Show A birdseye view of the world there is a widespread demand by all readers and students for a work that shall furnish compactly and attractively tr all the essential facts and statistics of the different regions of tho world and the races that inhabit them all this information has been industriously sought carefully tested and proved and is brilliantly told in ono handy ana handsome volume by onesime reclus the famous french geographer and savant the author has really succeeded ded to a surprising degree in accomplishing his purpose it is a wonderful book and there is no other like it it is just what its title represents it to be a look all around the world but it is a world seen through eyes of the largest intelligence and described with inimitable vigor freshness and picturesque grace combined with studious and painstaking accuracy the result is the story of the world the more the volume is looked into the greater is the sense of its wide scope and its masterly preparation attractive reading for tho family gathered around the evening lamp it is also a handy book for immediate reference for the busy man who would illuminate his daily news with more accurate information in brief a great deal of hard work painstaking and skill have gone into the preparation of this volume which is no catchpenny catch penny cincera con cera presenting a huddled mass of pitch forked facts to the innocent reader under the pretense of encyclopedic information it is what it professes to be a short view of all the countries and peoples under the sun so arranged and digested that a errean deal of interesting and useful knowledge is packed handily in a limited space while a child would never tiro of the fascination of the facts illuminated by illustrations of which 99 aro full page tho most thoroughly read man will find on every page something the importance of which ho never realized so fully as when a geographical expert presents it with scientific effect in attractive phraseology the man who prepared this work is a genius in such effort there are no weak spots in it the publishers have done their best for tho mechanical part of the work and their enterprise leaves nothing to be desired in that respect the J dewing company market st san francisco cal are the sole agents for this work this side of the rocky mountains and all applications for agencies should be addressed to them |