================================================================= GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY By ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM Professor of Geology in Colgate University. 12mo. Cloth. 366 pages. Illustrated. List price, $1.25; mailing price, $1.40 * * * * * In this new book Professor Brigham has presented vividly and clearly those physiographic features of America which have been important in guiding the unfolding of our industrial and national life. The arrangement is mainly geographical. Among the themes receiving special treatment are: The Eastern Gateway of the United States, the Appalachian Barrier, the Great Lakes and American Commerce, the Civil War, and Mines and Mountain Life. Closing chapters deal with the unity and diversity of American life and with physiography as affecting American destiny. The book will be found particularly interesting and valuable to students and teachers of geography and history, but it will also appeal to the general reader. The very large number of rare and attractive photographs and the numerous maps are of importance in vivifying and explaining the text. ================================================================= GINN & COMPANY PUBLISHERS ================================================================= The best example in this country of the kind of books that geography needs.--_The Nation_ THE LAKES OF NORTH AMERICA By ISRAEL C. RUSSELL Professor of Geology in the University of Michigan 8vo. Cloth, xi + 125 pages. Illustrated. List price, $1.50; mailing price, $1.65 Recent advances have made physical geography almost a new science. Professor Russell here presents a single phase, but one of great importance. The work is based upon his original investigations, and is at once thoroughly scientific in substance and enjoyably popular in style. As a text-book or reading book for students in geography and geology the "Lakes of North America" possesses a unique value. Its interest to the general reader is enhanced by its illustrations and its happy descriptions of lake scenery. GLACIERS OF NORTH AMERICA By ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, Professor of Geology in the University of Michigan Author of "Lakes of North America" 8vo. Cloth. x + 210 pages., Illustrated. List price, $1.75; mailing price, $1.90 Recent explorations have shown that North America contains thousands of glaciers, some of which are not only vastly larger than any in Europe, but belong to types of ice bodies not there represented. In the study of the glaciers of North America, and especially of those in Alaska, Professor Russell has taken an active part; and this book not only presents the results of his own explorations but also a condensed and accurate statement of the present status of glacial investigations. Its popular character and numerous illustrations will make it of interest to the general reader. * * * * * _DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL PUBLICATION_