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REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
Mineral Tables for the determination of minerals by their physical pro'p- 
erties; by A. S.' Eakle, New York. John Wiley & Sons. 8vo. Cloth, 
pp. 73, 1504. Price, $1.25. 
This set of tables is arranged in form of an analytical key, first based 
on streak and color and secondly on hardness, and is calculated for use 
introductory to blowpipe analysis. It would be quite convenient in any 
mineralogical laboratory, and would help an amateur in his first efforts 
of observation of the outward characters of minerals. n. h. w. 
Geograpliic InHiicnces in American History; Albert Perry Brigh.xm. 
i2mo. 366 pages. By mail, $1.40. Ginn & Company, Boston, 1903. 
The author passes the United States in review both historically and 
geographically. Beginning with the colonial settlements in New Eng- 
land and the Atlantic border, the description and discussion swing round 
the southern Appalachians, along the gulf coast, up the Mississippi val- 
ley, over the states of the plains, the borders of the great lakes, crosses 
the mountains, descends to the Pacific and ends with the new states 
in the far northwest. In leaving each section the author vouchsafes 
some encouraging or warning, or prophetic words. 
This review is entertaining and instructive ; and for the youthful 
student of American history and civilization it mingles with the de- 
scription of nature and the natural features of the country sufficient of 
the peculiarities that characterize the people of the sections and their 
industry to introduce into the history a flavor of storj'-telling ; and this 
is so guided as to lead the reader, unwittingly perhaps, into a conviction 
not only of the powerful role of the geography of the country in our 
present, but of the greater destiny that awaits us in the future 
The rhetorician might object to so many sentences beginning with 
the copulative "and." Even one paragraph (p. 290) opens with the 
same word. 
The book is a cultivation of a new field in an original way, disclosing 
on the part of the author a perfect familiarity with all parts of the 
United States, socially, historically, commercially and physiographically. 
N. H. \V. 
New Physical Geography; Ralph S. Tarr. 12 mo. 457 pages. The 
Macmillan Company, New York. Price, $1.00. 1904. 
This book is not intended to supersede the author's "Elementary 
Physical Geography." published a few years ago; it is rather a "new 
work, different in plan, in scope, and, in many respects, in subject 
matter." It is very fully illustrated, mainly by half-tone figures, as may 
be seen by the fact that, having 457 pages, its illustrations are numbered 
to -68. 
