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Another attractive volume for children, containing many facts of natural history, and also much information concerning physical and political geography, is What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World in the Ship Beagle. This volume is compiled from Mr. Darwin's large work. There are chapters describing animals and birds of many kinds. The section entitled "Man" contains accounts of strange peoples, particularly those inhabiting distant and wild localities. Foreign countries are graphically pictured, their cities, their rivers, mountains, valleys, and plains; and earthquakes, fossils, and other things in nature are explained in such language as any intelligent child can understand. This book is very instructive and very entertaining. It is published with numerous maps and illustrations, and with an elegantly illuminated cover.