Review of reviews and world's work . gwhich he explored and studied the Great Wallfrom the Yellow Sea to Tibet. He was thefirst man to traverse the entire length of thisancient fortification, and his most noteworthycontribution to the subject is the announcementthat it is not one, but at least a dozen walls, thatthe Chinese have built in the course of theircenturies of defense against the barbarians fromthe North. Dr. Geils style is clear and enter-taining. The volume is full of illustrationsthat really illustrate, most of them taken fromphotos made by the author. Dr. Geil, it will beremembere
Review of reviews and world's work . gwhich he explored and studied the Great Wallfrom the Yellow Sea to Tibet. He was thefirst man to traverse the entire length of thisancient fortification, and his most noteworthycontribution to the subject is the announcementthat it is not one, but at least a dozen walls, thatthe Chinese have built in the course of theircenturies of defense against the barbarians fromthe North. Dr. Geils style is clear and enter-taining. The volume is full of illustrationsthat really illustrate, most of them taken fromphotos made by the author. Dr. Geil, it will beremembered, is already the author of one othernoteworthy book on China, A Yankee on theYangtse. After walking more than 4000 miles during ayears hunting trip in Africa, Dr. William , nationally known as the formerrector of St. Georges Church, New York, canproperly be regarded as an authority on thegame possibilities of the Dark Continent. In a = The Great Uall of China. Bv William EdgarGeil. Sturgis & Walton. 393 pp., ill. $ CHINESE UPPER CLASS WOMAN IN WINTER COSTUME.(From Court Life in China.) SOME BOCKS OF THE HOLIDA Y SEASON. 759 vividly written volume, Tlie Land (if the Lion,Dr. gives some very grai)liic descrip-tions of tile conditions of human and animal lifein Africa. His viewpoint is that of the ob-servant man of culture whose mind and heartare alive to even the smallest detail. A numberof rather unusual illustrations from photo-graphs hy the author complete the volume. A rather more ambitious vt)liune on the con-ditions of life and living in Mexico than usualis W. E. Carsons Mexico, the Wonderland ofthe South. The sure touch of the man whoknows his subject intimately is evident through-out. Mr. Carson has seen and understands thecauses of the wonderfully strange contrasts andpicturesque light and shade that characterize theland and people in our neighbor to the is the meeting place of the ancient andthe modern. This fact is graphically and
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