+ + Outlook. 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.
“Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book, and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w. + + – Sat. R. 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.
Pepper, Charles Melville. Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.
The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee, dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the spread of commerce and industry.
“There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to the ordinary traveller or reader.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.
“The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps and illustrations.”
+ + Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.