GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE 



A Teacher's Manual of Geography. 



By Charles McMurry, Ph. D.; pp. 



108. New York: The Macmillan Co. 



1902. $0.40 



This book is designed to accompany 

 Tarr and McMurry' s admirable series of 

 geographies. To the teacher of geog- 

 raphy this little volume will be of much 

 practical and suggestive assistance. 



The Alaska Frontier. By Thomas Wil- 

 ling Balch. With 28 maps. Pp.198, 

 7x11 inches. Philadelphia : Allen, 

 Lane & Scott. 1903. $2.00. 

 Mr Balch presents in this volume the 

 results of studies he has been making 

 for several years on the subject of the 

 Alaska Canadian boundary. He has 

 not only consulted the maps of the State 

 Department, but also made a special in- 

 vestigation in the archives at St Peters- 

 burg, Berlin, Paris, London, Edinburgh, 

 and other cities. His researches have 

 enabled him to publish a notable work, 

 containing new facts of considerable im- 

 portance. 



The basis of Mr Balch's argument is 

 a series of 28 maps, the earliest being 

 Vancouver's chart of 1799. These maps 

 are copies of maps published by the 

 Russian, English, and Canadian govern- 

 ments. They all show the boundary ex- 

 actly as claimed by the United States and 

 agreed to by Great Britain and Canada 

 alike for three-fourths of a century. 



One of the most notable of these is 

 British Admiralty Chart No. 787, which 

 was first issued in 1877. Eighteen re- 

 vised editions of this chart have since 

 been issued, the latest being in 1901, 

 three years after the Canadian claim 

 was put forward ; but each edition 

 shows the boundary exactly as given in 

 the United States maps. 



Mr. Balch is always careful to give 

 references to authorities referred to, a 

 fact that is specially desirable in works 



of this nature. The volume is dedi- 

 cated ' ' to the memory of William H . 

 Seward and Charles Sumner, to whom 

 the United States owes Alaska." 



Unknown Mexico. By Carl Lumholtz, 

 M. A. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. 

 i-xxxvi, 1-530, i-xvi, 1-496, with 15 

 colored plates, two large maps, and 

 many other illustrations. New York : 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. 1902. 

 As indicated by a full sub-title, this 

 is a record of five years' exploration 

 among the tribes of the western Sierra 

 Madre ; in the Tierra Caliente of Tepic 

 and Jalisco, and among the Tarascos 

 of Michoacan. It supplements a num- 

 ber of more technical publications, in- 

 cluding Dr Lumholtz' s splendid memoir 

 "Symbolism of the Huichol Indians," 

 issued by the American Museum of 

 Natural History in 1900. The expedi- 

 tions were conducted and the results 

 prepared for publication under the au- 

 spices of various institutions and indi- 

 viduals, among whom the author espe- 

 cially credits the American Geographical 

 Society, the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, Mr and Mrs Morris K. 

 Jesup, Mr Andrew Carnegie, and Mrs 

 Elizabeth Hobson. Starting with a 

 large train in southern Arizona, Dr 

 Lumholtz entered Sonora, and then 

 crossed the Sierra Madre into Chihua- 

 hua ; gradually the part}' was divided 

 and disbanded as he worked southward 

 along the eastern slopes of the Sierra 

 until he was practically alone in the 

 Tarahumare, Tubari, and Tepehuane 

 countries, and quite without Caucasian 

 companions in the Huichol, Cora, Tipe- 

 cano, and Tarasco districts. Travel- 

 ing usually by easy stages and mak- 

 ing long stays in many of the native 

 settlements, he enjoyed excellent oppor- 

 tunities for study of the habits and 

 customs of surviving tribes, as well as 



