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GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
Gumming, Miss Helen Peel, Miss Annie R. Taylor, and Miss Kingsley. The principle
of selection, if any, is difficult to find. So many ladies have made yachting tours, accom
panied their husbands on excursions, and gone out as missionaries, that it is perhaps
inevitable that some should be omitted.
Languages.
Thimm’s Self-Taught Library. French (pp. 80, price 1*. 6d.); Spanish (pp. 80,
price Is. 6<i.); German (pp. 80, price Is. 6d.); Norwegian (pp. 80, price 2s. Gd.) ;
Italian (pp. 80, price Is. Od.); Turkish (pp. viii. and 136, price 2s. 6 /.); Arabic
(pp. viii. and 94, price 2s. 6d.). London: E. Marlborough & Co. Size 7J X 5.
Presented by the Publishers at the request of Captain C. A. Thimm.
Lisbon Geographical Society.
Socie'te de Geographic de Lisbonne. Annexe an Bulletin No. 10. Statuts adopte's
par PAssemble'e Ge'nersle le 3 Juin et approuve's par TAutorite Publique le 3
Juillet 1895. (Traduction.) Lisboune, 1895. Size 10 X 6£, pp. 46.
Local Geography. Aus alien Weltteilen 27 (1896): 321-326. Fitzner.
Die Bildung von Abteilungen fiir Heimatskunde. Yon Rudolf Fitzner.
Maps for Education. /. Geology 4 (1896): 484-513. Davis.
Large-Scale Maps as Geographical Illustrations. By W. M. Davis.
Gives lists of sheets of the official survey-maps of European countries which Pro
fessor Davis has found of value in teaching the types of geographical forms in his
practical classes at Harvard.
Missionary Explorations. B.S.G. Lyon 13 (1896): 541-570. Groflier.
Explorations et travaux ge'ographiques des missionnaires catholiques en 1894 et en
1895. Par Y. Groffier.
Missionary Reports.
Free Church of Scotland. Missionary Reports (Foreign), May, 1896. I. Foreign
Missions (including Report of Woman’s Society). II. Colonial Missions. III.
Continental Missions. IV. Missions to the Jews. Edinburgh, 1896. Size 9x6,
pp. 114, 74, 26,18, 32.
Mountaineering. P-jR./. 14 (1896) : 451-459. Dent.
Influence of Science on Mountaineering. By Clinton T. Dent.
Ordnance Maps. -
Committee on Sale of Ordnance Survey Maps. Report of the Departmental
Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to consider the arrangements
to be made for the Sale of Ordnance Survey Maps, with copy of the Minute
appointing the Committee. Also Minutes of Evidence . . . with Appendices and
Index. [2 Reports.] London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1896. Size 13 X 84, pp.
10 and 90. Price \%d. and dd.
Phrase-book Thimm.
English, French, Turkish, and Russian Vocabulary and Dialogues, for practical
use by the Army and Navy, Travellers, Sportsmen, Cyclists, and others in the
East. By C. A. Thimm. London : E. Marlborough & Co. Size 6£ X 4£, pp. [74].
Presented by the Publishers at the request of Captain C. A. Thimm.
Place-Names. Burgess.
Geographical Place-Names in Europe and the East. By Jns. Burgess, c.i.e., etc.
Reprinted fropi the ‘ Report of the Sixth International Geographical Congress, held
in London, 1895.’ Size 10 x 6$, pp. 12.
Place-Names. National G. Mag. 7 (1896) : 221-227. Gannett.
The Work of the United States Board on Geographic Names. By Henry Gannett.
Place-Names. Taylor.
Names and their Histories alphabetically arranged as a Handbook of Historical
Geography and Topographical Nomenclature. By Isaac Taylor, si. a., etc. London :
Rivington, Percival & Co., 1896. Size 7£ X 5, pp. viii. and 392. Price 6s.
A dictionary dealing with the origin of certain selected place-names, and containing
some additional matter.
Political Geography—Cables. Depelley.
Les cables sous-marins et la DeTense de nos Colonies. Conference faite sous le
patronage de 1’Union Coloniale Fran(;aise. Par M. J. Depelley. Paris: L.
Chailley, 1896. Size S£ x 5£, pp. 40. Map and Diagram.
.The author shows, in a very striking diagram, how exactly the development of the
British submarine cable-system has corresponded with the increase of trade between