Physical Geography. By D. T. Austad, M.A. (W. H. Allen
and Co.)—As this is the third edition of Mr. Anated's valuable manual, it is not necessary to do more than to call attention to the fact that it has been revised and enlarged. The author, among other additions, has
given special notices of recent discoveries, and of phenomena, such as the periodical star-shower, which have lately attracted attention. Physical Geography, if not precisely "light reading," is yet as interesting as a romance, and Mr. Ansted's treatment is not unworthy of his subject. The same work appears in a smaller form under the title of the World We Live In- This is intended as a text-book for schools and students, and seems thoroughly well adapted for the purpose. Every lesson in geography, which may be made the most interesting, as it commonly is the most tedious of studies, ought to have its outlines filled in with the sort of information which this volume supplies. The only part of the volume with which we have any fault to find is the "glossary," which contains some extraordinary derivations. The Greek words atmc;n, an atom (given as the root of atmosphere), epeime, winter, and physe, nature, are unknown to the lexicons.
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