A New Geography. By 3. M. D. Meiklejohn. (J. M.
Holden, St. Andrews.)—Professor Meikkjohn has produced a very readable geography, likely to help the young student to remember the dry facts. Everywhere the comparative method is employed, whereby the strange and new is more readily realised by its likeness or unlikeness to some familiar object. The main facts are shown in large type, more detailed information being given in lively little paragraphs printed in two degrees of smaller type, which are written in no stereotyped form, but contain every variety of style and subject. The author's aim has been "to introduce as many hooks, burrs, and tentacles as possible; so that something is sure to stick to the memory of even the most careless." We notice that the accounts of the political condition of East Roumelia and Zululand are not brought up to date ; and a few verbal errors will require correction in a future edition. For instance, France is said to be a neighbour of Austria's, and Victoria to be bounded " on the west by New South Wales ;" and the explanation of the direction of the Equatorial current is rendered obscure by the statement that "the water on the globe cannot go so fast as the cold [sic] parts," apparently a misprint for "solid parts."
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