The Geographical Journal (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society): Volume X, No. 6 [‎129r] (110/186)

GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE MONTH.
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Indo-China. B.S.G. y Estadistica Rep. Mexicana (4) 3 (1895): 407-413. Revilliod.
Viaje de Saigon a Bangkok, atravesando el Cambodge y el Siam. Discurso . . .
por Mr. John T. Revilliod. Traduccidn del socio Carlos Koumugnac.
Gust.
AFRICA.
Africa. Imp. and Asiatic Quarterly Rev. (3) 4 (1897): 312-324.
Africa in 1897. By Robert Needham Gust, ll.d.
A presentation of the dark side of African exploration.
Africa—Natives. Koloniales Jahrb. 10 (1897) : 120-133. Nachtigal.
Die Eingeborenen Afrikas, die Kolonial-Regierung und die Mission. Von Missions-
prediger A. Nachtigal.
Anthropology—Games. Gulin.
Mancala, the National Game of Africa. By Stewart Gulin.—Annual Report of the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the year ending June 30,
1894. Report of the U.S. National Museum, pp. 595-607. Washington, 1896.
Size 9J X 6 . Illustrations. Presented by the Smithsonian Institution.
British South Africa. Scottish G. Mag. 13 (1897): 505-514. Selous.
The Economic Value of Rhodesia. By F. C. Selous. With Map.
This paper was read to Section E, Geography, of the Britisli Association at the
Toronto meeting, a fact which, by inadvertence, is not mentioned when reproducing it.
The paper is illustrated by an excellent hypsometrical map of the region described.
Central Africa Blaxkie.
Central Africa since the Death of Livingstone. By the Rev. W. Garden Blaikie,
d.d., etc. From the North American Review, September, 1897. Pp. 318-332.
Presented by the Author.
Congo State. . . Chapaux.
Albert Chapaux. Le Congo, historique, diplomatique, physique, politique, econo-
mique, humanitaire, and colonial. Ouvrage contenant une grande carte en quatre
feuilles, tire'e en couleurs, 6 cartes, croquis et plans, intercales dans le texte, B13
portraits, types d’indigenes, vues, etc. Bruxelles: C. Rozez, 1894. Size 11 X 7£,
pp. x. and 888 . Price 15«.
Congo State. B.S.R. Beige G. 21 (1897): 193-200. Leclercq.
Le Congo doit etre notre Java. Par Jules Leclercq.
Congo States. Globas 72 (1897): 117-121. . Thonner.
Das Gebiet des Mongalaflusses in Centralafrika (Kongostaat). Nach eigenen For-
schungen von Franz Thonner. With Illustrations.
On the country bordering the Mongala, one of the northern tributaries of the Congo,
and its people.
East Africa—Historical. Benoit.
B. Union G. Nord de la France 17 (1896): 97-124, 193-244.
La Cote Orientale d’Afrique au-dela de la Mer Rouge, dans 1’antiquite'. Par M.
Francois Benoit. With Maps.
Egypt—Antinoe. A travers le Monde, Tour du Monde (n.s.') 3 (1897): 233-236. Gayet
Les Fouilles d’Antinoe. Par M. A. Gayet. With Illustrations.
Egypt—The Sphinx. Sitzb. K.P.A. W. Berlin (1897) : 752-760. Borchardt.
Ueber das Alter des Sphinx bei Giseh. Von Ludwig Borchardt. With Illustration.
Equatorial Africa. Poskin.
L’Afrique Equatoriale. Climatologie, Nosologic, Hygiene. Par le Dr. A. Poskm.
Bruxelles: Socie'te Beige de Librairie, 1897. Size 10 x 7, pp. x. and 478. Map.
Price 12 francs. Presented by the Publishers.
The author has written largely on medical and climatological subjects, and haying
served as medical officer to the Congo Railway Company, he has practically acquired
experience of his subject. The book will be noticed along with other recent works on
Africa.
Gessert.
Von Ferdinand
German South-West Africa. Globus 72 (1897) : 190-192.
Reise langs der Flussthaler des sudwestlichen Gross-Namalandes
Gessert
Herr Gessert is a settler in German South-West Africa, and in this paper he describes
a journey made in August, 1896, for the inspection of land in the river valleys.