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The National Geographic Magazine 



The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898. Vols. 



XXII (1625-1629), pp. 323; XXIII 



(1629-1630), pp. 299. Illustrated. 



Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co. 1905. 



Volume XXII of this valuable publica- 

 tion has special interest from its accounts 

 of social life at Manila, the fostering of 

 educational interests, and the regulation 

 of the Chinese. XXIII contains very ex- 

 tended extracts from Fr. Medina's enter- 

 taining and valuable history of the 

 Augustinians in the Philippines. 



A. W. G. 



Modern India. By William Eleroy Curtis. 



Illustrated. 513 pages. Fleming H. 



Revell & Co. 1905. 



This is a republication of a series of 

 letters written during the winter of 1903- 

 1904. The author is an experienced trav- 

 eler who has retained youthful eyes. 

 Wherever he goes, he sees many things 

 overlooked by others, especially by the 

 chronic globe-trotter, and he has a de- 

 lightful way of serving it up. He tells 

 what one wants to know, and he tells it in 

 a simple but most interesting way. 



His journeyings in India commenced 

 in Bombay and ended in Calcutta. The 

 straight trip across was varied by side 

 trips to certain places, as Delhi, Simla, 

 etc., and his itinerary and descriptions of 

 places are varied by bits of history, ac- 

 counts of Indian institutions and social 

 customs. For an understanding of the 

 surface features of this East Indian peo- 

 ple, this book is admirable. H. G. 



Problems of the Panama Canal. By 



Brig. Gen. Henry L. Abbot. Pp. 



247. 5^x8 inches. New York: The 



Macmillan Co. 1905. 



An excellent history of the French 

 work on the Isthmus, including much 

 useful information on the climatology, 

 the Chagres floods, and the physical 

 geography of the Isthmus. 



American Park Systems, by Andrew 

 Wright Crawford, contains an account 

 of the park system of every city 

 in the United States which has begun 

 making parks. The work done is illus- 



trated by a map of each city The lit- 

 tle book, which has a patriotic as well as 

 commercial value, can be obtained of the 

 author, 701 Stephen Girard Building, 

 Philadelphia. 



Rhode Island. A Study in Separatism. 

 By Irving Berdine Richman. Pp. 



495- 

 Louisiana. A Record in Expansion. 



By Albert Phelps. Pp. 412. 

 American Commonwealths. Boston 



and New York : Houghton, Mifflin & 



Co. $1.10 net. 



Each of the above books gives a good 

 history of the state chosen, but both 

 are inadequate in that they summarize 

 in a few words the last 30 years, and 

 contain practically nothing about the 

 states as they are today. 



GOOD BOOKS ON THE WEST INDIES 



"Cuba and Porto Rico," with the other 

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"Report on the Census of Cuba, 1899." Lt. 

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 (Out of print.) 



"Report on the Census of Porto Rico, 1899." 

 L,t. Col. Joseph P. Sanger, director, War De- 

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 trated. (Out of print.) 



"Our West Indian Neighbors, the Islands of 

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 Pott. $2.50. 



"Storied West Indies." Frederic Ober. Ap- 

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"Cruising in the West Indies." Anson 

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"Two Years in the French West Indies." 

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"Around the Caribbean and Across Pan- 

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"Ancient and Modern Engineering and the 

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"Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martin- 

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"History and Guide to Barbadoes and Cari- 

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