114 The National Geographic Magazine 



In its relation to the federal govern- 

 ment, Alaska differs from any other pos- 

 session of the United States. Though 

 heavily taxed, the 30,000 white residents 

 have no voice in the making of their laws. 

 Porto Ricans and Hawaiians have ter- 

 ritorial government, the Filipinos have 

 their commission, but Alaska must de- 

 pend entirely on the benevolent paternal- 

 ism of a legislative body 5,000 miles 

 away. 



A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL GEOG 

 RAPHY* 



EIGHTY thousand places are listed 

 and described in the new edition of 

 Lippincott's Gazetteer, edited by Messrs 

 Angelo Heilprin and Louis Heilprin and 

 just published by J. B. Lippincott Co. 

 The descriptions vary from one line to 

 several pages. For condensed, accurate, 

 and useful information as to the geog- 

 raphy, geology, history, commercial con- 

 dition, etc., of the world, this Gazetteer 

 has no equal. The publishers have used 

 a light but tough paper, so that in spite of 

 the immense amount of matter included, 

 the volume is easily handled. 



Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer, in 

 its various editions, has been before the 

 public just half a century, the first edition 

 having made its appearance in 1855. The 

 present publication, printed from new 

 type from cover to cover, is a new work, 

 embodying little mOre than the frame- 

 work of its predecessor, together with its 

 system of pronunciation. It presents a 

 picture of the world in its minutest de- 

 tails in the year 1905. 



For the United States a standard of in- 

 clusion has been adopted entirely differ- 

 ent from that employed in the case of 

 foreign countries. Almost every cluster 

 of houses that in this country deserves 

 the name of hamlet is supposed to figure 



in the pages of the Gazetteer. The 

 Philippine Islands and other possessions 

 of the United States beyond the seas are 

 dealt with under a vast number of heads. 

 For Canada the standard of inclusion has 

 been made almost the same as that of the 

 United States, and this is also true of 

 Cuba, Mexico, the South American re- 

 publics, and the South African colonies. 



The political and commercial changes 

 in the last ten years have been incor- 

 porated, and also the latest results in polar 

 work, in mountaineering, etc. 



"No survey of the field would be ade- 

 quate without a reference to the changes 

 that have taken place during the recent 

 years in the sources of the mineral supply 

 of the world. The auriferous fields of 

 the Transvaal Colony have developed 

 into the richest on the face of the globe. 

 Colorado has outstripped California in 

 the yield of gold, and has become the 

 foremost silver-producing state in the 

 Union. Montana now boasts of the rich- 

 est deposits of copper in the world, and 

 Minnesota outranks Michigan in the out- 

 put of iron. The product of the iron 

 mines of Germany has eclipsed that of 

 the mines of Great Britain. Sweden has 

 risen to a new level among the iron- 

 producing countries through the exploita- 

 tion of the prodigious deposits of Gelli- 

 vare, beyond the Arctic Circle. New 

 Caledonia has found a rival in the district 

 of Sudbury, Ontario, as a leading source 

 of the world's supply of nickel. Immense 

 stores of petroleum have been discovered 

 in California, Texas, Kansas, and ad- 

 jacent regions, vying with those of the 

 Appalachian fields and the Ohio Valley. 

 In the yield of this mineral Baku, on the 

 shores of the Caspian Sea, has risen to 

 the foremost position in the world. Prus- 

 sia almost equals England in the products 

 of its coal mines." 



*Lippincott's New Gazetteer, A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical 

 Dictionary of the World, containing the most recent and authentic information respect- 

 ing the countries, cities, towns, resorts, islands, rivers, mountains, seas, lakes, etc., io 

 every portion of the globe. Edited by Angelo Heilprin, of the Sheffield Scientific School 

 of Tale University, late President of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Fellow of 

 the Royal Geographical Society of London, etc., and Louis Heilprin, author of "The- 

 Historical Reference Book," etc. 2050 pp. 11 by 8 inches. Philadelphia and London : 

 J. B. Lippincott Company, 190G. $10.00. 



