Geographic Literature 



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found absolute freedom from all taint of 

 the vulgar or commonplace ; and the 

 sense of mystery and awe at the un- 

 known — things which are gone for- 

 ever from the high mountain ranges of 

 Europe — yet linger around the crest of 

 the Northern Rockies." 



The beautiful illustrations, of which 

 there are a large number, give an excel- 

 lent idea of the region. 



Robert H. Chapman. 



Geographic Influences in American His- 

 tory. By Albert Perry Brigham. 

 With 73 plates and 16 maps. 5 by 

 7^ inches. Pp. xiii -f 366. Boston : 

 Ginn and Company. 1903. 

 A story of our history as affected by 

 our environment, charmingly told by a 

 master who knows both aspects of his 

 subject and who understands their re- 

 lations one to the other. The character 

 of the early immigration to these shores 

 and of the men who formed the van- 

 guard of the westward movements across 

 the continent, the influence of topog- 

 raphy, soil, and climate in determining 

 the course of the streams of migration, 

 and the settlement in the great interior 

 valley and the Cordilleran region are 

 sketched out with a bold, free hand in 

 most delightful fashion. It is a fasci- 

 nating story. H. G. 



Indians of the Painted Desert Region. 



By George Wharton James. Illus- 

 trated. Pp. 264. Boston : Little, 

 Brown & Co. 1903. 

 Mr James gives an exceedingly enter- 

 taining, and, on the whole, reliable ac- 

 count of the Hopis, Navahoes, Walla- 

 pais, and Havasupais. 



The Hopi houses are owned and built 

 ( in the main) by the women; the men 

 weave the women's garments and knit 

 their own stockings. "Here, too, the 

 women enjoy other ' rights ' that their 

 white sisters have long fought for. The 

 home life of the Hopis is based upon the 

 rights of women . They own the houses ; 

 the wife receives her newlv married hus- 



band into her home ; the children belong 

 to her clan, and have her clan name, and 

 not that of the father; the corn, melons, 

 squash, and other vegetables belong to 

 her when once deposited in her house by 

 the husband. She, indeed, is the queen 

 of her own house; hence the Pueblo In- 

 dian woman occupies a social relation- 

 ship different from that of most aborigi- 

 nes, in that she is on quite equal terms 

 with her husband." 



Commercial Geography. A book for 

 high schools, commercial courses, 

 and business colleges. By Jacques 

 W. Redway. With 15 maps and 

 many illustrations. Pp. 406. New 

 York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1903. 

 Mr Redway is well known, both as 

 geographer and educator--a combina- 

 tion essential in the preparation of good 

 school text-books. This book, how- 

 ever, is rather a disappointment, since 

 the treatment of many of the topics is 

 scanty and inadequate and in some cases 

 iucorrect. The book may be further 

 characterized as a presentation of facts 

 with little attempt to explain or corre- 

 late them. It is a compilation rather 

 than a discussion. H. G. 



Present-Day Egypt. By F. C. Pen- 

 field. Revised and enlarged edition. 

 Illustrated. Pp. 391. New York: 

 Century Co. 1903. 

 This volume was first published in 

 1899. It had already passed through 

 several editions when Mr Penfield de- 

 cided to revise and enlarge it, so that 

 he might describe the enormous devel- 

 opment of Egypt during the past four 

 years. The great dam at Assuan, 

 which forms a lake four times as large 

 as Lake Geneva, and the no less won- 

 derful works at Assiut are probably 

 only the beginnings of a series of res- 

 ervoirs which will extend at intervals 

 along the Nile perhaps as far as Victo- 

 ria Nyanza itself. The Assuan dam 

 and the works now in construction will 

 soon increase by 20 per cent the farm 



