aphic but contains some
good chapters on the Indians. In Stanford's "Compendium" the purpose
is to treat man and nature in their relation to one another, but
the relationships are not clearly brought out, and there is too much
emphasis on purely descriptive and encyclopedic matter. So far as
interest is concerned, the famous work by Elise Reclus holds high rank.
It is an encyclopedia of geographical facts arranged and edited in such
a way that it has all the interest of a fine book of travel. Like most
of the other books, however, it fails to bring out relationships.

As sources of information on the Indians, two books stand out with
special prominence. "The American Race," by D. G. Brinton (1891), is
a most scholarly volume devoted largely to a study of the Indians on
a linguistic basis. It contains some general chapters, however, on the
Indians and their environment, and these are most illuminating. The
other book is the "Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico," edited
by F. W. Hodge, and published by the United States Bureau of Ethnology
(Washington, 1897, 1910, 1911). Its two large volumes are arranged in
encyclopedic form. The various articles are written by a large number
of scholars, including practically all the students who were at work on
Indian ethnology at the time of publication. Many of the articles are
the best that have been written and will not only interest the general
reader but will contribute to an understanding of what America was when
the Indians came here and what it still is today.

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