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as a story to the children. Photographs 

 are exclusively used as a basis for the 

 pictures of wild animals. Useful sug- 

 gestions are given at the end of each 

 chapter. The author is to be especially 

 congratulated on his choice of illustra- 

 tions. Each picture has some striking 

 fact so vividly presented that the lesson 

 is not forgotten. Some very handsome 

 colored plates are given in the book. 

 The publishers have done their part as 

 well as the author. The work is hand- 

 somely printed, the type large, and the 

 pictures clear and elegantly engraved. 



The Heart of Japan. By H. L. Brow- 



nell. Illustrated. Pp. 309. 5 by 

 7J/2 inches. New York : McClure, 

 Phillips & Co. 1903. $1.50 net. 

 Mr Brownell was for many years a 

 teacher of English in the public schools 

 of Japan. Most of the time he was 

 stationed in towns away from the rail- 

 ways, where he lived with country 

 people — the true Japanese, as he calls 

 them. Many books have been written 

 about the Japanese during the last few 

 years, but the present one is distinct 

 and fresh and gives a charming and en- 

 tirely different account of the lives of 

 this bright and fascinating people. The 

 reader sometimes wonders whether Mr 

 Brownell is not emulating Munchausen, 

 but all his stories are so well told that 

 we must believe him. 



The opening chapter describes an 

 enterprising farmer who dug a deep 

 well on his fields, and then put in an 

 American pump, consecrated it to a 

 god, and then allowed all worshipers 

 at this shrine free baths. The water 

 which the many devotees zealously 

 pumped meanwhile by a hidden conduit 

 was led out to irrigate his fields, and 

 kept them green and prosperous when 

 all other fields were parched and ruined. 

 Chapter Y, "The Honorable Bath," 

 describes another phase of Japanese 

 country life. Every chapter in the 

 book is almost equally well done, 



though, perhaps, the most interesting 

 is ' ' Diving Belles. ' ' This is an ac- 

 count of a peculiar seacoast village, 

 where the women so outclass the men 

 in diving for pearls that the men stay 

 at home and keep house and do the 

 cooking, etc., while their wives are 

 swimming and diving for hours in the 

 sea. 



BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW 



The Moon. By Wm. H. Pickering. 

 With 100 full-page plates. Pp. xii -f 

 108. 11 by 12 inches. New York: 

 Doubleday, Page&Co. 1903. $10.00 

 net. 



New Conceptions in Science. By Carl 

 Snyder. Illustrated. Pp.361. 5^ 

 by 8 inches. New York : Harper & 

 Brothers. 1903. $2.00 net. 



Climbs and Explorations in the Cana- 

 dian Rockies. By H. E. N. Stutfield 

 and J. Norman Collie, F. R. S. Illus- 

 trated. Pp.343. 6 by 9 inches. Lon- 

 don : Longmans, Green & Co. 1903. 

 $4.00 net. 



A Handbook of Modern Japan. By 

 Ernest W. Clement. Illustrated. Pp. 

 395- 5 by 7^ inches. Chicago: A. C. 

 McClurg & Co. 1903. $1.50. 



The Forest. By Stewart Edward White. 

 Illustrated. Pp.276. 6 by 9 inches. 

 New York: The Outlook Company. 

 1903- $1.50^/. 



Handbook of Commercial Geography. 

 By Geo. G. Chisholm. (Fourth cor- 

 rected edition.) Illustrated. Pp. 

 xlvi -f- 639. 6 by 9 inches. New 

 York and London : Longmans, Green 

 & Co. 1903. $4.00. 



Present Day Egypt- By Frederic Court- 

 land Penfield. Illustrated. Pp. 396. 

 5^ by 8 inches. New York : The 

 Century Co. 1903. $2.00. 



The Russian Advance. By Albert J. 

 Beveridge. Illustrated with maps. 

 6 by S}4 inches. New York : Harper 

 Brothers. 1903. $2.50 net. 



