Litchfield County, Connecticut (not Mount 



Riga nor Washinee). 

 Wangum ; lake in Canaan, Litchfield County, 



Connecticut (not Waugum, Wangem, nor 



Wungum). 



Wells ; island in St Lawrence River, Jefferson 



> County, New York (not Wellesley). 



Wenatchee ; lake, post-office, precinct, rail- 

 road station, river, and town, Chelan 

 County, Washington (not Wenache nor 

 Wenatche). This is a reversal of the 

 decision Wenache, rendered in 1892. 



Weoka ; creek, post-office, and precinct, El- 

 more County, Alabama (not Wewoka, 

 Wewokee, Wiwoka, etc.). 



Wolf; creek, Sandusky and Seneca Counties, 

 Ohio (not Raccoon nor West Branch 

 Wolf). 



Wouonpakook ; pond in Salisbury, Litchfield 

 County, Connecticut (not Long. Wanom- 

 pakook, Wonon Pakok, nor Wononpo- 

 kok). 



Wononskopomuc ; lake in Salisbury, Litch- 

 field Count}', Connecticut (not Furnace, 

 Wononscopomoc, Wononskopomus, etc ). 



GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



American Diplomacy in the Orient. 

 By John W. Foster, author of a Cen- 

 tury 0/ American Diplomacy •. Pp. 498. 

 9x6 inches. Boston and New York: 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1903. 

 This book covers a field which no 

 other volume had even attempted to 

 more than touch. There existed a mass 

 of literature upon the subject, but it was 

 utterly disconnected and the investigator 

 was forced to seek for it laboriously at 

 many different sources. To understand 

 any one phase of American diplomatic 

 achievement in the East required diffi- 

 cult and perplexing research. In conse- 

 quence few Americans have attempted 

 to grasp more than its mere outline. 

 The reading public is now put in posses- 

 sion of an authoritative and comprehen- 

 sive work — a work, too, which presents 

 every advantage of a compendium, but 

 a compendium enlarged and enriched by 

 a chaste literary style. We have here 

 an encyclopedic treatise wherein each 

 part is conjoined with every other part, 

 and wherein the whole composes a his- 

 tory majestic by the grandeur and world- 

 wide influence of the deeds it recounts. 



The opening chapter is preliminary, 

 describing early European relations with 

 the Far East. It emphasizes a fact, com- 

 monly unknown or forgotten, that Asi- 

 atic prohibition of foreign intercourse 

 dates from hardly earlier than the begin- 

 ning of the seventeenth century and was 

 mainly due to ' ' the violent and aggress- 

 ive conduct ' ' of the European discover- 

 ers and adventurers who visited those 

 countries in the fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries. The chapter concludes with 

 the failure of the British expedition 

 under Lord Amherst, then governor gen- 

 eral of India, to establish diplomatic rela- 

 tions with China. That was in 1815. 



The following twelve chapters, be- 

 ginning with "America's First Inter- 

 course ' ' and ending with ' ' The Spanish 

 War: Its Results," summarize the first 

 treaties with China and set forth the 

 stages in that empire's increasing de- 

 crepitude, describe the opening, the 

 transformation, and the enfranchise- 

 ment of Japan, trace the development 

 of the Hawaiian Islands and their an- 

 nexation to the United States, picture 

 the emergence of the anomalous kingdom 



