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DR. GEIKIE, the editor of Macmillan's Geographical Series, could not have entrusted the subject of the present volume to a more thoroughly competent writer than Mr. Blanford. In the course of a long service in India, as Mr. Blanford himself notes in the preface, he had occasion to visit most parts of the Empire, so that his knowledge of the geography of India is incomparably more exact, extensive, and vivid than if it had been derived merely from books. Traces of this fact are to be found in every section of his excellent manual. In the preparation of a volume of this kind one of the chief difficulties of the writer is to decide how much shall be omitted; and this question Mr. Blanford seems to us to have settled with admirable tact and judgment. Nothing he introduces would, if properly understood, tend simply to burden the memory. The facts he has selected are both important and interesting; and they are presented in so simple and clear a style, while their relations to one another are so distinctly brought out, that they cannot fail to arrest the attention of young learners, and to foster the growth of individual intelligence. The illustrations—for the most part taken from photographs—are in every way worthy of the text.
An Elementary Geography of India, Burma, and Ceylon.
By Henry F. Blanford Macmillan's Geographical Series. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 43, 29 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/043029b0
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