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to an index. ‘The chief headings are petrographical, dynamic, struc- 
tural, and historical geology, over half the volume being given to the 
last. Each chapter opens with a brief list of references to sources. 
Illustrations are numerous, those of fossils being the most elaborate. 
The first volume of Za Face de la Terre, a translation under the 
competent direction of E. de Margerie of Suess’ famous Antlitz der 
Lrde, is just received. (Colin, Paris. 835 pp., many figures.) There 
is no other book to which the advanced student can turn for so many 
applications of what he has learned in geology, for here is given 
a broad geological view of all explored lands. The asymmetrical 
structure of mountain ranges is the chief theme of this volume. The 
translators have added numerous supplementary paragraphs, indi- 
cated by brackets, and have brought the references to geological 
sources down to the present year. Any one wishing to strengthen 
his geological library in the direction of the structural geology of the 
world can hardly do better than order all the works here referred to. 
Tarr’s Airst Book of Physical Geography (Macmillan, 1897) follows 
his Elementary Physical Geography (1895). The second volume was 
prepared because many teachers who wish to give instruction in the 
“ new physical geography” are unable to use the first volume; this 
statement revealing the peculiarly insufficient understanding of the 
subject that the teachers gained when they were scholars. The 
first Book attempts rather too much in its astronomical and geo- 
logical chapters, and goes further into physics than is necessary in 
the pages on the atmosphere. It is at its best when presenting the 
features of the land; but here, as is often the case, it gives relatively 
greater prominence to process than to form, and asa result with- 
draws the chief attention of the student from the prime object of 
geographical study. It is, nevertheless, a valuable addition to our 
school literature, and might easily have been more valuable if a 
carelessness of style and statement here and there had been 
avoided, 
