explained in a "Publisher's Note" that this is an entirely
new book, "embodying little more than the framework of its pre- decessor," the well-known " Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer." Its pages exceed two thousand in number, and the items must total, if we may hazard a conjecture, not less than one hundred thousand. It will be understood that as the book is of American origin, it deals with the facts of American geography in a special way. "Almost every cluster of houses that in this country deserves the name of hamlet is supposed to figure in the pages of the Gazetteer." Canada has been dealt with in much the same way, though not perhaps quite BO exhaustively, if we may go by one or two tests which we have applied. The oversea dominions of the United States have, of course, not been neglected, and the progress of discovery has been duly noted. We have, for instance, the approach made by Captain Scott to the Antarctic Pole. As far as we have been able to examine the book, we have found it complete.
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