JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Cobham.xii and 126 pp., Frontispiece and 2 Maps. Edward Stanford, Lortdon, I905. (Price, 2sh., 6d.)The fourth issue of this little book, which is a painstaking compilation of the matters most useful to know about the island. It is not a guide book of stereotyped pattern, but is especially valuable to those who may visit Cyprus, as the needs and wishes of the tourist are kept constantly in view. The black-and-white map is on a large scale, and gives a good idea of the land-forms, shows the roads, distinguishes Christian from Mohammedan towns, and prints place-names very fully. The small geological map is based on the larger map by Mr. Bellamy, published last year. Baedeker de la RepublicaArgentina. Por Alberto B. Martinez. Second Edition. XV and 383 pp. With Maps and Plans of the Republic, Cities, Railroads, numerous Photographs, and Index. Jacobo Peuser, Buenos Ayres, 1904. The introduction gives a description of the country, climate, agriculture, mining and other interests; also the cost of reaching Argentina by the various steamer lines. An unusually complete account of the city of Buenos Aires, with many illustrations, fills I37 pp. The various provinces are then treated in turn. The small pictures from photographs show many phases of Argentine life and industry, and the maps are on a sufficiently large scale to give all railroad stations and points of interest. Amerikanische Landwirtschaft. Eine Reisestudie von Siegfried Strakosch. T87 pp., 56 Illustrations and I Map. Wilhelm Frick, Vienna. 1905.The author in 1904 travelled through nineteen States of the Union studying the causes of the enormous development of our agriculture, and endeavouring to learn how much of it is due to "unequalled natural factors" and how much to improvements in farm methods. It is unfortunate that on his first page the writer should allude to " three igreat mountain systems-the Sierra Cascade Range, Rocky Mountains, and Alleghanies:" a slight confusion in our geographical nomenclature that seems to be merely accidental, for the description of our agricultural industries which follows is, on the whole, very clearly and accurately written. Mr. Strakosch states the facts that, in most cases, are best worth knowing, about the prices of our farm lands, the homestead and pre-emption laws, the scarcity of farm help and high cost of labour, the principal crops, the farm buildings, machinery, and cultural methods. He then describes types of farms in different parts of the country, our breeds of cattle and herd book societies, fruit culture, agricultural education, experimental stations, and many other influences which affect the standing of our great farming interests. Several chapters are given to the leading...
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