| + + | School R. 13: 274*. Mr. ‘05. 140w. |
Geddie, John. Romantic Edinburgh. $2.50. Dutton.
A reissue, without revisions, of a suggestive guide to the study of the landmarks of Old Edinburgh.
| Nation. 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 60w. |
“A map is needed—a map or plan, such as Baedeker prints in his guide books. That, and either no photographs or better ones, would make Mr. Geddie’s a well-nigh perfect hand book to Auld Reekie.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 576. S. 2, ‘05. 1120w. |
Geere, H. Valentine. By Nile and Euphrates. $3.50. Scribner.
A book of both discovery and adventure. The author, at Professor Flinders Petrie’s request, was given an appointment on the staff of the expedition which was sent out to Mesapotamia by the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 to continue the excavation of the ruins of Nippur. He writes of “unsettled, poverty-stricken and neglected Mesapotamia, and well-ordered, flourishing Egypt,” and gives detailed accounts of the work of investigation carried on at Behnesch, Nippur and Babylon.
“So far as we know, there is no other book which paints so vividly the camp of the excavator, or sketches the scenery and life of the Nile and Euphrates valleys, as the one before us.” George L. Robinson.
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 235. S. ‘05. 950w. |