254 ^^^^ American Geologist. October, looi. 
The Creator, working through long ages by these processes 
of descent with modification, wihich we call evolution, has de- 
veloped the great races of mankind from some single older and 
much different ancestral species of less intelligence. Anthro- 
pology, the science of the development of man and his races and 
tribes, agrees thus with the words of the inspired apostle Paul, 
in his address to the Athenians, teaching them of God who 
"made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face 
of the earth." w. u. 
REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
The Nciv Basis of Geography. By J. Q. Redway. The Macmillan Co. 
Pp. 229. Price $1.00. 
This book, which is written primarily as a manual for teachers of 
geography, will be of interest to the wider circle of students of geog- 
raphy. The new geography, to quote the preface, is "the mutual rela- 
tion of geographic environment to political history on the one hand 
and economic development on the other." The first half of the book 
deals with this subject of geographic environment. After considering the 
influence of environment on man's historical development, the writer 
takes up various incidental influences of topography on life and con- 
cludes this part of the book with a very interesting chapter on the ef- 
fects of topography and climate on the economic history of the United. 
States. In a book of this compass the treatment must be suggestive and 
elementary, rather than exhaustive. 
The second half of the book is of more strictly pedagogical interest, 
and deals with aims and methods of geographic teaching in the ele- 
mentary and secondary schools. Many of the suggestions will prove 
helpful to teachers of physical geography and geology in secondary 
schools. 
It is a pleasure to get hold of a work in which the writer has some- 
thing to say. knows what it is, and then goes on to say it in a cleaf, in- 
cisive and attractive manner, so much of our geological and geo- 
graphical writing is done in other lines. l; g. w. 
Paleozoic Faunas of Northern Arkansas; by H. S. Willi.vms. (Ar- 
kansas Geol. Sur., Ann. Rept. 1892, pp. 268-362, 1901.) 
Probably no region of its size has had so much geological investi- 
gation carried on within its borders, and at the same time had so little 
accomplished regarding the geological age of the various formations, 
as the Ozark highlands. What has been needed most has been exact 
paleontological data. It is therefore an exceptional pleasure to see the 
recently issued chapter on the Paleozoic Faunas of Northern Arkansas. 
