Introductory Physical Geography. By the late David Page, LL.D. Revised
and enlarged by Charles Lapworth, LL.D. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This standard work has been brought up to time by additions and alterations in regions of knowledge, as, e.g., climatology and the distribution of plants and animals, in which notable advances have recently been made. Some new maps have also been added.—The Earth in Space : a Manual of Astronomical Geography, by Edward P. Jackson, A.M. (Heath and Co., Boston, U.S.A.), gives an explanation of some of the cosmical relations of the world. How it came to be a sphere, and how oblate, how we learn its magnitude and the magnitude of other bodies, its daily and yearly motions, the inclination of its axis, are the chief subjects discussed. A good deal of information is compressed into a very small space.—Pictorial Geography of the British Isles, by Mary E. Palgrave (S.P.C.K.), is an amply illustrated volume which brings before the eyes a number of natural phenomena, lakes, mountains, rivers, 8:c. We are aware of the exigencies of printing, which require that the illustration and the text which it illustrates should not always coincide ; but in this case the pictures should have the page of the written matter given. This is especially necessary if the book is to be a school-book.—Messrs. Longmans publish a number of small and cheap volumes, under the title of Handbooks of Geography, in which we have "Geography and Atlas combined."
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