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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
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Cabot. Deutsche Rundschau G-20 (1897): 36-40. Wolkenbauer.
Giovanni Caboto. Zur Erinnerung an die Entdeckung Nord-Amerikas dnrch
denselben im Sommer 1497. Yon Dr. W. Wolkenhauer. With Portrait.
Celtis. Geiger.
Miinchener geograpliische Studien. Herausgegeben von Siegmund Gunther.
Zweites Stiick: Conrad Celtis in seinen Beziehungen zur Geographic. Yon Dr.
Theodor Geiger. Miinchen: T. Ackermann, 1896. Size 9£ x 6 , pp. 40.
Conrad Celtis was born near Wurzburg in 1459, and died in 1508. He wrote on
the topography of Germany amongst other subjects.
d'Anville. Deutsche Rundschau G. 19 (1897) : 468-471. Wolkenhauer.
J. B. Bourgnignon d’Anville. Von Dr. W. Wolkenhauer. With Portrait.
Enox. Ferguson.
Captain Robert Knox: The Twenty Years’ Captive in Ceylon, and Author of ‘ An
Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East Indies’ (London, 1681).
Contributions towards a Biography. By Donald W. Ferguson. Colombo (Ceylon)
and Croydon, 1896-97. Size 10 X 7£, pp. 72. Presented by the Author.
An interesting biography of a merchant-adventurer of the seventeenth century,
whose memory the author believes is not done justice to in the Dictionary of National
Biography.
Ralegh. Hume.
Sir Walter Ralegh. The British Dominion of the West. By Martin A. S. Hume.
(Builders of Greater Britain. Edited by H. F. Wilson, m.a.) London: T. Fisher
Unwin, 1897. Size 8 X 5£, pp. xviii. and 432. Portrait and Maps. Price 5s.
Presented by the Publisher.
This is a notable biography from the geographical point of view, dealing as it
does with a great personality engaged in the first colonizing ventures of England.
The maps are mere sketches, and there is no attempt to enrich the text with facsimiles
of contemporary documents, but the book is well printed and attractive ; it should be
valuable for reading in schools, combining as it does geography and history with
biography.
Thomson. Nautical Mag. 66 (1897) : 855-857.
The Editor’s Album : Captain A. S. Thomson, c.b., b.x.r. With Portrait.
GENERAL.
Bibliography of Geography.
Bibliographic de 1896. 6 1 ‘ Bibliographic annuelle.—Annales de Ge'ographie. No.
29—6 e Anne'e. 15 Septembre 1897. Paris: A. Colin et Cie. Size 10 x 6 J,
pp. 288.
This selected and annotated bibliography fnlly maintains the high character of the
earlier volumes. In many cases the abstracts of the memoirs noted are so full as to
make it unnecessary for any except the specialist student to refer to the originals.
British Empire Scottish G. Mag. 13 (1897) : 400-419.
Notes on Exploration within British Territory during the last Sixty Years.
A sketch of explorations carried out during the Queen’s reign in British territory.
The summary is classified according to continents.
Church Missionary Society.
Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. Ninety-
eighth Year, 1896-97. London: Church Missionarv House, 1897. Size 8 ^ X 6 ,
pp. Ixxx., 454, and (360). Maps. Presented by the Church Missionary Society.
Educational —Methods. Scottish G. Mag. 13 (1897) : 523-530. Dodge .
School Geography in the United States. By Prof. Richard E. Dodge.
An excellent statement of the position of geography as a school-subject in the
United States, with copious references to the literature of the subject
Educational—Methods.
Education Department. Special Reports on Educational Subjects, 1896-97.
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. Size 10 x 6 J, pp. iv. and 732. Maps and
Illustrations. Price 3s. 4cf. Presented by the Education Department.
The geographical features of this volume will be referred to in a special note.