Abstract

A Great Dictionary of Geography

The article focuses on the book "Nouveau Dictionnaire De Géographic Universelle," by M. Vivien de Saint Martin. The first volume of this dictionary, a large quarto of eight hundred and fifty pages of very fine print, embraces the letters A, B, and C (entire). Considering the amount of space generally occupied by these three letters in similar French publications, it is evident that the whole work is intended to be finished in two more somewhat larger, or in three more smaller, volumes. This book combines the features of a systematic geography and of a gazetteer. The larger articles contain extensive descriptions--physical, political, economical, and ethnological--ample historical notices, and a large amount of appropriate bibliography.