Geographic Literature: Book Reviews

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Lessons in Physical Geography.-Charles R. Dryer. American Book Company, 1901. Pp. 430, with 347 figures. $1.20.

Our European Neighbors. Edited by William Harbutt Dawson. Five volumes completed. Two in preparation. 18.5×12 cm. cloth. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New Eork and London. Price $1.20 net.

A Text-Book of Commercial Geography.-Cyrus C. Adams, B.A., F.A.G.S. 12 mo. pp. xvi-1-505; 158 maps and charts and 17 illustrations. Appleton's series of “Twentieth Century Text-Books,” edited by .A. F. Nightingale, Ph.D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1901.

The Story of Nineteenth Century Science. Henry Smith Williams. 20×13 cm. T. Y. Crowell and Co., New York, 1902, Pp. vii + 417; figures, illustrations and maps, 156. Price, $2.00.

Who's Who in America.—A biographical dictionary of notable living men and women of the United States. Edited by John W. Leonard. 20×15 cm. A. M. Marquis and Co., Chicago, 1902. Pp. 1302. Price, $2.75 net.

The Wide World.—A Geographical Reader. The Wide World.-A Geographical Reader.-The Youth's Companion Series. Ginn & Co., 1902. Pp. vif 122, illustrated.

Around the World, Third Book, Home Geography for Fifth Grade.-Stella W. Carroll and Estelle M. Hart, edited by Clarence F. Carroll. Morse Company, New York and Boston, 1901. Pp. 270. Illustrated. 40 cents.

The Great Deserts and Forests of North America.-Paul Fountain. 23×15 cm. Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 1901. Pp. ix+295.

Forest Trees and Forest Scenery. G. Frederick Schwarz. 19×13 cm. 12mo. The Grafton Press, New York, 1901. Pp. xiv 4-183. 26 illustrations.

The Story of Paper Making.-J. W. Butler Paper Company, Chicago, 1901. 20×13 em. Pp. viii+136. 16 full page illustrations. Price, $1.25.

Les Cerfs Volants. 4. Lecornu. 24×16 cm. Librairie Nony et Cie, Paris, 1902. Pp. iv+240; 160 illustrations.

Irrigation in the United States.-Frederick Haynes Newell, Chief of the Division of Hydrography of the United States Geological Survey. Size, 7 1/2 × 5. T. Y. Crowell and Co., New Tork, 1902. Pp. vii+417; figures, illustrations and maps, 156. Price, $2.00.     

Book Reviews

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Educational Foundations of Trade and Industry.—Fabian Ware. 7 × 4 1/2, in. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1901. Pp. xiv + 300. Price, $1.20.

Observations and Exercises on the Weather.—Laboratory Work in Physical Geography and Meteorology by James A. Price, A.M., Instructor in Physiography in the Fort Wayne High School, Indiana. 10 × 8 in. New York, American Book Co., 1902. Pp. 60. Price, 30 cents.

Harriman Alaska Expedition.—Two volumes. 10 × 7 in. New York. Doubledar, Page & Co., 1901. Pp. xlii + 184-200; 15 landscapes in color lithography, 25 color lithographs of birds, mammals and flowers, 85 photogravures, all full-page; 240 pen drawings in the text, and 5 maps. Text by John Burroughs and eleven others. Price, $15.

A Laboratory Manual of Botany.—Outlines and Directions for Laboratory and Field Work in Botany in Secondary Schools. Otis W. Caldwell, Ph.D., Professor of Botany in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School. 7 × 5 in. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1902.

Grammar School Geography.—Alexis Everett Frye, recently Superintendent of Schools of Cuba. Large quarto, cloth. Boston, Ginn & Company, 1902. Pp. viii + 195 and 8. List price, $1.25.     

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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe.—Frank G. Carpenter. 7 1/4 × 4 3/4. New York, American Book Company, 1902. Pp. 456; numerous illustrations and twelve maps. Price, 70 cents.

Argonaut Letters.—Jerome Hart. Payot, Upham & Go. 1901.

Pyrenees, Through the High.-Harold Spencer and H. Llewellyn Smith. A. D. Innes & Go., London, 1898.

Tibetans in Tent and Temple, with the.-Susie Carson Rijnhart, M.D. Fleming H. Revell Co., 1901.     

Book Reviews

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Elementary Physical Geography.—William Morris Davis. Boston, Ginn and Company, 1902. Pp. xviii + 401, with 19 plates and 190 figures. $1.25.

The Desert.—John C. Van Dyke. 7×5 in. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1901. Pp. 233, full page photogravure frontispiece. Price, $1.25 net.     

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North America. By Israel C. Russell. Pp. × and 435. Appleton's World Series. New York: D. áppletoa & Co., 1904.     

Reviews

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To California and Back. A Book of Practical Information for Travelers to the Pacific. By C. A. Higgins. Pp. x, 317. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903.

Agriculture for Beginners. By Charles W. Burkett, Frank L. Stevens, and Daniel H. Hill. Pp. xii, 267. Size, 71/2 × 5 inches. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903.

Longmans' School Geography. By George G. Chisholm and C. H. Leete. Seventh edition, revised. Pp. xii, 513. New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1903.     

Book Notices

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The Story Of Cotton And The Development Of The Cotton States:—By Eugene Brooks, Pp. 370; Rand, Mcnally & Co., Chicago And New York, 1911.

Highroads Of Geography, Volumes 1 And 2. Thomas Nelson And Sons, New York And London.

Productive Farming By Kary Cadmus Davis, Ph. D. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 7/12 × 345 Pp.     

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An Elementary Commercial Geography. By Cyrus C. Adam. Size, 7 1/2 × 5 inches. Pp. xii, 351. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903.

Geographen-Kalender. By Dr. Hermann Haack. In collaboration with Dr. Wilhelm Blankenburg, Professor Paul Langhans, Professor Paul Lehmann, and Hugo Wichmann. First year, 1903-1904. Size, 4 × 6. Pp. xv. and 320 and 124 and 64 and 15 maps Price, 3 marks. Gotha: Justus Perthes. 1903.     

Preview of Films

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Physical Geography. By Arthur N. Strahler. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975. Pp. ix + 643, $15.95.

The American Landscape: Map And Air Photo Interpretation. By C. L. Blair and B. V, Gutsell. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Pp. 62.

Geography: A Modern Synthesis. By Peter Haggett. Second edition. New York: Harper &; Row, 1975. Pp. xx + 620, $13.95.

Student Study Guide To Accompany Geography: A Modern Synthesis. John R. Healy and Larry K. Stephenson. Second edition. New York: Harper &; Row, 1975. Pp. 205, $4.50.     

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Handbook of Climatology. Part I. General Climatology. By Dr. Julius Hann. Translated with the Author's permission from the second revised and enlarged German edition, with additional references and notes, by Robert De Courcey Ward. Size, 9 × 51/2. Pp. xvi and 437. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903. Price $3.00.

How We Are Fed. A Geographical Reader. By James Franklin Chamberlain Size, 41/2 × 6. Pp. xii and 214. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903. Price 40c. Professor Chaniberlain's How We Are Fed covers a field which has hitherto     

Time and Practice: Learning to Become a Geographer

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Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada. By Kelsie B. Harder. New York: Van Nostrand, 1976. Pp. xiv + 631, $18.95.

Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. 2nd ed. By Robert C. West and John P. Augelli. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Pp. xvii + 494, $14.95.

Contemporary Africa: Geography and Change. Edited by C. Gregory Knight and James L. Newman. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Pp. xiv + 546, $14.95.

Atlas of Mexico. By Stanley A. Arbingast et al. 2nd ed. Austin, Tex.: Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1975. Pp. ix + 165, $15.00.

Readings in Social Geography. Edited by Emrys Jones. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 328, $18.50 and $6.95.

California: Patterns on the Land. 5th ed. By Robert Durrenberger and Robert Johnson. A California Council for Geographic Education Publication. Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing, 1976. Pp. viii + 134, $6.95.

Studying China in Elementary and Secondary Schools, Studying India in Elementary and Secondary Schools, and Studying Japan in Elementary and Secondary Schools. By Leonard S. Ken-worthy. World Affairs Guides. New York: Teachers College Press, 1975. Pp. 68, iii + 67, and iii + 65, $2.75 each.

World Regional Geography: A Question of Place. By Paul Ward English and James Andrew Miller. Harper &; Row Series in Geography. New York: Harper &; Row, 1977. Pp. xiii + 591, $15.95.

Census Data: Geographic Significance and Classroom Utility. Edited by Borden D. Dent. Tualatin, Oreg.: Geographic and Area Study Publications, 1976. Pp. ix + 277.

The Middle East: A Geographical Study. By Peter Beaumont, Gerald H. Blake, and Malcolm J. Wagstaff. London: John Wiley &; Sons, 1976. Pp. xvii + 572, $25.50 and $14.95.

Man's Economic Environment. By Edgar C. Conklingand Maurice Yeates. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976. Pp. xi + 308, $11.95.

Applied Climatology: An Introduction. 2nd ed. By John F. Griffiths. New York/London: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xiii + 136, $9.00.

Man and the Environment: Regional Perspectives. Edited by J. H. Holmes. Hawthorn, Victoria: Longman Australia Pty Limited, 1976. Pp. vi + 261, $7.95.

Introduction to Cultural Geography. 5th ed. By Henry M. Kendall, Robert M. Glendinning, Clifford H. MacFadden, and Craig H. MacFadden. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Pp. xx + 449, $12.95.

Interpretation of Aerial Photographs. 3rd ed. By Thomas Eugene Avery. Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. xi + 392, $14.95.

Geography of the U.S.S.R. 3rd ed. By Paul Lydolph. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1977. Pp. xi + 495, $18.95.     

The Utilization of Wastes and By-Products

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Commercial Geography. By Jacques W. Redway. Size, 6 × 3 8/4 inches. Pp. viii and 406. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903.     

Current Material for the Geography Teacher: Substitution of Other Materials for Wood Increasing

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Geography And Man's Environment. By Arthur N. Strahler and Alan H. Strahler. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1977. Pp. xi + 525.

Order Upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country. By Hildegard Binder Johnson. The Andrew H. Clark Series in the Historical Geography of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 268, $9.00 and $5.00.

The Earth in Profile: A Physical Geography. By David Greenland and Harm J. de Blij. New York: Canfield Press, Harper &; Row, 1977. Pp. xi + 468.

Global Perspectives on Ecology. Edited by Thomas C. Emmel. Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1977. Pp. viii + 522, $6.95.

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. By Yi-Fu Tuan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. Pp. vi + 235, $12.95.

African Survey. By Alan C. G. Best and Harm J. de Blij. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1977. Pp. xi + 626, $17.95.     

The Council At Work

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Cultural Geography On Topographic Maps. By Karl B. Raitz and John Fraser Hart. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, 1975. Pp. 139, $12.95.

Blacks In The United States: A Geographical Perspective. By George A. Davis and O. Fred Donaldson. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Pp. ix + 270, $5.95.

The Arctic. By Fred bruemmer. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1974. Pp. 224, $25.00.     

Editorials

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Comprehensive Geography of West Africa. By Reuben K. Udo. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1978. Pp. xvi + 304, $10.00.

Africa: Geographical Studies. By Richard White. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978. Pp. vii + 208, $6.75.

Atmosphere, Weather and Climate. By R. G. Barry and R. J. Chorley. London and New York: Methuen and Co., 1976. Pp. 432, $9.95.

The Circumpolar North. By Terence Armstrong, George Rogers, and Graham Rowley. London: Methuen and Co., 1978. Pp. xix + 303, $32.50.     

Chinese Items

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Arroyos and Environmental Change in the American South-West. By Ronald U. Cooke and Richard W. Reeves. Oxford Research Studies in Geography. London and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 213, $18.75.

Uganda: The Asian Exiles. By Thomas and Margaret Melady. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1976. Pp. 86, $6.95.

Urban Japan: Its Foundations and Growth. By David Kornhauser. The World's Landscapes, ed. J. M. Houston. London and New York: Longman, 1976. Pp. xiii + 180, $15.00 and $7.50.

Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776–1970. 2nd ed. By Roy M. Robbins. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

The North American City. By Maurice Yeates and Barry Garner. 2nd ed. New York: Harper &; Row, 1976. Pp. xxv + 512, $13.95.

The Reasons for the Seasons: The Great Cosmic Megagalactic Trip Without Moving from your Chair. By Linda Allison. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. 128, $6.95 and $3.95.     

Audio-visual reference sources

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AUDIO VISUAL MARKET PLACE 1981: A MULTIMEDIA GUIDE. 11th ed. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1981. Pp. x + 468.

AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT DIRECTORY 1981–1982. 27th ed. Fairfax, Virginia: National Audio-Visual Association, 1981. Pp. 543.     

Books in Brief

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Edgar T. Thompson and Everett C. Hughes, Editors. RACE—INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1958. Also London: Collier-Macmillan, Ltd., 619 pages, bibliography, index of contributors. $7.50

THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Chicago, III.: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1966. 20 volumes.

John C. Bollens and Henry J. Schmandt. THE METROPOLIS: ITS PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC LIFE. New York: Harper and Row, Inc., 1965. xvi + 643 pages, with table of contents, maps, bibliography and indexes. $7.50.

Kirtley F. Mather. THE EARTH BENEATH US. New York: Random House, 1964. 320 large pages (8 1/2 × 11 inches), 240 photographic illustrations (116 in color), index. ($12.95) $15.00.

J. R. V. Prescott. THE GEOGRAPHY OF FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES. New York: Hillary House Publishers, Ltd., 1965. 190 pages. $3.00.

Virginia M. Rowley. J. RUSSELL SMITH, GEOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR, CONSERVATIONIST. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. 247 pages. $6.00.