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Geographic Literature » . 426 



"Rise of the New West" (Frederick Jackson Turner) 426 



"Statesman's Year-Book" for 1906 426 



"Hints to Travelers" 426 



South America Fifty Years Hence; by Charles M. PeppER 427 



A New Peruvian Route to the Plain of the Amazon ; by Solon Bailey 432 



From Panama to Patagonia 449 



Commercial America in 1905 ; by Hon. O. P. Austin 452 



The Fertile Pampas of Argentine 453 



The Falls of Iguazu ; by Marie Robinson Wright 456 



The Gypsy Moth 461 



The Shattered Obelisk of Mont Pelee ; by Prof. Angelo Heilprin 465 



What the Latin American Republics Think of the Pan-American Conferences 474 



Reasons Why the United States in Particular Should Encourage the Pan-American 



Conferences 479 



Good Books on Mexico, Central and South America 480 



The Deserts of Nevada and the Death Valley; by Robert H. Chapman 483 



Japan, America, and the Orient ; by Hon. Eki Hioki 498 



The Forests of Canada ; by Sir Wilfrid Laurier 504 



The Vast Timber Belts of Canada 509 



Animal Wealth of the United States ; by Hon. Francis E. Warren 511 



Cultivation of Marine and Fresh-water Animals in Japan; by K. Mitsukuri 524 



The Lumber Business of the Government 531 



A Polar Map 533 



Geographic Literature 533 



"Elements of Geology" (Prof. W. H. Norton) 533 



"Italy" (W. Deecke) 533 



"The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898" 534 



"Modern India" (William Eleroy Curtis) 534 



"Problems of the Panama Canal" (Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbott) 534 



"American Park Systems" (Andrew Wright Crawford) 534 



"Rhode Island" (Irving Richman) 534 



"Louisiana" (Albert Phelps) 534 



"American Commonwealths" 534 



Good Books on the West Indies 534 



Cuba— the Pearl of the Antilles 535 



The Immigration into Cuba 568 



Ostrich Farming in the United States 569 



The Passing of Korea 575 



Russia's Wheat Surplus 580 



Burning the Roads 583 



The Work on the Isthmus 586 



South American Immigration 587 



Note on Glacier Discovery v 587 



The Origin of "Labrador" 587 



Executive Order. 588 



Geographic Literature 588 



"Panama, the Isthmus and Canal" (C. H. Forbes-Lindsey) 588 



The American Eclipse Expedition; by Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S. N 589 



The Buried City of Ceylon ; by John M. Abbot 613 



Three Old Ports on the Spanish Main ; by G. M. L. Brown 622 



