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WHEN a school-book treats of the geography of the whole world in less than 300 pages of large, clear print, interspersed with abundant diagrams, its claim to compete with the ordinary class-book must be based on the substitution of quality for quantity, wise selection and arrangement for all-including comprehensiveness. The book before us may fairly make such a claim. There is nothing of the gazetteer about it: its method is that of connected description; in place of statistical tables we have an abundance of distribution-maps, and continents and countries are divided according to physical features more than by political boundaries. Thus in the case of England the counties are entirely ignored, and the pupil is spared the necessity of learning as many “facts” about Oxfordshire as about Lancashire. So, too, in the case of Europe, there is a special section on Alpine lands, which renders possible a connected account of the railway routes across the Alps, and should prevent the common misconception of the Alps a coextensive with the political area of Switzerland.
The Oxford Geographies.
Vol. ii. The Junior Geography. By A. J. Herbertson. Pp. 288. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) Price 2s.
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D., A. The Oxford Geographies . Nature 73, 99 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073099a0
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