This World of Ours. By H. 0. Arnold Forster. (Cassell
and Co.)—This is called an " Introduction to the Study of Geography," and the word " geography " is used by the author in its widest sense, embracing all about this world of ours ; its position and movement in space ; its shape and measurement ; the way to navigate it, with the help of latitudes and longitudes, compasses and chronometers ; its climate and seasons, and how to record them by the thermometer and barometer ; the constituents of its crust, and the courses of its rivers ; the bearing of its natural features on the history, politics, warfare, commerce, and habits of its people. Thus we are not only introduced to geography, in its old-fashioned sense, as a descriptive and statistical account of the several parts of the earth's surface—a subject which in this volume is dismissed in a final chapter occupying eight out of three hundred pages—but by the way we are introduced to astronomy, mensuration, navigation, meteorology, and geology, and are taught not only the " use of globes," but also the use of many other scion- tific instruments. The explanations and illustrations of scientific facts and principles are very clearly and simply given, and the diagrams and pictures are well designed to elucidate the text.
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