(1) Distant Lands An Elementary Study in Geography (2) A First Book of Physical Geography (3) A Physiographical Introduction to Geography (4) Geology (5) An Economic Atlas (6) Devonshire (7) Dorset (8) Derbyshire (9) A Systematic Geography of Asia

Abstract

MR. MACKINDER has now brought his studies in the teaching of geography by means of its correlation with history to a penultimate stage. Approximately half this book (i) deals with history in some form, either with the world-movements of peoples, such as the Magyars or Turks, or with the history of discovery connected with the names of Marco Polo or Cook. There is, as yet, little political geography, all of which is promised in the final volume of the series, and the treatment tends to ignore the possibilities of correlation with other subjects in the school curriculum. Most pupils learn something of the value of coordinates in relation to the fixing of the position of points in space, and provided the problems of latitude and longitude be postponed, their adequate treatment follows as a special case of this method of recording the positions of points; Mr. Mackinder approaches these problems by way of an account of the work of Eratosthenes and of the eclipse of the sun at the battle of Arbela. The book makes an interesting' reader, and is profusely illustrated with maps and diagrams, some of which imply a geographical knowledge which the text does not call upon the pupils to utilise.

(1) Distant Lands. An Elementary Study in Geography.

By H. J. Mackinder. Pp. xvi + 296. (London: Geo. Philip and Son, Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s.

(2) A First Book of Physical Geography.

By W. M. Carey. The First Books of Science Series. Pp. viii + 150. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 1s. 6d.

(3) A Physiographical Introduction to Geography.

By Prof. A. J. Herbertson. The Oxford Geographies. Pp. 120. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1910.) Price 1s. 6d.

(4) Geology.

By Prof. J. W. Gregory. Dent's Scientific Primers. Pp. 140. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. net.

(5) An Economic Atlas.

By J. G. Bartholomew, with an introduction by Prof. L. W. Lyde. Pp. xii + 64 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1910.) Price 3s. 6d. net.

(6) Devonshire.

By F. A. Knight Louie M. (Knight) Dutton. Cambridge County Geographies. Pp. xii + 245. (Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Price 1s. 6d.

(7) Dorset.

By A. L. Salmon. Cambridge County Geographies. Pp. ix + 154. (Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Price 1s. 6d.

(8) Derbyshire.

By H. H. Arnold-Bemrose. Cambridge County Geographies. Pp. x + 174. (Cambridge: University Press, 1910.) Price 1s. 6d.

(9) A Systematic Geography of Asia.

By G. W. Webb. Pp. vi + 100. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 1s.