Geographic Literature 



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land of the country. The water of the 

 Nile is inexhaustible. Each work, 

 however gigantic, soon pays for itself 

 and then yields a handsome revenue 

 each year thereafter. The volume is 

 fascinating from cover to cover. 



Meyers Historisch-Geographischer Kal- 

 ender, J 904. Published by the Bibli- 

 ographischer Instituts in Leipzig and 

 Wien. New York: Lemcke& Buech- 

 ner. 



This calendar is not only all its title 

 claims for it, but more — it is ethnologic 

 as well. For each day in the year there 

 is a separate detachable page, the upper 

 half of which is devoted to a picture of 

 an historic, geographic, or ethnologic 

 subject, selected with good taste and 

 j udgment, many of them being half-tone 

 reproductions of original photographs, 

 one of which is especially noteworthy 

 as a work of art, it being from a photo- 

 graph by Alexander Alkier. It por- 

 trays the reflection of the ' ' midnight 

 sun" on the waters near Spitzbergen. 

 A number of the pictures are reproduc- 

 tions of old historic wood cuts. Be- 

 neath the pictures are half a dozen or 

 more lines of explanatory text. The 

 lower half of the page contains a num- 

 ber of references to historic events 

 which occurred on that date ; this is 

 followed by the date, the name of the 

 month, day of the week, and the various 

 feast days being also given. Below are 

 the phases of the sun and moon, each 

 month beginning with a planetary table. 

 The work is unique in conception and 

 execution and filled with a mine of in- 

 formation in concise form for the busy 

 worker. J. H. Mc. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 \ 902. Profusely illustrated. Pp. 

 lvi 4- 687. 6 l /> by 9 inches. Wash- 

 ington : Government Printing Office. 

 1903. 



In the appendix of this useful annual 

 volume are collected many papers of 

 permanent value, giving a record of sci- 



entific progress in different lines. Most 

 of them have been published elsewhere. 

 Two of the papers are reprints of arti- 

 cles from the National Geographic 

 Magazine — ' ' Volcanic Eruptions on 

 Martinique and St Vincent," by Prof. 

 Israel C. Russell, and "Reindeer in 

 Alaska," by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. 

 Other articles of geographical nature 

 are: ' ' Progress of Geographical Knowl- 

 edge," Col. Sir T. H. Holdich ; "Wild 

 Tribes of the Malay Peninsula," W. W. 

 Skeat ; ' ' Pygmies of the Great Congo 

 Forest," Sir Harry H. Johnston ; 

 "Guam and Its People," W. E. Saf- 

 f ord ; ' ' The Nile Reservoir Dam at 

 Assiian," Thomas H. Means; " Panama 

 Route for a Ship Canal," William H. 

 Burr; "Coral," Dr Louis Roule; "The 

 Baousse-Rousse Explorations, Study of 

 a New Human Type by M. Verneau," 

 Albert Gaudry. 



Geology of Worcester, Mass. By Joseph 

 H. Perry and Benjamin K. Emerson. 

 Illustrated. Pp. xii -j- 166. 6 by 9 

 inches. Published by the Worcester 

 Natural History Society. 1903. 

 This volume will prove a very useful 

 guide to the people of central Massa- 

 chusetts in their walks and drives. It 

 is to be regretted that similar works do 

 not exist of many other sections of the 

 country. 



Early Western Travels. 1 748-1 846. 



The Arthur H. Clark Company, pub- 

 lishers, of Cleveland, Ohio, announce 

 a series of Annotated Reprints of some 

 of the best and rarest contemporary 

 volumes of travel, descriptive of the 

 aborigines and social and economic 

 conditions in the Middle and Far West 

 during the period of early American 

 settlement. 



The series is edited with historical, 

 geographical, ethnological, and biblio- 

 graphical notes, and introductions and 

 index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. 



It contains facsimiles of the original 

 title-pages, maps, portraits, views, etc. 



