(1) A Geography of Australasia (2) The Pupils' Class-Book of Geography (3) Macmillan's Geographical Exercise Books (4) Bacon Sixpenny Contour Atlas (5) The Map and Its Story

Abstract

(1) ONCE the pupil or student gets past the general outlines and principles of geography (which are so difficult for the author and teacher to lay down in terms that are otherwise than summary and dull), he ought to find out the real interests and fascination of the subject. A book like Mr. Taylor's will help him to do so. This writer has an unusual faculty for keeping steadily in view the interaction of those phenomena which geographers set out to study, and for picking out the right facts from the special departments of knowledge on which geographers have to draw. He also sets. great store by the use of the map to illustrate special points, and in this direction shows considerable originality; the maps are generally clear, though sometimes injudiciously reduced, and occasionally rather severely generalised. The descriptive and explanatory writing could not well be clearer, and this being so, the author is safe in carrying his readers into such unaccustomed topics as that of the paragraphs in which he discusses the former history of river courses and the extent of land, a “journey into past geological times” which is justified, as he is able ingeniously to show the bearing of former physical conditions upon modern communications. This book would be an excellent introduction to Australasia as a special subject.

(1) A Geography of Australasia.

By Griffith Taylor. Pp. 176. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.) Price 1s. 6d.

(2) The Pupils' Class-Book of Geography.

By E. J. S. Lay. England and Wales, pp. 80. Price 4d. The British Isles, pp. 118. Price 6d. The British Dominions, pp. 128. Price 6d. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.)

(3) Macmillan's Geographical Exercise Books.

With Questions by B. C. Wallis. i., The British Isles, pp. 48. Price 6d. ii., Europe, pp. 48. Price 6d. iii., The British Empire, pp. 48. Price 6d. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.)

(4) Bacon Sixpenny Contour Atlas.

South-east England edition. Pp. 41. (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., Ltd.)

(5) The Map and Its Story.

Pp. 44. (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., Ltd.) Price 1s. net.