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impressions regarding servants, mer- 

 chants, trade methods, and domestic 

 life are unattractive from a western 

 standpoint. Contrasts of the old samu- 

 rai (nobility) and the new are more 

 promising. Dr Knox gives credit to 

 Japan for choosing freedom, self-gov- 

 ernment, progress, and modern science, 

 and forecasts its future world influence 

 as important. A. W. G. 



The Pr oceedings of the American Forest 

 Congress held at Washington, D. C, 

 January 2 to 6, under the auspices of the 

 American Forestry Association, will be 

 issued in book form on March 15. The 

 volume will contain about 400 pages 

 and will be handsomely bound in cloth. 

 It will contain the complete addresses by 

 President Roosevelt, Secretary Wilson, 

 and about fifty other prominent speakers 

 who were on the program, including not 

 only those most prominent in State and 

 national forest work, but the leaders in 

 the railroad, lumbering, mining, graz- 

 ing, and irrigation industries. The price 

 of the volume is $1.25, prepaid to any 

 address. Published for the American 

 Forestry Association by the H. M. Suter 

 Publishing Company, Washington, D.C. 



44 The Bahama Islands 99 will be issued as 

 the first monograph of the Geographical 

 Society of Baltimore early in March. 

 The volume is illustrated with 92 plates, 

 of which 25 are color-illustrations of 

 vegetation, fishes, maps, charts, etc. In 

 June, 1903, the Society equipped and 

 sent out to the Bahama Islands a scien- 

 tific expedition under the direction of Dr 

 George B. Shattuck, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. Investigations were 

 carried on in geology, paleontology, 

 tides, earth magnetism, climate, kite- 

 flying in the tropics for atmospheric 

 observations, agriculture, botany, mos- 

 quitoes, fishes, reptiles, birds, mam- 

 mals, medical conditions, social condi- 

 tions, and the history of the islands, 

 compiled from original records in pos- 

 session of the government. The book 



will contain chapters on each of these 

 subjects. The chapter on geology is 

 written by Dr George B. Shattuck, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University, and Dr 

 Benjamin Le Roy Miller, of Bryn Mawr 

 College ; that on paleontology by Dr 

 Wm. H. Dall, U. S. National Museum; 

 that on tides by L. P. Shidy, U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, and so on. 



BOOKS RECEIVED 



Check List of Large Scale Maps Pub- 

 lished by Foreign Governments* Com- 

 piled under the direction of Philip 

 Lee Phillips. Pp.58. 10x7 inches. 

 Washington : Government Printing 

 Office. 1904. 



Earthquakes. By Clarence Edward 

 Dutton, Major, U. S. A. Pp. 314. 

 S}4 x sH inches. New York : G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. 1904. 



The United States of America. By 



Edwin Erie Sparks. Two vols. Pp. 

 385 -f 385. 8 x 5% inches. New 

 York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1904. 



A. L. A. Catalog of 8,000 Volumes for 

 a Popular Library. Editor, Melvil 

 Dewey. Pp.485. 9^ x 7^ inches. 

 Washington : Government Printing 

 Office. October, 1904. 



Swedish Life in Town and Country. 



By O. G. Von Heidenstam. Pp. 286. 

 7^ x 5 inches. New York : G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. 1904. $1.20. 



Historic Highways of America. Vol. 



14. The Great American Canals. 

 The Erie Canal. Vol. ii. By Ar- 

 cher Butler Hulbert. Pp. 224. 7^ 

 x 5 inches. Cleveland, Ohio : The 

 Arthur H. Clark Co. 1904. 



Students' Laboratory Manual of Physi- 

 cal Geography. By Albert Perry 

 Brigham. Pp.153. 7 H- x 5 % inches. 

 New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1904. 



Physiography. By T. H. Huxley and 

 R. A. Gregory. Pp. 423. 7 x 4^ 

 inches. New York : Macmillati & 

 Co. 1904. 



