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THIS book possesses many merits; its language is always clear, its accuracy, so far as can be judged, unimpeachable. It is arranged on the plan of a long introductory section dealing with the principles of geography, followed by a treatment of the continents in detail, in which the order followed is the unusual (and not obviously advantageous) one of Australia, Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe. A final separate section deals with the British Isles. The volume is entitled a junior geography, but, to juniors, parts of it (such as that on map-making, or some of the sections which deal with the quantitative analysis of products) may be found difficult; while, excellent as the geographical principle of regional comparison is, it is open to question whether it should be followed from the very beginning. In this department, the text possibly tends to be overweighted with examples. Each section contains a number of questions, in many cases based upon examination questions selected with great care from a wide range of papers.
A Junior Geography of the World.
By B. C. Wallis. Pp. x + 310 + maps. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 2s. 6d.
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A Junior Geography of the World . Nature 93, 453 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093453a0
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